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The Southern Israelite
A W eekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
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VOL. XXV
U A H C Chief Says Jew.,
Will Reject Pope’s Invitation
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FEBRUARY 3, 1950
Number 5
MILWAUKEE, (JTA) — Jews
will not forsake their ancient faith,
Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, presi
dent of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, declared
in reply to the invitation of Pope
Pius XII to all Protestants and
Jews to join the Catholic Church.
consin, meeting at the first annual
convention of the Great Lakes
Council of the U.A.H.C. this week,
Dr. Eisendrath called instead for
“greater Judaism—greater Jewish
community and congregational
life, and strengthening of the na
tional institutions of Judaism.” He
“The Protestants can indeed speak ( added: “We will not join with a
for themselves,” he stated, “but j church which has stood virtually
for us Jews, we will require silent in the face of the most
greater justification for the de- blasphemous denial of religion in
our generation. We Jews will not
soon forget the official concordat
between Rome and the Nazi re
gime, between the official spokes
man of Catholicism and the most
mand that we forsake the faith of
our fathers, tried and tested thru
the centuries and not found want
ing.” |
Addressing congregational lead- .
ers and representatives of Reform j
temples and synagogues in Mich- brutal, bestial mass murderers in
igan, Illinois, Minnesota and Wis- ! history.”
Boston Parley Calls Rabbis
To Fight Assimilation
BOSTON, (JTA)—Rabbi Israel
Tabak, president of the Rabbinical
Council of America, declared at a
press conference this week that
the primary task facing the
American Rabbinate today is “to
fight assimilation and its threat to
our existence.” Rabbi Tabak also
urged formation of a “unified
authority for religious questions to
be set up in Israel as a step in
bringing about organization in re
ligious Jewish life.”
The Rabbinical Council, which
held a conference here, announced
that to “help tackle the problems
which hinder the perpetuation of
Jewish life today, the Council is
devising a program of action, in
cluding the launching of a ‘Torah
tour’ consisting of rabbis who will
visit communities in an effort to
help direct the thinking and action
pertaining to organized Jewish re
ligious life.” Speakers during the
sessions included Rabbi Oscar
LongVacant
Seats Filled
In Turkey
ISTANBUL, (JTA)—The Chief
Rabbinate here announced this
week the appointment of 18 mem
bers to the General Assembly of
the Istanbul Jewish Community.
The 18 seats had been vacant for
15 years.
The appointments were made
following approval of the candi
dates by the Turkish authorities.
The General Assembly is an 80-
member body composed of repre
sentatives of both lay and relig
ious groups.
Fesman, of Chicago, and Dr.Trude
Weiss-Rosmarin, editor and lec
turer.
More than 90 percent of mixed
marriage have turned out to be
unsuccessful, Rabbi Tabak said
earlier.
Declaring that intermarriage
“tends to weaken the stamina of
American population,” Dr. Tabak
called upon the Jews of America
“to be alert and on guard against
its spread.” He emphasized that
not only are intermarriages
against the most hallowed prin
ciples of the Jewish faith, but they
“undermine the stability of the
home, increase the number of un
happy marriages, and bring chil
dren into the world with a rift in
their souls which can never be
healed.”
Watch the next issue of
The Southern Israelite for
an important release from
the Central Board on Care
of Jewish Aged regarding
a Home for the Aged in
Atlanta.
i wo itabbis to Lead Atlanta’s
1950 Welfare Fund Drive
Epstein and Rothschild Selected as Symbol of Unity
in Community Behind Campaign’s Humanitarian Objectives
Rabbi Harry Epstein and
Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild,
spiritual leaders of two of the
city’* congregations, have been
designated to carry the ban
ners as general co-chairmen
for Atlanta’s 1950 Jewish
Welfare Fund Campaign.
Their acceptance was an
nounced Thursday by Frank
Garson, acting chairman of
the Special Committee in charge
of selecting the leadership for the
approaching drive.
Both of the rabbis indicated
their bid to head the campaign
was regarded as “a call to duty
and community service.” They
accepted with the understanding
that they receive the wholeheart
ed support and full cooperation of
members of the special committee
and other Welfare Fund leaders
and campaigners.
Besides Mr. Garson, the Com
mittee was composed of Abe Gold
stein, Barney Medintz, Meyer
Balser, David Slann, Mandle Za-
ban and Ed M. Kahn, ex-officio.
The choice of the committee was
ratified earlier this week at a
meeting of the Welfare Fund
board when members unanimous
ly endorsed and approved the
dual selection.
Later Mr. Garson said of the
Jan. 30 meeting, “there was an
air of excitement and tense ser
iousness as every board member
rose to pledge his or her support.
Everyone realized the urgency of
the occasion and the solemn ob
ligation which was being assumed
in behalf of the Atlanta Jewish
Community. But the desperate
needs of the immigrants in Israel
and the remnant waiting to be
transported were stark realities
which had to be faced with a de-
K A Bill EPSTEIN
termination to mobilize maximum
resources for immediate action.”
Mr. Garson continued:
“Rabbi Epstein came to Atlanta
as a very young man more than
twenty years ago from Tulsa.
Okla,. where he occupied a pulpit.
His own progress, growth and
maturity parallels the progress,
growth and maturity of the Aha- (tarnHy of 'distinguished rabbis.
vath Achim Congregation which
he serves as spiritual leader. The
A. A. Congregation is now re
garded as one of the largest and
most important modern orthodox
and traditional synagogues in the
entire south.
“Rabbi Epstein received his un-
RABBI ROTHSCHILD
iversity training at Emory. His
rabbinical training he received in
part at the Hebrew Theologcal
College in Chicago, at the Slobo-
dka Yeshivah in Lithuania and
the Hebron Yeshivah, Knesseth
Israel in Palestine, now Israel,
which was headed by a famous
uncle of his. He comes from a
“Soon after coming to Atlanta
he married a daughter of a lyell-
known rabbi in Chicago and has
reared a family of two daughters.
“He has been a leader in his
own right in every worthwhile
Jewish activity in the Community.
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Atlanta Joins 105 Other Cities
In Hook-Up to Hear Morgenthau
The Terrace Dining Room at the
Mayfair Club was filled to capac
ity Tuesday afternoon with men
Council for Judaism Repudiates N C R A C;
Says Zionism Creates “Dual Loyalty
NEW YORK, (JTA)—“Zion
ism’s Jewish nationalism and its
spokesmen” and not the American
Council for Judaism have created
the issue of “dual loyalties” it
was asserted last week in an
American Council for Judaism
statement released by Lessing J.
Rosenwald, president. The state
ment was a reply to recent charges
by the National Community Re
lations Advisory Council.
The Council challenged the
NCRAC’s claims to representing
“the overwhelming majority of
American Jews.” It questioned
the NCRAC’s right “to establish
itself as supreme arbiter and cen
sor, sitting in judgment on Amer
ican Jews” and it declared that it
had been condemned by the
NCRAC without a hearing.
Charging the NCRAC with con
fusing the issue, the Council de
nied that either philanthropic
support of Jews in Israel or ob-
Ground Is Broken in Columbus
For New Shearith Israel Shule
(Special to Southern Israelite)
COLUMBUS—Members of Con-
regation Shearith Israel as-
;mbled Wednesday, Jan. 25, to
reak ground for their new Syn-
gogue.
The building, when ready, will
ast an estimated §150,000, exclu
de of furnishings. Completion is
:heduled for August.
The building will house a rab-
i’s administrative office, recep-
m room, air-conditioned daily
chapel, library, main auditorium
and six classrooms.
The 4 basement will have a
kitchen, a sftcial room large
enough to accommodate 300 per
sons and a movie projection room
for audi-visual education.
The synagogue proper will seat
300 persons. A smaller daily
chapel will seat 45 persons. A large
parking lot will be constructed
behind the building.
A three-bedroom house for the
I rabbi will be built on an adjoining
lot.
Sol Singer, chairman of the
; building committee, has led the
Coiigregation to success in the
drive for the new synagogue.
At the ground breaking cere
monies, Rabbi Emanuel Bennett
spiritual leader, expressed the
belief the new structure “will be
the center of all spiritual and
social activities of the commun
ity.”
jective recognition of Israel’s ac
complishments are involved. “The
issues are whether American
Jews may give such philanthropy
needed by your fellow Jews in Is
rael and elsewhere, without being
corralled as a nationality-minor
ity bloc in the United States.” The
Council’s statement acknowledged
“the worthy accomplishments of
the state of Israel during the
brief period of its statehood.”
The NCRAC charge that the
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Seven Ministers
Resign in Danbury
Because of Rabbi
DANBURG, Conn., (JTA)—
Seven members of the Danbury
Ministerial Association have re
signed because Rabbi Jerome Ma-
lino, spiritual leader of the United
Jewish Center here, is a member,
it was reported this week. The
Rev. Stanley C. Lewis, pastor of
the Baptist Church here, an
nounced formation of a new group
to be called the Christian Evan
gelical Ministerial Association.
Mr. Lewis said of Rabbi Malino;
“He is not a Christian and does not
accept Christ as the son of God.”
and women who came to hear
Henry Morgenthau Jr., the general
chairman of the national U.J.A.,
report on his trip to Israel.
Mr. Morgenthau had returned
the day before from a special visit
to Israel where he went to see for
himself the conditions which
called for immediate and urgent
amelioration. He convened his
national campaign cabinet to meet
with him and to give considera
tion to what UJA can do about
this and how the communities can
help.
The meeting was opened by
Julian Venezka of Periora, Ill., in
his capacity as chairman of the
campaign cabinet. Those who took
part in the deliberations were
William Rosenwald, Judge Morris
Rothenberg and Rabbi Johnah
Wise of New York, Sam Rothberg
of Peoria, Sol Luckman of Cin
cinnati, David Dubinsky of St.
Louis, Cherner of Washington,
Abe Feinberg of New York,
Rudolph Sonnenbom of New
York, Abeles of Neward, N. J.,
and others.
Mr. Morgenthau gave a graphic
account of the misery and suffer
ing of the 85,000 immigrants in
the tent colonies and reception
centers in Israel.
He pictured the work being
done by the Jewish Agency for
Palestine. He did not mince any
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