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Repaying kindness
« on: November 26, 2013, 09:40:46 PM »
Op-Ed: In its time of need, repaying a debt to the Philippines

By Alan H. Gill
November 12, 2013


Alex Frieder, seated, surrounded by Jewish refugees that he and his brothers helped escape from Nazi Germany and Austria to the Philippines. (3 Roads Communications)

NEW YORK (JTA) — As the extent of the catastrophic damage and tragic death toll continues to grow in the Philippines, a particularly heroic piece of history should be recalled by the global Jewish community, which owes a debt to the island nation.

Seven decades ago, a Philippine president, a globetrotting Jewish family named Frieder and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, my organization, helped save the lives of more than 1,000 Jews who otherwise would have almost certainly died in the Holocaust.

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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2013, 09:43:02 PM »
Thanks to their initiative, these refugees were issued rare travel certificates to the Asian country to work as skilled laborers in the Frieders’ cigar factories in Manila — though in reality, few of them had any experience in the industry whatsoever. The audacious operation, seemingly extraordinary today, is the subject of the recently released documentary “Rescue in the Philippines.”

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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2013, 09:44:16 PM »
At the time that Manuel Quezon admitted Jews to his country, the Filipino president made what seems today like a remarkably prescient statement.

“The people of the Philippines will have in the future every reason to be glad that when the time of need came, their country was willing to extend a welcome hand,” he was quoted as saying.

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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2013, 09:44:52 PM »
We recalled this moment in history last week when we began reading reports and watching coverage of the impending super typhoon Haiyan — the strongest storm in recorded history — as it barreled toward the Philippines. In anticipation of the impact, JDC’s disaster relief and development staff assembled a contingency plan that went into full effect once news emerged of the death and destruction wrought by Haiyan.

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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2013, 09:45:48 PM »
As part of our ongoing response to the typhoon, JDC will ship critically important food, shelter, and hygiene and medical supplies — as well as ensure the provision of water and sanitation items and shelter support — through its partners, the Afya Foundation and Catholic Relief Services. JDC’s advance team of disaster relief and development experts will head to the Philippines later this week to assess damage and needs while consulting with our local/international partners and the Filipino Jewish community to ensure maximum impact for storm survivors.

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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2013, 09:46:44 PM »
About 30 percent of funds raised will be dedicated to immediate relief for food, water, shelter, medical supplies and care, unless the emergency phase lasts longer because of expanding, critical needs among survivors. The rest will be invested in sustainable local projects that will emerge in the long, slow process of rehabilitation that is sure to come.

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« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2013, 09:47:17 PM »
It’s a formula JDC, which is celebrating its centennial this year, has developed over decades of efforts in the field, from helping Ukrainians starved by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s to rehabilitating survivors of genocide in Rwanda. And on behalf of the North American Jewish community and with its support, we have over the past decade delivered tens of millions of dollars in aid to victims of natural and manmade disasters in Southeast Asia, Haiti and Japan.

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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2013, 09:48:22 PM »
These efforts now come full circle, especially for one member of our team arriving in the Philippines later this week, Danny Pins. In addition to being one of our development and employment experts, Pins’ mother and grandparents were among the German Jews who fled to the Philippines to seek safe haven in 1938. His posting, in many ways a homecoming despite previous trips to the country, is highly symbolic.

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Re: Repaying kindness
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2013, 09:49:32 PM »
Today, in the wake of one of the worst storms in history, with perhaps more than 10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, we are fully committed to fulfilling President Quezon’s prophecy and returning the favor to the Filipino people. Not just because we are Jews, the heirs to this nation’s life-saving actions, but because we firmly believe in mutual responsibility and the idea that each individual life is valuable beyond measure.

(Alan H. Gill is the CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.)


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« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2013, 10:15:39 PM »
How many Filipinos practice Judaism, Tita ? Just curious lang ko.

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Re: Repaying kindness
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2013, 09:43:58 AM »
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« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2013, 10:10:04 AM »
Kini si Islander duda ko nga Tsaynis wid Jiwis blad... ;D

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« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2013, 10:19:23 AM »
By 1936, the Jewish community in the Philippines had a distinctly cosmopolitan makeup with a total population of about 500 persons. The threat to European Jewry by the Nazi government in the 1930s sparked a renewed Jewish consciousness. The small, decentralized and secularly-minded Jewish Community of Manila took heroic steps to save fellow Jews from sure destruction, only becoming Jewish-conscious in a deep way when the Nazi threat came out of Europe, and there were thousands of Jews in desperate need of help.

It was during the era of the Philippine Commonwealth, 1935–1946, that Jewish refugees from Europe sought a safe haven in Manila. The migration of Jews escaping Europe between 1935 and 1941 was the last major immigration of Jews to the Philippines. The first German Jews to arrive in Manila actually came from the Jewish community in Shanghai. With the occupation of Peking by the Japanese in 1937, the four million inhabitants of Shanghai were endangered. Germany's shift of alliance from China to Japan at this time alarmed German Jews in Shanghai, fearing German pressure on Japan to adopt Nazi anti-Jewish policies.

Fearing for them as well, the Jewish Community in Manila, led by the Frieder Brothers of Cincinnati, organized the Jewish Refugee Committee of Manila (JRC) with the intention of rescuing German members of the Shanghai Jewish community. These Jews had already been deprived of their German citizenship, and the Gestapo presence that was taking root in Japanese areas threatened Jewish existence in Shanghai as well. When the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, the JRC received a telegram from Shanghai asking for assistance for Shanghai's refugee Jews. With the help of Feng-Shan Ho, the Chinese Consul-General in Austria, Austrian Jews were able to escape to other countries, including the Philippines, when Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Germany in 1938. Manila then received 30 German Jewish refugee families from Shanghai, which then started a larger program that would eventually rescue 1300 refugee Jews from Europe between 1937 and 1941, the largest influx of Jews in Philippine history.

It is important to realize that the mechanics of the refugee rescue plan in Manila involved many different people and agencies in The Philippines, in the United States, and in Germany. While it was important to have the cooperation and consent of President Quezon in this refugee rescue plan, all issues of Philippine foreign affairs was still totally in the hands of the U.S. State Department and would be until The Philippines were granted their independence in 1946. What is unique to the rescue of refugee Jews in The Philippines is that the Jewish Community in Manila was granted authority by High Commissioner Paul McNutt and Philippine President Quezon to operate a selection committee to choose those who would be granted visas by the U.S. State Department. By an application and review process, Jewish refugees in Germany and Austria obtained visas for immigration from U.S. consular officers who had been instructed by the U.S. State Department to issue visas based on recommendations from the JRC in Manila. This successful Frieder-McNutt selection rescue plan led to the larger resettlement rescue plan that focused on the Island of Mindanao as a destination for the mass resettlement of 10,000 refugee Jews.

For the refugees who did manage to settle in the Philippines, the JRC organised committees to aid in finding employment and new homes for them in Manila. Though relatively modest in numbers when compared to the number of refugees worldwide, the newly arrived refugees nearly overwhelmed the small Jewish community of Manila, multiplying its numbers relatively overnight. An ironic turn of events occurred when all rescue plans halted with the invasion and occupation of The Philippines during WWII. --Wiki

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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2013, 07:29:07 PM »
Kini si Islander duda ko nga Tsaynis wid Jiwis blad... ;D

Taga CAT-anduanes kaliwat... pero CAT-tsilaon pod ;D

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« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2013, 09:08:21 AM »
CATingalahan ba ani... suddenly this bol-anon has become international, hihihi. ;D

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« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2013, 09:40:38 AM »
How many Filipinos practice Judaism, Tita ? Just curious lang ko.

i would hazard a guess, lorenz, and it is that they may not be that many now.  i can't say i ever met one here who professes to be a jew.  besides, they may not be as obvious as those you see on the streets and shops of madison avenue in new york or the kosher markets in manhattan.  here's an interesting tidbit, though:

About 100 families hold synagogue membership, and it is estimated that there are between 200 and 500 Jews in Manila and the Philippines altogether. In Pampanga (about 3-4 hours drive from Manila), there is a Jewish club called The Bagel Boys.

jewish surnames like cohn, bachrach, switzer, etc. who are all in business as jews invariably are, interestingly, they are regarded more as "americans" rather than "jews" because their presence is more secular than religious.  yet, even if there really is no known kosher restaurant here:

The Jewish community of Manila may be the only Jewish community in Asia that has its own locally-slaughtered kosher meat and locally-produced kosher cheese, and it may also be the region's oldest.

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« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2013, 09:43:31 AM »
more interesting trivia:

A Syrian-Jewish trader, A.N. Hashim, who had arrived in 1892, helped Filipino patriot Jose Rizal escape from Dapitan. Having recently gained U.S. citizenship, Hashim circulated freely among both Spanish and U.S. forces, providing the latter with intelligence.

Although he had landed in Manila with a suitcase of watches, after the war, Hashim took an interest in entertainment, beginning with a bicycle racetrack and later establishing the Manila Grand Opera House. He later diversified into government supply contracting (for both the U.S. and Filipino governments), mining, and import-export.

wow!

for an interesting read on jews in the philippines, there's more at: http://www.jewishtimesasia.org/manila/269-manila-communities/576-philippines-jewish-community

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« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2013, 09:49:12 AM »

Rabbi Eliyahu Azaria, from Chicago, is the current rabbi in the philippines

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« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2013, 10:03:33 AM »

Rabbi Eliyahu Azaria, from Chicago, is the current rabbi in the philippines

He he he! Shalom Alecheim , Rabbi Eliyahu! 8)

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« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2013, 10:08:54 AM »
i would hazard a guess, lorenz, and it is that they may not be that many now.  i can't say i ever met one here who professes to be a jew.  besides, they may not be as obvious as those you see on the streets and shops of madison avenue in new york or the kosher markets in manhattan.  here's an interesting tidbit, though:

About 100 families hold synagogue membership, and it is estimated that there are between 200 and 500 Jews in Manila and the Philippines altogether. In Pampanga (about 3-4 hours drive from Manila), there is a Jewish club called The Bagel Boys.

jewish surnames like cohn, bachrach, switzer, etc. who are all in business as jews invariably are, interestingly, they are regarded more as "americans" rather than "jews" because their presence is more secular than religious.  yet, even if there really is no known kosher restaurant here:

The Jewish community of Manila may be the only Jewish community in Asia that has its own locally-slaughtered kosher meat and locally-produced kosher cheese, and it may also be the region's oldest.

Thanks for that information! I never knew we had a jewish community, in fact I thought most Filipinos were either Christian, Muslim, or non-believing. However, last year I met one very good Filipino doctor, a product of Iloilo Doctors College of Medicine, and a General Surgeon here in the 'states. He is actually practicing Jewish and his family are also conservative Jews. I'm guessing that he's probably mixed with some earlier European Jewish immigrants to the Philippines because he doesn't look typically Filipino. He's quite the mestizo. He's a respectable individual, and very good doctor.



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