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    American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, also known as Joint or JDC, is a Jewish relief organization based in New York City. Since 1914 the organisation...
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    Relief Committee set up by labour organisations. The result was the creation of a single body called the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In...
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  • cigarette Joint (geology), a fracture in a rock mass American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee or the Joint Prison or the joint Juke joint, an informal...
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  • first female overseas representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the JDC's first female Country Director. Laura Leah...
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  • Hassenfeld was the first female president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), from 1988 to 1992. In this position, she helped to found...
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    traveling through war-torn Europe on behalf of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. After publishing several magazines for the Federal Emergency...
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  • ran a program on joint disease in addition to being a children's hospital. In 1975, she became chairman of the Distribution Committee of the Federation...
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    needed] The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Joint) alone contributed $25 million to the OZET, and established Agro-Joint, an organization specifically...
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  • Needs was established, combining the efforts of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, led by Rabbi Jonah Wise; the United Israel Appeal, led by Rabbi...
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    refugees, quite like the failed attempts by the American Jewish "Joint" Distribution Committee, which pleaded with the government. After most passengers were...
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    Transmigration Bureau was a relief agency created by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in the early years of World War II to provide funds for...
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  • Israel in 1952. It was funded directly by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the JDC), and was not subject to the control of the Jewish Agency...
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  • other Jewish agencies, most notably the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ("The Joint"), supplied Jews in the affected countries with food, clothing...
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  • The Joint may refer to: Slang for prison American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, colloquially known as "The Joint" The Joint (Sirius XM) XM radio...
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    affairs where he serves as a trustee for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; is a founding chairman of the Jewish Leadership Forum; and as...
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    went on to serve three years as the CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Schizer is a graduate of Yale University where he earned his...
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    scant employment. The Baghdadis and later the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) provided some assistance with the housing and food problems...
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    reimbursement of his wartime expenses to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and received $15,000. He estimated his expenditures at over $1...
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    election. Warburg was an important leader of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, established to help the Jews in Europe in the period leading...
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  • Reception Committee chaired by Albert Einstein and by B.Z. Goldberg, Sholem Aleichem's son-in-law, and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The largest...
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    and requested that Israel make reparations. Israel and Argentina issued a joint statement on 3 August admitting the violation of Argentine sovereignty but...
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    American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). In June 1940, Italy entered into the war and the Mediterranean route was closed. The Committee in Greater...
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  • returned to Europe as a representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In 1919, he was still living in Chicago, and became a naturalized...
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  • United Jewish Appeal, Israel Bonds, Jewish Agency for Israel, Joint Distribution Committee, Conference on Material Claims Against Germany, United States...
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  • settlement. In 1914, the AJC helped create the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, established to aid Jewish victims of World War I. After the...
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  • million cost of the operation was financed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. A change in Iraqi Jewish identity occurred after the violent...
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  • Studies in Germany, and Berlin director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Coming from an old Orthodox Jewish family, Mittwoch was born...
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    of its 1930 campaign, honorary chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, and an executive committee member of the Welfare Council of New York City...
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    to work as an emissary for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (also known as the Joint or the JDC) in Poland and Ukraine (then Galicia)...
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    to Israel in the 1950s with the help of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for about 8,000 lei (about 420 dollars). The price of these Jews...
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