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Repairing the World... Together
THE JOINT DISTRIBUTI
COMMITTEE
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ighty-five years ago, when the lives of our
people in Europe and Palestine were in
peril, American Jews created a new
organization to relieve their hardship.
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For most of the 20th Century, through war and
natural disaster, from Romania and Rwanda to
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Yugoslavia and Ethiopia, the American Jewish Joint
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Distribution Committee has provided food,
medicine and comfort to millions of people —
Jew and non-Jew alike.
But rescue also has a spiritual side. In decimated
Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, in the
former Soviet Union, in Cuba and Argentina, the
JDC has not only cared for the hungry and sick,
but inspired a religious and cultural renaissance by
establishing Jewish day schools, community centers
and old age homes.
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So, what has this to do with us? As one of
Federation's major overseas beneficiary, the JDC
connects each of us to Jewish people everywhere.
Every contributor to Federation's Annual Campaign
has a hand in saving and renewing lives in 60
countries, including Israel.
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It's a big job, repairing the world. But to your
alba.
Federation and the Joint Distribution Committee,
tikkun olam is all in a day's work.
T his is E-, eJeration
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