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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, August 10, 1951
•afe Two
Ship to Shore Report:
Scouts Kosher Appetites
Unaffected by Waves
LEFT 'BROKEN HEARTS?':
Rabbi Hits Israel Seaman’s
Non-Kosher Chop Suey Dining
NEW YORK CITY (AJP)—
The mothers of 40 American
Jewish Boy Scouts attending the
Seventh World Scout Jamboree
in Austria have absolutely no
reason to worry that the ocean
trip harmed the kosher appetites
of their sons.
The scouts, with an assist from
Rabbi Samson Shain, the Jewish
Jamboree chaplain, ate their
way through a huge supply of
kosher meat, salamies and ge-
filte fish so far ahead of sched
ule that Rabbi Shain had to
scout around for more when the
ship docked at Naples.
Details of the scout passion
for kosher delicacies, rolling
waves, were reported by Rabbi
Shain in a letter to Rabbi Harry
Lasker, director of Jewish Rela
tionships of the Boy Scouts of
America.
* “We have already consumed
21 cans of beef and 24 cans of
gefilte fish and many kosher
salamies,’’ Rabbi Shain dis
closed in a ships-progress report
on scouting appetites.
Jewish scouting activity on
board included Friday night
services with a portable Jewish
By FRANK SIMONS
(By the American Jewish Press)
The sport world called him the
“little Jew boy.” In more polite
circles he was known as "the
star of the East.” This was Bar
ney Aaron, who in the days of
the bare knuckled, tireless mon-
archs of the ring, fought his way
to the top in Britain’s prize
fighting history.
Barney Aaron was born Nov.
21, 1800. in England, and by the
time he was 19 had distinguish
ed himself as a “comer.’’ There
■were many Jews in the priz.e
fight game at that time, but
Barney Aaron beat them all, in
cluding Manny Lyons, Angel
Hyams, Samuel. Abraham and
Israel Belasco.
Although frequently several
pounds underweight, Barney
consistently beat his opponents.
Often times it was necessary for
the fight to last 40 rounds. He
was knocked out only twice,
the first time in the 57th round
after 70 minute of bitter fight
ing.
A chant of victory, written by
“a singer of Israel” to the tune
of “Rose of Sharon,” today still
marks his being:
Houndsditch and the Lanes
rejoice
Where the mart for clothes is;
altar loaned by the United States
Navy, Rabbi Shain informed
Rabbi Lasker. "We kindled the
Sabbath candles and made Kid-
dush.”
“The Scouts also come to my
cabin for assistance in achieving
the Ner Tamid award. One Scout
has already completed the re
quirements and 1 plan to make
a presentation at the Friday
evening service next week.”
One of the young passengers
turned up with a case of home
sickness, so Rabbi Shain spent
an hour with him, listening
while the scout told “all about
himself, his father, his little
brother and sister and above all,
his mother.”
An interfaith formula to com
bat seaboard indigestion was re
vealed in the letter, which re
ported that the scout chaplains
of the other faiths, Catholic,
Protestant and a Mormon, had
"the jolliest table in all the din
ing room,” and as a result “we
never have indigestion I don’t
know how anybody can have in
digestion with the wonderful
fellowship on this boat.”
Hebrew science lifts its voice,
Aaron proves a Moses.
Barney Aaron!! Barney Aaron!!
Through the syn-a-gogue and
streets,
Rabbis, with their oily ’air on
Shout ’is name and praise
feats.
CHICAGO (AJP)—A leading
rabbi-columnist flayed the “ir
responsibility of some of our
‘leaders’ in Chicago” for steering
a group of Israeli sailors visiting
here to a Chinese restaurant
where they dined on non-kosher
food. The critic. Dr. Philip
Graubart, writing in the Chicago
Sentinel, hit the “lack of good
taste” of a Hospitality Commit
tee which arranged the trip of
six Israeli Navy officers here
during Prime Minister Ben-
Gurion’s visit to the United
States last May.
Complaining that a widely
publicized photo showing the six
naval officers dining at a
Chinese restaurant and caption
ed “Their First Chinese meal"
Manuel G. Batshaw, -executive
director of the Jewish Commun
ity Center and Jewish Commun
ity Council of Hamilton, Ontario,
has been appointed administra
tive field secretary for the
Southern Section of the National
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB), it
was announced by Dr. William
Wexler of Savannah, president
of the Section.
Mr. Batshaw, who will assume
his new duties on Sept. 1, has
had a decade of experience in
Jewish Community Center work
both in the U. S. and Canada,
including periods of service at
the YMHA of Montreal and the
Neighborhood Center of Phila
delphia. He will serve J.W.B. in
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Tennessee and
Texas.
A Canadian by birth, Mr. Bat
shaw was educated in American
as well as Canadian universities.
He is a graduate of McGill,
gained his post-graduate degree
from the Montreal School of
Social Work, and also studied
group work at Western Reserve
University and the Pennsylvania
School of Social Work.
Mr. Batshaw saw service in
World War II, holding the rank
of captain and heading the Social
Service Branch for French-
’is speaking servicemen in the
Canadian Army. He is a brother
was in poor taste, Dr. Graubart
charged the incident “aroused
the indignation and the ire of
thousands of Chicago Jews who
considered this act a gross insult
MANUEL G. BATSHAW
of Justice Harry Batshaw, a jus
tice in a high court in Canada.
He will make his home in At
lanta.
to their religious sentiments.”
“Chicago Jews, even the non-
Kashrut observers,” Dr. Grau
bart wrote, “would have prefer
red to set their naval heroes, de
fenders of the Holy Land, ‘dine
and wine’ in a kosher restaurant
with the menu including such
Jewish time-hallowed delicacies
as gefilte fish, kfepach, kneid-
lach, tcholant. kugel, etc.”
The rabbi jestingly suggested
that the Israeli naval offietrs
could have waited until “they
are on a peace mission to Peking
or Hong Kong" before eating
•■their first Chinese meal."
The columnist also noted that
the visiting Israeli seamen left
a number of “broken hearts”
after their departure. But he
would not advise that they be
tossed in the brig lor the “of
fense."
Rcfering to the “broken
hearts" of Chicago damsels. Dr.
Graubart pointed out that “this
was not the guilt of the sailor-
lads but it could rather be as
cribed to the naivete of our fair
maidens.
• Jewish sailors havtn’t as yet
C.’i learned the ‘art’ nor have
they had the experience of
‘leaving a girl in every port’ . . .
if 1 am wrong however, I beg
slichah of the Jewish Navy.”
Augusta
A second Oak Leaf Cluster has
been added to the Bronze Star
metal of Lt. Col. Jacob Shacter
of Augusta in recognition of his
outstanding performance of duty
in Korea. Lt. Col. Shacter, hus
band of Mrs. Ruth K. Shacter,
was his decoration for his ex
tremely accurate evaluation of
enemy information during a per
iod from Feb. 15 to March 25.
* * * * *
Mrs. Elliot Serotta and chil
dren art vacationing in Asheville
where they are visiting Mrs.
Serotta’s parents, Dr. and Mrs.
Sam Robinson.
Stringing Along With the Army
Kenneth Gordon, 21-year-old Jewish concert violin protege of
Fritz Kreisler, plays a parting tune for other Army inductees with
whom he was sworn in for military duty \his morning at 39 White
hall Street. He made his professional debut in 1943 with the NBC
Symphony under the baton of Leopold Stokowski and since then has
played 853 concerts. Assigned to Camp Kilmer, he was advised to
leave his violin at home, 93-10 Queens Blvd., Rego Park. (American
Jewish Press Photo).
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