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The Southern Israelite
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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Established 1 92 S
VOL. XXIV
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11, 1949
ERAL LIBRARY
FEB IS 19-V?
f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Number 6
I. Z. F. A. Delegates Gather
In Knoxville for Conference
Southern members of I. Z. F. A.,
the campus arm of the Zionist
movement, are assembling in
Knoxville this weekend for a
weekend Seminar and Conclave.
The chapter at the University
of Tennessee is host to the Feb.
18-20 occasion, with Marion Hur-
vich and Marvin Kolodkin serving
as cochairmen.
Expected in Knoxville are Wal
lace Cohen of the University of
Alabama, president of the South
ern States Region; Leo Osheroff
of the University of Florida, vice
president; Herman M. Popkin of
Atlanta, director, Southern Zionist
Youth Commission; Myron Levitt
of Georgia Tech, president Atlanta
Assembly of I. Z. F. A. and Helen
Goldman of Atlanta, organisa
tional secretary of the Southern
Zionist Youth Commission.
Delegates also are expected
from chapters at University of
North Carolina, Duke, Womans
College of the University of North
Carolina, North Carolina State
College, University of South Caro
lina, Clemson, University of Geor
gia, Atlanta Division, University
of Miami, Florida State Univer
sity, ^ulane-Newcomb, University
of Tennessee, Vanderbilt Univer
sity.
Ben Gurion Rejects Mapam
Coalition Government Basis
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—“So far our
road has been independent of out
side influence and will remain so,
therefore no conditions or guaran
tees concerning the formation of a
coalition government are accept
able to the Mapai," Premier David
Ben Gurion this week declared at
a Labor Party conference here.
The statement was interpreted as
a reply to conditions demanded by
the left-wing Mapam for partici
pation in a coalition government.
The Mapam central committee
demanded a written guarantee of
a minimum foreign and domestic
program from a Mapai-led coali
tion government. The foreign
policy demands were: 1. Complete
political and economic indepen
dence of any international bloc; 2.
Opposition to reduction in the size
of the Jewish state; 3. Opposition
to the granting of bases in Israel
to foreign powers; and 4. Opposi
tion to accepting any aid under
the Marshal Plan.
The internal policy demanded
by the Mapam was: 1. Exploitation
of the country’s natural resources;
2. Termination of all foreign mo
nopolistic concessions; 3. Placing
the chief taxation burden on prop
erty owners; 4. Concentration of
foreign trade in the hands of the
state; 5. Imposition of price con
trol; 8. Reduction o< the profits of
manufacturers; and, 7. Guarantee
of the right to strike and rejection
of all proposals for compulsory
labor arbitration.
Evans at Columbus Convention
Of S. E. Temple Sisterhoods
Miss Jane Evans, Cincinnati and New York,
executive director of the National Federation of
Temple Sisterhoods, will be guest speaker during
the convention of the Southeastern Federation
Sunday-Tuesday, Feb. 13-15, at Hotel Ralston
in Columbus.
Mrs. Sol Simon of Albany is president, Mrs.
Louis W. Karsman of Jacksonville secretary and
Mrs. Henry Solomonson of Atlanta treasurer.
Miss Evans will conduct a “Sisterhood Clinic”
at 2:30 p. m. Monday, Feb. 14. She will talk at
a banquet that same evening on “What Are Our
Needs and Resources?”
Born in New York, Miss Evans attended New
York university, the University of Cincinnati,
Xavier University and Hebrew Union College.
She became executive director of the sisterhoods
in 1933 and has since traveled throughout the
U. S., Canada, Cuba, panama, the United King
dom, Union of South Africa and Australia in its
behalf.
During the war, her services were requested
by the National Peac)e Conference, a group of
national organization^ interested in world af
fairs. On part-time leave of absence, she also
was appointed to serve as a consultant to the
U. S. delegation at the United Nations Confer
ence on International Organization in San Fran
cisco. Miss Evans represented the Conference
before both Republican and Democratic parties
Nations conventions.
She is currently vice president of the National
Peace Conference and treasurer of the Commit
tee on Women in World Affairs and on its exe
cutive committee. She has also been active ini
SOS, JWV, and JEC circles.
Kaplan Urges Over-All
Jewish Community in U.S.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Declaring
that “the present flare-up of inter
est in Jewish life is bound to die
down when Israel is no longer
front-page news,” Dr. Mordecai
M. Kaplan, founder of the Recon-
structlonist movement, proposed
the formation of an over-all Jew
ish community in the U. S., based
on regional and zonal communities
uniting the functions of religion,
Jewish education and recreation
on the local level “as the first
step toward an organic Jewish
community.”
Addressing an all-day confer
ence this week sponsored by the
Jewish Reconstructionist Founda-
Jacksonville Confab He ars Warburg
Plea for Unity Among U. S. Jewry
JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 6—The
need for unity in American Jewish
life to assure success of the 1949
campaign of the United Jewish
Appeal was underscored here to
day by Edward M. M. Warburg,
Chairman of the Joint Distribution
Committee.
In a speech prepared for the
third annual meeting of JDC’s
Southeast Region, Mr. Warburg
declared that “we must make the
1949 United Jewish Appeal the
success it deserves to be, the suc
cess we owe to the Jewish men
and women we serve in Europe
and in Israel, and the success we
owe ourselves.”
The JDC Chairman said that
“the tensions and differences of
opinion which exist in the Ameri
can Jewish community today
should not be permitted to inter
fere with the opportunity to finish
the jobs we have undertaken in
take place in 1949 if JDC receives
the funds necessary to meet its
budgetary needs.” He placed this
figure at $70,000,000. With this
money, the JDC leader stated,
“JDC will be able to move at.
least 130,000 Jews out of Europe,
most of them to Israel; will all
but liquidate the DP camps; will
be able to put 100,000 people on
the road to self-support through
economic reconstruction; and will
be able to continue its large-scale
health, religious, child-care, edu
cation and other welfare pro
grams, including feeding and re
lief.”
Dr. Isador Lubin, American rep
resentative to the United Nations
Economic and Employment Com
mission, and a leading JDC offi
cial, also addressed the meeting.
A member of JDC’s Reconstruc
tion Committee, Dr. Lubin de
scribed the economic aid program
whelming disease and misery
which darkens the lives of these
people—it is the hopelessness and
fear which is their lot.”
tion, Dr. Kaplan pointed out that
an urgent need exists in this
country for an “organic Jewish
community” based on religious
culture as the link between the
state of Israel and the Jews of
America and, also, to afford the
best means of self-expression for
American Jews. About 300 leaders
of Jewish communities and na
tional organizations attended: the
parley.
“The theory that a Jewish
Palestine will radiate spiritual in
fluence to Diaspora Jews has to
be translated into a tangible and
feasible program of interaction,
otherwise it is bound to remain a
pipe-dream,” Dr. Kaplan declared.
The conference adopted a resolu
tion recommending that the Jew
ish Reconstructionist Foundation
appoint a committee of Jewish
leaders to make a study of the
next steps to be taken toward the
achievement of an organic Jewish
community, and that the commit
tee report its findings to a confer
ence to be held in the fall.
Europe and Israel. We cannot let j D f jdc which, he said, helped
this opportunity slip through our
fingers.”
Mr. Warburg’s speech was read
by Benjamin B. Goldman, JDC
Assistant Secretary. More than 300
persons from nine southern states
attended the conference.
Joseph H. Epstein of New Or
leans was elected chairman of the
JDC Region. He succeeds William
p. Engel of Birmingham. Philip
N. Coleman of Jacksonville pre
sided at the meeting.
Describing JDC plans for the
coming year, Mr. Warburg pre
dicted that “another year of re- i “the terrify
markable accomplishments can m North
140,000 Jew’s abroad become self-
supporting last year. JDC—sup
ported vocational training pro
grams, loan funds and producers’
cooperatives are helping Europe’s
Jews achieve “a genuine revival,”
Dr. Lubin said. He pointed out,
however, that “tremendously ex
panded” economic assistance is
needed by the Jews of Eastern
Europe, where the nationalization
of industry and commerce have
made thousands “economically
displaced persons.' ’
The JDC official declared that
of conditions
not the over-
REPLICA of a poster by Ezekiel Schloss depicting the con
tinuity of Jewish music from ancient times to the present—
symbolic of the Jewish Music Festival, currently being pro
moted by JWB in cooperation with 321 affiliated communities.
Armistice Hopes
Dim at Rhodes
RHODES, (JTA)—Prospects of
an Israeli-Egyptian armistice re
ceded this week as it became ap
parent that the Rhodes conference
was floundering in technical dif
ficulties, it was indicated here.
Hopes for the success of the
conference, which for almost three
weeks has been swaying between
success and failure, had risen as
military discussions got under
way. But they fell again when,
the military chiefs rose after a
four-hour session this week with
out fixing the time for the next
meeting. A high conference source
said that some progress had been
made recently on drafting thear-
mistice lines but had been halted
by the adament stand of both sides,
on certain positions.
Weizmann’s
Visit to U. S. Is
Postponed
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
White House announced this week
that the visit of Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann, President of Israel, to the
United States has been postponed
until late in April, because of Dr.
Weizmann’s health.
The Israeli President was ex
pected to attend a New York din
ner arranged by the American
Committee for the Weizmann In
stitute of Science on Feb. 19.
President Truman hoped to be
present at the testimonial dinner
for Dr, Weizmann.
(In New York, Abraham Fein-
berg, chairman of the arrange
ments committee for the “Salute
to the President of Israel Dinner,”
said the dinner would be postpon
ed until April 23. “We are very
grateful to the President for
agreeing to come to the dinner in
honor of Dr. Weizmann on the
new date,” he stated.)
Weil Heads
Agency Group
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Na
tional Sociai Welfare Assembly—.
central national organization fer
social welfare planning—elected
Frank L. Weil, president of the
National Jewish Board, as its new
.president at its annual meeting,
here this week.