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SOUTHERN NOTES
Activities thruout the South
. hlanta
Hie Atlanta Chapter of Senior Hadas-
3 h sponsored a Victory Luncheon at the
Ifwch Progressive Club recently, with
%;th Mrs. Sam Sugarman heading the
iiicheon committee. This affair marked
the closing of the membership drive con-
: tried by chapters of the organization
throughout the nation.
\ few of the new members made dur
ing the campaign are Mesdaines M. Reis-
man. C. H. Weinstein, Louis Samet,
Sophie Newy, S. M. Moscor, I. V. Kessler,
Jack Silver, A. Kessler, Sidney Srochi,
Kate Seigel, Max Silverman, A. Speigel-
tnan. Arthur Hillman, I. J. Freidland.
Marry Dwoskin, Jack Isenberg, Louis
Cohen, and Mrs. Eugene Diamond.
l'he principal speaker of the occasion
wa* the Regional President, Mrs. J. J.
Heilman, who spoke on “l'he Privilege
of Being a Hadassah Member.”
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Installation of officers marked the initial
193 3 meeting of Gate City Lodge No. 144,
f the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith
held at the Standard Club.
Frank A. Constancy is President. Other
"fborrs installed were: Herman Heyman,
Dr. Dtuis C. Rouglin and Edward M.
Kahn, Vice-Presidents; Samuel E. Levy,
Treasurer; Joseph M. Brown, Secretary,
and A. L. Feldman, the retiring President,
Monitor. L. J. Levitas directed the in
stallation ceremonies.
Trustees for 1933 are Dr. Joseph
Yatnpolskv, Chairman; Max M. Cuba,
Joseph Goldberg, A. L. Myers, J. P.
Trnnenbaum, Adolph W. Vajda and Jack
I). Wrinkle.
l'he President's committees are as fol
lows :
Mrmbrrship—Herman Heyman, Chair
man; L. J. Levitas, Co-chairman; Milton
Klein, J. L. Tennenbaum, J. N. Reisman,
Mendel Romm, Morris Manning, J. L.
Goldberg, Jack Lichtenstein, David
Ajouelo and Henry Hein.
Program and Entertainment—Edward
M. Kahn, Chairman; Dr. I. H. Goldstein,
Vice-chairman; Max M. Cuba, J. H. Wil-
ensky, J. p. Tenenbaurn, Joe Glazer and
( harles W. Bergman.
Luncheon—J. P. Tenenbaurn, Chair
man; Sam E. Levy, Vice-chairman; Max
M. Cuba, Edward M. Kahn and J* **
Lichtenstein.
A nti-Def amation—Dr. L. C. Rouglin,
t hairman; Juliarn V. Boehm, Vice-chair-
man I Rabbi H. H. Epstein, Arthur Hey
man and Simon I. Mendel.
Communal Activities—Dr. J. Yam-
P" Ay, Chairman; Armand Wyle, Vice-
< hairman; Alfred E. Garber, Milton L.
Keiler, Sam H. Hirsch, Abner Lichten
stein and Dr. Geo Chait.
llrhrrv.' Orphans' Homes—Jos. A.
''chlesinger, Chairman; Sam J. Epstein,
Vice-chairman, and Sol O. Klotz.
Initiation—Nathan Saltzman, Chair-
man; J. S. Brail, Vice-chairman; L. J.
e'itas and I. Heiman.
**• 7 A (Junior B. B.)—H. A. Alex
ander, Chairman; Adolph W. Vajda,
•“-chairman; I. Kunianskv, David Ger-
'ho n and Jos. B. Wolfe.
Publicity Leon Kletzky, Ch airman,
a< k D. Weinkie, Vice-chairman; Joe
ernath, Dave Speilberger and Oscar
Gershon.
Conservation—Hyman S. Jacobs, Chair
man, Harry Abelson, Vice-chairman;
pn Loewus, Berry Rittenbaum, Jack
' ' tinkle, A. L. Feldman and Victor
u - Franco.
I he B nai B rith, now celebrating its
ninetieth year as a world-wide Jewish
fraternity, has a membership of more
than 50,000 and is active in twenty-eight
countries. Its motives vary in many im
portant branches of Jewish life, such as
maintaining the Hebrew Orphans' Home,
Atlanta, Ga.; Home fo the Aged and
Infirm, at Yonkers, N. Y.; National Jew
ish Hospital for Consumptives, at Denver,
Colo.; Jewish Orphans’ Home, at Cleve
land, Ohio; B’nai B’rith Orphanage and
Home for Friendless Children, at Erie,
Pa.; Toun Infirmary, in New Orleans,
La.; Leon N. Levi Memorial Hospital, at
Hot Springs, Ark.; and the Jewish Wid
ows’ and Orphans’ Home, at New Or
leans, La.
Its newest activities are the Hillel
Foundations at various universities, and
the organizing of the A. Z. A., the Junior
Order of B’nai B’rith for Jewish young
men.
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The semi-annual meeting of the Jewish
Progressive Club was held on Pryor
Street, in Atlanta, with a very large gath
ering of members attending the banquet
given for that occasion. In the report
of various committees it was learned that
the Club is in excellent financial shape,
even though revenues were considerably
lower than the previous six-month fiscal
period and much credit was given the
finance committee. Club members demon
strated their satisfaction in the past ad
ministration by reelecting each officer for
another term, as follows: Mr. Joe (iold-
berg, President; Mr. Chas. W. Bergman,
Vice-President; Mr. Joseph I^oewus,
Treasurer, and Mr. Max M. Mendel,
Secretary.
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Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt, world re
nowned tenor, sang to large and enthu
siastic audience at Ahavath Achim Syna
gogue. He wa.< assisted by Harry Rob-
kin, violinist, and Ben Polier, pianist,
playing the accompaniments. It was an
inspiring performance and Cantor Rosen
blatt's arrangement of “Kol Nidre” re
ceived a great ovation from the audience.
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Mr. Joe Weinman, of Atlanta, Georgia,
was awarded a C. P. A. degree from
the State of Georgia, having passed the
certified public accountant’s examination
of the State on his first attempt. Mr.
Weinman is one of the few Jewish ac
countants in the State to obtain this de
gree. He is an honor graduate of the '32
class of Geoigia Tech. He was an honor
roll student for four years and was
awarded the Scholarship Gold "T’ in
recognition of his brilliant record.
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Mr. Nathan Mazier, of Atlanta,
Ga., was elected President of the Atlanta
Saving Stores and the Quality Service
Stoies of Atlanta, at the recent meet
ing of the Board of Directors. Mr.
Mazier, as one of the members of these
groups of stores, is well qualified to fill
the position as head of one of the most
successful and progressive grocery groups
in the South. It is interesting to note that
of the two hundred and forty members of
these groups ninety per cent are com
prised of Jewish merchants, who have es
tablished themselves in their communi
ties, not only as leaders in Jewish activi
ties, but as successful merchants. The
new President is a member of the Shearith
Israel Synagogue and an ardent worker
towards the improvement of the individ
ual merchant who goes to make up this
successful group.
t HE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE *
SIMON SELIG
Simon S. Selig was named president of
the Atlanta Standard Club at the annual
business meeting held on Ponce de Leon
Avenue. Herbert J. Haas was elected
vice-president; Emil Dittler, secretary;
L. B. Lillienthal, treasurer, and L. F.
Stone, financial secretary, l'he following
directors were elected: Lawrence Fox,
Leon Frohsin, Adolph Adler, Alex Rosen-
feld, Frank Ferst, Donald Oberdorfer,
Ben J. Massell and William B. Schwartz.
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Mr. Edgar J. Strouss was elected Presi
dent of the Atlanta Alumni Association of
Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity at the recent an
nual meeting of the organization. Among
other officers elected are Mr. Randolph
Cummings, Vice-President; Irving L.
Goldman, Treasurer, and Julian F. Jose-
love, Secretary. It was announced that
Maurice Jacobs, of Philadelphia, Execu
tive Secretary of the fraternity, will be
the honor guest of the association at a
dinner to be held February 13th at the
Standard Club.
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Dr. Charles Pergler, lecturer on juris
prudence, constitutional and public law
and comparative government at the Na
tional University Law School in Wash
ington, I). C., will be the speaker of the
Council of Jewish Women at a luncheon
meeting Tuesday, February 7, at 12:30
o'clock at the Standard Club on Ponce de
Leon Avenue.
Dr. Pergler, a native of Bohemia, was
educated in the public schools of Chicago
and completed his higher education at
universities here and abroad. He has
been active in international relations,
having taken parr in the movement for
freeing the oppressed people under the
rule of Austria-Hungary during the
World War and having been diplomatic
representative for Czecho-Slovakia at va
rious times and a member of parliament
in that country.
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Augusta, Ga.
The Mrs. Nathan Straus Unit of the
Augusta Junior Order of Hadassah has
carried on a very successful membership
drive. Among other activities several en
joyable affairs have been given, the latest
being a Bohemian Party, also several
card parties. There has been quite an
attendance at the meetings of those inter
ested in the activities of the cultural
group, at which many interesting books,
current events and humorous articles are
presented and discussed. Miss Anna
Averbuck, Cultural Chairman, is in
charge.
At the last meeting it was decided that
Junior Hadassah take active part in
Georgia's Bicentennial Celebration, which
will take place on February 12th. This
will be in the form of a pageant parti
cipated in by various Jewish organiza
tions of Augusta.
Sylvia Tananbaum, Rose Cohen and
Miriam Grablow will be official delegates
at the Regional Convention to be held in
Savannah on February 12 and II.
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Chattanooga, Tenn.
l'he Emanon Social Club celebrates
soon its second anniversary. This group
composed only of male members has car
ried on a very successful series of af
fairs during the past year and is plan
ning an elaborate program for the com
ing spring months. Officials of this or
ganization are: Abe Wise, President;
Louis Brandman, Vice-President; Abe
Brandman, Secretary; Louis Brickman,
Treasurer, and Abe Pearlman, Sergeant-
at-Arms.
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Athens, Ga.
For the first time in the history of Con
gregation Children of Israel of Athens a
Youth Service was held, conducted by
students of the University of Georgia,
l'he main address of the evening, “What
Jewish Youth lliinks About Religion,”
was delivered by Fred Solomon, a Senior
in the College of Law. l'he program was
as follows: Invocation by Joseph Schrei-
ber, of Brunswick, Ga.; Reading of the
Ritual by Coleman Lopatin, of New
Haven, Connecticut; Violin Solo by Wil
liam I.ongwather, of Savannah, Ga.; Ad
dress, "What Jewish Youth Thinks About
Religion,” by Fred Solomon, Ft. Valley,
Georgia; Adoration and Kaddish by
Rabbi Abraham Shusterman; Benediction
by Harry Steine, Warrenton, Ga.
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Yearbook of the Central Cen
tral Conference of
American Rabbis
The 42nd volume of the Yearbook of
the General Conference of American
Rabbis has just appeared from the Kings
port Press. It contains the proceedings of
the convention of the Conference held in
Cincinnati in November, and {Jie papers
presented at that convention. Of par
ticular interest was the report of the
Commission on Social Justice containing
a survey of conditions and outlining the
policy of the Conference on the social
problems of our day.
l'he President’s message was rich with
suggestions touching on the vital issues
of our time and an interesting debate re
sulted from its recommendations concern
ing a Jewish World Congress. In honor
of the Bi-centennary of the birth of
George Washington, a paper was pre
sented by Rabbi David Lefkowitz on The
American Principle of the Separation of
Church and State. In honor of the cen-
tennary of the publication of Zunz’s mas
terpiece, "Die Gottesdienstliche Vortraege
der Juden,” Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger
presented a paper on 'Pie Beginnings of
Modern Jewish Scholarship. A paper by
Rabbi Mordecei M. Kaplan of the Jew
ish Theological Seminary, and a discus
sion by Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein cen
tered around Judge Horace Stern’s Plan
for the Reorganization of Jewish Com
munal Life. Rabbi Julius Gordon pre
sented a paper on Personal Piety in
Modern Jewish Life, and Rabbi Zevi
Diesendruck presented a study on The
Ideal Social Order in Jewish Ethical
Thinking. Rabbi Jacob Z. Lauterbach
read a paper on the Naming of Children
in Jewish Folklore.
The papers have been reprinted and
can be secured from the Editor, Rabbi
Isaac E. Marcuson, Macon, Ga.
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