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The Southern Israelite
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PRIL 24, 1953
No. 17
Dash Hopes ui Change in Anti-Jewish Line
Irving Goldstein Is New Head
Bnai B’rith Lodges in Georgia
COLUMBUS—Dr. Irving Gold
stein, of Atlanta, Georgia, was
elected President of the Georgia
State Association of Bnai Brith
Lodges at the annual convention
held this past week-end at the
Ralston Hotel in Columbus, Ga.
Dr. Goldstein succeeds Myer O.
Sigal, Macon, Georgia business
executive.
More than 150 delegates attend
ed the deliberations. Dr. Jesse
Trager of Baltimore, Maryland,
District Five, Bnai Brith president,
and Julius Fisher of Roanoke, dis
trict secretary, were the featured
speakers at the banquet.
Hyman Jacobs of Atlanta re
ceived a plaque in honor of “50 as treasurer and secretary.
years of loyal and devoted service
to humanity through Bnai Brith.“
The delegates unanimously
passed resolutions urging the
Georgia State Legislature to mem
orialize Congress to revise the Mc-
Carran-Walter Immigration Act
and urging the United States Con
gress to protest against Soviet An
ti-Semitism.
Other officers elected in addi
tion to Dr. Goldstein were five
vice-presidents; Harvey L. Cohen,
Atlanta; Rabbi Alfred Goodman,
Columbus; Dr. Abe Kamine, Sav
annah; Baynard Jacobson, Way-
cross, and Jules Levine, Rome.
Hyman Jacobs and Arthur Levin,
both of Atlanta, were re-elected
Georgia Governor Gives State Flowers
To Hadassah in Israel Birthday Salute
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)
Spokesman of the Soviet Union
and the satellite states made it
clear beyond any doubt last week
that Moscow’s repudiation of the
“Jewish plot” charges against 15
doctors did not mean any abate
ment of Soviet hostility towards
the State of Israel and the Zionist
movement.
As the United Nations Political
Committee wound up debate on a
Polish item dealing with measures
to avert the threat of war—a de
bate which the Arab delegations
had converted into an anti-Zionist
field day—the Soviet bloc dele
gates, who had soft-pedalled on
the Jewish issue since the Moscow
statement, acted to shatter any
hopes of easement in the Soviet
policy.
Czechoslovakia’s Foreign Minis
ter, Vaclaw< David, took the floor
to make an impassioned defense
of the Slansky trial and to repeat
allegations that Zionism was “a
too of American intelligence’’ and
the Jewish defendants in the Slan
sky trial were “a gang of spies
and saboteurs who had been in the
service of the United States.”
The Soviet attitude was made
clear in the reply of Andrei Vi-
shinsky its chief delegate, to the
statement by Abba S. Eban, of Is
rael. In a bitter and savage com
ment, the Communist spokesman
denounced Mr. Eban’s statement
as “a mixture of slander and pois
onous insinuation.” He would not,
he shouted, “argue with slander
ers" and he declared it beneath
the dignity of the Soviet Union to
reply “to all his fifth.”
A few days previously in the de
bate, Byelorussian delegate Kuzma
V. Kiselev had said that the “fan-
tastic” and “lying” allegations
about supposed racial and relig-
ious persecutions in the countries
behind the Iron Curtain had been
derived from “filthy” sources. The
Soviet people, he declared, con
sidered it beneath their dignity to
reply to such “base slander.”
Polish delegate Stanislaw Shrz-
esezewski asserted that opposition
to anti-Semitism and all forms of
discrimination was an integral and
basic part of the ideology and po
litical principles on which the so
cial system in Poland is now based.
“Naturally,’’ he added, “my gov
ernment had to oppose any outside
interference by the State of Is
rael, or Zionist organizations in
matters concerning the Polish citi
zens.’’
Special to The Southern Israelite
In commemoration of the fifth
anniversary of the establishment
of the State of Israel as an inde
pendent nation on April 20, 1953,
Governor Herman E. Talmadge
presented a bouquet of Georgia
State flowers to a delegation of
the Atlanta Chapter of Hadassah
to be flown to Israel.
In saluting the State of Israel
on its fifth birthday, the governor
praised the noteworthy achleve-
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GEORGIA’S GOVERNOR TALMADGE & HADASSAH DELEGATION
Welfare Fund Nears Halfway
Mark, Men’s Division Hears
SPECIAL TO THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
A large group cheered the news that the 1953 Welfare Fund
Drive was nearing the halfway mark in its goal. This announcement
was made at the Progressive Club Sunday morning when all groups
of the Men’s Division assembled I
for a breakfast report meeting at
which $52,000 in additional con
tributions and pledges was report
ed.
A. L. Feldman and David L.
Slann, campaign general chairmen,
expressed encouragement to the
group and urged that supreme ef
fort be expended to obtain maxi
mum coverage and contributions.
The campaign this year is thus far
running from eight to ten per cent
ahead of the previous year..
Among the encouraging aspects
of the current campaign was the
fact that many of the colonels had
completed their assignments and
requested additional cards for soli
citation. "The spirit of such fine
campaigning left a deep impres
sion on all present,” leaders re
ported. "It proves that Welfare
Fund campaigning is more than
the mere soliciting or giving of a
contribution; rather, it expresses a
concern for others and a dedica
tion to the aspirations and ideals
of Jewish communal life. It re
flects a deep sense of belonging to
a community and a kinship witlk
fellow Jews the world over.”
Jewry in Fitzgerald Area Chart Gala Fete
Sunday in Honor of Israel’s Independence
FITZGERALD —Jewry In this
section of Georgia will assemble I
Sunday for a celebration of Isra
el’s Fifth Anniversary
Appearing on the program will t
be two stars—one from America,,
Molly Picon, and the second from
Israel, a major in the army of the
Jewish state, Sam Neaman.
The two will appear before the j g *
dinner to take place at the Fitz- i El
gerald Hebrew Congregation fa
cilities here at 5 p.m.
Four co-chairmen are sponsor
ing this dinner for South Georgia;
Philip Halperin, H. R. Kiminsky,
Abe Kruger and Charles Harris.
Molly Picon is a noted scross of
stage, screen a radio. She has
toured three continents, singing in
Yiddish, French and Spanish. She
was born in New York’s lower
East Side. She has also appeared
at Johannesburg, South Africa,
where she sang “East Side Sym
phony*’ at a command perform-
Coverall Girls Announce
Mobilization, Sunday, May 3
Coverall Girls of the Women’s Division of the 1953 Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund campaign will “mobilize for freedom” Sunday, May 3,
It was announced Thursday by Coverall Division co-chairmen, Mrs.
George Chait, Mrs. Clarence Feuer, Mr. William Frey, Mrs. Bernard
Howard, Mrs. E. M. Manning and Mrs. Robert Weinstein.
On May 3 the women of Atlanta will be asked to stay at home to
receive the Coverall Girls so that others may not be denied their
freedom. • \ )
They will be asked to help those who are fortunate enough to
escape from the tyranny and oppression of Iron Curtain lands and
reach the free world.
They will be given the opportunity of helping Israel keep it*
gates wide open so that it may continue to receive those who seeks
its haven.
The Coverall Division is working at full steam in preparation for
the May 3rd event and they are anticipating the biggest day in Cov
erall Day History.
FROM CARROLLTON, GA., COMES
AJWF Feature of the Week
Twenty years ago, S. J. Steinbach made a contribution to a n
Presbyterian Mission at Carrollton, Ga., where he operates a de
partment store. The idea of his gift has been reciprocated an
nually since by Mrs. Eleanor. M. Henderson, a friend. Each year
she makes a gift to Jewish work in Mr. Steinbach’s name as a
remembrance of his kindness.
This year, Mrs. Henderson again sent a contribution to Mr.
I Steinbach with the request that he turn it over to a favorite-,
i Jewish philanthropic cause. The gift promptly went to the Jewish
Welfare Fund Campaign and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Steinbach,
one of the co-chairmen in the Women’s Division, called it to the
attention of officials.
This is a most encouraging example of good will, understand
ing and a grateful example of a good deed, announced General
Co-Chairman A. L. Feldman and Dave Slann in revealing the
Henderson gift.
MOLLY PICON
ance.
Her stage career dates from the
H. R. KAMINSKY
time she was five and in the in
terim, she has carved a success
story which can be told in com
parisons. She once filled in as child
parts at 50 cents a kid. At the head
of her own company she commands
$1,500 per week.
Her appearance in Fitzgerald
will be in behalf of the State of
Israel’s $500,000,000 Independence
Bond Issue.
Mr. Neaman is a former liasoit
officer with Field Marshall Vi-
count Montgomery during World
War II. He added further laurels
to himself by his record in his
country’s battle for independence.