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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Three
Friday, September 9, 1949
Call Emergency
U J A Meeting
Orthodox Plan to Fight Calendar Reform
| Proposal at U. N.; Would Affect Sabbath
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—Jewish
communal leaders have been sum
moned to attend an emergency
national conference of the United
Jewish Appeal, which will be held
in Washington on Sept. 10 and 11
to consider the progress of the
UJA’s nationwide drive and to
chart a course of action for the
balance of the year. The invita
tions to the conference were is
sued by Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
general chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal.
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—Jewish I
Orthodox groups here this week
indicated that they will mobilize
all possible strength to combat a j
proposed calendar reform which
may be taken up at the U. N.
General Assembly next month j
and which is causing great con- |
cern to religious Jews throughout j
the world. The measure has the
support of 41 nations, its advo- j
cates claim.
The proposal, which would af- :
feet the Sabbath and Jewish re
ligious life, has been submitted to |
the United Nations by Panama
with the recommendation that it
go into effect throughout the world
j starting in 1950. Under the pro-
| visions of this proposal the cal-
i endar year would be divided into
j 52 weeks with each day of the
! week remaining the same date on
the calendar forever. This sim
plification of the calendar would,
however, make a year of 364 days
instead of the 365-day year. The
extra day would be accounted for
by making the day following Dec.
31 an annual year-end world hol
iday. It would have no date and
would be followed by Jan. 1.
A bill recommending a similar
calendar reform was introduced
in the U. S. Senate several months
ago. The bill, which was read
twice and referred to the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, urges
Congress to enact legislation un
der which the day after Saturday,
Dec. 31, 1950, be designated
“Worldsday” and that the world
calendar should become the offi-
SOUTHERN OBITUARIES
MRS. SADIE ISENBERG
Mrs. Sadie Smith Isenberg, 65
wife of Sol Isenberg, of Gordon,
Ga., died Aug. 15.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Aug. 16 in Augusta, with Rabbi
Rosenberg officiating. Interment
was in Magnolia Cemetery.
Survivors, besides the husband,
include; three daughters, Mrs. Abe
Fogel and Mrs. Harry Simowitz,
both of Augusta; and Mrs. Marvin
Greenberg, of Waycross; two sons,
Joe Isenberg, of Brunswick, and
Jake Isenberg, of Gordon; eight
grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs.
Sophie Cohen, and Mrs. Abe Levy,
of Atlanta; Mrs. Hyman Pollock,
of Spartanburg; Mrs. Max Sch
wartz, of Mobile, Ala.; three
brothers, Abe Smith, of Spartan
burg, S. C.; Willie Smith and
Julius Smith, of Greensboro, N.
C.; several nieces and nephews.
MRS. LOUISE WOLFF
Mrs. Louise Wolff of Atlanta
died Aug. 21. She was the widow
of Adolph Wolff.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Aug. 23 by Dr. David Marx.
Interment was in Oakland Ceme
tery.
Mrs. Wolff was a native of Co
lumbus. She had lived in Atlanta
for about fifty years.
Surviving are a son, Walter M.
Wolff Sr., and a grandson, Walter
M. Wolff Jr., both of Atlanta, and
a brother, Abe Moses of Louis
ville, Ky.
CHARLIE ROBINSON
Charles D. Robinson, 62, well-
known Albany business man,
died in Atlanta Tuesday, Aug. 30.
He was striken while on a busi
ness trip.
Rabbi Martin Hinchin conducted
the funeral Wednesday, Aug. 31,
at Temple B’nai Israel in Albany.
Mr. Robinson, son of the late
Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Robinson, pio
neer Albanians, was born and ed
ucated in Albany, where he was
in the drug business for more than
40 years. His father, a practicing
physician for about 65 years, was
Doughterty County Commissioner
for years. He was one of the na
tion’s pioneers in malaria control,
his Albany efforts winning inter
national attention of health auth
orities in numerous tropical coun
tries.
Mr. Robinson was a member of
the Masons, the R. A. M., the Alee
Shrine Temple of Savannah, an
Elk. He was a long-time member
of the Temple and B’nai B’rith.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Carrie Sterne; a sis
ter, Mrs. I. A. Rosenberg of Al- j
bany^ several nieces and nephews S
and a grand nephew.
cial of the United States beginning
with Sunday, Jan. 1, 1951.
Jewish religious groups in the
United States, in opposing the es
tablishment of a world calendar
of 364 days, advance the argument
that the elimination of the 365th
day from the calendar would
shift the Jewish Sabbath one day
each year. “Observant Jews would
certainly refuse to accept the new
naming of the days which would
shift their day of rest from Satur
day to Friday, and a year later
from Saturday to Thursday, etc.,”
Dr. Jonas Simon, spokesman for
the Orthodox groups declared.
Dr. Simon, in a memorandum
disseminated among delegates to
the United Nations and members
of Congress, declares that the
the substitution of the present
calendar by the world calendar is
“an encroachment on the Sab
bath” and will result in great con
fusion in Jewish religious life.
The proposed new calendar is in
many respects similar to the
“commercial calendar" advocated
some twenty years ago by a corn-
man Kodak Co.
The Roman Catholic Church
has expressed no objections to the
Panamanian proposal, which has
already been placed on the pro
visional agenda of the U. N. Gen
eral Assembly. Catholic circles
emphasize that although the pres
ent calendar was drawn up by
Pope Gregory XIII, in 1852, Cath
olic leaders see no Church ob
jection to the new reform.
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