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Southeastern Zionists Eye
New Goals at Convention
McCarran Act Now
Basic Election Issue
Bv ADOLPH ROSENBERG
SAVANNAH—Stalwarts who
had carried the ball for Zionism
in this region for decades got
together again in Savannah last
weekend and came out of the
convention huddles driving and
determined for new goals.
The Savannah atmosphere ap
parently proved conductive to a
renewal of enthusiasm for the
veterans, certainly it was condu
cive enough to draw one of the
largest numbers of delegates in
recent years.
The city itself wore its usual
warm atmosphere of Jewishness
and friendliness. The Savannah
Zionist District, under the presi
dency of Isaac Meddin, had ach
ieved its largest membership.
Under the guidance of Chairman
Mike Adilman, the hosts had ar
ranged several outstanding ev
ents of social and cultural inter
est for the visitors.
Delegates, who reelected a
slate of officers and directors
headed by Robert Persky of Au
gusta, adopted a budget of $50,-
000 for the Zionist Fund and
other goals which some asserted
were ambitious and unrealistic.
But the delegates were determ
ined to set their aims high, ■/>
that perhaps, maybe . . .
A heated breakfast session
tested tempers as delegates con
sidered the expediency of politi
cal affiliation and the assignment
of projects and quotas from na
tional to local.
The question of whether to try
to use a basal General Zionist
philogophy for the youth groups
which the Z.O.A. sponsors also
brought debate. A majority fav
ored such an approach. To
strengthen the public relations
between Israel and the U. S., del
egates propose to require that
Israeli students studying under
their auspices in this country
participate in general community
activities, so that they can take
back with them a full under
standing of what makes the U.
S. tick. The delegates felt such
an understanding would auto
matically be favorable, though
they would make no effort to
stipulate that the students must
assume a favorable attitude or
else. ..
Senior Hadassah sponsored an
Oneg Shabbat at B’nai B’rith
Jacob Synagogue Saturday af
ternoon. Mrs. Harry Friedman
of Savannah presided and Mike
Adilman moderated a panel on
Israel. Panelists included Rabbi
Abram I. Rosenberg, Bob Persky,
Mrs. Hadassah Rittenburg, Mrs.
Seymour Liehman and Harry
Stern.
After the official opening Sat
urday evening, the delegates were
feted at a buffet supper and re
ception at the new home of Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Robinson. The
Savannah Zionist District was
the host.
Dr. Sidney Marks, present with
his charming wife whom he met,
woed and won only a scant year
and a half a^o in Haiti, spoke
at the Sunday luncheon and
again Sunday evening ait the
banquet. He is national Z.O.A.
executive secretary.
He developed the current fa
cets of the national A.O.A. pro-
Officials Listed for Southeastern Zionist
Region Elected at Savannah
SAVANNAH—Elected during
the recent cunvention of Augusta
in administering the activities of
the Southeastern Zionist Region
for the coming year were:
Mortimer May, Nashville, hon
orary president for life; S. P.
Benamy, Atlanta, and Robert
Travis of Atlanta, Abe Berko-
witz of Birmingham and Ben R.
Winick of Knoxville, honorary
presidents.
Ike Abelson of Birmingham,
Alex Van Straten of Miami
Beach and Sam Shankman of
Memphis, honorary vice presi
dents.
Vice Presidents: George Mil
ler of Orlando and Seymour Lieb-
man of Miami Beach for Florida;
Mike Adilman of Savannah for
Georgia; Hary D. Kantor of
Clarksdale for Mississippi; Mor
ris Pilsk of Nashville and Har
ry Stern of Nashville for Ten
nessee; Harry Jaffe of Birming
ham at large, and Gil Rappaport
of Miami Beach, vice president
for the Young Zionist Districts.
S. A. Goodman of Miami Beach
was elected secretary; Harry
Glassman of Atlanta, treasurer;
Fred S. Jonas of Miami, assis
tant treasurer; and Adalbert
Freedman, Atlanta, auditor.
Leo R. Burson of Memphis was
chosen chairman of the Admini
strative Committee.
Directors named to the Com-
mit’ee include:
Atlanta—Sidney Q. Janus, Joe
Benamy, Harry Harrison, Sam
uel II. Rosenberg and Adolph
Rosenberg.
Augusta—William S. Moog,
Harry Wilensky and Morris Si-
rote.
Birmingham—Marvyn Bern
stein, Wallace Cohen, t Louis
Fleisher, M. H. Greenberg, Char
les Kimerling, Alex Rittenbaum.
Chattanooga—Louis Winer.
Coral Gables—Morris Simon
and Oscar Lelchuck.
Daytona—Sidney Gluckman.
Jacksonville—Cantor Abraham
Marton, Isadore Moscovitz, Jack
Becker, Max Rubin, J. Jimmie
Edelstein.
Knoxville—Jacob B. Corkland,
Hugo Klein, Isadore Rosenblatt,
Prcf. William Shaw.
Memphis—A1 Ballin, Leo Gold-
berger, Carol Karchmer and Abe
D. Waldauer.
Tampa—Manuel Aronowitz.
Miami—Hyman Sootin.
Miami Beach—Ehiel Lesowoe-
er, Dr. Louis G. Lytton, Harry
J. Sons and Dr. Leo N. Levin.
Moblie—Joe Weber.
Montgomery—Dr. Iring Lon
don.
Nashville—Hannah Kirschner,
Bernard Kantor and Leon May.
Orlando—Arthur Pariser, L.
S. Frankel.
Pensacola—A1 Bresler, Harry
Ellis.
St. Petersburg—M. G. Rosen
berg.
Savannah—Harry Ehrenreich,
Isaac Meddin, Ben Silverman.
gram for the delegates and for
the banquet audience discussed
Israel’s role in the perspective of
an armed Middle East.
Mendel Fisher, representing
<the Jewish National Fund, dis
cussed the role of purchasing
land in Israel.” He said, “we
must have an intensive, concen
trated attempt to redeem the
land but what is needed also is
a balance between industry and
agriculture through development
of a Jewish peasantry, Jewish la
bor and Jewish pioneers.”
Rabbi Isidore Barneitt review
ed the challenge of Israel at Fri
day evening services at Agudath
Achim Synagogue. Magnificent
singing was furnished by this
Conservative synagogue choir
led by Rev. Joseph Salzman.
Sinvers included Mrs. Paul
Kulick, Mrs. S. Bass, Mrs. I.
Barnett, Mrs. IT. Bradlev, Mrs.
S. Laskv, Mrs. D. Levin, Mrs. M.
Deich, Miss Miriam Plotkin and
A1 Goldwin, S. Rodziner and A.
Rubini, Later the S'sterhood en
tertained at a reception.
Special highlight of the con
vention was the Sunday evening
affair at the Jewish Educational
Alliance. Around 500 delegates,
Savannahans and vis’tors were
served a catered kosher turkey
meal with such unexpected ac
coutrements as dishes heaped
high with steaming kasha and
kugel for the Jewish “tarn.”
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
“master race” controversy raised
last Friday by President Truman
in a message to the Jewish Wel
fare Board meeting in Washing
ton, took a new twist this week
when Bernard M. Baruch issued
a statement declaring that he
does not agree with the Presi
dent’s charges that General
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republi
can Presidential candidate, con
dones anti-Semitic and anti-
Catholic immigration policies.
Rabbi Hillel Silver also issued a
similar denial.
President Truman assailed
what he called anti-Semitic and
anti-Catholic quota in the Mc-
Garran-Walter ' mmigration law.
He attacked several Republican
Senators for voting for the meas
ure and Gen. Eisenhower for en
dorsing those Senators for re-
election. Gen. Eisenhower, in
speeches during the week-end,
called for a revision of the Mc
Carran-Walter Immigration law.
Meanwhile, Republican Vice-
Presidential candidate Senator
Richard M. Nixon last night sug
gested that Gov. Adlai Steven
son, Democratic Presidential
candidte, should repudiate Tru
man’s criticism of Gen. Elsen
hower on the McCarran Act is
sue. Senator Nixon said that the
immigration bill, which was pas
sed over President Truman’s ve
to would “be reviewed and. its in
equities removed after a fair
trial” by a Republican admini
stration.
Senator Herbert H. Lehman,
taking a hand in the issue, point
ed out that Sen. Nixon was one
of those who voted for the Mc-
Garran-Walter Bill and joined in
over-riding President Truman’s
veto of that bill.
Zionist Council Insists
On Bi-Partisan Stand
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Zionist Council Mon
day took issue with the Labor
Zionist Organization which chal
lenged the right of the Council
candidates. A statement issued
by Louis Lipsky, chairman of
the Council, said:
“The American Zionist Coun
cil has accepted responsibility for
Natinoal J. W. B. Officals
Booked for New Orleans
Philip M. Klutznick of Chica
go, llll. and Sanford Solender of
New York City will address the
Seventh Annual Meeting of the
Southern Section of the Nation
al Jewish Welfare Board (WJB),
it has been announced by Dr.
William A. Wexler of Savannah,
section president. The annual
meeting will be held at the Roos
evelt Hotel and Jewish Commu
nity Center in New Orleans, on
Nov. 8, 9, 10. Delegates from 11
Southern States will attend the
convention.
Mr. Klutznick, who will be the
main speaker at the Sunday eve
ning dinner meeting, is one of
the founders of the World Fed
eration of YMHAs and Jewish
Community Centers. He has been
associated with Jewish Center
work for 25 years. He is a mem
ber of the Board of Governors of
the National Association of
Housing Officials. He is Presi
dent of the American Commun
ity Builders, Tnc., and Vice-Pres
ident of the Service Life Insur
ance Company of Nebraska.
Sanford Solender, who will be
the featured speaker at the Oneg
Shabbat on Saturday afternoon,
is director of the -T.W.B.’s Jewish
Center Division. He is a member
of the National Executive Board
of the American Association of
Croon Workers, and on the edi
torial board of the Jewish Social
Service Quarterly.
The Southern Section Annual
will devote itself to
charting the course of Jewish
Community Centers in the South
during the coming year, and to
plan the celebration of the Cen
tennial of the Jewish Community
Center movement, which will
to criticize Z. Q.’.«r endorse- tl£j public relations policy of the
ment of one of the Presidential Zionist movement in the United
States. The Labor Zionist Or
ganization is included in its
membership and is actively par
ticipating in the framing of its
policies.
“By unanimous agreement for
almost a decade the American
Zionist Council has maintained a
bi-partisan approach in connec
tion with public relations focus
ing on the Washington scene.
This policy has been accepted in
fact by all Zionists who have
been participating in this action
with great devotion. In 1948 and
1952 the Council sought and re
ceived from both major political
parties and their leaders en
dorsement of pro-Israel platform
planks. It has resisted success
fully local and national pressures
to breach this policy for the sake
of this or that candidate.
“Conceding the right claimed
by the Labor Zionist Organiza
tion, we submit that it is estop
ped from exerting that right by
reason of its voluntary member
ship on the Council, its active
participation in framing the pol
icies of the Council and by it*
recorded affirmative vote on the
policy we have been following.”
PH|L KLUTZNICK
RABBI DIPLOMAT •
OTTAWA (JTA)—Max Wer-
shof, former First Secretary of
the Canadian Embassy in Wash
ington, has been named Chief of
the Defense Liaison Division of
the Department of External Af
fairs, Canada’s foreign effiee.
SANKDRD 6-JlENDER
take place in 1954. The delegates
will also consider ways and
means of strengthening Center
objectives to me^t todays prob
lems, and will help shape na
tional JWB policy. Also on the
agenda of the Convention will be
planning for the maximum ac-
tite cooperation between the Jew-
ishish Community Centers and
JWB’s Armed Services program.
The Atlanta Jewish Commun
ity Center will be represented by
a delegation headed by Mrs. Sam
Alterman. Mrs. AJterman is sec
retary of the Southern Sectkm-
JWB.