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seventy per cent of all the funds
raised, have been given to the Uni
ted Jewish Appeal to carry on its
indispensable work. The peak of
fund raising came in 1948, the year
marking the establishment of the
State of Israel, when Savannah
Jewry contributed $360,000 to our
campaign. On the negative side of
the ledger, it must be truthfully
reported that there has been a very
great decline in funds raised since
1948. In the five years since 1948,
the amount contributed by Savan
nah Jewry to our once a year cam
paign has declined by forty-five
per cent. In figures, it shows the
decline from $360,000 in 1948 to
$200,000 in 1952. Translating this
drop of $160,000 into human terms,
gives us cause to reflect whether
we are doing our share. The money
we give, or fail to give, should be
measured in terms of the vital help
which is given or denied to our
brethren in Israel, who look to us
for support, and the diminution of
the services which we expect our
National agencies to render on be
half of all American Jewry, includ
ing those in Savannah. We cannot
live on past laurels. The present
intrudes itself on our consciousness
and we must meet this challenge.
How has our Council served as a
flexible agent, responding to needs
as they arise? I will cite you some
instances. In 1946, when the prob
lem of providing high standard ser
vices to the Aged came to the fore
as a problem, the Council provided
funds for the study of the care of
the Aged in the Southeast. Begin
ning in 1948 and continuing until
the present, Council has borrowed
hundreds of thousands of dollars
from banks to send advances to the
United Jewish Appeal to meet criti
cal situations overseas. In many
instances, this money was borrowed
and the funds forwarded even be
fore the funds had been pledged.
Technicalities were not allowed to
intrude on the basic issue of meet
ing needs by providing funds, when
they could do the most good. In
1948, when the Displaced Persons
Act went into effect, the Council
answered the call to receive and
resettle these Displaced Persons. A
quota of forty-one family units was
accepted; twenty-seven units, com
prising seventy individuals, were
actually received. Over $40,000 in
funds contributed by Savannah
Jewry was used in effecting the re
settlement and adjustment of these
Displaced Persons. Here again, the
Council responded to needs as they
appeared. For a number of years,
it was the unwritten law that the
Council did not concern itself with
the local scene, in terms of financ
ing local services. 1949 marked the
beginning of moving away from
this limited concept of the respon
sibility of the Council to a broader
viewpoint of responsibility for the
welfare of the entire Jewish Com
munity. In that year, the Council
set up a fund to meet the deficit in
the care of a disabled local young
man. 1949 also marked the begin
ning of a very close relationship
between the Council and the Al
liance, beginning with the alloca
tion made to the Alliance, to meet
its operating deficit, growing out of
the fact that the expanded program
of the Alliance could not be met
by the normal sources of income.
Some of this close relationship can
be attributed to the fact that, until
October 1950, the same Executive
Director served both agencies and
also to the fact that the leadership
of the Council and the Alliance, in
the main, is drawn from the same
sources. This close relationship has
continued, even with the separation
of the clerical and professional
staffs of both agencies, into separate
units in October, 1950. For exam-
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