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ATLANTA, GEOR( 18 09() ^t»TE\ BER 2, 1949
Number 36
ecalls Its Minister From Rumania
Phi Eps to Gather in Atlanta
8 for National Convention
Move Regarded as Gesture of Protest
Against Restrictions of Immigration
Sept,
Atlanta will welcome delegates
to the Phi Epsilon Pi National
Convention next week.
The convention, the first held
here in decades and the first to
be held at this time of year, be
gins at 10 a. m. Thursday, Sept.
8, with registration at the Atlanta
Biltmore Hotel. Sessions will con
tinue through Saturday, Sept. 10.
Registration of delegates starts
Wednesday at convention head
quarters at the Biltmore. Booths
will be set up in the hotel lobby
for the delegates from the thirty-
five active chapters and as many
alumni associations.
All delegates will be extended
guest membership in the Standard
Club for the duration of the con
vention entitling them to the use
of the golf course, tennis courts,
swimming pool, and other club
facilities.
Advance registrations have
come in from as far away as Cal
ifornia and Massachussetts.
On Wednesday evening the del
egates will be entertained at an
open house at the home of Esther
and Judy Alexander on Peachtree
MORMAN KORFF
national president
Rothschild, Grand Chaplain of the
fraternity. At 8 p. m. the Stag
Banquet be held which will fea
ture Maurice Jacobs, of the Jew
ish Publication Society as key
note speaker. At the banquet,
awards and presentation will be
made to the Chapters for scholir-
, . _ , _ ship and activities. The identity
Oberdorfer, Past Grand Superior, _....... ....
. . . .. .. , , of the recipient of the Annual Na-
bS! entertain lru> national officers:
Also on Wednesday, Eugene I
will entertain the national officers
with a dinner party at his home,
affer which the national officers
will continue deliberations on
fraternity policy.
All social affairs will be held at
the Standard Club.
On Thursday at 7:30 p. m. an
informal barbecue followed by
informal dancing and the selection
of the “Phi Ep Dream Girl” will
be held.
On Friday at 7 p. m., a special
tional Service Award to the citi
zen making the richest contribu-
! tion to Jewish life will be an
nounced. He will be present to
accept the award,
Saturday features include a
mint julep party at 5:30 p. m. and
the closing affair, a formal dance,
Saturday evening, at 9 p. m.
Music for the affairs will be by
Bill Clarke’s orchestra.
Arthur Heyman has edited a
Phi Ep Services will be conducted | convention program book. Rose
at the Temple by Rabbi Jacob Pintchuk and Walter Wolfe are in
Georgia JWV Convenes
3-5 at Columbus
MAURICE JACOBS
keynote speaker
charge of decorations. Mrs. Simon
Selig, Jr., Miss Gail Oberdorfer
and Miss Rhalda Bresler are hand
ling dating.
Convention chairman is Eugene
Oberddrfer. The vice chairmen
are Herbert Ringel and Morris W,
Macey.
By A. SCHWARTZ
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Correspondent
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Steadily
deteriorating relations between
Israel and Rumania have led the
Israel Government to recall its
Minister in Bucharest, it was re
liably learned.
Government spokesmen con
firmed that the Minister, Reuven
Rubin, will return shortly to Tel
Aviv, but denied that his recall
has any special significance. They
also denied the post will be left
vacant for some time, but admit
ted that no successor to Mr. Rubin
has been selected.
However, it has been reliably
learned from other sources that
the Israel legation in Bucharest
will be left in the hands of a
charge d’affaires and the Minis-
er’s post will be left unfilled for
some time. This move is a gesture
of protest by the Israel Govern
ment against Rumanian restric
tions on Jewish emigration, the
steady increase of anti-Zionist
propaganda in Rumania and the
persecution of Rumanian Zionist
leaders.
Unofficially, it is also learned
that the Israel Government is
deeply offended by the Rumanian
appointment of Paul Davidovici—
a violent anti-Zionist and leading
member of the Communist-domi
nated Jewish Democratic Com
mittee—as charge d’affaires of the
Rumanian legation in Tel Aviv.
Davidovici arrived in Israel last
month in the absence of a Ruman
ian Minister who has been named
but has not yet arrived.
Mr. Rubin first went to Bucha
rest last December. He visited Tel
Aviv-ih the late Spring for gov
ernment consultations, returning
to Rumania a little more than four
weeks ago. His efforts to convince
the Rumanian Government of the
desirability of reversing or alter
ing its policy of restricting Jewish
emigration to Israel has apparent
ly failed. His brief return to Buch
arest was for one last try.
The Jewish community in Ru
mania, numbering about 350,000,
is the largest in Europe today.
Judging by the number of appli
cations made in Bucharest for Is
rael visas, a large majority of the
Jews there are anxious to leave
Rumania. But the Rumanian
authorities allow only small
groups to leave and those only
aged and infirm. Morever, for
each Jew that is permitted to de
part, the Jewish Agency pays the
Rumanian Government a specified
amount in dollars.
B. C. I. Stressing Judaism for America,
Bardin Declares at Dedication Ceremony
BY ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Brandeis Camp Institute of the South was officially dedi
cated last weekend with a series of spectacular events and
within a few days about fifty teen-agers had packed camping
togs and re\urned home with the buoyant Judaism the month
of B.C.I. programing engenders.
At late post service dinner Friday night for campers and
visitors, Dr. Shlomo Bardin, guid-
Sept.
The Georgia Department of the
Jewish War Veterans will hold its
annual convention at Columbus
Sept. 3-5, with Columbus Post
455 as host.
Featured speaker at the banquet
Sunday night. Sept. 4, at Ralston
Hotel, the convention headquar
ters, will be Robert W. Brown,
editor of the Columbus Ledger.
Mr. Brown is a veteran news
paperman. Early in his career he j
worked on Holding Carter’s lib- i
eral newspaper in Greenville, i
Miss. Later he was with the U. P.,
the New Orleans State and the ■
Times Picayune. He also has seen j
service on the staffs of the Wash
ington Daily News and the Na
tional Broadcasting Co., as news
supervisor.
A barbecue Sunday afternoon ;
at the Standard Club and the an
nual danre at the Standard Club, '
following the banquets, are events
on the agenda, which also includes
Labor Day tours of Columbus and
Fort Benning.
Delegates will be the guests of
the Standard Club at an open
house Saturday evening, and at
the Labor Day Dance.
ing spirit of the B.C.I. movement,
paid tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Travis, to Mr. and Mrs. S.
Benamy and to Mrs. Hannah
Kirshner, for their part in bring-
I ing the camp into existence.
He reviewed the progress of the
; B.C.I. of the South near Hender
sonville from "dream stages”
eight or nine years ago to its
opening this season with two
aliyahs of young people.
Saturday morning, the campers
welcomed thirteen - year - old
Frederic Benamy of Atlanta into
the Jewish congregation. His Bar
Mitzvah was the second held at
any B.C.I. and was modeled after
I the one initiated last summer in
California for Dr. Bardin’s son.
The ceremony was shorn of the
usual speech and even the appre-
j ciation talk the young man usual-
I ly gives to teachers and parents.
| In a discussion of Bar Mitzvah
values, Dr. Bardin explained that
j it is the privilege for the congre
gation to receive a new respon-
! sibie member in its midst. Hence,
he added, the thanks should come
from the community rather than
from the new member. “We are
the ones who should thank the
Bar Mitzvahant not he us,” Dr.
Bardin said.
Three of the campers sang the
Torah and Haftorah Cantillation,
transcribed by Dr. Salamon
Rosowsky. In another Bar Mitz
vah innovation, the Bar Mitzva
hant was accompanied by twe
Gabayim, two friends, he had
selected from the B.C.I. congrega
tion, before the Ark where the
text of Psalm XV vas read, first
in Hebrew and then in English.
Later he was escorted by the pair
to a seat in the congregation, as
a symbol of his entry into Jewry’s
ranks while his father, S. B. Ben
amy, walked to his own seat in
another section.
A reception for campers and
friends of the Benamy family fol
lowed.
Saturday afternoon at an Oneg
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ROBERT W. BROWN
Daniel Wolpin, Columbus p 5st
commander, has announced that
the following veterans have aided
in planning the convention:
Sam Behar, Harold Cohen and
Maurice Kravtin, souvenir book:
Dr. Dave Berman and Harold
Bran, banquet; Paul Witt, finance;
Hy Furman and Sam Scopp, en
tertainment; Sam Myers, public
ity; Bernard Witt, registration;
George Less, transportation; Cupi.
Stanley Cohen, public relations;
Fred Dimenstein, convention sec
retary; Dan Besser, Housing Com
mittee; Louis Witt, advisory, Paul
Ginsberg, Atlanta, distinguished
guest committee.
Point and Counterpoint
.... Blacklisted
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Ar
gentine Jewish organizations were
included this week in a blacklist
of organizations and leaders ac
cused of treasons by the Peronist
daily, “Democracia,” which claims
a 375,000 circulation.
Among the Jewish groups men
tioned in the blacklist are the
DAIA, central Jewish representa
tive body in Argentina, and the
Zionist Central Council, repre
senting all Zionist organizations in
this country. The blacklist cites as
“traitors” Dr. Abraham Mibashan,
Jewish Agency representative
here, and Jacob Lightman, direc
tor of the Latin American depart
ment of the Joint Distribution
Committee.
A joint statement replying to
the accusation is expected to be
issued shortly by the blacklisted
Jewish groups. Jewish leaders in
cluded in the blacklist also plan
to call on the editor of the Peron
ist daily to protest the inclusion
of their names in the list.
Sentenced
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Fer
nando Mantaras, Argentine anti-
Semite who was convicted of hav
ing burned a wreath placed by
Argentine Jews at the monument
of Grau San Martin, national
hero, in Santa Fe, has been sen
tenced to six months imprison
ment.
Mantaras’ action occurred last
February when the Jews laid the
wreath to commemorate Argen
tina’s extension of de jure recog
nition to the state of Israel. Al
though the authorities of Santa Fe
province condemned the act and
Mantaras was indicted by a Grand
Jury, he was later cleared and the
case was dismissed. However, the
public prosecutor appealed the
decision to an appellate court in
Santa Fe and was upheld .