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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 2, 1949
VOTE FOR
Return the Government
To the People
JOE SALEM
Mayor
SEPTEMBER 7, 1949
Your Vote, Support and Influence
Appreciated
Paid Adv.
Dedication of B. C. I. at Hendersonville
(Continued from pare one)
Shabat, Dr. Bardin discussed the
origins of the B.C.I. ideas, telling
which aspects had been adopted
from the Danish Folk Schools,
ELECT
BILL TODD
“The people'* candidate for Mayor"
l'Un'Suhsidired and independent
2- Bclicver in better housing for
nil our people.
3- Veteran of two World Wars.
4- Friend of labor.
5- Devclopmcnt of Orady Hospital
is a “must” with him.
6- Honc*t » Fair » Sincere
BEAT THE TWO MACHINES
Elect Todd Sept. 7
Paid Adv.
Re-elect
Ralph A.
HUIE
TO COUNCIL
Sixth Ward
an ex
perienced, capable city
official. He has served in
Council for 7 years, and
has a background of 37
years training in finance.
As Chairman of the Tax
and Finance Committees of
Council he has ably assisted
in keeping the city’s ex
penses within her income
WITHOUT RAISING
TAXES.
(Paid Adv.)
which from the American camp
ing ideas and which from Israeli
communal living.
A unique Havdallah Service
concluded the camp’s Sabbath ob
servance.
Later Saturday evening, a group
I of twenty campers took part in
tbe folk dancing contest held in
| nearby Hendersonville as a part
of the Apple Festival. The re
mainder of the campers held a
discussion on contemporary liter
ary works.
Rob Rifkind of Hollywood,
Calif., public relations member of
the B.C.I. staff, commentated the
Israeli folk dances at the Festival.
The B.C.I. group drew heavy
rounds of applause, enchoring
with the “Mayim” dance-song.
Observers said the B.C.I. youth
drew the largest applause of any
group on the program. However,
they had not been entered as com
petitors and were ineligible for
any prize.
Folk dancing teams had gather
ed from several Southern states
for the contest. Nearly a thousand
guests were present for the pro
gram. The invitation had been is
sued through the Hendersonville
mayor and Ernie Frenkel, a local
businessman and secretary of the
B.C.I. board.
Sunday afternoon, educators
and members of the B.C.I. board
conferred on means for improving
the B.C.I. facilities.
It was generally felt that the
program itself had reached a high
peak of educational achievement
and that what is needed is to bring
more youth into the sphere of
B.C.I. influence, as well as to put
the facilities on a paying basis.
Several large notes are due on
the $160,000 investment the camp
facilities represent. It has elabo
rate facilities for camping and is
capable of further expansion and
utilization during the year-round.
Maurice Strassburg of the Cin
cinnati Bureau of Jewish Educa
tion, on an inspection tour of
camps where his community
sends children, suggested a broad
er base of financial support. Other
agencies besides the Z.O.A. should
give financial assistance to the
Brandeis Camps, he believed. The
Hendersonville B.C.I. has so far
been maintained solely through
the efforts of the Southeastern
and Seaboard Zionist Regions.
A score or more of B.C.I. alum
ni who had attended the first
Hendersonville aliyah (July 4-
Aug. 1) and previous aliyahs in
the Poconos and in California vis
ited the camp Sunday to witness
the inauguration and pageant. The
alumni volunteered to serve on
K.P. and in other camp chores,
thus relieving all of the current
aliyah members for full attention
to the evening’s pageant.
At the Sunday noon meal,
campers heard a short, impromptu
concert by Lamar Stringfield of
Charlotte, noted North Carolina
flutist and music composer. A
group of Asheville and Hender
sonville musicians came to camp
Sunday morning to perforin in
the orchestration prepared for the
onlookers with its feeling of
spontaneity and craftsmanship,
reflected in the creation of cos-
pageant by B.C.I. Music Director tumes and setting, its singing,
Bob Strassburg of the Hunter music, dancing, histrionics and
College faculty.
About 450 visitors gathered
from Tennessee, Georgia, the Car-
olinas and Virginia to witness the
dedication and pageant. Some of
them braved heavy rains en route
to camp and aftermaths of the
hurricane which earlier had struck
in Florida.
“We are training these young
people for Judaism in America—
general interpretation.
The campers themselves were
responsible for the interpretative
dancing and dramatic action
which added perspective, polish
and interest to the pageant scenes,
depicting Jewish history through
Biblical days, through the Dias
pora and the current reclamation
of Israel.
Later, after the thundering ap-
not for Israel,” declared Dr. Bar- j plause of approval from the vis-
din in his discussion of the B.C.I. i 'tors, the B.C.I.-ers went ijnto
program and objectives. He re- their repertory of Hebrew songs
viewed the Justice Brandeis prin- [ and folk dancing. The recreation
ciples of ‘‘pride in Judaism” which ball literally reverberated to their
he said the camp seeks to incul- vigorous terpschicore and inspired
singing.
From a five-circle hora to the
mayim and the other folk dances
they progressed, stopping only for
a brief rest. During that halt, they
sang, or clapped rhythm and
hummed background for indivi-
cate in the youth and struck home
at the lack of Jewishness in com
munities where people—young
and old—are ashamedly running
away from the Synagogue—not to
it.
B.C.I. is a Zionist gift to Amer- ;
ican Jewry, he said—not to Zion- 1 dual singers. One was the sister !
ism itself. i of the music director, the posses-
Mr. Travis, former chairman of sor of a deep, rich contralto voice,
the B.C.I. committee for the Another was Jack Leash, of
Southeastern Z.O.A., read a letter Greensboro, who has visited
of congratulations written by Palestine and who has mastered
Susan Brandeis, widow of the the nasalic type of Arabic singing, j
Supreme Court justice on the oc
casion of the opening of the third
B.C.I.
Also on the program were Mr.
Benamy, southeastern Z.O.A.
president, and Mr. Frankel, the
B.C.I. Board secretary, of Hender
sonville.
The pageant itself thrilled the
And Haim Jacobs, a native of
Iraq, and a textile student at N.
Carolina state, who also sang in
Arabic.
Finally, as the midnight hour
approached the visitors were
diplomatically scattered to the
nearby mountain inns where they
(Continued on page seven)
FOR FAITHFUL, CONSCIENTIOUS SERVICE
Re-Elect HOWARD HAIRE
Councilman, Sixth Ward
PRIMARY, SEPT. 7, 1949
City-wide Vote
(F»M Air.)
Re-Elect
Dowse Donaldson
Alderman Fifth Ward
An experienced, efficient City
official. Champion of all mea
sures that benefit all the people.
As Chairman of the Public Works
and Health and Sanitation
committees he sponsored the
building of the $500,000 Health
Center and the new $1,250,000
self-liquidating addition to the
city incinerator. Author of the |
Donaldson plan for the improvement of down-town Atlanta.
Your Vote and Influence will be Appreciated
Paid Adv.
E. E. (Buster)
Cooper
A MAN WHO WILL
SERVE AS
COUNCILMAN
4th WARD
JUSTLY
HONEST
LOYAL
Primary Sept. 7
This Ad Paid For By Friends of
Mr. Cooper
ELECT
Robert S.
DENNIS
COUNCILMAN 1st WARD
In the City Primary Sept. 7
To Succeed Cecil Hester
Who is not Seeking
Re-election
Robert S. Dennis has been a
member of the Atlanta Bar
for 22 years. His record in
civic, church, scout and
Masonic work in this com
munity is outstanding.
A Vote for
Robert S. Dennis
means a vote for
•True Economy
•Clean Gov’t.
• Wise Spending
of Tax Dollars
(This advertisement Is paid
far by Meads •(
Eobert S. Dennis)
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