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Friday, September 5, 1958
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pag* Three
Last Year’s Emergencies-
This Year’s Burdens
By CHARLES
(Director General, Joint
Following a traditional Jew
ish custom, it is well, at the be
ginning of a New Year, to give
an accounting for the year just
past, the year 5718.
First, however, we have to go
still further back. For in the
world in which JDC operates,
the pattern of life and work for
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5718 was set by events of the
year — and years — before. The
full impact of those events was
felt by us last year in what is
called our normal program. Let
us take a quick tour of the JDC
world and see the demands made
upon the Jews of America (for
JDC is only their agent) in this
past year.
Let us start with Israel, where
the “Malben” program of JDC
takes nearly half of our total
world budget supplied chiefly
by the United Jewish Appeal.
The year before, what witn the
crises of Egypt, Hungary and
Poland, Israel took in tens of
thousands of Jews—the greatest
number entering the country in
many, many years. We played
our part in rescuing them and
helped them find haven—and our
budget of that year reflected
this.
Many of them, now that they
are in Israel, come within the
scope of our program. The aged,
the chronically ill, the physical
ly handicapped—in fact, many of
them could not have been taken
into Israel at all if it were not
for the presence of our Malben
program there to take care of
them—and the application for
our accomodations and services
have doubled and tripled.
During the past year, we have
managed to cut down the long
waiting lists for our homes for
the aged. There was not room
for all the additional aged in our
homes—even if there were
money for all the new buildings
needed to house the entire list,
it would have been impractical
to build them. So we have had
to devise new ways of helping.
We are giving, for instance,
monthly grants to many who
are not eligible for Israeli pen
sions—to those who are eligible
for admission to our homes but
will have to wait for admittance.
We have worked out a plan, to
gether with the Government
and other agencies, to put aged
couples into apartments. We
have drawn other groups into
our work so as to provide these
services for those who are not
eligible for “Malben”—we must
close the gap between standards
of services in our institutions
and those available elsewhere.
All this means greater expendi
ture—and all this is only one
instance of how the crises of
other years have increased the
normal burden we carry.
Turning to Europe, we find
the impact of earlier crises still
being felt on our programs
there, especially in France. The
great hospitality shown by that
country in accepting Egyptians,
Poles, Hungarians and North
Africans puts added obligation
on us. For many years, the Jew
ish community of France was
taking care of an increasingly
larger share of the local welfare
program. The new burdens of
caring for thousands of home
less and indigent were, however,
more than they could absorb.
We have had to increase our
grants to meet the needs of so
cial welfare cases, of employ
ment, of housing. To a lesser ex
tent, this is true of other coun
tries.
The new phase of our Euro
pean work is what we are do
ing in Poland. The program
started exactly eight months ago
and is still going slowly, finding
its way in areas of greatest need
—yet what we have already ac
complished is worthy of note.
We have already helped — and
are continuing to help—more
than 15,000 men, women, and chil
dren (out of an estimated Jew
ish population of 45,000 includ
ing repatriates). We have made
one-time grants to thousands of
Jews repatriated from Russia, to
enable them to furnish the bare
living accommodations they were
able to find. We are providing
monthly grants to the physically
handicapped, to the aged (in
their own homes and institu
tions, to needy scholars. We have
set up child-feeding programs in
twelve cities and have set up
medical supply centers in three
key cities. We have made special
grants for the restoration of
ruined or neglected Jewish ceme
teries and for Jewish holiday ob
servances.
In addition, JC finances the
vocational training program of
ORT, now operating in 14 cities,
teaching trades to 1,396 adults
and 221 minors. We also make
monthly grants to students who
are heads of families, so that
they can care for their wives
and children, and finance kinder
garten programs for children of
mothers who are enrolled in the
ORT vocational training courses.
One cannot outline the defi
nite form and scope our program
in Poland will eventually take.
It depends on what happens in
the country itself. Will repa
triates continue to come out of
Russia? What will be the dimen
sions of migration in the future?
Will anti-Semitism continue to
be an increasing problem? We
can hope for the best—we must
be prepared for the worst.
Which brings us to the third
large field of JDC operations,
the Moslem countries. They are
no longer faced with the vio
lence and unrest of former years,
that sent thousands fleeing in
fear of their lives.
That flight has stopped—but
what has it left behind? It has
left behind a greater burden of
want than ever existed before.
And who is left behind? In the
main, the young and healthy
went, so there is left a greater
proportion of aged and sick with
fewer people to take care of
them. Local contributions have
fallen off; government subsidies
are cut drastically; there is a
shortage of teachers and lead
ers, there is nobody to take up
the slack except us, with funds
contributed by the Jews of
America to the UJA.
The crises of 5718 are not
things of the past—their after-
math leaves us with new burdens
on our so-called normal pro
grams, with problems that are
just as pressing and equally as
costly as those brought by the
crises themselves, and which
must be met at all costs. If these
are not met—then we can only
look forward to new crises, to
even greater emergencies than
those of the years before.
80 Percent of Tucson’s
7,000 Jews Affiliated
With Temples, Center
TUCSON, Ariz., (JTA)—Four-
fifths of the Jewish community
of Tucson is affiliated with one
of the two local religious insti
tutions or the Jewish Community
Center, a recent survey reveal
ed.
The study, conducted in con
nection with a master thesis on
the Jewish community by Gil
Kushner, a graduate student at
the University of Arizona, estab
lished that there were 1,875 Jew
ish families—totalling 7,084—in
Tucson. This is the high mark
of permanent Jewish residence
in the city. Only 388 families are
not affiliated with either a syna-
* ogue or the community center.
'ucson’s first house of worship,
Emanu-El, was opened in 1910.
the traditional way
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