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VOL. XXI—No. 18
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LIFE SAVINGtAMPAIGN rioHING AHEAD
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY * JO&3.0LVI
For
Southern
Jewry
Talmud Published
Again In Germany
AUGSBURG, Germany— Un
der the auspices of the Joint
Distribution Committee, the
Talmud is being published in
Germany this spring for the
first time in twenty years. An
edition of 1,000 copies of the
tractate, “Baba Metzia,” one of
the books of the Talmud, is be
ing published in this city under
arrangements made by Rabbi
Alexander S. Rosenberg, J.D.C.
director of religious activities in
Germany. Publication of this
volume, which deals with civil
laws derived from the bible,
was supervised by Rabbi David
Horowitz, formerly Dayan of
Gross Vardein, Rumania, now
rabbi of the displaced persons
camp at Landsberg. Copies will
be distributed among synago
gues and theological schools in
the American zones of occupa
tion in Germany and Austria.
Welfare Fund Collection Committee
Carries On In Midst Of Campaign
SOL P. BENAMY JOSEPH F. HAAS
Co-Chairmen Men’s Division
ANTI-ZIONIST PRESS WAR RAGES IN HUNGARY
Relief Workers Receive Third Degree;
Demonstrations Ignored By Papers
LONDON (JPS-Palcor)—Slanderous attacks against
Zionists and immigration to Palestine are becoming the daily
diet for readers of the Communist-dominated Hungarian
press, which blandly ignores anti-Semitic demonstrations
throughout Hungary but accuses Jews of accepting money
from members of the fascist _ ,
_ _ . . . . , Jews, who were detained forcibly
Arrow Cross Party, tn return .or (in Hungary. The same day,
smuggling them out of the coun- Political Police raided the of
try as “Zionist Jews,’’ it was
learned here In reports from
Budapest.
The press war on Zionism
began in earnest, April 9, when
three non-Jews suspected of
being Fascists were discovered
by Political Police among a
group of 230 Palestine-bound
expressed approval of the actions
of the Hungarian Political
Police. Other papers declared
in big headlines that the Hun
garian State cannot ignore the
fate of its citizens in the “desert
wastes of Palestine.”
In the midst of the Campaign,
the Committee on Collections,
under the able co-chairmanship
of Joseph Pintchuck, has found
time to do an extraordinary job
in collecting outstanding pledges
past due. Mr. Pintchuck was
assisted by Messrs. S. J. Stein-
bach, M. J. Merlin, I. Ruden,
Thomas Makover and Mandle
Zaban, who served as co-chair
men. The women looked after
their own collections through a
pedfcf committee.
Welfare Fund Climbs
Nearer to Unprecedented Goal
As we go to press we learn that
the 1946 Life Saving Campaign
of the Welfare Fund has passed
beyond the two-thirds mark to
ward reaching the goal. Frank
Garson continues to do the im
possible. He has surpassed ail
previous records. Just as giving
is without precedent, so is the J
quality of the 1946 campaign-;
ing. ;
Garson has already devoted i
seven weeks of full time to
campaign solicitation. He Is
most abiy assisted by his “side-
kick,” Meyer Balser. Garson
Bergsonite Claim
Branded "Gross Lie"
By Palestine Leaders
flees of Ezra, official Jewish
relief organization, . arresting
Jonah Rosenfeld, its head, and
seventeen of his co-workers, all!
of whom were subjected to the
“third degree.” Several are now
in the police hospital.
Helped Underground
The fact that Rosenfeld, dur
ing the war, parachuted into
Yugoslavia and fought as an of-
Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild Becomes
Temple Spiritual Leader In July
Dr. David Marx, Beloved Leader For 50 Years,
Elevated To Rabbi Emeritus Position
and Balser make an Ideal team.
Their sincerity, conviction and
perseverance have swept aside
the cobwebs of orthodox cam
paign methods of past years.
They have a mission. They are
crusaders on behalf of saving
lives of innocent people and
children. The response has been
magnificent. The hearts and
pocketbooks of Atlanta Jews
have poured out in generosity
and in unprecedented giving.
They had the good fortune to
find in the Community a goodly
number of young men who have
come to the front as excellent
campaigners. We refer to men
like Barney Medintz, Joe Ben-
amy, Leonard Brenner, Sidney
Cabalier, Joseph F. Haas, Abe
Goldstein, Louis Regenstein, Jr.,
Sam Epian, Sol Benaray,
Aronstam and Cohen, Thomas
Makover, Abe Schwartz and
many others. Some pf them
are younger in .spirit than in
chronological age.
Men’s Division Holds
Enthusiastic Meeting
At a spirited, well attended
meeting of associate chairmen,
and “colonels” in the men’3
division, 69 active campaign
leaders broke bread together
Monday evening, April 29, at the
Standard Club, and spent five
hours in allocating prospects to
j the proper teams for general
solicitation. The enthusiasm
shown and the fine humor of the
group left a deep impression on
the general chairman who
praised their magnificent work.
At this meeting the “colonels”
reported on the cards for special
treatment. A total of twenty-
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difference apparently, to the
parties in Hungary directing the
! Political Police. The fact that
I the Jewish underground in
other under-
JERUSALEM (JPS - Falcon —
Responsible sources in this coun
try, directly connected with res
cue and immigration of Euro
pean Jews to Palestine, the Pal-Wp
cor ffews Agency was informed Hin^^ry helped
here.
The appeal by these groups for
American funds ostensibly to fi
nance an “underground railway”
movement of European Jews to
Palestine constitutes “exploita
tion of the plight of the refu
gees and their desire to go to
Palestine, and is in effect, de
ception of public opinion," Palcor
was told.
American Jewish leaders re
turning to the United States
from Europe and Palestine say
that there is absolutely no evi
dence that any groups other
than the Jewish agency or pri
vate parties operating from Pal
estine are in any way facilitat
ing the movement of Jews from
Europe to that country.
Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild, of Pittsburgh, will assume
the pulpit of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, during
the early part of July, when Dr. David Marx, spiritual leader
of the The Temple for more than a half century, will be
fleer"with* Marshal'mcs parti- elevated to the position of rabbi emeritus. In making the
san army, and that all the others i announcement, Milton Rice,
arrested were members of the j president of the congregation.
Jewish underground who fought paid fitting tribute to Dr. Marx
bitterly against the Germans j for his faithful service to the
throughout, the war, made no ! congregation and the community
at large. The distinguished rab
bi, who recently observed his
fiftieth anniversary in Atlantal,
is recognized as one of tlfe
South’s outstanding reform rab-
ground . movements, including , bis, and is widely beloved arid
the Socialists’ and Communists’, respected by citizens of all faiths,
seems to have been forgotten by j Rabbi Rothschild, who was re-
the Hungarian press, which ac- leased from the armed forces
cuses nationalistis Jews of help- last month, after four years of
ing their arch enemies. service, is a graduate of the Uni-
The newspaper Vilagossag versity of Cincinnati and the
wrote: “After an exciting pursuit, Hebrew Union College. In 1937
Bavarians Will
Jail 100,000 Nazis
FRANKFORT (JPS> — The
i Bavarian Ministry of Denazi
fication has requested the Ame-
* rican ‘Military Government to the
i make available prison camps to
* accommodate 100,000 Class 1 and
Class 2 Nazi offenders expected
to be sentenced under the new
* German de-Nazification laws
» All-German tribunals in the
United States zone will classify
Germans according to their Zionist OfBaxization
the illegal emigrating Arrow
Cross—Fascist— Zionist trans
port was stopped ...” The
official Hungarian news agency
alleged, in a report published in
Austrian and Hungarian news
papers, that the Zionists were
accepting payment from Fascists
and Naizs for smuggling them
out of Hungary as Jews. The
agency claimed that Political
Police, checking a supposed
Zionist transport of 232 emi
grants, found only a handful of
bona fide Zionists among them,
the remainder being Arrow
Cross men and members of the
German Waffen Corps.
The Socialist daily, Nepzava,
in a slanderous article, accused
Zionist Organization • of
trading in men” and spreading
propaganda urging Jews to
emigrate “to supply Palestine
estate owners and capitalists
with cheap labor for orange
groves and factories.” The
article alleged further that the -
is making
. political records.
a profit from immigration, and
he became assistant rabbi of the
Rodef Shalom Temple in Pitts
burgh, one of the largest reform
congregations in the country,
and served until March, 1942,
when he was granted a leave of
absence to volunteer as a chap
lain in the armed forces. He
served overseas for 15 months
and saw combat service on Gua
dalcanal. , Following his return
to America he served on tempo
rary duty as, Jewish chaplain in
the office of the chief of chap
lains in Washington.
During his stay in Pittsburgh,
Rabbi Rothschild served on the
executive committee of the Na
tional Conferense of Christians
and Jews, and was one of the
organizers of the Pittsburgh
Round Table. Articles by Rabbi
Rothschild have appeared in the
Hebrew Union College Monthly,
and the Jewish War Veterans’
publications.
RABBI J. M. ROTHSCHILD
RABBI DAVID MARX
Admission
Of 100 JOG
Recommended
WASHINGTON, D. C. (JPS)
—The Anglo-American In
quiry Committee on Palestine
has recommended in its re
port to the United States and
British Governments that
100,000 Jews be allowed to
emigrate to Palestine “as
rapidly as conditions permit.”
It recommends that Palestine’
be neither an Arab nor a
Jewish State but “should con
tinue as at present under the
mandate pending establish
ment of a trusteeship by the
United Nations.” It demands
that the Jewish Agency “at
once resume active co-opera
tion with the mandatory
power in suppression of ter
rorist activities and illegal
immigration. It declares that
if its report is adopted, the
mandatory power should
make clear that “any attempt
Tsy either Jews or Arabs by
threat of violence, terror or
organlaztion of illegal armies,
to prevent execution of the
recommendations will be re
solutely suppressed.”
The report, divided into ten.
recommendations and com
ments covering sixty-seven,
single-spaced mimeographed
pages, was released simultane
ously here and in London; the .
afternoon of April 3D, a Week
short of the ' four-radhth
period allotted to the Com
mittee’ for investigattow and
deliberation.