NORFOLK J. C. C. NEWS
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Morgenthau Outlines 12-Point Relief and
Rehabilitation Program of United Jewish Appeal Drive
a In his first conference with
national leaders since his elec-
tion as General Chairman of
the $170,000,000 United Jew-
ish Appeal campaign, Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., former Sec-
retary of the Treasury pre-
sent an outline of twelve ma-
jor objectives that must be
achieved in 1947 to provide for
the relief, rehabilitation and
resettlement of the Jewish
survivors of Iiitlerism in Eur-
* ope.
Mr. Morgenthau called upon
all Americans regardless of
race, creed or color to share
* in "this life-saving and life-
rebuilding endeavor w h i c h
represents a major factor in
the building of a better world
of freedom and peace for all
mankind."
Please Pay Your
Pledges
We have received an
urgent request from the
United Jewish Appeal for
funds. We h av e been
sending them money as
quckly as we receive it
from our contributors.
The need overseas is
so great that the U. J. A.
has had to borrow
against alocations of 1946
in order to meet its life
saving obligations.
If you have not already
paid your pledge, will you
help by sending your pay-
ment now to the Jewish
Community Council, 526
Dickson Bldg. Your aid
in this respect will be
greatly appreciated.
Declaring that "unless we
hclp them now to emerge from
o the misery and uncertainty of
the post-war period, the first
victims of Hitler will have lost
their struggle for freedom and
peace, "Mr. Morgenthau listed
the following urgent objec-
tives of the campaign:
1. Relief and rehabilitation
of large sections of the Jewish
survivors in Poland, Rumania
. and IIungary,.
2. Supplen entary food, re-
training and preparation for
emigration for 250,000 Jewish
displaced persons in Germany,
" Austriaand Italy.
3. Medical c a r e, education
and rehabilitation of most of
170,000 remaining Jewish chil-
dren in Europe.
4. Emigration a s s i s tance
for homeless Jews who can
, be admitted to Palestine, the
United States and other coun-
tries.
5. Large-scale shipment of
medicines, clothing, food and
other s u p p 1 i e s to distress
areas in Europe.
6. Medical assistance a n d
maintenance for newly arrived
refugees in Palestine (Under
present regulations 1,500 refu-
gees are permitted to enter
Palestine each month).
7. Retraining and rehabili-
tation of former inmates of
concentration c a m p s who
reach Palestine.
8. The acquisition of land
in Palestine for the expansion
of Jewish settlement and agri-
cultural development.
9. The establishment of new
rural settlements in Palestine
and the development of new
opportunities for the absorp-
tion of large masses of Jewish
immigrants from Europe.
10. Financial assistance to
refugees who find a haven in
the United States to help them
during the initial period of ad-
justment of American life.
11. Itelp for Jewish chil-
dren, many of them orphans,
who are coming to the United
States from displaced persons
camps.
12. Resettlement, r e train-
ing and integration aid for
newcomers to this country.
ORT and J. D. C. to Unify
Activities
Join In Program of Vocational
Training for European
Survivors
An intensified program of
rehabilitation through voca-
tional training for Europe's
surviving Jews became a cer-
tainty with an announcement
that the Joint Distribution
Committee and the World ORT
Union would unify their activi-
ties in this field during 1947.
Under the new arrangement
ORT (Organization for Re-
habilitation Through Train-
ing) a group with sixty-seven
years of experience in the vo-
cational training field in all
parts of the world, will operate
and administer the program.
At present ORT has 422 train-
ing programs in Europe and
JDC has 235.
Financed Through U. J. A.
Financing of the program
will be carried on by JDC with
funds alocated and raised
through the United Jewish
Appeal, which this year is
seeking a record total of $170,-
000,000. Plans call for an ap-
propriation of about $2,000,-
000 for the combined JDC-
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AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS
EDITOR'S NOTE: We have asked the several beneficiary agen-
cie of the United Jewish Fund to give us a brief statement of their
work. The following article on the American Jewish Congress is
the second in the series which we are presenting to our readers.
The American Jewish Congress in its present form was
organized in 1922 by groups and individuals who felt the
necessity for a permanent Jewish body, organized on a wide
basis of popular participation. Its purposes, as formulated in
the constitution, are extremely broad, covering all aspects of
American Jewish communal work. In practice, the Congress
is primarily a civic-protective agency. It also includes, how-
ever, general information services and a foreign affairs pro-
gram. Its work is conducted through its several departments.
Commission on Community Interrelations. The CCI is
engaged in a long-term program of research in the field of
inter-group conflict. This program is based on the belief
that intelligent action against anti-Semitims will be possible
only when the problem has been studied by the most modern
techniques in the social sciences and when action methods of
dealing with group tensions are employed as part of the
process of fact-finding itself.
Commission on Law and Social Action. The activities of
this Commission encompass research into the nature and
extent of discrimination, both generally and in specific in-
stances, and utilization of legal, legislative and governmental
means to combat discrimination in education, employment,
housing, etc. Recently the Congress recommended the adop-
tion of a model program by all state legislatures as follows:
1. Fair employment legislation; 2. Legislation to end dis-
criminatory practices in schools and universities; 3. Legisla-
tion to outlaw the enforcement of housing agreements which
discriminate against minority groups ; 4. Legislation to outlaw
dissemination of group libel.
Office of Jewish Information. Established early in 1946,
this office provides information on Jewish affairs on the basis
that "American Jewry cannot confront its own problems intel-
ligently nor adequately discharge its responsibility to world
Jewry until it has created channels of information through
which the facts of Jewish life can be presented in their
totality and proper perspective. Lack of knowledge has only
too frequently rendered the Jewish people impotent in its
struggle for survival. The OJI publishes Congress Weekly and
a pamphlet series entitled Jewish Affairs; a weekly press ser-
vice, "0. J. Items"; a monthly wall newspaper in graphic form,
"News of the Month"; a qttarterly, Jewish Affairs Documen-
tary Service.
Institute of Jewish Affairs. Assembles data and formu-
lates programs in relation to demands for Jewish rights. The
material gathered by this arm of the Congress has been used
by many governments and agencies for gttidance in the vast
task of Jewish rehabilitation and reconstruction.
World Jewish Congress. In fifty-three countries through-
out the world, official affiliated organiations of the World
Jewish Congress protect the social, political, economic and
cultural status of Jewry. These affiliates of the World Jewish
Congress act in the name ot the citizens of the specific country
instead of as an outside body. Outside of the United States,
the World Jewish Congress also conducts or participates in
programs of relief supplies, child care, immigration and loca-
tion of relations, and educational and cultural rehabilitation.
ORT operations in 1947.
Spokesmen for both organ-
izations predicted that the uni-
fication set-up would result in
an appreciable extention of the
vocational training program
previously carried on indepen-
dently. Tools, raw materials
and instructors on a large
scale will be supplied to Jewish
artisans and craftsmen as well
as to untrained persons.
Another aspect of the unifi-
cation agreement is that ORT
will carry on no fund raising
of its own in the United States
this year. Itowever, this does
not prevent the World ORT
Union from raising money out-
side this country. The organ-
ization is calling upon all
American J e w s who gave
time, effort and financial as-
sistance to the ORT program
in former years to transfer
this aid to the campaign of
the United Jewish Appeal in
1947.
