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MARGOSHES
ON THE U.J.A.
We have taken the liberty
of reprinting the article be¬
low, which is taken from a
recent column by Dr. Samuel
Margoshes, which appears
daily in the Yiddish newspaper,
“The Day, under the title'
“News and Views.” We take
this step because we believe
that Dr. Margoshes’ obsefva
tions represent a clear-cut,
succinct statement of the real¬
istic issues which American
Jewry must face as it sets out
on the job of raising $170,000,
000 for the agencies of the
United Jewish Appeal. Savan¬
nah will soon be called upon
to do its share in this humani¬
tarian undertaking and this
article should serve as a sound
basis for pondering the job
ahead.
Dr. Margoshes w il 1 be
heard in person in Savannah
when he comes to the Alliance
on Thursday, April 17, to speak
o.n the Alliance Cultural
Series.—The Editor.
“Former Secretary of the Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., is
known as a responsible statesman
far removed from an alarmist; and
when he says, as he did the other
day at Washington in announcing
the campaign of the United Jew¬
ish Appeal for 1947, that the Jew¬
ish situation in Europe was worse
this year than a year ago, his state¬
ment cannot be lightly dismissed
as that of a professional pessimist
or of a professional Zionist agita¬
tor intent upon frightening the
Jews of America into giving up
millions for Palestine.
Nor can it be said that Morgen
thau’s statement lacks verifica¬
tion. Mr. Morgenthau, beginning
the campaign of the United Jew¬
ish Appeal for 170 million dollars,
put his cards on the table. His
facts are here for all to examine.
Said he:
And it will do no good at all to
' Morgenthau,
throw up to Mr. as
it has been thrown up to some of
us who changed our minds on the
possibility of a general Jewish
exodus from European lands, “why
didn’t you foresee this development
a year ago ? ” Mr. Morgenthau, who
has watched the flow of events
from a vantage point higher than
that of most of our critics and
detractors, knows that there is no
such thing as prophecy in the af¬
fairs of the world. Even the over¬
advertized Marxist analysis of so
cial situations is no safe guar¬
antee for the ascertainment of fu¬
ture events. For there is always
the unforeseeable. Said Morgen¬
thau anent our inability to fore¬
see that hundreds of thousands
who a year ago were on the verge
of a mass evacuation of Europe,
would still be in the DP camps or
(Continued on page 3)
The Jewish Alliance
VOL 2 No. 9
Purim Carnival
Is Huge Success '
Miss Mary Wedtz, repre¬
senting Forest City Chapter
No. 651 of A. Z. A., was
elected Senior Queen Esther
and Miss Maxine Wolsen,
representing the J. C. Eisen
be'rg A. C., Jrs., was elected
Junior Queen Esther at the
highly-successful Purim Car¬
nival held at the Alliance last
Sunday. The Awards for the
best decorated booths went to
the Forest City Chapter No.
651 of A. Z. A., in the’ Senior
class, and the Girl Scout Troop
2 of the Alliance, in the Junior
class.
One of the most successful cele¬
brations of Purim in many years
took place at the Alliance last
Sunday, when the Purim Carnival,
sponsored this year for the first
time by the Alliance Youth Council,
attracted a capacity crowd to the
Alliance.
The entire building was taken up
by the activities of the Carnival,
with the various booths operating
in the auditorium where the en¬
tertainment and crowning of Queen
Esther took place; a Fortune
Telling Booth functioning in the
Adult Lounge; and Refreshments
being served in the Youth Lounge.
The Carnival continued from 3 p.
m. to 7 p. m.
The various booths were operated
as follows: “Ping-a-Ball” by the
Savannah-David Finn chapter No.
206 of A. Z. A.; “Punch-a-Board”
bjf the Forest City Chapter of A.
Z. A.; “Haunted House” by B. B.
G.; “Queen Esther’s Turtle Race”
by Young Judara; “Trip Up
Hainan’s Son” by the J. C. Eisen
berg, A. C. Srs.; “Penny-Pitch” by
the J. E. Eisenberg A. C. Jrs.;
(Continued on page 4)
Council Work Gets Under Way With
Important Committees Appointed
With the appointment of the
mittees, work has begun in earnest
Savannah Jewish Council, under the
ney Rosenzweig.
The members of the Executive
ney Rosenzweig, chairman; Rabbi
Isidore Barnett, Morris H. Bern¬
stein, Isaac Blumberg, Philip H.
Bodziner, B. I. Friedman, Mrs. A.
J. Garfunkel, Herbert L. Kayton,
Joseph Lesser, Jack M. Levy,
Morris Levy, Judge Emanuel Lew¬
is, Isaac Meddin, Isadore Movso
vitz, Rabbi I. A. Rosenberg, Ray¬
mond Rosen, Morris Slotin, Albert
Tenenbaum, Meyer W. Tenenbaum,
Dr. William A. Wexler, S. E.
Wolff, and Rabbi Louis M. Young
erman. Paul Kulick is an ex
officio member of the committee.
The Public Relations Commit¬
tee of the Council is made up of
the following persons: Herbert L.
Kayton, chairman; Morris Slotin,
Judge Emanuel Lewis, B. I. Fried¬
man, Dr. Wiliam A. Wexler, B.
H. Levy, Maxwell Rosenthal, and
the officers—Sidney Rosenzweig,
Jack M. Levy, S. E. Wolff, Meyer
W. Tenenbaum, P. H. Bodziner,
and Paul Kulick, ex-officio.
(PuMl&hed! by nTke
JEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OFSAVANNAH, GA.
MARCH 14, 1947
Veterans, Attention!
Veterans of World War II
who have not received their Cer¬
tificates of Recognition, which
are being presented to all
veterans by the Alliance are
asked to submit their names
to the office of the Alliance so
that such certificates may be
made up for them. The beauti¬
fully printed and individually in¬
scribed certificates were pre¬
sented at the Annual Meeting of
the Alliance last April. How¬
ever, the Alliance does'not have
a record of the men who have
returned from service since
that time. This information is
necessary to make the record
complete.
Women’s Club Sets
March 31st For
Anniversary Fete
The twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Women’s Club of the Jewish
Educational Alliance will be fit¬
tingly observed on Monday even¬
ing, March 31, when a pageant,
depicting the quarter-century his¬
tory of the organization, will be
presented. Milton Bellah, staff
announcer of Station WDAR, will
be the narrator for the pageant,
the script for which is now being
worked out under the direction of
Miss Callie Morris.
Mrs. Albert Tenenbaum is
general chairman of the program,
assisted by the following: Mrs.
Hattie Raskin, production man¬
ager, assisted by Mrs. Abe Javetz,
Mrs. Abro Robinson, Mrs. Isaac
Meddin, Mrs. Mose Portman,. and
Mrs. Louis Rudofsky; Miss Anna
Lou Friedman, chairman of invi¬
tations, assisted by Mrs. S. Robin¬
son; Mrs. Sam D. Hirsch, chairman
(Continued on page 5)
of two important com¬
by the new administration of the
leadership of its president, Sid
»
Committee are as follows: Sid
Recent additions to the Council
include Isaac Blumberg, Isaac
Meddin, and Abe Rabham—of Sa¬
vannah—and Leon Ehrlich, Swains
boro and Hyman B. Estroff, Vi
dalia, as members-at-large. Nor¬
man Robbins now represents the
B. B. Jacob Congregation on the
Council.
At a recent' meeting of the
Council the constitution and by¬
laws were amended to provide for
an increase in the number of
members-at-large from 18 to 21,
three of which must be elected
from the communities outside of
Savannah which make contribu¬
tions to the annual campaign of
the Savannah United Jewish Ap¬
pear and Federation. Abe Kru¬
ger of Fitzgerald is already one
of the non-Savannah members-at
large. A further provision of
the amendment calls for the Rabbi
of each Synagogue in Savannah
to be an ex-officio member of the
Council.'
Eisenhower Launches
170 Million U J A Drive
WASHINGTON, D. C.—General of the Army Dwight
D. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, launched
the largest single humanitarian endeavor in the history of
the United States when he told the National Conference of
the $170,000,000 United Jewish Appeal that “enlightened
JEA Annual
Meeting Set For
April 9th
With the appointment of Harry
R. Friedman as chairman of the''
Nominating Committee, plans are
going ahead for the Annual Meet¬
ing of the Alliance, which has
been set for Wednesday evening,
April 9.
The other members of the Nomi¬
nating Committee are: Ben Port
man, Abro Robinson, Mrs. Morris
Rabhan, Walter Lowe, Carl Green,
Raymond Rosen, Helen Paderew
sky, Harry S. Ehrenreich, and Her^
bert Buchsbaum.
The Nominating Committee will
prepare a slate of officers, includ¬
ing the president and three vice
presidents; seven members of the
Board of Directors, for three-years
terms ending in May, 1950; and
one member to sgrve out the un¬
expired term of Mrs. Harry R.
Friedman for one year ending May,
1948.
Work is going ahead on the pro¬
gram for (the Annual Meeting.
Tentative plans call for the pre¬
sentation of a series of tableaux
depicting the work of the Alliance
during the past year.
Mrs. Sam D. Hirsch
Day Camp Chmn.
With warmer weather approach¬
ing, the attention of the Activities
Department of the Alliance now
begins to turn to plans for the
Summer Day Camp of the Alliance,
whih will enter upon its second
year of operation this Summer.
Mrs. Sam D. Hirsch, who did
such an outstanding job as chair¬
man* of the Summer Day Camp
Committee last year, has been re¬
appointed by President Benjamin
Silverman as chairman of the Sum¬
mer Day Camp Committee. Serv¬
ing with her on this committee
will be the following: Mrs. Morris
Rabhan, Mrs. Louis M. Freedman,
Mrs. Elliott Gottlieb, Mrs. Philip
Boblasky, Mrs. Abram Bernstein,
Miss Helen Paderewsky, Casper
Wiseman, Nathan Karnibad, Louis
Silverman, George Serotta, and
David Rosenzweig.
The outlook for this summer’s
program at this time is very good,
with experienced counsellors be¬
ing lined up by Mr. Chilnick, who
will again serve as Director of the
Camp. Further cletails concerning
the Camp will be carried in the
next issue.
SAVANNAH, GA.
self-interest demands the elimina
tion of the unfair practices against
large segments of mankind which,
in the past, have so blackened the
history of humanity.”
Addressing the 450 Jewish lead¬
ers who were assembled at the
Shoreham Hotel from all parts of
the country to mark the opening
of the 1947 drive, General Eisen¬
hower said: “There is no word
that can exaggerate the urgency.
We must believe that man labors
toward better things, that global
action, creakingly and laborious¬
ly evolved by nations amidst hu¬
man conflicts engendered by
prejudice, ignorance, misunder¬
standing and distrust, will even¬
tually eliminate recurrence of the
tragedies you attempt to alleviate.
But acute disaster cannot await
the functioning of vast machinery
that has not, as yet, wholly
emerged from the design stage.”
The Army Chief of Staff de¬
clared that the intensive national
campaign of the United Jewish
Appeal represented an “eloquent
protest against man’s inhumanity
to man.”
“Only one who has seen, as I
have, the mental and physical ef¬
fects of savagery, repression and
bigotry upon the persecuted of
Europe,” General Eisenhower said,
“can realize the full need for the
material help and encouragement
you propose to give. The terrors
they have endured, the indescrib¬
able horrors they have survived,
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Youth Council Stunt
Nights Set for March
29th and April 5th
Gimbel is definitely not telling
Macy, as far as the Alliance clubs
are concerned when it comes to the
Stunt Night, which is being spon¬
sored by the Alliance Youth Coun¬
cil for two evenings, Saturday,
March 29 and April 5. The nature
of the stunts which each compet¬
ing club is preparing is a deep
secret, so that what transpires on
the two evenings will come as a
surprise to both the audience and
the members of the various clubs.
The following clubs will take
part in the competition: Savan¬
nah—David Finn chapter No. 206
of A. Z. A.; Forest City chapter
No. 651 of A. Z. A.; Young Judaea;
J. C. Eisenberg, Srs.; and B. B. G.
The name of the winning club
will be inscribed on a beautiful
plaque, which will be placed in
competition in succeeding years.
The first prize will be awarded on
the basis of originality and the
number of members of each club
participating.
Admission to each evening’s
program will be twenty-five cents.
Harry Robbins and Mickey Green¬
field are co-chairmen of the affair,
to be held at the Alliance.
