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The Soitfhefii Israelite
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VOL. XXVIII
Tense Anti-Jewish
Atmosphere in Russia
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Southern Jewry
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JARY 16, 1953
Atlanta to Press Forward With
Campaign to Build New Center
No. 3
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A tense
anti-Jewish atmosphere prevails
in the Soviet Union, it has been
reported here by Israeli sail
ors upon their return from Odes
sa, Black Sea port city, where
the Israel ship Tzfonit unloaded
a cargo of citrus fruits from the
Jewish State.
The sailors said they were
shadowed by Soviet secret ser
vicemen from the moment they
left the port for the city proper.
Jews who only a year ago wel
comed the same sailors with joy
when their ship was anchored
there, this time pretended that
they did not even notice them.
They synagogues, too, were near
ly empty this time as compared
with a large attendance a year
ago, the sailors reported.
The Israel seamen also reveal
ed that the Soviet port authori
ties even forbade them from con
tacting sailors from another Is
rael ship “Hadar,” which was an
chored in Odessa at the same
time. The entire evening press
here features the reports of the
sailors, the only foreign Jews
who set foot on Soviet soil in
the-course of 1952, the year
marked by outspoken propaganda
against world Jewry and Zion
ism.
BERLIN (JTA)—Some 2,300
Jews, all survivors of the Nazi
regime, have fled the Soviet zone
of Germany to West Berlin since
the establishment of the East
German Republic, it has been re
ported here on the basis of re
liable information. Hundreds of
them so*ught asylum in West Ger
man during the last few weeks.
Reports received here from the
Mapam Split Over Prague
Trial; Extremists Lose
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The left-
wing Socialist Mapam Party of
Israel has been split wide open
as an aftermath of the Prague
trial. Although the split has not
been announced officially such
an announcement will take place
when the extremist group, led by
Dr. Moshe Sneh and Yaacov Ilif-
tin, are expected to set up an in
dependent faction within the
Mapam Party.
Meanwhile, since the defeat of
the Mapam-Riftin forces in the
central committee over the par
ty’s resolution on the Prague
trial, the extremist leaders have
been removed from positions of
authority within the party. Dr.
Sneh has been ousted as secrer
tary of the Israel-Soviet Friend
ship League, Mr. Riftin is no
longer political secretary of the
party and Eliezer Peri, another
member of the group, has been
removed from the editorship of
the party’s newspaper, A1 Ham-
ishmar. It has also been decided
to remove secretaries of party
branches throughout the country
who are tied up with the Sneh-
Riftin forces.
Yaacov Chazan, one of the
moderate leaders, told the JTA
that the moderates faction fills
the leading posts in the party
with its followers. He said his
group would organize an inde
pendent faction and would fight
for its place in the labor move
ment. If necessary, Dr. Sneh em
phasized, his group would not
“hesitate for a single moment’’
to leave the party, but would re
tain its seats in Parliament.
East zone state that last week
more Jews were arrested there
as “imperialist agents.”
LONDON (JTA) — Reports
published in the press here state
that hundreds of Jews in gov
ernment jobs in Soviet-dominat
ed countries of Eastern Europe
have been “interrogated” by the
people’s police and many have
been "hounded out of their jobs
iby vague charges of supporting
Jewish and American imperial
ism.” These same dispatches re
port that “those who can are
moving to the West” and find
their way to refugee camps in
Western Germany.
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Leaders of Atlanta Jewry are laying the foundation for a
determined campaign which they hope will culminate with the
beginning of actual construction this year on a new Jewish Com
munity Center.
A. L. Feldman and Barney Me-
dintz, two veteran campaigners,
have been designated as coordi
nators of the drive by the AJCC
President, Meyer Balser.
I. M. Weinstein has accepted
the chairmanship of the finance
committee.
Ben J. Massell has accepted the
chairmanship of the building
committee. Ix>uis Aronstam and
M. William Bremen have been
designated vice chairman of the
that sufficient cash can be se
cured this year to actually begin
construction.
Mr. alser pointed out that the
Ed Kahn Leaves on Flying
Overseas Tour for U.J.A.
Atlanta’s Ed Kahn is to leave
Friday, "Jan. 16, on an overseas
flying study-mission for the
United Jewish Appeal.
He has been invited by UJA
to join a group of welfare fund
executives from eight other com
munities, including Kansas City,
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Hartford,
Patterson and Buffalo.
The veteran executive director
of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fund, who has guided local cam
paigns during the last two dec
ades and helped in many another
campaign in the South, left the
city Wednesday for New York.
In the invitation, Dr. Joseph
Schwartz, national executive di
rector of the U.J.A., said the
group will fly to Paris where
they will inspect the child care
and other institutions maintain
ed by the Joint Distributon Com-
mttee.
From Paris the group will fly
to Casablanca in North Africa
to study the health and welfare
provisions and programs main
tained by J.D.C. for Jews of
Arabic countries.
The party will return to Paris
and then proceed to Lydda Air
port in Israel. Eight days will be
spent in Israel, Dr. Schwartz ex
plained. There the men will study
the program of reconstruction
and immigrant care maintained
by the Joint Distribution Com
mittee. Included in the tour will
be trips to Malben camps opened
recently to handle the hard corp
groups of seriously ill persons.
Dr. Schwartz said:
“The United Jewish Appeal
feels the group will return to
their communities with beneficial
and constructive perspectives of
the agencies through first-hand
observations on the tour.”
^They will fly from place to
place, in order to spend every
possible moment in pursuing the
purpose of their mission. In this
way, Dr. Schwartz pointed out,
they group will be able to accom
plish in a short period what or
dinarily would take a much lon
ger period of time. The group
will return February 7.
Selection of Mr. Kahn is an
honor to Atlanta, said Frank
Garson, president of the Jewish
Welfare Fund. It is in recogni
tion of the fine work which the
community has done.
Mr. Garson added that the
prospects for a successful Wel
fare Fund campaign in the city
are bright—as they are in many
ED KAHN
... off for Israel
other parts of the nation.
He added that Atlanta was one
of the few Jewish communities
in the nation which did not fall
behind their 1951 record in their
1952 campagns. Atlanta raised
$733,000 in 1951 and at latest re
ports the 1952 figures have ex
ceeded that slightly.
Propertg Seized
BONN (JTA)—An order seiz
ing that property of Jewish fam
ilies who have not returned to
the Soviet-held part of Germany
ist authorities there according to
had been issued by the Coiranun-
information received here. Jew
ish property woirth several hun
dred million dollars Will now for
mally pass into the hands of the
East German Communist admi-
stration.
Want Israels Trade
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A Soviet
Government agency has offered
to sell Israel poultry feed, it was
reported here last week. The of
fer was made through the Israel
Committee for the Encourage
ment of International Trade
which was formed at the recent
Moscow economic conference. It
was transmitted to the Israel
Government, which is studying
it.
500 NEW OFFICERS
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Five
hundred new officers joined Is
rael’s armed services upon their
graduation from an officers’
training school.
I. M. WEINSTEIN
. . . finance chairman
building committee.
This strong group of top lead
ership will press forward the
community’s eight-y earmold move
ment for a center, with two ma
jor phases. »
The first will witness a fund
raising function on January 29,
limited to advance gifts.
Community-wide participation
will be deferred until after the
Welfare Fund Campaign this
spring.
Mr. Feldman and Mr. Medintz
jointly said the goal ofr the cam
paign is to raise $750,000
through one-time pledges to be
redeemed over a three-year per
iod if necessary.
An additional $250,000 is ex
pected to be forthcoming from
the sale of the old J.E.A. site
and from the campaign of the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund.
It is hoped, the two men said,
BEN MASSELL
. . . building chairman
current campaign is an exten
sion of the movement begun in
1945 by the Jewish Educational
Alliance for a new modern cen
ter - for Atlanta.
The $212,000 raised as the in
itial phases of this campaign has
been used to purchase the cur
rent site on Peachtree Road and
to develop the eight and a half
acres into one. of the most com
plete recreational areas in the en
tire south.
The firm of Alexander and
Rothschild has been selected as
architects for the project and
plans have been considered to
make the Center one of the most
outstanding in the entire nation.
Leon Specter, architect and di
rector of the Building Bureau of
the National J.W.B. will be an
early visitor in Atlanta to con
fer with officials on the pro
jected center.
Beth Jacob to Install
Rabbi Feldman Jan. 21
Official installation of Rabbi
Emanuel Feldhaain as spiritual
leader of Congregation Beth Ja
cob will take place Wednesday,
Jan. 21.
His induction fill feature a din
ner meeting in yjtoich all the rab
bis of the community will par
ticipate, according tb David Katz,
Congregation president.
The new spiritsal leader’s fa
ther, Rabbi Joseph H. Feldman,
of Shaarei Zion Congregation in
Baltimore, will be tfae principal
speaker.
Rabbi Feldman began his du
ties with the congregation last
fall, but official installation was
delayed until now.
The ceremony will take place
after a dinner which will begin at
7 p. m. at the Synagogue Vestry
Rooms at 562 Boulevard.
The meal will be prepared by
members of the Sisterhood,
which is headed by Mrs. Morris
M. Ween, president.
Rabbi Joseph Cohen, Rabbi
Harry H. Epstein, Rabbi Tobias
Gefifen, Rabbi Arnold Heisler,
Rabbi David Marx and Rabbi Ja
cob Rothschild will take part on
RABBI EMANUEL FELDMAN
... to be installed
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the program. Sam Rosenberg cf
the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish
Education will also speak.
Rabbi Feldman is a graduate
of Ner Israel Rabbinical Col
lege in Baltimore. He also studied
at Johns Hopkins.