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SAVANNAH, GA.
THE JEWISH ALLIANCE
Published bi-weekly by the Jewish Educational Alliance, Inc.,
328 Barnard Street, Savannah, Ga.
Affiliated with the National Jewish Welfare Board and the
Savannah Jewish Council
OFFICERS
Benjamin Silverman, president; Isaac Meddin, Sanford Wexler,
and Dr. William A. Wexler, vice-president; Mrs. Raymond Rosen,
secretary; Jack M. Levy, treasurer.
Paul A. Kulick, Executive Director
Jack Chilnick, Director of Activities
EDITORIAL STAFF IN FORMATION
Vol I DECEMBER 28, 1945 No. 1
The President Speaks:
The “Inklings” have grown up!
In keeping with our present program of expansion of
activities, this first newspaper effort of the Alliance is pre¬
sented with the hope that it will truly become the voice of
the community. It is our hope that this periodical will fill
a definite need among us by acting as a medium of expres¬
sion for every group making up our community and in
unifying them all.
This is my first opportunity to publicly express my ap¬
preciation to the members of the Board of Directors and to
the Alliance membership for their loyal support and assist¬
ance which enabled us to overcome the many problems con¬
fronting us at the beginning of this fiscal year. At that time
we found ourselves without an executive director or an ath¬
letic director and with the problem of reconversion when the
U.S.O. was discontinued.
We were fortunate in obtaining the services of Paul A.
Kulick as our executive director and adding to our commun¬
ity this pleasant personality and dynamo of action and his
charming wife and two children. Paul has already taken
over and a definite program is taking shape. His experi¬
enced touch is already being felt in the building’s activities.
Early in January, we expect the arrival of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Chilnick. Jack will be our new activities and athletic
director. He is a fine young man and comes highly recom¬
mended and is a specially trained and experienced person in
the field of social group work. This will add even more
impetus to our program.
In the meantime, the athletic department and basket¬
ball team have been most ably handled voluntarily by San¬
ford Wexler, a vice-president of the Alliance and chairman
of the athletic committee, and by Sanford Rubin. The latter
is a fine example of the rapid reintegration of the returning
service personnel into the Alliance, their “second home,” and
which we soon hope to present to them and to the com¬
munity completely renovated and with enlarged facilities
for everyone. .
All of us are enthused and inspired by the success of
our recent membership campaign evidencing your interest
in the institution and that for which it stands. You are the
Alliance and the Alliance is you. As a community asset, the
Alliance means much to all of us.
The building and its staff are at your service, ever ready
to meet your communal or personal needs. Everyone is
urged to use its facilities so that it will truly be the hub of our
community where all shades of opinion among us may find
equal and democratic expression.
Community spirit and unity is at a high peak. It can
only be kept that way by your continued loyalty and co¬
operation with your officers and staff.
BENJAMIN SILVERMAN
President, Jewish
Educational Alliance.
You Still Have Time
Members of thc^uAlliance may still purchase season tickets for
the Alliance Cultural Series, which are on sale at the Alliance office.
Season tickets are sold only to members of the Alliance. Even
though two events of the eight-event series have already taken plare,
the series ticket still represents a distinct bargain—a savings of $3.50
over the cost of single admissions for the next six events.
This year, the Cultural Series is being offered to Alliance mem
bers for $3, as compared with the $6 charge made last year. This
year, eight events were offered; last year, only six.
The remaining events of the series are:
Irving Davidson, Jewish humorist, Thursday, January 10.
“The Adding Machine,” by Elmer Rice, presented by the Alliance
Players at the Armstrong Junior College auditorium, Thursday, Janu¬
ary 28.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, lecture on “Will the New World be One
World?” Thursday, February 28.
Delakova and Berk, in Palestinian and Jewish Folk Dances, Thurs¬
day, March 7.
Dr. Joseph Lookstein, noted Orthodox Rabbi, lecture on “Shaping
the American-Jewish community,” Monday, April 29.
Play, to be announced, by the Alliance Players, on date in May.
Single admissions to all of the events will be $1, except the Wise
lecture which will be $1.50.
THE JEWISH ALLIANCE
Service To Vets
The staff of the Alliance
would like to receive, from the
returned veterans, their sugges¬
tions as to ways in which the
Alliance can best serve them, in
terms of activities, counselling
services, veterans matters, em¬
ployment, etc. Paul
Our executive director,
Kulick, extends a cordial invi¬
tation to all veterans to come
in and personally discuss such
matters with him.
Present plans call for the set¬
ting up of a committee, to con¬
sider alt such suggestions and
to evolve a program of service
to veterans.
Alliance Players'
“Adding Machine”
On January 31st
The Alliance Players, under the
direction of David B. Rossi, will
present “The Adding Machine”
by Elmer Rice, as their first pro¬
duction of the season, at the
Auditorium of the Armstrong
Junior College on Thursday eve¬
ning, January 31.
The excellent technical facilities
of the Armstrong auditorium,
which is being used for the first
time in the history of the Play¬
ers, will make it possible to pre¬
sent a production of the highest
caliber, free of the limitations
imposed by the stage of the Alli¬
ance.
“The Adding Machine,” a fan¬
tasy dealing with the plight of
the white collar worker in the
technical age, had a long run on
Broadway and has been long a
favorite of amateur theatrical
groups.
Mr. Rossi has assembled a fine
cast, including many veterans of
Alliance dramatic productions,
and rehearsals are well under
way. However, there are still a
few acting parts open, as well as
openings on the technical staff of
the production. Those interested
in taking part are asked to get
in touch with Mr. Rossi at the
Alliance.
B’nai B’rith
The B’nai B’rith Women will
hold a luncheon meeting at the Ho¬
tel Savannah on Monday, January
14, at 1 p.m.
The organization will join with
the men’s lodge in playing hosts
to a meeting of the District No.
5 Executive Committee of the
B’nai B’rith and B’nai B’rith Wom¬
en on Saturday evening, January
26, and Sunday, January 27.
Jesse Fine, of Baltimore, Md.,
president of District No. 5 of B’nai
B’rith will preside at the meet¬
ing of the Executive Committee
of the district at the Hotel DeSoto
on January 26; Miss Sara Gross
man, of Washington, D. C., presi¬
dent of District No. 5, B’nai B’rith
Women, will preside at a similar
meeting of the women that same
night.
On Sunday evening, January 27,
a banquet will be held in the Main
Ballroom of the DeSoto Hotel for
all members of both lodges, and
v i s i t i n g Executive Committee
members, with Dr. Isaac Rabin
owitz, newly-appointed National
Director of the boys and young
men’s activities of the B’Nai B’rith
Youth Organization, as the main
speaker.
A.Z.A.
A large contingent of members
of the Savannah Chapter of A.Z.A.
will attend the Southern Regional
Convention of A.Z.A. in Atlanta on
December 25, 26, and 27., The reg¬
ion includes 10 chapters. The ac¬
tivities at the convention will in¬
clude Basketball, Bowling, Ora¬
tory and Debating tournaments.
Wm. X. Kaplan, Acting Director
of District No. 5 of the B.B.Y.O.,
will be the speaker. Social pro¬
grams and a business meeting are
on the agenda of the Convention.
The 12th Anniversary Banquet
of the Savannah chapter of A.Z.A.
will be held late in January at the
Gen. Oglethorpe Hotel.
A..ZA. will conduct a clothing
drive for the needy in Europe dur¬
ing the month of January.
We Warmly Welcome You Home!
The Jewish Educational Alliance welcomes back to Sa¬
vannah and the Alliance the many men and women who
have completed their service in the armed forces of our
country. No amount of words on our part can express the
affection we hold for them and our appreciation for the
contribution which they made in preserving freedom and
liberty for the world.
We hope that they will use the Alliance—their second
home,” in the words of so many of the veterans, both those
back home and those still in the service—and will call upon
us to serve them in any manner they may need us. We
wish for them a speedy readjustment to civilian life; the
best of material success; health and long life.
Following is the list of the discharged men and women
known to us. We believe the list is much longer and would
appreciate being notified of the names of those we have left
off so that we may personally offer our services to them.
Harry Adler
Meyer Adler
Abe Beryl Alpert
Maurice Alpert
Oscar Beberman
George Bluestein
Jacob Bluestein
Harold B. Blumberg
Louis Brass -
I. W. Center
Leo Center
Dr. S. H. Cohen
Stanley Cohen
Richard Cohn
Henry I. Coleman
Joseph Cooper
Harry Cranman -
Louis Cranman
Leo Dermer
Louis Diamond
Izzy Diamond
David Dinerman
Joseph Dinerman
Sam Dinerman
Joseph Epstein
Washington Falk, III
Hyman Fialkow^
Jake Fine, Jr.
Berney Fink
Milton Fink
Phillip Freedman
Sylvan A. Garfunkel
Noah Ginsberg
Gershon Gonchar
Robert Gordon
Sam Gorovitz
Irving Gottlieb
Carl I. Green
Joel Grunin
Alex Heyman
Harold Hirsch
Mary Hirsch
Sam D. Hirsch
C. L. Hcnenstein
Ralph Hohenstein
Albert Hornstein
Neil I. Hornstein
Arthur Horovitz
Elliot Horowitz
Herman Itzkovitz
Emanuel Javetz
Warning: Check Before You Give
All persons in the Jewish community who are approached
for contributions to any non-local Jewish institution, either in
person or by mail, are asked to check with Mr. Kulick, the Ex¬
ecutive Secretary of the Savannah Jewish Council, to determine
whether or not a particular institution receives funds from the
Savannah United Jewish Appeal and Federation, The Council
has made great strides forward in centralizing all fund-raising
for non-local Jewish causes through the U. J. A. and F. This
progress will be strengthened if all such contributions are made
through the U. J. A. and F., which supports a great variety of
Jewish institutions.
We have an understanding with all institutions and organiza¬
tions which receive funds from our campaign whereby they will
not make any solicitations in Savannah. Our people will be
doing themselves and the Jewish community a favor if they
will call Mr. Kulick at 3-8843 whenever they are solicited for
contributions by non-local Jewish organizations.
DECEMBER 21, 1945
Dr. H. M. Kandel
Herman Kaplan
Henry Kaplan
Nathan Karnibad
Melvin Karp
Michael Kohler
David D. Kramer
Emanuel Kronstadt
Alvin Landy
Nathan Lang
Frank Lasky
Bernard Lennox,' II
Abe Levine
B. H. Levy
Max Lipsey
Leonard Lowenkopf
William Lubel
Arthur A. Manning
Elliott Meddin
Kehath Mopper
Morris Moshovitz
Irving Nathan
Louis Oppenheim
Julius Palefsky
Louis Pinzer
Nathan Portman
Dr. Merle Rips
Aaron Robinson
Sigo Raskin
Dr. Jacob Rubin
Sanford Rubins
Barney L. Sadler
Maxwell Rosenthal
Phillip Salkin
Louis Scharff
Isadore Scheer
Fred Schwitz
Isadore J. Schwitz
Herman Segall —
Meyer E. Shensky
Harry Shoob
Marvin Shoob
Melvin R. Siegel
Bernie Slotin
Martin Sussman
Abe Tenenbaum
Nathan Udinsky
Stanley Ulman
Frank B. Weil
Isadore Weitz
Albert Yellin