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The Southern Israelite
GENERAL IfPRARY
VOL. XXVtll
MAR 9 195:
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Southern Jewry
CH 6 1953
No. 10
BOSTON (JTA)—Suspension of
the Williams College chapter of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, a
national organization with 115
chapters in the United States and
Canada, for accepting a Jewish
student as a member to be de
veloping state-wide and national
ramifications. The chapter was
supported for violating a constitu
tional restriction -against accept
ing members who are not white
or of "full Aryan blood.'
Rep. Richard D. Caples of Bos
ton introduced a resolution in the
Massachusetts legislature condem
ning the action of the national fra
ternity and asking the House to
“gpplaud” the decision of the Wil
liams College group. At Brown
'University, in Providence, R. I„ the
Phi Delta Theta chapter announc
ed that it would also invite sus
pension by accepting either a Ne
gro or a Jewish studeut, although
it had not done so.
Dr. James P. Baxter 3rd, presi
dent of Williams College, issued
a statement declaring that there
is an “understanding” at the school
that in elections to fraternities and
campus organizations the college s
board of trustees "holds that each
undergraduate should be accord
ed whatever recognition he merits
as an individual according to his
ability, achievement, personality
and character.”
In' New York, Jacob Blaustein,
president of the American Jewish
Committee said, that the AJC com
mends “The Williams College
chapter and the alumni members
who supported by a three-quarter
majority the oction of the Chapter
in pledging the Jewish student.
This action marks a triumph for
democratic thinking on American
campuses. The refusal of the Wil
liams College Chapter of Phi The
ta to conform to the unjustified
and archaic policy of their nation
al organization is in the highest
tradition of Americanism.”
A.J.C.C. to Honor Five J.E.A.
Founders at Annual Meeting
Annual meetmg of the Jewish
Community Center will be held at
5 14 p. m. Thursday, March 12, at
the Mayfair Club.
Theme of the meeting will be
“42 vests of community service—
from the J. E. A. to the A. J. C.
C.,” according to Meyer 3alser,
president.
Mr. Balser will be renominated
for another term of office, accord
ing to a report brought in by the
nominating committee, headed by
Charles M. Bergman
Five members of the original
Board of Trustees of the Jewish'
Dr. Salo W. Baron to Conduct
Annual Seminar in Atlanta
Dr. Salo W. Baron, historian and
author, has accepted an invitation
to conduct the Second Annual
Adult Seminar in Atlanta..
Sessions will be conducted at
8:15 p. m. Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, March 15, 16, and 17, at
Peachtree Manor Hotel, 828
Peachtree Street, N. E.
The event is being arranged by
the Atlanta Jewish Community
Council in cooperation with the
Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Educa
tion.
Dr. Baron is Miller Professor of
Jewish History at Columbia Uni
versity. He is author Of “A Social
and Religious History of the
Jews.” “Nationalism and Reli-
Li. senate Adopts Protest
Resolution Against Persecutions
WASHINGTON—(JTA — The
revulsion which the United States
feels at the Soviet anti-Semitic
policy found expression last week
end in a resolution passed unani
mously by the Senate in a roll call
vote. The resolution, which does
not require Presidential signature
or concurrence of the House, urg
ed President Eisenhower to take
appropriate steps to protest, par
ticularly in the U. N. General As
sembly, against the Communist
persecutions.
The resolution, originally aimed
at condemning the current Soviet
campaign against Jews, was
broadened to condemn Communist
persecution of other minority
groups. This was done at the sug
gestion of the State Department,
which did not u'ish Russia to label
it a pro-Israel document and cir
culate it as propaganda among the
Arab countries. The text of the
resolution reads
“Resolved, that it is the sense
of the Senate of the United States
that the vicious and inhuman
campaigns conducted by the Sov
iet Government and its puppet
governments in satellite states in
Europe and Asia against minority
groups, such as the persecution of
Greek - Orthodox congregations,
the imprisonment of Roman Cath
olic prelates, the harassment of
Protestant denominations, the sup
pression of Moslem communities,
the persecution and scattering of
ethnic groups in Poland. Ifi the
Ukraine, in the Baltic and Balkan
states and in many other areas un
der Soviet domination, and most
recently the increasing persecu
tion of the people of the Jewish
faith deserve the strongest con
demnation by afl peoples who be
lieve that spiritual values are the
bases of human progress and free
dom.
"Resolved further, that the
President of the United States is
Intermarriage in Canada
Reported on the Increase
Educational Alliances in 1910 will
be honored during the program.
These found*-> are Leonard Hast,
Hyman Jacobs. Dr. David Marx,
H Mendel and Mrs. J. E. Sommer-
field.
The full slate of officers chosen
by the nominating committee in
clude: Barney Medintz, A. L. Feld
man and Abe Goldstein, vice
presidents; Max Feldman, secre
tary and Abner Lichtenstein,
treasurer.
Nominated for one-year terms
to the Board of Directors: M. Win.
—Continued on Page 5
gion," “The Jewish Community”
and numerous articles and pamph
lets.
Dr. Baron will discpss, “An Old
People in a New World,” “The
American Jewish Community;
Trends and Prospects;” “Israel
and American Jewry: Their His
toric Interdependence.
Registration subscription for the
Seminar is $5 per person. Due to
limited facilities, registration will
be limited to 100 people Registra
tions should be made either
through the office of the Council,
ALpine 2985, or the Bureau, LA.
8701. Registration will close on
Wednesday, March ll. •
MONTREAL iJTA)—Intermar
riage among Jews in Canada is on
the increase, according to figures
released by the Research Depart
ment Of the Canadian Jewish Con
gress. During the period 1926-1933,
mixed marriages averaged 4.9 per
cent of all marriages in which
one or both partners to the tpar-
riage were Jewish. The corre
sponding figure for the year L944
was It percent and in 1950 1.0.L
per 1,000.
Canada is the only country in
the English speaking worLd for
which official statistics concerning
intermarriage are available. In the
quinquennial period 1926-30 there
were 338 mixed marriages; 193 L-
35 there were 390 mixed marri
ages; 1936-40 there were 562 mix
ed marriages; 1941-45 there were
940 mixed marriages and 1,015
mixed marriages during the years
1946-50
The research department of the
Canadian Jewish Congress also
released data on Jewish birth and
death rates in Canada. The data
indicates that the general trend of
Jewish birth rates in Canada has
been on the increase. The figure .
was 15.5 per 1,000 in 1926 and 19.9
per 1,000 in 1950; there was a per
iod of decrease during the years
1930-1940, when the rate fell to
an all-time low of 12.5 per 1,000
(in 1937).
The Jewish death rate has been
increasing steadily, the figures
show. It was 4.4 per 1,000 In 1925,
and 7.9 per 1,000’ in 1949. The
death rate of the total ppoulation
was 11.4 per 1,000 in 1926, and 8.9
per 1,000 m 1950. The rate of na
tural increase—excess of births
over, deaths—of Jewish population
in Canada was It.I per 1,000 m
1923: 5.9 per 1,000 in 1937, and
12.4 per 1,000 in 1950. The corres
ponding figures for the total pop
ulation were 10.7 per 1,000 in 1920;
9.5 per 1,000 in 1937, and 19.2 p* r
1,000 in 1947.
hereby urged to take approptiata
steps to protest particularly in tha
General Assembly of the United
Nations, against these outrages in
order that the United Nations
shall take such action in opposi
tion to them as may be suitabla
under its Chater.”
Sen. Alexander Wiley, chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, who brought the reso
lution to the Senate floor after it
had been unanimously approved
by his committee, referred to tha
Prague trials, the Moscow attack
on Jewish doctors, and the events
culminating In the Soviet ruptura
of diplomatic relations with Is
rael. The Soviet attack on tha
Jews, he said, was part of a policy
of persecution of all minorities.
These persecutions, he charged,
were aimed at all peoples who
stood for human rights.
“No religion is safe when one Is
in danger,” he declared. “A des
potism that will attack one gorup
today will attack another group
tomorrow." He described the So
viet campaign against minorities
as “genocide.” In discussing the
Soviet-Israel break, Sen. Wiley
said it was not beyond belief that
the bombing of the Soviet Lega
tion In Tel Aviv—the immediate
pretext for the Soviet break—was
the work of Communists. Other
Senators who spoke in favor of tha
resolution were Saltonstatl, Smath-
ers, Murray, Holland and Ives. ,
Southern Leaders Condemn
Vilification by Commies
Jewisn leaders of 16 southeast
ern communities have unani
mously condemned “the accusa
tions and vilifications of the Com
munist-dominated countries of
Europe against the Jews in those
countries, against the Jews in Is
rael and against Jews every
where.”
At a two-day Regional Confer
ence, February 21-22, of the
Southeastern Region of the-Couu-
cii of Jewish Federations and Wel
fare Funds in Atlanta, the Jewish
community leaders warned that
“IsraeL is under attack from still
another part of the world and
Jewish survival is threatened
again.” They called on the south
ern Jewish communities to “re-
dddicate themselves in their 1953
campaigns with new energy to
meet these new dangers and to be
on the alert so that all of our
resources may be mobilized to
ward helping those who may look
to us for assistance, to assist Israel
—Continued on Page 3
Ahavath Achim Congregation Commemorates
Silver Anniversary of Spiritual Leader
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Judaism cannot survive on the negativism of philarrthrophy and
defense agencies, Rabbi Simon G. Kramer, president of the Syna
gogue Council of America, told an Atlanta audience assembled
“American Jewish Life must be
Sunday to honor the twenty-fifth
anniversary of Rabbi Harry H.
Epstein’s spiritual leadership with
the Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
Rabbi Kramer, a childhood
friend of Rabbi .Epstein, asserted
orientated on positive values of
religion—the Synagogue, the rab
bi, the Yeshivas and seminaries."
If we are only to look out of win
dows to see how the world outside
fares, then we neglect the richness
of developing our inner selves.
Around a thousand members of
the congregation and visitors
heard the program. Dr. Irving H.
Goldstein, chairman of arrange
ments, presided.
Rabbi Ralph DeKoven, assistant
A. A. rabbi, gave the invocation.
Cantor Joseph Schwartzman and
the Congregation choir presented
—Continued on Page 5
Retiring President James Permut of Birmingham (left) congra
tulates Barney Mednltz, newly-elected president of the Southeastern
CJJ’.W.F. Looking on is Stanley Meyers, Miami, former national presi
dent of the CJ.F.WF.