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Number 32
Southern B.C.I. Session Is Cancelled as Caution
Argentine Non-Givers
Face Group Sanctions
BY ANATOLIO LANDMANN
JTA Correspondent
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —
Jewish leaders here believe that
at least 80 percent of the Argen
tine United Jewish Appeal cam
paign for 50,000,000 pesos ($12,-
500,000) will be achieved before
the drive ends this month, it was
learned this week. Extraordinary
measures are being instituted to
guarantee the success of this first
united campaign for overseas re
lief and Israel needs.
The leaders of the campaign
have just announced that special
tribunals will be established to
apply moral sanctions against
Jews who do not contribute to the
appeal. Persons who do not con
tribute will not receive a special
card without which they may not
attend any social cultural activity
of the Jewish community. The
Chevra Kadisha, largest and most
powerful Jewish fraternal and
burial society in Argentina, has
threatened that Jews who do not
aid the DP’s and Israel will not
be buried in Jewish cemeteries.
Contributions are fixed by local
committees at two percent of the
assets of businessmen and indus
trialists and half-a-month’s salary
for workers. All Jews who have
associated thdmselves with any
Jewish organization in the past
receive a note from the commit
tees to visit their headquarters
and pay their quota. During the
period of the drive no other cam-
(Contlnued on page eight)
Still Fighting in
South Palestine
ARABS REJECT DIRECT
PEACE TALKS
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The
Isreali Government has taken
several steps to make direct
contact with the Arabs to ne
gotiate a peace settlement ia
Palestine, bat the Arabs have
rejected all such attempts,
Foreign Minister Moshe Sher-
tok this week told a press
conference here.
Seek Synagogue Primacy,
CCAR Advises Members
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A sporadic
exchange of fire continues on the
southern front between Israeli
and Egyptian troops, it was offi
cially announced here this week.
The communique also said that
elsewhere in Palestine the situa
tion was quiet. However, several
truce breaking incidents over the
week-end were reported from the
vicinity of Lajjun, where Fawzi
el Kaukuji’s irregulars are oper
ating.
John McDonald, U. S. consular
general In erusalem, arrived here
from Rhodes, where he was con
ferring with U. N. mediator Count
Folke Bemadotte, in the company
cf James G. McDonald, special U.
S. representative to Israel. They
(Continued on page eight)
MACON, (JTA)—A resolution
deploring “the secularization of
communal life by those leaders
who would exclude the influence
of the synagogue from the gener
al life of the Jewish community,”
which was adopted at the recent
convention of the Central Con
ference of American Rabbis ip
Kansas City, Mo., was released
from here this week to Jewish
communities throughout the coun
try by Dr. Isaac E. Marcuson, ad
ministrative secretary of the Con
ference.
“We must insist on maintaining
a direct connection between the
Jewish community and the auth
ority of religion,” the resolution
declared. “The voice of the syna
gogue should be heard in the
councils of our communities and
our agencies. The sense of piety
and of reverence must leaven all
that we do as Jews and as
Jewish community. This is what
we mean when we speak of the
New Name, Program Chosen
To Replace Old H. O. H.
Officials Take Step as Safeguard
Against Threat of Polyo Epidemic
BY ADOLPH ROSENBERG
The unrcpressable fervor and energy known as Zionism*
has at long last met an irresistible force in the South—the
bogey of infantile paralysis.
North Carolina’s polio epidemic has caused cancellation of
a Zionist project—something nothing else apparently has
been able to accomplish—as officials announced postpone
ment of the Brandeis Camp Institute scheduled to open in
August on the newly acquired and
extensive facilities near Hender
sonville.
The cancellation however is
purely a temporary measure wise
ly taken to safeguard the health
of the several hundred persons
who might have been exposed to
an epidemic and Dr. Shlomo Bar
din, national B. C. I. director, an
nounces the Hendersonville will
be in full operation early next
summer.
The decision to postpone the
camp opening was a difficult and
regrertiable one to the officials
who worked for several years to
(Continued on page eight)
primacy of the synagogue in Jew
ish life."
The members of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis,
as well as of the Union of Amer
ican Hebrew Congregations, were
urged in the resolution to obtain
full recognition of the synagogue
“by all agencies which serve
Jews and Jewish causes every
where.”
Egyptians Butcher 3 Rabbis
As Violence, Hatred Spreads
TEL AVIV, Aug. 2 (Palcor)—
At least 150 non-Arabs, mostly
Jews, were killed or have disap
peared without trace following a
week of incessant rioting in Cairo
between July 20 through July 27,
according to reports that have
just reached the Israeli capital.
Some 120 victims are under treat
ment at the Jewish hospital, and
an unknown number are being
treated at the Government hospi
tal and at home.
On Tuesday, July 20, a large
and organized group of rioters
dragged all European-dressed
persons from streets cars and
taxis in Malike Farida Place and
forced them to run the gauntlet
between two rows of Egyptian
toughs armed with whips, rubber
pipes and truncheons. After beat
ing their victims, the toughs
stripped them of all their valu
ables, in some instances even of
their clothes and shoes. Those of
Jewish appearance were stabbed
to death or blinded in an orgy of
sadism. The police stood by, look
ing on dispassionately.
The next day, Wednesday, July-
21, three rabtbis were dragged off
to a slaughter house, strung on
the beams and butchereldL
On Monday, July 26, all Jews
living in the vicinity of the Royal
Palace and other Government
(Continued on page four)
BY ADOLPH ROSENBERG
A time-honored name, “Hebrew Orphans Home,”
long identified with social welfare in the south, is
on the way out and ancKRier phrase, “Jewish Chil
dren's Service,” is standing by to receive the old
agency’s inheritance and carry on in’ the modern
manner.
Adoption of the new name was one decision
made at a recent meeting of the study group of
lay and professional members appointed last
spring by President Armand May to consider the
series of sweeping changes recommended in a
survey of Hebrew Orphans’ Hume facilities.
The survey, conducted through tin Department
of 8oeiaI Planning of the Council of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, pins the
study group action plunges the agency into a new
era of utility, shearing it of vestigial functions and
ideas, and outlining a broader field of servioes.
The symbolic new name will not fall heir to the
agency for another two years, during which the
agency will be known as “Jewish Children’s Ser
vice, formerly the Hebrew Orphans’ Home.” After
two years, the last five words will be dropped.
The group decided to expand function for the
care of Jewish children in the region of Georgia,
Florida,.the Carolinas and Virginia, with primary
emphasis on working through established agencies,
whether sectarian or non-seqjarian.
Recommendation of the survey that a child
guidance center foe adopted as a future goal was
turned down by the study group because of lack
of “evidence in the survey that would indicate
feasibility of such a service on a regional basis.”
The study group also deferred establishment of
ar.y branches until the broader function is in effect
and delayed inclusion of additional territory until
the matter is cleared through the 7th B’nai B’rith
District which now operates in Alabama and Ten
nessee.
The survey had urged stream-lining the territory
served by the Atlanta headquarters so as to em
brace such neighboring areas as Alabama and
Tennessee. The early study too had suggested
dropping Miami, Richmond, Norfolk, Portsmouth
and Newsport News as being large enough to jus
tify establishing their own local services for chil
dren.
The survey findings regarding the medical and
dental programs were incorporated with stipula
tions that physicians should not be appointed to
the medical panel unless agreeing to make home
calls and that foster parents can call doctors direct
if necessary.
Also adopted were the recommendations ithat
board members of towns outside Atlanta sbe brought
into active participation in the program.
The study group also advised that the Simon
Wolf Endowmend Fund be continued as a trust
fund with such restrictions as may be necessary to
guard the fund against dissipation of the corpus,
but that it be under the general administration of
the agency. In effect, this was the survey recom
mendation.
The matter of duplication in Atlanta is to be
studied and ironed out by a joint committee with
the Federation for Jewish* Social Services.
Also approved was the idea of using more widely
the services of professional consultants in (the de
velopment of the expanded program, at the dis-
creation of the Board.
Besides Mrs. Ehel Copeland, executive director,
and Miss Marilee Bach, office manager, those
present at the meeting were:
E. Berman, Rabbi H. Friedman, Frank Garson,
Mrs. Frank Garson, Dr. Irving Goldstein, Joseph
Haas, Hyman S. Jacobs, J. R. Jacobs, Edward M.
Kahn, Henry Koplin of Macon, L. J. Levies, L. B.
Lilienthal, Mrs. Bernard Martin, Armand May,
Albert E. Mayer, Sam A. Miller, Joseph Patterson,
Dr. H. J. Rosenberg, Rabbi J. M. Rothschild, Dr.
L. C. Rouglin, Mrs. Aimee Waxelbaum, Mrs. L. I.
Waxelbaum, Dr. Alfred Weinstein and Dr. Joseph
Yampolsky.
Egypt Imprisons
3,000 in
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Some 3,000
Egyptian Jews are at present im
prisoned in concentration camps,
it was revealed here this week by
Eli Eliashar, leader of the Sep
hardic community of Israel.
He told a press conference that
the condition of the Jews of Egypt
is worse than that of Jews in
other Arab lands, despite the fact
that Egypt is considered the ’most
progressive of Middle Eastern
Arab countries. Recently, he said,
250 prominent Jews were arrested
and their property was confiscat-
Camps
ed by the government.
In Syria, virtually all Jewish
economic life has ceased, With
most of the country’s Jewish resi
dents attempting to reach Beirut,
in Lebanon. However, in the lat
ter country, Eliashar asserted, all
Zionist sympathizers have been
interned in the Baalbek camp. In
Iraq, economic restrictions are
slowly being imposed on the Jews
and no Jew may leave the coun
try unless he deposits a $20,000
bond guaranteeing his return.
Georgia JWVets Tell Plan
For Savannah Convention
Plans have been completed to
hold the State Department Con
vention of the Jewish War Vet
erans of Georgia at Savannah
from Sept. 4-6.
Sessions, open to the public,
will be herd at Hotel DeSota. In
dividuals and delegates planning
to attend should contact A. Tan-
nenbaum, American Building,
Savannah.
It is planned to form a new
State Department Ladies Auxil
iary, with meetings of the women
scheduled in the DeSota’s air-
conditioned halls.
The convention will open at 8
p. m. Saturday with a meeting, to
be followed at 9:30 by the Com
mander’s Cocktail Party and at
12 M. by a midnight snack .
A business session is scheduled
for 10 a. im. Sunday, followed by
a 1 p. m. luncheon and an after
noon business session. A party
and outing at Wilmington Island
is scheduled that night.
Election of officers during the
morning, a beach party at Tybee
during the afternoon and a ban
quet that evening will wind up
the convention on Monday.