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GA.
THE JEWISH ALLIANCE
Published bi-weekly by the Jewish
Educational Alliance, Inc., 328 Barnard
Street, Savannah, Ga.
Affiliated with the Jewish Welfare
Board and the Savannah Jewish Council
OFFICERS
Benjamin Silverman, president; Jack
M. Levy, Isadore Movsovitz, and Dr.
William A. Wexler, vice-presidents;
Mrs. Raymond Rosen, secretary; A. L.
Karp, treasurer
Paul A. Kulick, Executive Director
Jack Chilnick, Director of Activities
Editorial Staff: Michael Forstadt, Edi
tor-in-Chief; Abram Bernstein, Assist¬
ant Editor; Mrs. Abe Alpert, Jack
Cooper, Sam D. Hirsch, Sol Mirsky.
Chairman of Publications: Judge Eman¬
uel Lewis.
THe fiauefccJnoppeJi
Greetings for the new season at the Jew¬
ish Alliance! The buzz-buzz of activities
ip the building echoes the pre-war enthus¬
iasm! and, joy of all of us being back in the
fold. Once more our family is practically com¬
plete. God grant that we can keep it so.
Back to work, back to play, back to
school is the order of the day. Seems like
everybody is in there pitching
So far, the outstanding social event of
the season was the Hadassah Membership
Tea. You should have seen the way MINNA
LEVINGTON react to the crowd on hand
at that meeting: To think that the organ¬
ization she had helped start some years ago
today could draw to standing room only! The
effect was EXHILIRATING. The ladies beam¬
ed with sheer joy in just being together
working towards a common cause. Hard to
'decide which part deserves the most credit.
The Refreshment committee outdid ( them¬
selves in catering so beautiful an affair. The
Program chairman did no less in putting on a
tableau of beauty as well as of interest.
Here it should be proper to publicly acclaim
the splendid work of ANITA RASKIN and
SISTER TLTJDOPSKY.
From Athens comes the following
jottings. MURRAY GORDON is seen
around with JINX ENGEL. DAVID RAB
HtAN Is still making the rounds with SAR¬
AH HARO WIN and IRVING LEVINE is cer¬
tainly not shunning VIRGINIA DIAMOND.
Then of course, there is MICKEY KAPNER
and MELVIN SIEGEL. BUDDY PORT
MAN does his hometown proud in being
elected President of the TEP pledge club.
(Applause, pliz)
Those who attended the Zionist Convention
in Atlantic City recently were DR. MAURICE
CAM3N, MAX HELLER, SAM PORTMAN,
and MICHAEL ADILMAN, all of whom re¬
ported, a very interesting and informative
meeting.
The B’nai B’rith. Luncheons are once
again a. Tuesday one o’clock “MUST.”
Recently the program was highlighted by
the appearance of the famous Radio Star
“Professor Quiz.” Not only did he teU
about his experiences of the past ten
years in radio, but he also added to the
zest of the program by performing some
sleight of hands with playing cards. In
this he was assisted by members of B’nai
B’rith present, which, of course, detracted
none from the informality of the presen¬
tation.
On Nov. 10th MIRIAM LEVY, Hadassah
president** will attend the National Conven¬
tion of Hadassah in Boston. Agudath
. . .
Achim Congregation has engaged the services
of a new cantor, who should be an addition
to the cultural life of our community.. Among
the new faces seen at the Women’s Gym Clas
e§ are DOT WEXLER and DOROTHY ODESSS
THE JEWISH ALLIANCE
Displaced Jews' Lead
ers to Speak at Special
U. J. A. Conference
Four leaders of the Jewish Central Com¬
mittee of Liberated. Jews of Germany, spokes¬
men for the 180,000 Jewish survivors in dis¬
placed persons camps in the American zones
of Germany and Austria, will fly from Europe
to address the National Conference otf the
United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
Needs and Palestine, which will be held at
the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City, New
Jersey, from November 30th to December 2nd.
The representatives of the displaced Jews
are coming to the United States to acquaint
leaders of American Jewish Communities, who
will be assembled at Atlantic City for the three
day conference, with the actual conditions to¬
day facing the Jewish survivors and of their
prospects for 1947, the announcement said.
The delegation from the DP camps will
include Leon Retter, general secretary of the
Jewish Central Committee of Germany; Dr.
Samuel Gringaus, president of the Committee’s
advisory council; Dr. Boris Pilskin, chief of
the committee health department; and Samuel
Shlomovitch, chairman of the Frankfurt reg¬
ional committee.
In addition to the spokesmen of the displa¬
ced Jews of Europe, the announcement said,
distinguished leaders of Jewish committees
elsewhere in Europe and Palestine will shortly
proceed to the United States to help American
Jewish leaders blueprint for 1947 a large-scale
program for relief and rehablitation assistance
to destitute Jews overseas, for mass settlement
and upbuilding of the Jewish homeland in
Palestine, and for expanded aid to displaceds
Jews reaching American shares.
The National Conference, which is expect¬
ed to reach decisions which wil affect the his¬
tory of Jews both in Europe and Palestine, will
hear a detailed review of the 1946 programs of
the Joint Distribution Committee, United Pal¬
estine Appeal and the United Service for New
Americans, the three agencies in the United
Jewish Appeal, and will draw up plans for 194T
in the light of existing needs throughout the
world.
Every Jewish Community in the United
States has been invited to send representa¬
tives to the Atlantic City meeting and! hund¬
reds have already formally named their dele¬
gates to the conference.
(Ebbie, look to your laurals) To wit:
Despite her being quarantined for three
weeks with her child having Scarlet fever.
HYLA HIRSCH is putting over the work of
SOS in its drive for canned goods and
clothes with the usual bang some of the
gals seem to have a special talent for.
Thanks and all that sorta thing to DAV¬
ID ROSENZWEIG for the very beautiful and
professional signs adorning the lobby of the
Jewish Alliance. But after all, what else has
David to do - besides (being President of B’nai
B’rith and chairman of the Adult Education
Committee of the Alliance.
.Seemed out of order to start off the
recent Membership Drive for the Alliance
without MATHILDA MEDDIN in attend¬
ance. But it was just one of those things:
this time she needs must attend a recep¬
tion in Asheville that the “muckatawnum”
were putting on for her newly-wed daugh¬
ter AUDREY and hubby. Anyway, she still
didn’t ignore the drive entirely because dur¬
ing the course of the rally in came a very
nice telegram from Mathilda with the usual
good wishes. Thanks lots.
Nice seeing WALTER LOWE up and
about after his illness of several weeks. Keep
up the nice work wontcha.
!
Didja know that the new Radio Station
WDAR has quite a representation from
our family group, F’rinstnce, “Bob Bright”
is none other than ABRAM EISENMAN.
Then there’s MILTON BELLAH in the
role of announcer, and last but not least
the lovely receptionist in the office of
WDAR is MRS. ALBERT YELL IN.
See you next time!
Z. O. A. Convention
Rejects Partition
ATLANTIC CITY, (JTA) - the -
The 49th annual convention of
Zionist Organization of America re¬
jected any proposals for the partition
of Palestine, in a political resolution
reiterating “the historic claims of the Jewish
people to the whole of mandated Palestine.’”
The resolution, which demanded establish¬
ment of a Jewish state, urged the Jewish agen¬
cy to submit any proposals made to it by the
British Government to the World 1 Zionist Con
gres for approval and expressed doubt of the
wisdom of Jewish participation in the London
Conference on Palestine.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver Re-elected to Presidency
The action of the convention represented
a clear-cut victory for Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
who was re-elected president of the ZOA for
a second term. In an address to the body, Dr.
Silver bitterly attacked the Jewish Agency ex¬
ecutive for informing the British Government
that it was prepared to discuss the establish¬
ment of a “viable Jewish state” in part of Pal¬
estine.
Dr. Silver criticized Dr. Goldman for allege¬
dly ignoring and flouting agreements reached
with the American Zionists Emergency Coun¬
cil and charged that “We agreed unamimously,
Dr. Goldmann concurring, that neither he nor
we would propose a partition plan to the Cab¬
inet Committee or other American officials.”
Dr. Silver also criticized Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, although not mentioning him by name,
for supporting the U. S. loan to Britain, which
issue, he said, could have been utilized by the
Zionist movement to apply pressure on the
British to secure Jewish demands in connec¬
tion with Palestine.
The ZOA president also sharply scored
the Labor Government’s policy in Palestine
and, while welcoming President Truman’s sin¬
cerity, expressed doubts that the American
Government had “employed its full strength
to get results on Palestine.
U. P. A. Received $40,000,000 from U. J. A..for
work in Palestine
In a report to the convention, Rudolf G.
Sonnenborn, of New York, acting national cha¬
irman of the United Palestine Appeal, said that
$40,000,000 was received this year (by the UPA
from the United Jewish Appeal. Of this amount
half will go to the Jewish National Fund and
half to the Palestine Foundation Fund.
Despite the obstacles created by the
British Government, more than 20,000 Jew¬
ish refugees entered Palestine during the eight
months from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31,1946, he said.
Also, more than 5,000 others reached the shores
of the Jewish homeland but were deported by
the British to Cyprus.
Judge Morris Rothenberg, president of the
Jewish National Fund, reporting for the J. N. F.
said that 35 new settlements had been establish¬
ed, during the past year and more than 40,000
dunams of land redeemed “despite the vicious
and restrictive land laws of the British.”
To make possible this achievement, the J. N.
F. remitted to Palestine the sum of $12,000,000
since September, 1945. Judge Rosenberg expr¬
essed particular gratification over the found¬
ing in one night by 1,000 Jewish Pioneers, in¬
cluding 300 girls, of 12 new agriculture settle¬
ments in the Negev.
Byrnes Says State Dept.
Backs Truman on Palestine
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - - Secretary of
State, Byrnes has assured Dr. Stephen S.Wise,
American member of the Jewish Agency of
Palestine, that no difference of opinion ex¬
ists between President Truman and the De¬
partment of State regarding United States
policy toward Palestine.
me jjeparwnenc oi state has made publi
an exchange of correspondence between Byrne
andl Rabbi Wise, in which Dr. Wise asked fc
clarification of rumors that “the President
statement (of Oct..4) is not to be considere
as policy of the American Government an
that, in fact, the State Department is nc
giving full support to the policy which th
President's statement would seem to reflect.
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NOVEMBER 11, 1946 ,
THE SCOUTING
CORNER
Cub Scouts.........
A pre-requisite of the Cub Scout
program has been that all parents
of potential Cubs take a short lead¬
ership training course. The parents
of the newly organized Alliance Cub
pack No. 2 have given this nat¬
ional pre-requisite their full sup¬
port. In the past three weeks Geo¬
rge Serotta, Chairman of the JEA
Cubbing program, has capably or¬
ganized these sessions. Although all
parents did not turn out, those who
did became quite enthusiastic about
the Cubbing program and gained
an understanding of the role played
by the parent in this character-buil¬
ding activity. They had an oppor¬
tunity to meet with Ernest F. Sch¬
midt, a member of National Scout¬
ing Headquarters, who conducted
the three training sessions. Sound
technicolor motion pictures were
used at each meeting, to concretize
the subject matter.
The final meeting was held Oct.
aOth. At this time a pack committee
and Den Mothers were selected. The
following were chosen as members
of the Pack Committee: Albert Ten
enbaum, Abe Javetz, Pete Kamin¬
sky, Morris Rosenthal. Den Mothers
selected were: Mrs. Aaron Haysman,
Mrs. Barney Poller, Mrs. Abe Javetz,
Mrs. Albert Tenenbaum.
Harry Richman was chosen as
Cub-Master to be assisted by Ralph
Yumofsky.
Parents who participated in the
training course were: Mrs. Louis
Black, Mrs. W. Leon Friedman, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Tenenbaum, Mr.
Morris Rosenthal, Mr. and Mrs. Abe
Samuels, Mrs. Al. Swartz, Mr. and
Mrs. Abe Goodman, Mr. and Mrs.
Aaron Haysman, Mr. and Mrs. Abe
Javetz, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Katzman,
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Perlman, Mr.
and- Mrs. Maurice Lasky. Mr. Pete
Kaminsky, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Yumofsky.
The Cubs, themselves, are now
ready to meet at the Alliance on
Friday, afternoons.
Brownies......... .
The spirited Brownies held their
first meeting of the 1946-47 season
on Friday, October 25th. Some 25
Brownies—many of them new comers
were led in songs and games by
their dynamic leaders: Mrs. Evelyn
Karsman, Mrs. Elsie Singer, and
Mrs. Mildred Rosen.
The group is planning to work
on puppets and we hope to have
some super demonstrations of pup¬
petry by our little gals.
Members of the Brownie troop
to date are: Sheila Brooks, Gloria
Buchsbaum, Harriett Cohen, Lyda
Ginsberg, Deanne Javetz, Arlene
Kemper, Rebecca Marcus, Ruth
Mincey, Jane Mirsky, Patsy Nichol¬
son, Nancy Passink, Johanna Rot
kow, Harriett Rosen, Marcia Rosen,
Elaine Rubnitz, Bunny Sherman,
Patsy Singer, Bailee Tenenbaum,
Barbara Tenenbaum, and Harriett
Weiss.
Boy Scoutmaster Scouts......... Arthur Horovitzof
the Alliance Boy Scout Troop 2
predicts a great scouting season.
New blood has been added to the
troop with many newcomers enter¬
ing.
Mr. Horovitz says that the
troop plans to have overnight hikes,
camping programs and meetings
that will be full of fun and spirit,
as well as of educational value.
The following boys are mem¬
bers of the troop: Dean Beberman,
Richard Beberman, Murray Brooks,
Albert Cohen, Henri Cohen, Fred
Halperin, Charles Itzkovitz, Neal
Markowitz; Herman Rubinowitz,
Louis Scharff, Kurt Scheier, Hy
Sussman, Gerald Greenfield, and
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