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Friday, April 11, 1952
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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150,000 Jewish GIs, on Four Continents,
Will Celebrate Passover at JWB Seder
NEW YORK—On four conti
nents, from “Project Blue Jay”
in northern Greenland to the
Caribbean, from Europe to Ko
rea, and from Maine to North
Africa, Jewish servicemen in the
U. S. Armed Forces—some 150,-
000 strong—will assemble at nu
merous Passover services to be
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May Passover . . . and
Hie days to follow . . .
bring only happiness!
Wheat Williams
Realty Co.
119 E. Ponce de Leon
Decatur, Ga.
conducted by Jewish chaplains
using religious supplies litera
ture, and kosher foods furnished
by the National Jewish Welfare
Board (JWB). This is JWB’s 35th
Passover operation and the sec
ond in Korea.
In the bombed-out shell eu
phemistically called the Hotel
Banta, in Seoul, which was par
tially restored by the new say-
die spirit of the Jewish chap
lains (and a lot of help from the
military), Jewish servicemen
will attend a mass Seder lack
ing in no respect in the holiday
warjnth and the culinary basics
of the Seders -jack home. Orders
from General Van Fleet and all
the area corps commanders have
assured 72 hour leaves to GIs in
Korea. Seders have been plan
ned throughout the peninsula.
Seders will be held at 15 over
seas areas, including Japan, the
Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, Oki
nawa, Alaska, Germany, Austria,
the Caribbean, India, Thailand,
French Indo-China, North Africa,
and even in northern Greenland,
not too far from the North Pole.
PASSOVER GREETINGS
Eager and Simpson
The South’s Largest Corset Shop
24 Cain Street, N.E. WA. 4972
★
PASSOVER GREETINGS
from
M. L. PARKS DAIRY
DECATUR, GEORGIA
2772 Flat Shoals Road
Cr. 6532
Season’s Greetings
Aladdin, Inc.
“Cleaners With the Magic Touch”
699 Metal Road, N.E. EL. 5705
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In Greenland, a small group of
GIs and civilians serving at the
U. S. Government “Projects Blue
Jay,” will have a Seder complete
in all details. In North Africa,
a Jewish chaplain who arrived
at Nonassom just before the holi
days with JWB supplies will con
duct services and arrange home
hospitality for GIs and civilians
on the U. S. construction proj
ects in the territory.
Tons of matzoth, wine, fish,
and religious literature were
speeded to the remotest over
seas points by the military—by
pl.lnes, .transports, trucks and
even helicopters. At the request
of the U. S. Logistical Command
of the Far East, JWB sent 50,000
pounds of holiday supplies. A
last minute order for 2,000 cans
of kosher chickens was filled by
the JWB depot in San Francisco
within 48 hours after receipt of
the request from a chaplain in
Korea.
Two thousand frozen Seder
packages were shipped in dry ice
for the GIs taking part in “Ex
ercise Longhorn” at Ft. Hood,
Tex., where one mass Seder has
been scheduled in the maneuver
area. These pre-cooked meals are
kept in frozen food lockers on
arrival near the post. On the Se
der evening (after time for
thawing) the meals of chicken,
soup, fish, and desert are heated
up by the local JWB Armed Ser
vices volunteers and served.
For servicemen in remote and
isolated places overseas, JWB
has also furnished thousands of
Passover food boxes, each con
taining enough meat, fish, soup,
and other holiday essentials for
little solo Seders. These boxes
(which also go to veterans hos
pitals) containin a greeting from
the local JWB Women’s Organi
zations’ Division Committee
which made up and shipped the
holiday packages.
Pre-holiday arrangements will
make possible Seders and serv
ices on all ships at sea during
the holidays, including that on
the USS Antietam. The little
Jewish congregation aboard this
aircraft carrier has been conduct
ing its own services without ben-,
efit of a chaplain for the past
eight months. For Passover, it
will have a Seder, with supplies
to the ship from Japan.
In the U. S., 250 full- and
part-time Jewish chaplains will
officiate at Seders organized on
post and in communities thru-
out the country through the ef
forts of 260 local JWB Armed
Services Committees and the
staff of 36 USO-JWB armed ser
vices workers. In every veterans
hospital—no matter how remote
—services will be conducted, vis
itation by JWB volunteers will
take place, and thousands of
Passover boxes will be distribut
ed to the non-ambulatory and the
bedridden. In many institutions,
recordings of the services fur
nished by JWB will be played
over the hospital’s radio.
Passover
Greetings
Shepard Decorating Co.
16 Young St., S.E.
SOUTH'S OLDEST AND
LARGEST DISPLAY DECORATORS
Wishing You and Your
Family a Very
Happy Passover
★
Anthony’s
HARRY KAP1LOFF
80 Forsyth St., S.W.
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SAM TURETSKY
CY. 3843
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. . . MAY THE PRAYER THAT CONTENT
MENT REIGN WITHIN THIS COUNTRY'S
BORDERS AND HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
"WITHIN ITS HOMES” BE REALIZED MORE
THAN EVER BEFORE AND BE PERPETUATED
INTO AN EVEN BRIGHTER AND FINER TO
MORROW.
The Story of Passover — Told in Three Cartoons
PRIOR TIRE CO.
Peachtree and Pine WAlnut 8866
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PASSOVER
YEARS PASSED AND THE ISRAELITES SKEW
AND PR05PERED — UNTIL A NEW PHARAOH CAMI
TO RULE EGiPT....
SOON AN AIR OP REVERENCE SETTLED ABOUT
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.... AN ANSEL OF THE
LORD APPEARED AND CHOSE ROSES TO SO BE-
BUT PHARAOH REPOSED TO FREE THE
ISRAELITES ANO AS PUNISHMENT, IN
CREASE? THEIR LASORS....1