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<3r a. bM L GENERAL^RARY APR 18 195c - The Southern Israeliie VOL XXVIII 0x3 ‘8{5 suouq.v ^T3-ic»o jo iC^fsj©ativi Xi'saqjij iper (or Southern Jewry lisked 1925 >RGIA, APRIL 17, 1953 No. 16 Wary Jewry Watches tor Concrete Signs of Red Change At J. W, V. Installation Banquet INSTALLATION—Here are the new and retiring officers of Atlanta JWV Post, No. 118, with their National Commander Jesse Moss at the recent installation ceremonies. Seated are Mrs. Shirley Ruskin, retiring Auxiliary chief; National Commander Moss and Harry Har rison, National Encampment Officer and installation banquet chair man. Standing, left to right, are Irvin Karesh, new Post Commander, Mrs. Myra Medintz, new Auxiliary president, and Coleman Medintz, immediate past post commander. By ADOLPH ROSENBERG It was almost an all-Medintz evening. Coleman Medintz surrendered the gavel as the immediate past commander of the Atlanta Jewish War Veterans. His wife Myra took over another gavel as the presi dent of the Auxiliary of Post No. 112. Coleman’s brother Barney was accorded a citation by the post for outstanding service to the commu nity. But the Medintz-studded pro gram was not the entire show, and other luminaries in JWV activi ties held their own. Irvin Karesh, severely wounded and handicapped during World War II, became the new com mander of the Post. Despite in tense physical drawbacks, Com mander Karesh is a successful business man. He has just been acclaimed one of the 100 young leaders of Atlanta. He has long served the cause of Jewish war veterans and has come up through the ranks to win the post of top man in Post 112. He will have as his aids Dr. Marvin Goldstein, senior vice com mander, Harold Frank, junior vice commander, and Ben Rice, Judge Advocate. It was handsome Jesse Moss who topped the evening. Undoubt edly the best looking president of any national Jewish organization we’ve heard of—male of course, Commander Moss delivered an in tensely thrilling presentation of what JWV means and its signi ficance in the world of civic and patriotic activities. He is a law yer and if his ability is in con sonance with his persuasive and rostrum-side manner, he is in for an even more meteoric career and he already has held the post of Assistant U. S. District Attorney. Pieces of silver were added to the Medintz household in recog nition of the service of retiring Commander Medintz and to the home of retiring Auxiliary Pres ident, Mrs. Shirley Ruskin. Cita tions went to several committee chairmen in both the men and women’s groups. Backing up Auxiliary President Myra Medintz for the coming year will be Mrs. Mack Frankel, senior vice president, and Mrs. Leonard Friedberg, junior vice president. Mrs. Nat Bredosky, is treasurer; Mrs. Max Kobrine, financial sec retary, Mrs. Meyer Rhode, re cording secre'ary. Mrs. Harry Un- ell, Miss Alice Bredosky, chap lain, Mrs. William Horwitz, con- WASHINGTON (JTA) The Soviet peace offensive whirled on this week but Moscow’s pronoun cements and developments within the Soviet Union gave no clue to the extent to which the Commu nist anti-Jewish program had been reversed and what course the Communist would follow, partic ularly with regard to the State of Israel, in the near future. While Jews everywhere wel comed with almost anguished re lief the amazing Soviet repudia tion of the “Jewish plot” charges against 15 Moscow doctors, the Joint Distribution Committee and the Zionist movement, informed sources 'were extremely reserved in the deductions to be drawn from that development. There were strong probabilities that the “Jewish plot” issue first emerged as part of an internecine struggle for power among the So viet titans—particularly between Interior Minister Beria and Pre mier Halenkov. If that were the gensis of what Moscow now ad mits was a frameup, then this new development does not mean any reversal of Communist policy on the Jewish question and on Israel but merely the tactical victory of one of these two Kremlin combat- tants. The Israeli authorities, watch fully studying all phases of the unfolding situation remained rea dy to air the situation of the Jews behind the Iron Curtain from the forum of the United Nations General Assembly. There were hopes that Moscow’s repudiation of the “Jewish plot” would be fol lowed up by Soviet overtures for resumption of diplomatic relations with the Jewish State. No tan gible signs of such an approach, however, were forthcoming last week. Meanwhile, Jews everywhere were pleased and gratified by the severe condemnation by the of ficial Soviet world of the Moscow "Jewish plot” allegations which had been likened to a new “Elders of Zion” libel. The Manchester Guardian, how ever, point out that the Soviet au thorities, in listing the accused doctors who had been released from prison, failed to name two, B. M. Kogan and Y. Etinger. It suggested that perhaps the two men were “no longer among the living” or might be in a hospital recovering from the “impermissi ble methods” of investigation which the authorities said had been used in the case. Great satisfaction was voiced over the complete exoneration of the late Solomon Mikhoels, one time director of the Moscow Jew ish State Theatre and president of the dissolved Jewish anti-Fascist NEW YORK (JTA)—The con tribution of the Jews of America to the task of building the Amer ican nation in freedom was em phasized by President Eisenhower in a message to the national plan ning conference of the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee which concluded its two-day ses sion Sunday at the Commodore Hotel here. The tercentenary cele bration will start next year. “You will be marking an anni versary of signal importance not only to American citizens of the Jewish faith but in truth to all Americans, Jews and Christians alike,” the President saw. “The Jews of America, generation upon generation, have brought to the task of building this great Nation in freedom, a speeial gift. It is that deep and abiding faith of their fathers, that vital element of Judaeo-Christian civilization kept glowingly alive by Jews through out the ages, from the time of the ancient prophets of Israel. Upon the moral truths of this whole an cient heritage, our Nation was founded and has ever lived.” A budget of about $1-000,000 was approved by the conference to cover the cost of various proj ects in connection with the cele bration. The conference elected Ralph E. Samuel as permanent chairman of the Tercentenary Committee, William Rosenwald as secretary and Henry L. Moses as treasurer. The following were elected co-chairmen; Julian Free man, of Indianapolis; Dr. Israel Goldstein, of New York; Irvirtg Kane, of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Committee. Mikhoels had been branded an “agent” transmitting orders from the Joint Distribution Committee to the accused physi cians. An editorial in Pravda, re- Drinted in Izvestia, the official Gov ernment paper, said that a “careful investigation” had established that “the honest public figure of Peo ples Artist of the USSR, Solomon Mikhoels, was slandered.” Mrs. David M. Levy, of New York; Dr. David de Sola Pool, of New York, and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleveland. Dr. Selman A. Waksman, who received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of streptomycin, told the conference that the Jews, who are by nature individualists- and who, because of their background, tend to be idealistic, were in an excel lent position to benefit from and to contribute to a land which was naturally democratic in spirit. “If the Bible teaches us anything, if the history of the Jewish people means anything definite, it is that Judaism, from the very beginning, was a protest against nature wor ship, against star cults, demon worship, empire worship, worship of force,” he said. "It could this not help but embrace the scienti fic concept.” Dr. Waksman declared that one of the fundamental principles in science is to combat “hero wor ship,” a form of idolatry expressly forbidden in the Ten Command ments. He continued: “With that type of background and that at titude, it is no wonder that many Jews in this country should de vote themselves to science, to the search for truth, the seafeh for facts that underlie the secrets of nature.” This ,he said, is true par ticularly in this country, “which offers unlimited opportunities for research, as well as freedom to select one’s career and to pursue one’s calling.” •Dr. Isidor I. Rabi, another Am erican Jewish scientist who won the Nobel Prize, speaking of Am* (Continued on page 6) Woman’s Advance Gifts Unit to Hear Ruth Goldschmidt Eisenhower Lauds Jewry in Helping Build ‘Free’ Nation First Annual Meeting of Jewish Home Will be Held Sunday, April 19 Officials of the Jewish Home have invited the entire community and the membership to the first annual meeting at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Weather permitting, the pro gram will be held outdoors in the newly erected pavilion. In addi tion to brief reports, the member ship will vote on the proposed new constitution and by-laws. Charles Bergman is chairman of the com mittee, which includes Sam Eplan, Mrs. Mendle Boorstin, Joseph Cu ba and Edward M. Kahn. Barney Medintz is chairman of the nom inating committee. • Joseph Erbesfield and chil dren have contributed $1,000 to the Jewish Home to dedi cate a room in memory of Mrs. Rosa Erbesfield. Following the brief formal part of the meeting, movies will be shown In the Srochi Dining Hall. There will also be an exhibit and sale of articles made by the resi dents in the Hobby Shop. Mrs. J. M. RosenfOld and Mrs. Meyer Balser are co-chairmen of the hostesses named by the Joint Committee on Volunteer Services. Ruth Goldschmidt, editor and former overseas correspondent and now Chief of Reference and Re search at the Israel Government Office of Information in New York, will speak at the Women’s Division Advance Gifts Luncheon at the Mayfair Club Tuesday, April 21, 12:30 P.M., it has been announced by Mrs. W. Wm. Bre- man, Mrs* Abner Lichtenstein, Mrs. Philip Schwartz and Mrs. I. M. Weinstein, co-chairmen of the division. >, As an editor and correspondent, Miss Goldschmidt observed the struggle to establish the indepen dence of Israel and its subsequent development. She covered the Anglo-American Committee of In quiry and Zionist Congress in Eng land, and in 1947 was on the scene in Jerusalem to report the United Nations Partition hearings. RUTH GOLDSCHMIDT When the fighting broke out in Israel, she was accredited to the Israel Army as a war correspon dent, and became feature writer and editor of the official press ser vice of the Jewish Agency for Pal estine, and later the Government of Israel. Miss Goldschmidt, raised and educated in England, has witnes sed the struggle of Palestine Jews from Mandate to Independence, and worked closely with Israel’s leaders in the first months of the new state. For the past several years she has interpreted Israel to the Am erican public in her official ca pacity and on lecture platforms throughout the U. S. She also has been heard every week on a New York radio station in a series of broadcasts covering “Life in Is rael Today.”