7. Morris Rothenberg

Dear Mr. Rosenberg:

You ask why I support the Allied Jewish Campaign.

The Allied Jewish Campaign has enlisted my interest and my activity because it serves two causes which profoundly touch the welfare of my people:

1. Aiding in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine where Jews may dwell “as of right and not on sufferance,” and where Jewish spiritual and cultural values may once more be created which will enrich the Jewish community in Palestine and be a source of credit to Jews living the world over;

2. Extending a helping hand to millions of Jews in East European lands, so as to enable them to cope with the heartbreaking adversity which has been their lot since the beginning of the world war. Despite heroic efforts on their part to extricate themselves from the economic disaster that followed the war, the Jews in those lands are still faced with conditions which threaten their very existence if the Jews of America, the fortunate of Israel, fail to continue the brotherly aid which they have been giving them during the past fifteen years, a work that has constituted one of the most beautiful chapters in the history of our race.

I know of no cause that so challenges the concern of American Jews with the future of the Jewish People, as does the Allied Jewish Campaign.

Sincerely yours,

Morris Rothenberg.