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VOL XXVIII
A, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1953
No. 35
Express Opposition io nyrnes
As U. S. Representative In U. N.
Atlanta members of the Work
men’s Circle and Jewish Labor
Committee of Greater Atlanta
have urged President Eisenhower
to withdraw his designation of
South Carolina’s Governor James
F. Byrnes to the U. N. General
Assembly.
A letter to the President gave
as reason Gov. Byrnes’ “long and
constant record of opposition to
fundamental principles of human
and equal rights would disqualify
him from serving as a representa
tive of American democracy at
any time.”
The Atlantans added that “the
designation of Gov. Byrnes shocks
us profoundly,” particularly now,
“when world opinion formally as
sembles to seek a democratic solu
tion to the Communist imperialis
tic aggressions in Korea and else
where, Gov. Byrnes blatant iden
tification with the forces of racial
intolernace and human inequality
will basically weaken the other
wise strong position of the U. S. in
these historic deliberations.
“American Democracy must re
main secure in its leadership of
world opinion in this deadly strug
gle with Red Totalitarianism. We
must not allow our strength to be
dissipated in any measure. Gov
ernor Byrnes guarantees only our
vulnerability.”
Nearly Hundred Thousand Jews
Remain In Revolt-Torn Iran
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — There
are still between 80,000 and 100,-
000 Jews in revolt-torn Iran, a
Jewish Agency spokesman re
ported here this week. The fate of
Iran’s Jews has been the subject
of some concern here.
The spokesman pointed out that
nearly 32,000 Persian Jews who
come to Israel since establishment
of the Jewish State. A party of 140
Iranian Jews, who left Teheran
on the eve of the flare-up, was
currently on the high seas ap
proaching Haifa, he reported.
The spokesman disclosed that
the Jewish Agency is now work
ing on plans to transfer 250,000
Jews from French Morocco to
Israel.
It was also revealed here that
the Jewish community of Aden
asked the Board of Deputies of
British Jews in London to seek
intervention by the British Colo
nial Office with the Aden pro
tectorate authorities to -ensure re
fuge in the colony for several
hundred Yemenite Jews now wan
dering in the desert in a desperate
effort to. reach Israel.
Eisenhower Lauds Baruch
At Dedication Ceremony
NEW YORK, (JTA) — High
tribute was paid last week to
Bernard M. Baruch by President
Eisenhower, who interrupted his
vacation in Colorado to fly to New
York to participate in the dedica
tion of Baruch Houses, a $32,000,-
000 Federal slum-clearance and
low-rent housing project on the
Lower East Side named after Dr.
Simon Baruch, father of the
American Jewish “elder states
man.”
President Eisenhower, main
speaker at the ceremony, empha
sized his “deep friendship” for
Bernard Baruch and stressed the
great services performed by him
for the United States. Mr. Baruch,
who celebrated his 83rd birthday,
was also greeted by British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill in a
message expressing personal ap
preciation for the contributions
which Mr. Baruch made
cementing American - British
friendship.
More than 2,600 guests at
tended the dedication ceremony.
In addition to President Eisen
hower, the speakers included
Governor Thomas E. Dewey,
Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri,
Herbert Byard Swope and high
city officials. Francis Cardinal
Spellman delivered the invoca
tion. Bishop Charles F. Boynton
blessed the 27-acre project which,
when completed, will house 2,194
families. Rabbi Bernard J. Barn-
burger closed the ceremony with
a benediction. After the Presi
dent’s address a bronze bust of
Bernard Baruch was unveiled by
his daughter.
Dr. Simon Baruch left East
Prussia at the age of 15 and came
to Camden, South Carolina, where
he later married Miss Belle Wolfe,
a seventh - generation American
girl of a religious Jewish family.
He studied medicine at South
Carolina Medical College at
Charleston and at the Medical
College of Virginia. After his
graduation in 1862 he joined the
Confederate Army as a surgeon.
Bernard M. Baruch is the sec
ond child of Dr. Baruch. He was
born in Camden, but came to New
York with his parents in 1881. His
mother was especially happy over
the move to New York because
there was no synagogue in Cam
den. In New York, the Baruch
family attended religious services
regularly and young Barnard was
taught Hebrew by Dr. Menses, a
Portuguese rabbi.
The New York press oarried
editorials congratulating Mr.
Baruch on his birthday and point
ing out that the housing develop
ment is named after his “immi
grant father.” “These solid and
substantial honors,” says the Daily
News, “are only fitting, we think,
to the character and achievements
of all the Baruch family’s mem
bers. They have given just about
as much to their country as .their
country has given to them. They
are patriots in the finest sense of
the world and they deserve well
of the Republic.”
The World-Telegram, in an
editorial, stated; “Our birthday
greeting to Mr. Baruch carries the
wish that he will live to see more
of his own ideas on public policies
prevail, as he has lived to see his
father’s ideas on health and medi
cine become accepted.”
All-Day School Opens Kindergarten
After Rosh Hashonah: Center as Site
Plans have been concluded for i will be worked out at the next
opening of the Hebrew Academy meeting of the organizational
in Atlanta the first week after group at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Aug.
Rosh Hashonah at the Jewish
Community Center.
The All-Day school will make
its debut with only a kindergarten
class, the Committee of Organiza
tion decided earlier this week.
Additional registration brought
the number of pupils to twenty,
more than would absolutely be
necessary for a class, and officials
hoped that more youngsters would
be added.
It was pointed out that a large
kindergarten would provide an
excellent foundation on which to
add a first grade during the fol
lowing year and “build on from
there.”
Final details for the opening
United States Rabbi
To Conduct Holiday
Services In Madrid
NEW YORK, (JTA) — After an
interval of more than 450 years, a
Sephardic rabbi, a descendent of
the Jews who fled from Spain
during the Inquisition, left the
United States this week for Ma
drid, capital of Spain, to conduct
High Holy Day services in the
Synagogue there.
Not since 1492, when the Jews
were exiled from Spain, has any
rabbi conducted services in Ma
drid, which now has a Jewish con
gregation and a synagogue, it was
declared here. The American rab
bi who will conduct the services
there this Rosh Hashonah and
Yom Kippur is Rabbi D. A. Jes-
surun Cardoza, until recently
spiritual head of the Sephardic
Jewish Center of the Bronx. It is
estimated 4hat 3,000 Jews now live
in Spain, 2,000 of them in Bar
celona.
News Briefs
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A Jew
ish Agency spokesman announced
this week that four more immi
grant camps are scheduled to be
liquidated by the end of this
year, bringing the number closed
in 1953 to 14. At the end of the
year, 71 immigrant villages will
remain in operation.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Sol el
Boneh, Israeli construction co
operative, has received $11,000,000
worth of contracts for work on
North Atlantic Treaty Oganiza
tion establishments in Turkey, it
was reported here this week. The
work will be done in cooperation
31, at the Progressive Club.
Facilities had been proferred by
the Ahavath Achim Congregation,
the Beth Jacob Congregation and
the Shearith Israel Congregation,
as well as the Center. Although
any of these facilities would have
met the requirements, the Center
was chosen in as much as it
would indicate more clearly the
dptachment of the school from
any congregational policy.
Details of personnel, hours,
transportation will be announced
also at Monday’s meeting.
The committee voted expres
sions of appreciation to the At
lanta Congregations for volunteer
ing the use of their facilities.
Bureau Urges Registration at
Community Religious Schools
Advantage of a Jewish educa-| out this week by the Atlanta Bu
tton in helping children develop
their “own inner strength and
emotional security” was pointed
687 Jewish "Returnees" Register
In Fohrenwald D P Camp
MUNICH, (JTA) — A total of
687 “illegal” residents of Fohren
wald, the last remaining camp for
displaced Jews in Germany, reg
istered in the special census or
dered by Bavarian officials, it was
reported here this week.
Those who registered before the
deadline are men, women and
children who left Germany after
the war and have since returned
to it from Israel and other coun
tries. Because these Jews came to
Germany a second time without
entrance visas and residence
permits, they have been labelled
“illegals” by the German officials.
The DP’s come to Germany in the
hope of being able to emigrate
from here to the United States,
Canada or other countries in the
Western Hemisphere.
In an attempt to discourage the
return of the Jewish DP’s, the
authorities have arrested some of
them and deported them. Last
week, faced with the possibility of
further arrests and expulsions, the
returnees held a sit-down strike
in the offices of the Joint Distri
bution Committee until they were
promised that their expulsion
would be held up temporarily.
It is believed that the registered
returnees will be granted legal
status. However, future “illegals”
—returnees who enter Germany
without visas and residence per
mits — will be severely dealt
with, it is expected.
The Bavarian authorities are
constructing a police post at Foe
hrenwald camp, last remaining
camp for Jewish DP’s in Germany,
and a staff of dozen or more men
of plainclothes men will be as
signed to the camp. The “illegals”
who “registered in the census in
cluded a number from various
German, cities as well as those
living in Foehrenwald.
with an American contractor and
the Turkish National Construction | will be based there. In addition
Company.
j it is reported that a large number
Mission Selecting
“Hard Core” DP’s
MUNICH, (JTAJ — A Swedish
mission has arrived here to select
25 displaced “hard core” cases for
medical treatment and resettle
ment in Sweden.
The 25 DP’s all tubercular or
post-tubercular cases, will be tak
en from German or Austrian DP
camos. Together with their fami
lies, they will number about 80.
Resettlement costs and other ex
penses will be borne by the Joint
Distribution Committee, which
also supplies lump sum payments
to help defray the cost of integrat
ing these DP’s into the Swedish
economy.
FIRST WEDDING
IN 25 YEARS
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
The first Jewish wedding to be
held there in 25 years has been
celebrated in Eugene, Oregon, ac
cording to the Jewish Community
Bulletin here.
The ceremony united Rabbi
Sidney Akselrad, of Temple Beth
El, in Berkeley, and Miss Marjorie
Rosenberg, of Eugene. It was per
formed by Rabbi Alvin Fine, of
San Francisco.
reau of Jewish Education in urg
ing registration at the various reli
gious schools of the community.
The Bureau declared “we all
want our children to have every
opportunity and advantage we
may have missed . . . but are you
remembering that your children
are Jewish?
“What will this fact mean to
your children—the fact that they
are Jewish. Will it be a word to
be shouted at them in the streets?
Or a word to be whispered? Will
it be a burden, a source of con
flict, confusion and unhappiness.
Will they be culturally orphaned,
wandering about the face of the
earth rootless and unrelated?
“Or will their Jewishness be a
source of strength and emotional
security, giving your children firm
emotionally roots in the wisdom,
morality and beauty created by
the Jewish people over a span of
three thousand years?
“You can provide this advan
tage of having a foundation for
their lives as American Jews —
which you may have missed in
your own life—by giving them a
modern, effective Jewish educa
tion which will relate their spirit
ual and cultural heritage to the
worl dof today. Insecurity is no
respecter of age or sex. It starts
with the very young and it affects
boys and girls alike.”
These religious schools now are
accepting registrations: Ahavath
Achim Schools, 250 Tenth St., N.
E.; Arbeiter Ring Shule, 250 Tenth
St., N. E.; Beth Jacob Religious
School, 562 Boulevard, N. E.; He
brew Institute of Atlanta, 1140
University Dr., N. E.; Or Ve Sha
lom, 1362 N. Highland Ave., N. E.;
Shearith Israel Religious School,
1140 University Dr., N. E. Temple
Religious School, 1589 Peachtree
Rd., N. W. The Bureau will
furnish additional information at
LAmar 8701.