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Page 3-THE NEWS-September, 1988 Focus on Federation — Part V By Rita C. Mond Though much of the money raised by The Charlotte Jew ish Federation goes to local constituent agencies, over 60% goes to the United Jew ish Appeal (UJA). These funds are transmitted to Israel pri marily through the United Israel Appeal (UIA), Inc. which monitors and controls their appropriate and effective expenditure on programs that qualify under American tax laws. As members of the Jewish conmiunity, we hold the Jew ish future in our hands. Through the UJA we can help ensure the continuity of Jew ish life wherever Jews live — in Israel, in the United States and in more than 30 other countries around the world. Facing the Challenge On November 10,1938, Jew ish homes, stores and syna gogues were attacked in Nazi Germany and Austria. Kris- tallnacht, “The Night of Bro ken Glass,” left an open wound on the hearts of Jews in every nation. In America, Jewish leaders realized that central fund raising was needed for relief and rehabilitation in Europe, mass resettlement in the land of Israel and aid to refugees in the U.S. On January 10, 1939, Wil liam Rosenwald of the Na tional Coordinating Commit tee for Aid to Refugees, Rab bi Abba Hillel Silver of the United Palestine Appeal and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of the American Jewish Joint Distri bution Conmiittee signed the agreement that established the UJA. In its first Cam paign, UJA raised nearly twice the amount its compo nent agencies had collected the previous year. During World War II, con tributions of more than $103 million aided the rescue and resettlement of 162,000 Jews from Nazi-occupied territories. When the full dimensions of the Holocaust became known, UJA leaders set a 1946 Cam paign goal of $100 million. They raised over $131 million that year from a shocked and united American Jewish com munity. Israel’s birth in 1948 in spired another peak in contri butions — $147 million in cash. During the next 19 years, $1.4 billion was raised for immigration and absorp tion, rural resettlement, edu cation, housing and humani tarian programs. Two Cam paign-funded rescue opera tions airlifted more than 170,000 Jews to Israel from Yemen and Iraq. A Small Ad Here Can Attract Attention! Call: 366-5007 This is the last of a series of articles to better understand the importance and functions of The Charlotte Jewish Federation. Deportation in Czechoslovakia, 1943 Photo credit/state Jewish Museum in Prague manently settled. Immigrants get financial aid during the transition period, living quar ters in absorption centers and Hebrew language instruction. Tuition assistance is available for university students, money and care for families with health or social problems, and special rehabilitation for those unable to integrate into socie ty through the basic absorp tion process. Building Israel’s Future Founded in 1934 to bring children from prewar Nazi Germany to Eretz Yisrael, the Jewish Agency’s Youth Ali- schools now provide religious and secular education, voca tional training and general care for more than 15,000 im migrant and Israeli-born chil dren. Youth Aliyeih has be come a major vehicle for the social integration of young sters who would otherwise re main outside the mainstream of Israeli society. Developing the Land Rural settlements have ab sorbed many immigrants. Since 1948, the Jewish Agen cy has helped establish 593 kibbutzim and moshavim in side Israel’s pre-1967 borders. High-jdeld orchards have been planted on barren hills and hundreds of square miles of swamp and desert have been converted into fertile cropland. m Facos off Youth Allyah: (L to R) from the devastation of the Holocaust; from the Jewish enclaves of North Africa; to the kibbutzim of Eretz Yisrael. Photos/Herbert & Lenni Sonnenfeld Victory Brings New Challenges In June, 1967, the Six-Day War saw Israel fighting for its life on three fronts, gaining the Sinai and reuniting Jerusalem. Every war increases Israel’s human needs. As Israel strug gled with the economic strain of mobilization, American Jews exceeded all previous standards of giving, con tributing more than $235 mil lion to UJA’s Israel Emergen cy Fund. In the years that have fol lowed, Jews around the world have begun to identify with Israel’s success. In 1978, the UJA, along with the Jewish Agency, the people of Israel and Keren Hayesod campaigns overseas, undertook a program to im prove the quality of life in Israel’s disadvantaged neigh borhoods. During the next nine years, American Jewish conomunities pledged almost $200 million to Project Renewal. When in 1984, a secret airlift brought thousands of Ethio pian Jews to Israel, the Ameri can Jewish community imme diately mobilized its resources. Launching Operation Moses in December 1984, UJA raised $63.9 million in four months to shelter, clothe and care for these desperate refugees. Participants in History The first goal defined in Israel’s Declaration of Inde pendence is “Jewish immigra tion and the ingathering of the exiles.” Since its founding year, Israel has taken in 1.8 million immigrants, including 163,000 Soviet and 14,000 Ethiopian Jews. For those seeking refuge in Israel from non-Westem countries, the Jewish Agency’s immigration and absorption services begin outside of Israel and continue until the inmiigrants are per- yah schools have cared for 12 to 18-year-olds in each wave of immigration: Holocaust sur vivors from Eastern Europe, refugees from North Africa, Yemen, Iran and Ethiopia. Youth Aliy ah has touched 232,000 children — one out of every 15 Jews in Israel. In the 1970s, as the long- range effects of too rapid im migrant absorption became apparent. Youth Aliyah began enrolling Israeli youth from impoverished, troubled and disadvantaged homes. Its residential villages and other Natti Miller examines tomatoes in his glass hothouse at Moshav Tal- mei Yosef. Each year, more acres bloom with melons, tomatoes and green peppers. Fish are har vested from breeding ponds in the Negev, and in the Galilee, Israel’s latest pioneers are struggling to develop non polluting, high-tech industries. The Jewish Agency assists these settlements until they are economically and socially viable. It helps them find the right balance of agricultural See FOCUS page 12 N reensvon U & Afyvv'jates I Inc. Insurance Specialists In Personal and Business Life Insurance Employee Benefits 125 Cottage Place • Charlotte, NC 28207 • (704) 376-7434 ANN LANGMAN "serving your real estate needs since 1972" lanon nai» n3»5 Mary Ryder Realty Office 364 3300 Home 3641691/1693 WE DO MORE THAN JUST BUILD We customize decks for you!! 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