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Friday, November 11, 1949
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Five
Z O A Conference in Atlanta
(Continued from page one 1
urer’s report by Jake Abelson; a
report by Herman M. Popkin, Di
rector of the Southern Zionist
Commission. After the meeting, a
reception will be held at the home
of ‘Joseph Rinzler, 918 Oakdale
Road, N. E.
Besides the luncheon and din
ner on Sunday, there will be ses
sions dealing with projects of
practical assistance to the State
of Israel and educational work in
America. These will be in the na
ture of a symposium in two parts,
entitled “Two-Way Passage.” Part
I will consist of talks given by
regoinal leaders who visited Israel
last summer, describing the con
ditions there. Part II will deal
with action on the American
scene. Participants will be Rabbi
Arthur Hertzberg of Nashville;
Dr. Sidney Marks, national Exe
cutive Director of the Z. O. A.;
Dr. Shlomo Bardin, director of the
Brandeis Youth Foundation; Har
ry Stern of Nashville; Jack Becker
of Jacksonville; Robert A. Persky
of August and Jacob Corkland of
Knoxville. The morning session
will be in charge of Macey Krons-
berg of Charleston, while the
afternoon panel will be chaired
by Jack M. Levy of Savannah.
Richard Falk, I. Z. F. A. Assembly
president, will give greetings.
Ben R. Winick of Knoxville will
preside at the Kefauver luncheon
and Mortimer May, chairman of
the national Z. O. A. Executive
Committee, will introduce the
Senator.
At the banquet Robert M. Tra
vis will act as toastmaster. The
invocation will be delivered by
Rabbi Harry H. Epstein, to be fol
lowed by greetings from Philip
Shulhafer, president of the At
lanta Jewish Community Council;
Joseph Pintchuck, president of the
Atlanta Zionist District; Mrs.
Atlanta B. B. Y. M.
Plan Square Dance
For Sunday, Nov. 27
The B’nai B’rith Young Women
of Atlanta will sponsor a square
dance at the Jewish Educational
Alliance at 9 p. m. Sunday, Nov.
27. Callers will be Mr. and Mrs.
Collette, well-known enthusiasts
of square dancing.
The dance is the climax of the
yearly activities of B’nai B.B.Y.M.
Tickets are on sale for only $1
per couple or stag. For informa
tion, call Mildred Saperstein, AT.
7869 or Elaine Austem HE. 5824-
W. Prizes will be offered.
Joseph Benamy, president of the
Atlanta Hadassah, and Israel Katz,
president of National Masada. The
Choral group of the Atlanta Ha
dassah chapter, under the direc
tion of Mrs. Jake Friedman, will
present the inspiring cantata
“What is Torah?” The benediction
will be delivered by Rabbi Hyman
R. Friedman.
A business session on the fol
lowing day, featuring election of
officers and a meeting of the 1950
Administrative Committee, will
conclude the conference.
Banquet tickets at $3.50 per
plate and luncheon tickets at $1.75
per plate are now on sale. Send
check, payable to Zionist Organi
zation of America, to the Regional
Z. O. A. office, 701 Peters Bldg.,
Atlanta 3, Ga. or phone WA. 2329.
Birthday for
Moises Ville
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—The
sixtieth anniversary of the found
ing of Moises Ville, the first Jew
ish agricultural colony in Argen
tina, was celebrated this week by
Argentine Jewry.
The town was settled on Aug.
28, 1889, by 95 Jewish families
from Russia on land leased in the
Province of Santa Fe. Its present
population of 5,500 is 90 per cent
Jewish. Moises Ville is the birth
place of many of Argentina’s im
portant Jewish personages, in
cluding the scm of one of its found
ers, Dr. Moises Goldman, former
president of the DAIA, central
Jewish representative body in Ar
gentina.
First Study Group for Atlanta Women
Scheduled for Tuesday at New Center
First of a series of joint study
group on legislation for Atlanta
women will take place from 11
a. m. to 12 m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at
the new Jewish Community Cen
ter, 1745 Peachtree Road.
This is part of a coordinated
program of all city-wide Jewish
women’s organizations presented
under the auspices of the Atlanta
Bureau of Jewish Education. The
first program is sponsored by the
Legislative Committee of the Na
tional Council of Jewish Women,
with Mrs. Philip Shulhafer as
chairman of the legislative series.
An open forum will be held on
“Statism and the Welfare State—
What Do They Mean?” Speakers
will be Mrs. Harry M. Gershon,
Mrs. Julian Freedman, and Mrs.
Albert Hey man; Mrs. A. G. Hol
lander will be moderator.
Mrs. Gershon, as a member of
the Council of Jewish Women, is
on the National Committee for
Education and Social Action, and
has been on the national Resolu
tions Committee and on the na
tional Board for a number of
years. She is a graduate of Smith
College, and was a member of the
fact-finding committee for Geor
gia.
Mrs. Freedman is a social
worker and a University of Chi
cago graduate. She is president of
B’nai B’rith, and is very active in
social welfare work.
Mrs. Heyman is program chair
man for Council’s legislative com
mittee. She has been a discussion
group leader of the League of
Women Voters, and a member of
the International Relations Com
mittee of the League. She received
her master’s degree in Social Work
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Hollander is chairman of
Council’s Legislative Committee,
and Vice-President of the DeKalb
League of Women’s Voters.
Churches Urged to Decry Anti-Semitism,
Extend Evangelization to Jews
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Protestant
churches were urged recently by
the Conference on the Church and
the Jewish People to denounce
anti-Semitism and to include Jews
in Christian missionary programs.
The Conference was held under
the sponsorship of the American
Committee on the Christian Ap
proach to Jews.
The parley branded anti-Semi
tism as a “sin against God and
man” and urged that it be opposed,
Details of Iraqi Pogroms Revealed
(Continued from page one)
Yakta and El Istaklal, are fea
turing stories urging that the Jews
are “germs which should be erad
icated.” It was also reported that
the head of the Jewish Commun
ity at Amara, Iraq, has gone out
of his mind as a result of beatings
and torture.
Meanwhile, the tendency to
minimize and question Iraqi po
grom reports persists in diplo
matic circles here. This is thought
to be due to an official State De
partment statement earlier here.
This is thought to be due to an
official Embassy in Bagdad. The
report said that things were not
nearly as bad in Iraq as Jewish
reports indicated and that Jews in
custody “are understood to be un
der charges of having violated
specific Iraqi law.”
At New York the U. S. Govern
ment was urged by a meeting of
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Sephardic Jewish leaders now in
this country to intervene with
Iraqi authorities to “put an im
mediate halt to the anti-Jewish
excesses in that country.” The
meeting was called by the World
Federation of Sephardic Commun
ities and was addressed by Y.
Zeruhavel, member of the Jewish
Agency executive and director of
the Agency’s department for Mid
dle East Jews.
Among those who participated
in the meeting were Dr. Isaac Al-
calai, chief rabbi of the Sephardic
here; Simon S. Nissim, president
of the World Federation of Sep
hardic Communities; Moise Ven-
calai, chief rabbi of the Sephardics
community in Buenos Aires; Dr.
A. Benchitrit, leader of the Sep
hardic community in Columbia;
and Marcel Franco, former pres
ident of the Istanbul Jewish com
munity.
no matter what its origin.” Evi
dences of “an alarming increase
of anti-Semitism in America” were
pointed up by the Conference.
Speakers outlining a program of
avangelism among Jews here and
abroad cautioned churches against
insisting that the Jew sever all
identity with his people and cul
ture.
The Conference also listed plans
for the establishment of a Christ
ian Institute on Jewish Studies for
clergy and laymen and for pre
paration of missionary literature
for Jews. Earlier, Rabbi Elmer
Berger, of the American Council
for Judaism, accused Zionists of
trying to draw American Jews in
to a nationalist movement serving
Israel interests.
Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, former
Hadassah president, told the Con
ference that the “first loyalty” of
an American Jews was to the U.
S. and explained that the Jewish
state was a means to that end. Is-
real delegate to the U. N. Aubrey
Eban reiterated his government’s
offer to admit 100,000 Arab dis
placed persons.
New Baby Clothes
To Be Admission
Tel Chai Party
In response to an emergency
clothing relief notice from Isnael,
Tel Chair Hadassah is sponsoring
“Baby Shower” for 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Mayfair
Club.
A card party will follow. Ad
mission will be one piece of “new” '
clothing.
Hadassah Needs
Sewing Machines
Mrs. J. A. Wender, chairman
of Atlanta’s sewing groups of
Hadassah, has issued an urgent
call for unused sewing mach
ines, so that newly organized
groups can function.
Machines do not have to be
the latest models and will be re
paired if necessary.
They will be .returned in good
condition at the end of the year.
Please call Mrs. Wender at VEr-
non 7288 if you have one to
spare.
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Rumania Honors
Labor Leader
Slain in 1929
BUCHAREST, (JTA)—A tribute
to the memory of Dr. M. Arno-
neanu, Rumanian Jewish labor
leader who was killed by the police
in 1929, was paid this week by
Ion Niculi, vice president, of Ru
mania, in a message translated
into Yiddish and broadcast over
the government radio.
The Vice President praised the
work of the Jewish leader “who
sacrificed his life for his people."
He recalled the role played by Dr.
Aroneanu in the Rumanian trade-
union movement in the period
1901-1920, and declared that he
had been arrested by the police
authorities at Bacau while organ
izing a strike and killed by stran
gulation after four days of torture.
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How Would You Say It?
Curley Lawson’* cousin from hark
East and a few of ua got talking
when he waa here visiting, and I
couldn’t help noticing how different-
he said things.
For instance, he eaid, “Lifting
that 20C-pound bag of eement al
most killed me.” “You mean sack
of cement?” atka Curley. (That’*
the way we’d aay it.) “No,” inter
rupts young Elliott who’d epent a
lot of time down South. “He means
a 'poke at eeo-ment.’ ”
It waa good for a chuckle, any-
way. Bag, sack at poke—we knew
what he waa trying to aay. It
juat dependa on wheia you are in
the U. S., which way aounde right.
From where I ait, whenever we
criticise someone for eoundieg fun
ny tc- ua, we ought to think how we'*
sound to them. It’s the same as
ehooeing your liquid refreshment.
I'm accustomed to a moderate glass
of beer—you may like girder ale—
Set who’a to aay the other’s wrong?
I'd aay ye’re both right i
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