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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
The Southern Israelite
A Weel
VOL XXVII
0x3 ■Bf) 9i)9^v ithern Jewry
jo ^jisjcOATun
7, 1952
NO. 43
Atlanta Federation Announces Policy
For Emergency Aid to Transients
The organized Jewish commu
nity of Atlanta is quite ready
to lend a helping hand to tran
sients on an emergency basis—
but schnorrers en route to Mi-
amo for the winter or back to
New York need not expect en
couragement.
This at least is the intention
of a directive formulated as pol
icy by the Federation for Jewish
Social Services.
The directive was issued in an
effort to coordinate the assis
tance which transients genuinely
leserved of help may expect in the
city and at the same time to
establish a base of ocoperalion
which would keep transients
from taking advantage of the
available hospitality and to avoid
duplication.
Copies of this directive are be
ing sent to the Federation lead
ers as well as to the Hebrew
Sheltering and Aid Sociely, the
Rev. P. S. Clein, Morris Freed
man of the Free Loan Society
and all of the rabbis.
It is felt the directive may aid
in formulating a general com
munal policy until the creation
of a community committee on
transients, which has been in the
process of being created.
According to the Federation
directive, “The Federation Fam
ily Service Bureau extends re
lief to Jewish transients on a
temporary and emergency basis.
It does not provide transporta
tion to pass on to the next com
munity." The memorandum asks
that all Jewish transients appeal
ing for help be referred to the
Federation office at 614 Cham
ber of Commerce Building, from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays thru
Fridays. Dn the evenings of
Mondays through Thursdays af
ter 5 p.m., and all-day Sundays,
the Jewish transients should be
referred for attention to the
Jewish Educational Alliance at
318 Capitol Avenue, S. E., or to
the Jewish Community Center at
1745 Peachtree.
On Friday night or Saturdays
and on Jewish holidays, when
the Federation office and the Al
liance are closed, the represen
tatives of the Shelter or the
Ilachnosis Orchim should use the
referral forms supplied them by
the Federation.
Rabbis, cantors, shoctim and
those traveling on behalf of re
ligious institutions are not re
garded as transients, the direc
tive says. Any help extended
to them has to come from spe
cial funds provided for such pur
pose by the Orthodox and Con
servative congregations.
Interfaith Group Tells Plans
For National Parley Nov. 9-11
The twenty-fourth annual meet
ing of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews will be
held November 9-11 in Washing
ton, according to Atlanta Co-
Chairman Wallace M. Walston,
president of Agnes Scott Col
lege, Laurent deGive and Sin
clair Jacobs.
Leaders in government, indus
try, education and religion will
join officers of the national con
ference in exploring the moral
and spiritual resources of the na
tion for building better inter
group relations.
The Atlanta Round Table will
be represented officially by A. J.
Weinberg. Ralph McGill, Armand
May and William J. Creighton
are also planning to be in atten
dance. National board members
from Georgia are Guy E. Snave-
ly Jr. of Columbus, Bernard J.
Kane of Atlanta and Andrew J.
Ryan Jr., of Savannah, who will
act for Isaiah A. Solomons Jr.,
l,Ui' win Not Expected
To Alter Israeli Policy
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
As political 'and communal ob
servers scanned the horizons for
hints of what is to come in the
wake of (the Eisenhower ava
lanche victory in Tuesday’s pres
idential election, two things
stand out as interest to Jewry:
1. The McCarren Immigra
tion Act seems in for revision,
perhaps withdrawal altogether
in favor of a suitable substitute
consolidation of Uncle Sam’s pot
pourri immigration provisions.
2. The attitude of this coun
try towards Israel will be un
changed and every indication
points to the continuation of
Federal Assistance for the State
of Israel.
What many fear as a logical
consequence to a G.O.P. victory
is an expansion of fascist ten
dencies and potentialities evi
dent in the reactionary and hate
mongering character of so much
of Eisenhower support and some
lawmakes swept iuto of fie with
his landslide.
Whether the new president
will share his saddle with these
elements or will shove them aside
now that their purpose has been
served is providing a great
source of consternation and con
cern.
General Eisenhower in several
speeches denounced the McCar-
ran immigration measure and
his running mate, Sen. Richard
Nixon, who had voted for the
bill to override the president’s
Savannah Drives
For JEA Building
also of Savannah.
A number of the sessions at
the three-day meeting will be set
aside for planning the annual ob
servance of Brotherhood Week to
be held next February 15-22,
with Robert W. Strauss, a na
tional co-chairman, as general
chairman.
Speakers at the November 9
dinner for the directors include
General Carlos P. Romulo, am
bassador of the Philippines to the
U. S.; George Meany, secretary-
treasurer of the A.F. of L., and
Eric Johnston, president, Motion
Pictures Association of America.
The meeting will also consider
plans for observing the silver an
niversary of the National Con
ference next year. Keynote an
niversary addresses will be made
by a trio of the nation’s leading
clergymen, including Rabbi Louis
Finkelstein, president of the Jew
ish Theological Seminary of,
America, New York City.
SAVANNAH—Special strides
were reported here this week as
local Jewry rallied to raise $3.50,-
000 for a new building for the
Jewish Educational Alliance.
The campaign is being spear
headed by Harry R. Friedman,
past president of the Jewish Ed
ucational Alliance and prominent
leader in Savannah’s communal
and civic life.
The $350,000 represents the
balance of the $600,000 needed
for construction on a 11% acre
site between White Bluff Road
and Abercord Street, just north
of DeRenne Avenue. The mod
ern building, designed by the
firm of Levy & Kiley, architects,
will include a fully equipped
gymnasium, complete with blea
cher seating arragements forSOO
spectators; a 600-seat auditor
ium to handle concerts, lectures
and other stage programs, class
rooms, workroom, lounges, game-
rooms, bowling alleys and swim
ming pool.
These facilities, leaders say,
will be available to the entire
community.
Serving with Mr. Friedman as
vice chairmen are II. Sol Clark,
Ben K .Victor and Dr. William
A. Wexler. Paul Kulick, execu
tive director of the Savannah
Jewish Council, which ha3 en
dorsed and is sponsoring the
campaign, is serving as campaign
director.
Alex Meddin is serving as
Chairman of the initial gifts di
vision. Vice chairman of this
group include Morris Berman, P.
H. Bodziner, Miller Kaminsky,
Jack M. Levy, Isadore Movsovitz,
Samuel Robinson, Louis Slotin
and Albert Tenenbaum. Volun
teer workers in the division in
clude:
Michael Adilman, Louis Rlack,
H. Sol Clark, B. B. Eichholz,
Harry It .Friedman, Benjamin
Garfunkel, Isadore Karpf, Jos
eph Lesser, Morris Levy, Mor
ton H. Levy, Isaac Meddin, Cal-
mon Mendel, A. E. Rabban,
Raymond Rosen, Sidney Rosen-
zweig, Louis Silverman, Meyer
W. Tenenbaum, Ralph Tenan-
baum, Ben K. Victor, Isadore
Weitz, Dr. William A. Wexler.
veto, also came cut for revision.
This development vyas expected
regardless of which party won
the election.
The Perlman Commission, ap- .
pointed by President Truman to
tour the country and seek papu
lar views on the act during the
election campaign, found that ap
proximately 90 per cent of those
who testified favored revision ®f
the “racist principles.” Steven
son, of course, had come out for
revision.
General Eisenhower had made
a strong appeal for Jewish sup
port. Addressing a huge meet
ing in New York’s garment dis
trict, he recalled that he had di
rected the rescue of millions who
had been put into Nazi concen
tration camps. He said:
“What right have they to call
me a bigot? I am very proud that
hundreds of thousands of those
people we rescued are happy cit
izens of this land, or of Israel,
or of other places and I don’t
think they can call be a bigot."
T11 Brooklyn, Rabid Menasha
Klein gave Gen. Eisenhower a
menroah for rescuing him from
the Ruchenwald concentration
camp. Rablbi Klein took the plat
form with the candidate of Zion
Park and urged the election Df
Gen. Eisenhower an one Who had
saved the lives of many inmates
of concentration camps.
Peron Exempts
Student Rabbis
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) —
President Jan Peron has agreed
to a request that students in rab
binical seminaries be exempted
from military service, it was re
ported here recently. The retpiost
was submitted to him by Rabbi
Am ram Blum, a member of the
I)AIA, central representative
body of Argentine Jewry.
Israel to Cite Weinstein
At B.I.G. Dinner Nov. 24
Ben Gurion Bids Hadassah Convention to Aid
In Unification of All Li. S. Zionist Groups
DETROIT (JTA) — Israel
Premier David Ben Gurion ap
pealed last week to the Hadassah
convention, to raise the position
of the Zionist movement in the
United States as an “educat’onal
and guiding factor in Jewry.” In
a cable to the convention the Is
rael Premier defined the mission
of Zionism in the following pro
gram.
1. Enrich the lives of Jewry
culturally and spiritually with
the heritage of our people and
the teachings of the Prophets
and inculcate the whole people
with Zionist truth.
2. Give youth a Hebrew edu
cation that will connect it to the
great past of our people and its
eternal Biblical inheritance so as
to be a living link with the re
vival of Israel’s independence on
its own soil.
3. Promote a Halutz move
ment among youth and make the
most courageous and adventur
ous, in the highest sense of the
word, share personally fn the his
toric reb rth of a nation and a
homeland in many ways similar
to that wrought by American pi
oneers some generation* ago. Mr.
Ben Gurion said that the imple
mentation of th : s program ca’led
for a unification of all Zionist
sections in the United Stat°s,
without affecting the special
projects or the autonomous set
up of each separate Z'eni°t b>dy.
He paid trbi’tp to Hadassah’s
medical activities in Israel,
crownpd this y^ar with the
ground breaking for the medical
center in Jerusalem.
“The difficult period in which
we live,” the Premier said, “calls
on Hadassah w thout diminish
ing its present efforts, to pioneer
in new fields of activity. Fortu
nately, for us, Hadassah is rich
in leadership, well qualified to
educate and guide and Hadassah
must play a leading role in in
itiating the integrat'on and
s'rengtheing of the Zionist move
ment in America.”
Mrs. Samuel J. Roronsohn of
New York was re-elected nation
al pres'dent of Hadassah at the
conclud’nir session of the conven
tion, which adopted a record $9,-
009,000 budget for 1052-53. It
was oi-n ?>**'*'n”o' > ' > d that the or
ganization had sold to date $10,-
(Continued on page 8)
“An award for outstanding
service to the State of Israel “will
be presented to I. M. Weinstein,
general chairman of the Atlanta
Committee for Bonds of Israel,
on Monday evening, November
24, at the Progressive Club,’’ Ben
J. Massed, associate chairman,
announced this week.
Tis award from the State of
Israel will be presented by the
Honorable James G. McDonald,
first American Ambassador to
the new Jewish State.
“This award," Mr. Massed an
nounced, “is being presented not
only for I. M.’s service to B.I.G.,
to the United Jewish Appeal, and
to the local Welfare Fund, but
also because of his personal en
deavors in helping Israel achieve
a firm financial footing.”
The first notification of this
honor was received by Mr. Henry
Morgantbeau, Jr., chairman of
the Foard of the American Fi-,
nancial and Development Corp.
for Israel when Ambassador Eb-
an called and said that the State
of Israel so wished to honor Mr.
Weinstein.
The occasion of the presenta
tion will be a community-wide
d'nnor a t the Progressive Club
Monday evening, November 24.
I. M. WEINSTEIN
... to be honored
Mr. Massed urges the entire Jew
ish community to reserve that
date (to pay tribute to one of At
lanta’s leading citizens.
The other members of the com
mittee who are actively engaged
in this tribute include the bond
co-chairmen, Ben J. Massed,
Louis Aronstam, Max M. Cuba,
Frank Garson, Abe Goldstein,
and David L. Slann.