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THE JEWISH ALLIANCE
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JEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OF SAVANNAH, GA.
VOL. 1, NO. 3
Alliance Players Present “Adding Machine” January 31st
Banquet Will Feature Meeting of B'nai
B'rith District Executive Committee
The Men’s and Women’s lodges of B’nai B’rith in Sa¬
vannah will play hosts to the members of the Executive
Committee and the B. B. Y. 0. Committee of District Grand
Lodge Number Five of the Order, when meetings of the
two bodies are held in this city on Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday, January 26, 27 an a.
28. District Five includes t h
lodges in Maryland, District of
Columbia, Virginia, North Caro¬
lina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida.
The activities will open Satur¬
day evening with a formal meeting
of the committee, at which various
reports will be presented. On Sun¬
day morning, the meeting will re¬
convene and continue until 1 p. m.,
king interlude for lunch, follow
which further deliberation of
the committee will take place.
The highlight of the weekend’s
activities will come on Sunday
evening, at 8 p. m., when a public
dinner will be held, with members
of the Executive Committee being
the guests of members of Savan¬
nah Lodge and the B’nai B’rith
Women of Savannah.
Dr. Rabinowitz to Speak
The main speaker will be Dr.
Isaac Rabinowitz, National Direc¬
tor of Boys’ Work of the B’nai
B’rith Youth Organization (B. B.
Y. 0.), which includes A. Z. A. and
the B’nai B’rith Young Men. Dr.
Rabinowitz, who received his Ph.D.
in Semitics at Yale University in
1932, has served as Director of
Hillel Foundations at the Univer¬
sity of Michigan, Temple Univer
sity, University of Pennsylvania
and Brooklyn College, previous to
his appointment to his present pos¬
ition. From 1935 to 1938, he was
the Director of Youth Education
of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
Dr. William A. Wexler, of Sa¬
vannah, a member of the District
Executive Committee, will act as
toastmaster. The program will
include speeches of welcome by
E. Rosen, president of Sa
Lodge of B’nai B’rith and
Hyman H. Roth, president of
the B’nai B’rith Women of Savan
and responses by Jesse Fine,
B’rith and Miss Sara Grossman,
[President of District Five of B’nai
B’rith Women.
On Sunday morning, the District
B. B. Y. 0. committee will meet.
Sanford Wexler, advisor to the
local A. Z. A. and long active in
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Annual Meeting of the Savannah Jewish
Council January 30 to Elect Officers
The Annual Meeting of the Savannah Jewish Counicl
will be held on Wednesday evening, January 30, at the
Jewish Educational Alliance. Highlights of the evening’s
business will be the election of officers for 1946; action on
a series of proposed amendments to the constitution of
Council; and the report of Jewish
communal developments in the
Southeast by Paul Kulick, Execu¬
tive Director of the Council.
In addition, the organizational
delegates and members-at-large
will discuss the National Advisory
Budgeting Proposal, which is be¬
ing submitted by the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds to its constituent organiza¬
tions—of which the Savannah
Jewish Council is one—for their
consideration. The proposal will
be brought up for decision at the
General Assembly of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Wel¬
fare Funds in Detroit, Mich., in
February. Material, giving the
details of the proposal, with the
arguments on the subject, pre¬
pared by the opponents and pro¬
ponents of the plan, is being sent
in advance to every member of
the Council.
The nominating committee,
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JESSE FINE, President of Dis
Grand Lodge No. Five of B’nai
B’rith, will preside at the ses¬
sions of the Executive Commit¬
tee of the District at the meet¬
ing in Savannah this coming
week-end. He has served the
District as a member of its Exe¬
cutive Committee; as vice-pres¬
ident; chairman of the commit¬
tees on War Service, Memebrship
Retention and Publicity.
Copies To Servicemen
The Alliance will be happy
to mail copies of all future is¬
sues of “The Jewish Alliance”
§» all men and women in serv¬
ice. However, unfortunately,
the file of addresses of serv¬
icemen is entirely out-of-date.
All persons wishing to have
future issues of this publica¬
tion mailed to friends or rela¬
tives still in the service are
asked to call the office of the
Alliance, 3-8843, or to mail in
the necessary information. Ad¬
dresses should be exact, giving
rank and serial number.
which will also draw up the
series of amendments to the con¬
stitution, as recommended by the
organizational delegates at their
meeting in November, is compos¬
ed of Morris H. Bernstein, chair¬
man, Miss Mamie Gottlieb, Jack
M. Levy, Emanuel Lewis, Benja¬
min Silverman, Albert Tennen
baum, and Isaac Blumberg.
Mr. Kulick’s report will de¬
scribe the deliberations at the
eleventh annual conference of the
Southeastern Region of the Coun¬
cil of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds, which was held
in Birmingham, Ala. in December,
attended by Mr. Kulick.
4 The officers of the Council in
1945 were: B. I. Friedman, Presi¬
dent; Herbert Buchsbaum and
Morris Levy, vice-presidents; and
Philip H. Bodziner, treasurer.
Rabbi Jerome Labovitz and Paul
Kulick served as secretary.
FRIDAY. JANUARY 18. 1946
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Proper names should be care¬
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of names. Cooperation with
these simple rules will enable
us to expedite the regular issu¬
ing of this paper.
Lowenthal Speaks
At Alliance Feb. 3
Marvin Lowenthal, noted author
historian and lecturer, will speak
at the Alliance on Sunday evening,
February 3, under the auspices of
the Savannah Zionist District.
The meeting will be open to the
public.
Mr. Lowenthal is known as one
,of the best-informed authorities on
Jewish questions, especially those
relating to Palestine and Zionism.
He has traveled extensively and
brings to his lectures a broad un¬
derstanding and warm sympathy
for his subject.
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He is author of numerous pub¬
lished works, including “The Jews of
of Germany.” “Glueckel
Hameln,” “A Wcfdd Passed By”;
and “A Life of Henrietta Szold,
among many others.
Lowenthal was one of the first
contributors to the “Menorah
Journal,” still recognized as one
of the leading journals of quality
on the Jewish scene.
A treat is in store for all who
attend and a large crowd is expect¬
ed. There will be no admission
charge.
B. I. Friedman, S. E. Wolff
Elected To Executive
Committee, S.E., J.D.C.
Mr. B. I. Friedman and Mr. S.
E. Wolff, both of Savannah, were
named as members of the Execu¬
tive Committee of the Southeast¬
ern Region of the Joint Distribu¬
tion Committee at the recent meet¬
ing at Birmingham, Ala., at which
the Region was organized.
Both Mr. Friedman and Mr.
Wolff are active in Jewish com¬
munal life—Mr. Friedman is the
president of the Savannah Jewish
Council and Mr. Wolff served as
.co-chairman of the initial gifts di¬
vision of the 1945 campaign of the
Savannah United Jewish Appeal
and Federation.
Strong Cast Will Enact Rice Play
At the Armstrong Junior College
The Armstrong Junior College Auditorium will be the
scene of the first Alliance dramatic production of the sea
son, when ,on Thursday, January 31, the Alliance Players
present “The Adding Machine” by Elmer Rice. This pro¬
duction will mark the first time that the Alliance Players
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LARRY WAGGER, who has the
leading role of Mr. Zero in the
Alliance Players Production of
“The Adding Machine” at the
Armstrong Junior College on
Thursday, January 31. He had
the leading role in Maeterlinck’s
“The Bluebird,” while attending
High Point College. He was al¬
so active in dramatics at the
University of North Carolina.
Court Games Here
January 23 and 30
Alliance sport fans will have a
,real basketball menu in store for
them the remainder of January.
On Wednesday, January 23, the
Wexlermen will take on a strong
Coast Guard Raider team, which
will come to the Alliance eager to
avenge the two-point victory which
the J. E. A. boys eked out over
it in the first match between the
two teams at Cockspur Island last
Tuesday.
On Wednesday, January 30, the
Golden Tornadoes will take on a
strong basketball team.
The Alliance Juniors, coached by
Sanford Rubin, will play a strong
local Junior team in the prelimin¬
ary of the January 23rd. game,
while the A. Z. A. will play a fast
local team in the prelim of the
January 30th game.
Admission to each game will be
fifty cents for adults and twenty
five cents for children. The public
is invited.
Alliance Wins Two
Coming back strong after their
trouncing by the J. A. C. Alumni,
the Alliance five took on the Sa¬
vannah Machine and Foundry team
in a game on the home court last
Monday and outclassed the visitors
from start to finish. Led by “Big
Bob” Gordon, who found the bas¬
ket for 21 points, the Tornadoes
went on to win by the lop-sided
score of 65-30.
The next night, Tuesday, Jan¬
uary 15, the Alliance traveled to
Cockspur Island for a game with
the Coast Guard Raiders and, after
a see-saw struggle, managed a tri¬
umph, 41-39, to make it three wins
out of four engagements this sea¬
son.
GA.
will be presenting one of their
plays outside of the Alliance build¬
ing. The superior technical facili¬
ties of the Armstrong stage assure
the Players of an outstanding set¬
ting for their production.
David B. Rossi, starting his sixth
season as Director of the Alliance
Players, has assembled on out¬
standing cast for the production,
headed by Larry Wagger, in the
leading role of Mr. Zero. Other
leading players are: Betty Michels,
teacher of English at Commercial
High School, who played leading
roles with the Savannah Play¬
house; David Rosenweig, who has
similarly had stage experience
with the Savannah Playhouse and
the Alliance Players; Pauline
Rossi, who has appeared in a num¬
ber of Alliance Players shows; and
Louis Black, who made his debut
with the Alliance group last year.
Other members of the cast and
the roles they enact are listed else¬
where in this issue.
Plight of White Collar Man
“The Adding Machine” is the
story of the trials and tribulations,
both in this world and the next, of
a white collar worker, Mr. Zero.
Nagged at home, and stalemated
at the office, he lives a life of day
dreams—a better paying job, a
better home, another woman, a
car of his own . . . and his entire
life might have been a series of
stumbling, inarticulate dreams, if
not for a detour > 9 , on a sudden
impulse he kills and pays the pen¬
alty with his life.
THE CAST FOR
"The Adding Machine"
Mr. Zero........ Larry Wagger
Mrs. Zero...... ..Betty Michels
Daisy Devore........Pauline Rossi
Shrdlu Louis Black
Lt. Charles....David Rosenzweig
The Boss........Harry Stollerman
Mr. One.. ..........Leo Center
Mrs. One Helen Hornstein
Mr. Two. Harry Richman
Mrs. Two
Mrs. Isaac Levington
Mr. Three Israel Safer
Mrs. Three..Mrs. Annie Wolson
Joe. Joseph Dinerman
Elmer Rice, the author, brings
Mr. Zero into our lives, because
we know such little people, com¬
monplace, machine-forced minds,
who live in ridiculous unbeauty. To
bring out the drab surroundings
of Mr. Zero, the author of the
play every-day draws upon a treasure of
characters—the nagging
Mrs. Zero, the office girl, the boss,
the good neighbors—and then in
the world beyond, the pious mur¬
derer, a fixer of souls, etc.
At present, Elmer Rice, has an
outstanding hit on Broadway,
“Dream Girl” which, added to his
other successes, makes him one of
the most important playwrights of
the present genration.
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Now Organizing Clubs
For Boys and Girls
Plans are now underway for
the organization of clubs at the
Alliance for boys and girls from
the ages of eight to fourteen.
Boys and girls interested in
joining a club are asked to see
Mr. Jack Chilnick at the Alli¬
ance.
Adult leaders are needed for
these clubs. Men and women
interested in rendering^valuable
service by providing' greatly
needed leadership, while achiev¬
ing a self-satifying asked experience,
as club leaders are to see
Mr. Chilnick.