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The Southern Israelite
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GENERAL LIBRARY!
1953
No. 36
Southern Jewry Begins Kosn nauiunu.. Rite^Wedfiesday Evening
Next Wednesday evening,
Southern Jewry along with their
co-religionists the world over will
usher in the New Year 5714.
Throughout the area in scatter
ed communities and in concen
trated areas — wherever — Jews
will gather at synagogues for the
traditional observance of Rosh
Hashonah.
Nearly all the synagogues in the
South will be occupied for the
High Holy Days. Several part-
time rabbis have been engaged to
officiate at congregations with no
spiritual leader the rear round. In
others the regular rabbi or a mem
ber of the congregation will lead
thhe worship into the New Year
5714.
Services have been arranged by
the Jewish Welfare Board for the
men in uniform. At Paris Island,
Capt. Joshua Goldberg, district
chaplain, Third Naval District,
will be on hand to conduct serv
ice for the men. He will remain
through Yom Kippur.
Arrangements will be made for
as many service men on leave as
can to visit in private homes,
particularly during Yom Kippur.
The Armed Services — J. W. B.
committee in Atlanta will seek
registration of available homes
for the men who can make the
trip.
Several new rabbis in the South
will meet their congregation face
to face for the first time during
holiday services. It will be the
first holidays for Rabbi Newton
J. Friedman of Beth Israel in Ma
con. He was officially installed on
August 28.
In Charleston, Congregation
Brith Shalom will see its new
cantor in action at his first local
holiday service. Reverend Aaron
Lieber, fomrerl.v of Degel Israel
in Lancaster, Pa., has been en
gaged as cantor and religious in
structor.
GIs to Observe First Rosh Hashonah
Since Truce On Four Continents
NEW YORK — American Jew- ! Hashonah” were recruited and
ish GIs, some 150,000 of them, will endorsed by the agency’s Com-
assemble on four continents for j mission on Jewish Chaplaincy,
Rosh Hashonah (Jewish New which is composed of representa-
Year) services — the first to be! tives of the three rabbinical
conducted by the corps of Jewish! bodies: the Central Conference of
chaplains since the termination of American Rabbis (Reform), the
hostilities in Korea. Vast quan- \ Rabbinical Assembly of America
tities of religious supplies, litera- j (Conservative), and the Rabbini-
ture and kosher foods for the J cal Council of America (Ortho-
services were dispatched months dox).
in advance to all parts of the Arriving by plane, train, truck
world by the National Jewish wel- anc j jeep, GIs in Korea will come
fare Board (JWB) as the govern- jjew Year services to be con-
ment-authorized agency for serv- ; ducted for them in all corps areas,
ing the special religious needs of w here six Jewish chaplains
Jewish servicemen and hospi
talized veterans. The Jewish High
Holy Days will be celebrated on
Wednesday evening, Sept. 9 and
on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 10
and 11. The Day of Atonement,
which closes the High Holy Day
season, will be observed from sun
set, Sept. 18, to sunset, Sept. 19.
The 350 full- and part- time
Jewish chaplains who will engage
in JWB’s 36th “Operation Rosh
(schooled during the war years in
handling mass services and the
concomitant problems of messing
and billeting) have planned for
Rosh Hashonah gatherings, GI
radio programs and discussion
groups to round out the Holy Day
season for their congregants.
Jewish chaplains will recite the
traditional New Year prayers —
which emphasize the hope that
man finally live in permanent
peace under conditions of brother
hood and justice — at 600 military
posts and veterans administration
hospitals in the U. S. and overseas
The plaintive note of the snofar
(ram’s horn), which will be
sounded by the Jewish chaplain,
or his specially-trained GI as
sistants, will be heard at holy day
services conducted for hundreds
of sailors attached to the U. S.
Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean,
where ships are anchored off the
coasts of France, Greece, Italy and
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A. J. C. C. Drive Approaching 1000
The figure 1000 was being neared in the A. J. C. C. current
membership enrollment drive being conducted by 125 volunteers
under the leadership of Merton Levin. Mr, Levin, at a report meet
ing, urged all vice-chairmen and their committees to finish up
the re-enrollment before the High Holidays.
Meanwhile new members were being re-enrolled by a special
team including Meyer Balser, Barney Medintz, Joe Gerson, Sidney
Herzenberg, Stanford Makover, Lee Meyers and Irving Stone.
President Meyer Balser has urged members of the Community
Center not to wait for a worker to call on them but to send in
their $14.25 for 17 months, immediately.
Mr. Balser added, “There can be no better way of starting
the year 5714 than by re-enrolling in the A. J, C. C.—the year
of the Centennial Celebration of the Community Centers through
out the country.”
ZOA Seek First
World Congress
To Meet in U. S.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The 56th
annual convention of the Zionist
Organization of America con
cluded this week with the re-
election of Rabbi Irving Miller as
president and with the adoption
of a resolution urging that the
next World Zionist Congress
should, for the first time in Zionist
history, be held in the United
States.
In another resolution the con
vention took noteof the fact that
the executive of the Jewish
Agency has before it several pro
posals looking toward its enlarge
ment through the inclusion of non-
Zionist individuals who are con
cerned with Israel’s welfare. The
convention recommended that “in
furtherance of its aims to draw
these pro-Israel elements into its
work, “the Jewish Agency ex
ecutive” should explore plans to
that end apart from the enlarge-
ment of the Agency, through the
appointment of a special commit
tee consisting of representatives
of all Zionist parties, which should
be directed to submit its recom
mendations to the next World
Zionist Congress.”
At the same time, the conven
tion reaffirmed its support for the
strengthening of the American
Zionist Council and the expansion
of its activities.