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SAVANNAH, GA.
We Proudly Present
OUR WORKERS
With great pride., we herewith
list the honor roll of the members
of the Alliance, who made up the
splendid organization, which, un¬
der the chairmanship of Herbert
Buchsbaum, raised the largest sum
achieved in a membership cam¬
paign in the past fifteen years.
As a result of their unselfish ef¬
forts, the Alliance has been en¬
abled to enlarge its professional
and office staff; to add addition¬
al equipment; to make necessary
v repairs; and to offer ap enlarged
program of activities—all devoted
to the major objective of the Alli¬
ance—to render service to the
Jewish community in the fields
of recreation, physical education,
education, character-building and
sociability.
The personnel of the campaign
follows:___
General Chairman — Herbert
Buchsbaum.
Special Membership Prospects
Division Chairmen—Jack M. Levy
and Isadore Movsovitz.
Men’s Division Chairman—Ben¬
jamin Silverman.
Women’s Division Chairman—
M**s. Isaac Meddin.
Men’s Division
* Team 1—Louis Silverman, cap¬
tain; Isaac Blumberg, H. S.
Ehrenreich, B. Karpf, Sam Port
man, Norman Robbins.
Team 2—Joseph Mirsky, cap¬
tain; Louis Odrezin.
Team 3—Louis Black, captain;
Nat Marcus.
Team 4—George Richman, cap¬
tain; Ralph Tenenbaum, Sanford
Wexler, A. L. Karp.
Team 5—David Rosenzweig, cap¬
tain; Jake Ginsberg, Alex Hey
man, Henry Karsman.
Team 6—Harry R. Friedman,
captain; Ben Alpert, Philip Cran
man, Casper Wiseman, Henry
Zerman.
Team 7—Dr. William A. Wex¬
ler, captain; Irving Alpern, Dr.
Maurice Camin, Henry Shonfield.
Team 8—Isaac Meddin, captain;
Mose Blumenfeld, Fred Ehren¬
reich, Sam Goldberg, Morton H.
Levy, Jos. Rosenthal, Albert Ten¬
enbaum.
Team 9—Morris Rosen, captain;
Robert H. Brown, B. B. Eichholz,
Dr. Melvin Sutker, David H.
Weiner, Arthur Whiteman.
Team 10 — Hyman Hoffman,
captain; Sam Pike.
Team 11 — Michael Adilman,
captain; Hai-ry Applebaum, Harry
Richman, Julius Palefsky.
Team 12—H. Col Clark, cap¬
tain; George Kapner, Philip Sut¬
ker.
Team 13 — Abram Kantsiper,
captain; Ben H. Portman, A. I.
Rosenthal, Ruben Siegel.
Team 15—Isadore Movsovitz,
Herbert Buchsbaum, Jack M.
Levy, Benjamin Silverman Sidney
Rosenzweig.
Woman’s Division
. Team 101—Mrs. Isadore Karpf,
chairman; Mesdames W. T. Co¬
hen, Benjamin Silverman, Asa
Meddin, Sol. Mirsky, Jack Bryan.
Team 102—Mrs. Jack M. .Levy,
captain; Mesdames Albert Ten¬
enbaum, Harry R. Friedman, Wil¬
liam Wexler, Ralph Tenenbaum.
Team 103—Mrs. Elliot Gottlieb,
captain; Mesdames Isadore Mov¬
sovitz, Max Halperin, Frank
Buchsbaum, Irving Gottlieb.
Team 104—Mrs. Louis Black,
chairman; Mesdames David Ros¬
enzweig, George Richman, Louis
Silverman, Sidney Asher, David
Segall.
Team 105—Mrs. A. A. Safer,
chairman; Mesdames Samuel Al¬
bert, Max Hornstein, Samuel
Kramer.
Big Gifts Division
Team 1 — Isadore Movsovitz,
Jack M. Levy.
Team 2—Morris Rosen, Joseph
Mirsky.
Team 3—Dr. William A. Wex¬
ler.
Team 4 —Harry R. Friedman.
Team 5—Louis Black.
Team 6—George Richman, Dav
id Rosenzweig.
Team 7—Herbert Buchsbaum.
Team 8—Ben Silverman.
Team 10—Judge Emanuel Lew
is.
Senior Hadassah
An Oneg Shabbath will be held
M the home of Mrs. Joseph M.
ol M>senthal, 648 East Victory Drive
pJnJ Saturday, December 29, at 3
Free Ads For Vets
As part of its program of
community service, this publi¬
cation of the Alliance will pub¬
lish free of charge, “Situations
Wanted” ads for honorably dis¬
charged veterans of World
War II. AH information will
be kept in the strictest confi¬
dence and space will be assign¬
ed to the veterans placing ads.
Veterans interested in using
this service are asked to com¬
municate with Mr. Kulick.
Tkank ^ou, JCacHie*/
The Alliance takes this means
of expressing its deepest thanks
and appreciation to the corps of
loyal and energetic women, whose
efforts in securing the advertis¬
ing for this publication have con¬
tributed to the fine start which
we have been able to make on this
project.
The committee consists of Mes
dames Sam D. Hirsch and Abe
Javetz, co-chairmen, and Mes
dames Irving Alpern, Louis Black,
Abram Bernstein, Jack Barnett,
Gottlieb^Alef' iSk Hevnian"' £v J
Karsman MeddTn ’ k M L v ^TsarW a
Movsovitz. Mh-skv Roto’son, Ja£b
Abro
Rubin, David Rosenzweig, Benja
min Silverman, and M. W. Ten
enbaum.
Kulick Represents Us
At Birmingham Confab
Paul Kulick, Executive Secre¬
tary of the Savannah Jewish
Council, represented Savannah at
the eleventh annual conference
of the. Southeastern Region of the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, held in
Birmingham, Ala., on December
8 and 9.
Representatives from forty Jew¬
ish Federations, Welfare Funds
and Community Councils in the
nine states making up the re¬
gion attended the conference,
which was devoted to a discussion
of the problems faced by Jewish
communities in the post-war pe¬
riod.
Among the topics covered in
the sessions were: Regional Plan¬
ning for the Aged; Welfare Fund
Budgeting; the National Advisory
Budgeting Proposal: and the Com¬
munity Relations Programs.
Mr. Kulick will present a re¬
port on the conference at an early
meeting of the Savannah Jewish
Council.
Alliance Continues
Servicemen's Program
The important .job of. serving
the social and recreational needs
of the Jewish men and" women in
military service still stationed in
this area, formerly carried on
by the U. S. 0.—J. W. B., under
the auspices of the Savannah
Army and Navy Committee of the
Jewish Welfare Board, has been
taken over by the Alliance. This
service will continue un^il all of
the military installations in this
area have been, c.losed and there
is no further need for such serv¬
ices.
Dances are still held every Sat¬
urday evening at the Alliance,
with the Junior Hostesses of the
former U. S. O.—J. W. B. in
charge. Refreshments are served
and from 40 to 50 servicemen at
tend these functions.
On Sunday evenings, a buffet:
supper is served to servicemen,,
with an informal social period fol¬
lowing.
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AB0VE ARE SH0WN a S rou P <‘f members of the B’nai B’rith Hillel
F °u n dation °f the University of Georgia, in rehearsal of the cantata
“ 0ur B,a J ,k ” which the y wil1 present at the Alliance Sunday
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S aUSpiCe8 ° f ,he B ’ nai B ’ ri * h WMne ”
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Savannah Jewish Council Members
Are Elected For Year Of 1946
The make-up of the Savannah Jewish Council for the
year 1946 was completed at a meeting held recently at the
home of Mr. B. I. Friedman, President of the Council, when
the representatives from the 22 organizations, comprising
the Council, met to elect twelve
Still Time To Give
To Building Fund
And Include In '45 Tax
With only a few days
left until the end of 1945,
our headers are reminded
that there is still time to
make a contribution to the
Building Fund of the Alli¬
ance and receive credit for
deductions from their 194§
income tax returns.
Contributions to the
Building Fund will make
it possible for the Alliance
to erect, when conditions
are most favorable, a mod¬
ern and complete Jewish
Community Center build¬
ing, which will serve the
needs of our growing com¬
munity and be a living
memorial to our Jewish
men and women who served
so nobly in the military
forces of our country.
Contributions may be
sent directly to the office
of the Alliance.
Workmen’s Circle
David Hirsch is the chairman of
the committee in charge of the
New Year’s Party, to be sponsor¬
ed building, by the 244 Workmen’s West Broad, Circle at De¬ its
on
cember 31.
On Sunday evening, January 20,
Mr. Lichenstein, of New York City,
representative of the “Vecker”
publications, will lecture meetings on the
world situation. Regular
will be held on Sunday evenings,
January 6 and 20; David B. Rossi
will lead the discussion at Open
Forums on Current Problems in
Yiddish on Sunday evenings, Jan¬
uary 13 and 27.
The following persons were
elected members-at-large of the
Council: Philip H. Bodziner, B.
I. Friedman, Herbert Buchsbaum,
Jake Fine, Herbert L. Kayton,
Joseph Lesser, Morris Levy,
Emanuel Lewis, Abram Minis,
Jr., Sidney Rosenzweig, Morris
Slotin, and Rabbi Louis M. Young
erman. .....
The delegates to the Council
and the organizations they will
represent in 1946 are as follows:
Meyer W. Tenebaum, Agudath
Achim Chevrah Kadisha; Albert
Tenenbaum, Agudath Achim Con¬
gregation; Mrs. Henry Karsman,
Agudath Achim Sisterhood; Isa¬
dore Movsovitz, B. B. Jacob
Brotherhood; Isaac Blumberg, B.
B. Jacob Chevrah Kadisha; Rabbi
A. I. Rosenberg, B. B. Jacob Con¬
gregation; Mrs. Nathan Tenen¬
baum, B. B. Jacob Sisterhood;
Mrs. Louis Mirsky, Benoth Chesed
Shel Emeth; Mrs., H. Sol Clark,
Council of Jewish Women; Louis
Silverman, H. G. H. Society;
Morris H. Bernstein, Harmonie
Club.
Mrs. A. J. Garfunkel, Hebrew
Silverman, Al( JewLT^feducaUonal
Alliance; Mrs. David H. Weiner,|
Women’s Club of the Jewish Edu
cational Alliance; Max Kassel,
Mickve Israel Brotherhood; Mor
ton H. Levy, Mickve Israel Con
gregation; Mrs. Sol Hirsch, Mick
ve Israel Sisterhood; Miss Mamie
Gottlieb, Savannah chapter, B.
and P. Hadassah; David B. Rossi,
Savannah branch, Workmen’s
Circle; Jack M. Levy, Savannah
district, Zionist Organization of
America; Dr. William A. Wexler,
Savannah Lodge, B’nai B’rith;
and Mrs. Hyman S. Levy Sa¬
vannah Chapter, .Seni or Had as
sah.
Present at the meeting were
Messrs. Albert Tenebaum, Meyer
W. Tenenbaum, Blumberg, Ben¬
jamin Silverman, Louis Silver
man, Bernstein, Kassel, Morton H.
Levy, Jack M. Levy, Rossi; Rab¬
bi Rosenberg; Dr. Wexler; Mes¬
dames Tanenbaum, Norman Mir¬
sky, Clark, Garfunkel — all dele¬
gates from organizations; Morris
Levy and Herbert Buchsbaum,
vice-presidents of the Council; B.
I. Friedman, President of the
Council; and Paul Kulick, Secre¬
tary of the Council. Morton H.
Levy is also a vice-president of
the Council.
The Annual Meeting of the
Council will be held in January,
when officers for the year 1946
will be elected by the organiza¬
tional delegates and members-at
large.
DECEMBER 21, 1945
B. B. Women Offer
U. of Go. Hillel
Cantata Jan. 6
The B’nai B’rith Women of Sa¬
vannah will play hosts to a large
contingent of Jewish students
from the Hillel Foundation of the
University of Georgia, when they
come to Savannah on the week
edn of January 5th and 6th to
present an outstanding program,
featuring the contata, “Our
Bialik.”
The cantata, which deals with
the influence that the great Jew¬
ish poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik,
has had on the Jewish people, will
be presented in the auditorium of
the Alliance on Sunday evening.
January 6th, at 8:30 p.m., in a
program open to the public. In
addition, a group of Hillel mem
bers will discuss the subject, “Ger¬
mans or Nazis Who are to
Blame?” in a Town Hall pro
gram.
Sunday evening’s program will
open with a speech of welcome by
Mrs. Hyman Roth, president of
the B’nai B’rith Women of Sa¬
vannah; Rabbi Sanford E. Saper
stein, Director of the Hillel unit
of the B’nai B’rith at the Uni¬
versity of Georgia, will respond
to the welcome on behalf of the
college group.
The following Savannah stu¬
dents at the university are taking
part in the cantata, directed by
Mrs. Sanford Saperstein: Betty
Adler, Audrey Meddin, Roslyn
Platock, Harriet Kanter, Trudy
Marcus, Evelyn Wills, and Doris
Kooden. Savannah will be repre
sented on the Town Hall program
by Elliot Horovitz chairman,
Murray Arkin, and Roslyn Pla¬
tock. Murray Arkin and Elliot
Horovitz, will also enact parts in
the cantata.
The choral background of “Our
Bialik” will be composed of a
number of folk songs, set to music
from Bialik’s poetry by outstand¬
ing modern Hebrew composers,
and sung by the chorus of Hillel
students.
The visiting students will be
the guests of honor at a dance to
be held at the Alliance, under the
auspices of the B’nai B’rith Wom¬
en, on Saturday evening, January
5th, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Mem¬
bers of the A.Z.A. and B.B.G.
groups B’rith in Savannah, units of the
B’nai Youth Organization,
have been invited to the dance,
as have servicemen stationed in
this area. Refreshments will be
served at the dance.
Silverman Speaks
In Charleston
; Benjamin Silverman President
of the Je ™ sh Ld uca tional Am ~
ance was the principal . , speaker 1 at
% °, f Charleston, f + the i S. eW ^ C..^on h Coi ^ Wednes- mty
day ev i ning ’ December 12. Held
nnder the auspices of the newly
organized Jewish Community Cen
°f Charles ton, the rally was
h f ld quaint the commumy
of tl ? at Clt / ™th the aims and
activities .. of the Center,
In inviting Mr. Silverman to
address the rally, Nathan Shul
man, Executive Director of the
Charleston Center, 1 said; “We
have the Jewil^^S hear^^Ll the dueationd^AUm fine wu:k vdiieh
nee
is doing in Savannah as the Jew¬
ish Community Center of your
city snd we feel that we can
benefit from the rich experience
you have had in providing a broad
and varied program of physical,
social, educational and recrea¬
tional activities.”
Mr. Silverman was well equip¬
ped to bring to the Jewish com¬
munity of Charleston a picture of
the functioning of a Jewish Cen¬
ter because of his rich experience
in the Alliance and Jewish com¬
munity affairs. He has been ac¬
tive, as a participant and as a
leader, in the work of the Alliance
for the past twenty years. He
has served as a club member and
club leader; participated in ath¬
letics and cultural activities; has
served as chairman of many com¬
mittees, and Alliance membership
campaigns; and as a vice-presi¬
dent of the Alliance. He is a past
president and secretary of the
local B’nai B’rith Lodge; of the
H. G. H. Society; and a vice
president of the Savannah Zion¬
ist District.