American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Today we have main material base, on which daily and celebratory life of Nikolaev Jewish Culture Community is based. It is the American Jewish Joint Distributive Committee. With their help the Jewish Community Center of Nikolaev Jewish Culture Community was created and works.

About JDC

In August 1914, Henry Morgenthau Sr., then United States Ambassador to Turkey, cabled Jacob Schiff, a New York philanthropist, asking for $50,000 for the relief of Jews living in pre-State Israel, caught in the agony of World War I. The money was raised within a month. Shortly thereafter, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was established to channel funds, raised by the Orthodox Central Committee for the Relief of Jews, the American Jewish Relief Committee, and the People's Relief Committee, to aid Jews in Europe and Palestine. history. In many ways, it is the story of Jews in the 20th century.

JDC is still serving as the overseas arm of the American Jewish community. It sponsors programs of relief, rescue, and reconstruction, fulfilling its commitment to the idea that all Jews are responsible for one another and that "To save one person is to save a world" (Mishna, Sanhedrin 4:5).

JDC is funded primarily by the national United Jewish Communities (UJC), which is supported by campaigns conducted by Jewish federated and non-federated communities throughout the U.S.

Today, as in 1914, JDC's central purpose remains the same: to aid Jews in distress overseas on behalf of American Jewry, and to do so in a non-partisan and apolitical way. This approach has enabled JDC to reach out to Jews in countries in the midst of political turmoil and crisis, and to be regarded as an honest broker by all sides.

JDC's four missions are:

• Aid of Jews in distress.
• Relief of Jews in need. Special attention is given to ensure that elderly Holocaust survivors are able to live out their lives in dignity.
• Restoring and strengthening Jewish community life.
• Helping the State of Israel to address the social service needs of its most vulnerable populations.