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GENERAL LIBRARY
SEP 15 1953
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Established 1952
voi. XXVIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1953
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No. 37
Jewry Ushers in 5714 With High Holy Days
Buildings of Jewish Institutions
Destroyed By Nazis Are Restored
FRANKFURT (JTA) — Jews, rial which was dedicated by the
in Germany yesterday marked the mayor and a representative of the
restoration of a number of Jewish \ Hesse provincial government,
institutions and buildings de-! In the ancient town of Rothen-
stroyed by the Nazis or in air raids burg, near Nuremburg, where no
during the war. Jews live now, the city has re
in East Berlin, a synagogue de- stored an ancient structure known
stroyed by the Nazis in 1938 and as the “Jews’ Dance House.” The
rebuilt within the last four months building, which has been declared
was dedicated. On the site of the a national monument, was built in
former Wiesbaden Synagogue 1209 as one of many meeting
razed by the Nazis in the Novem- places of the “guilds’ ’in the town,
ber 1938 progams, the city ad- It was partially destroyed in an
ministration has erected a memo- air raid in 1945.
The Romances of Jewish Supermen: 3
Ax Amkhu'aw Jkwinii I’iikhh Fkatuhk
Fear for the result of a duel led poet Henrich Heine to legiti
matize his relations by marriage to Matilda Mariat in 1841 as he
didn’t want to leave her to a “dubious widowhood.” Heine’s bride was'
wholly uneducated and Heine sent her to a boarding school to learn
to read and write. When Heine would visit her, in great excitement
she would rattle off history which she had heard for the first time.
In trying to explain this union, the greatest lyric poet of his age,
said, “A more civilized woman would have misunderstood me more
pretentiously.” Her wifely faith was wonderful. Never having read
his books and therefore undazzled by the glitter of his fame, she
attended him unwearily and devotedly through his long illness of j
eight years.
Israel Bachelors
Urge Immigration
Greeting From Eisenhower
Of More Women
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A de
mand that the Israel Government
take measures to encourage the j
migration of Jewish women from I
all parts of the world to Israel was ;
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—President Dwight D.
Eisenhower sent the following greetings for the
New Year to the Jews of America through the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
I am happy to extend my warmest greetings
to all Americans of Jewish faith on the occasion of
made in a memorandum sent the j
Cabinet and Parliament this week j
by a so-called "League for the Do- j
fense ol Bachelors' Rights to i
Marry.”
The memorandum pointed out,
that 52 per cent of the population i
of the country is male and 48 per
cent female. It says that one of the j
reasons that young men leave agri
cultural settlements is a dearth of!
women willing to share their
lives. It also blames thiis situation
for the emigration of men from
Israel. Among other suggestions,
the memorandum proposes that
the government provide cheap
housing for newlyweds.
the Jewish New Year.
Among the greatest lessons your history can
teach, as the world struggles to find its way toward
peace, are the patience and goodwill that have so
frequently seen expression in the thousands of years
of Jewish life.
May this New Year bring to peoples of good
faith everywhere the reassurance that more tran
quil days are indeed near, and that the citizens of
all nations will learn to live together with the un
derstanding and harmony that God-loving people
so fervently desire.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Fire Destroys Jewish ChapeLat Camp Gordon;
Emergency Supplies Rushed In for Rosh Hashonah
L'SHANAH TOY AH TIKOSEVOO
To All Our Friends
from the Staff of
ADOLPH ROSENBERG
GUSTAV OPPENHEIMER
MARGARET MERRYMAN
SYLVIA KLETZKY
KAREN SCHIFTAN
Young Israel Holds
Kinsey Publicity
HurtsPnblicMorals
NEW YORK (JTA)—Emphasiz
ing that he speaks for 50,000
American Jews affiliated with 70
Young Israel synagogues, Pincus
Iseson, national president of the
Young Israel movement, has is
sued a statement deploring the
advance publicity given to Dr.
Kinsey’s book on American wom
en.
“These advance releases and,
judging by them, the book itself
will do incalculable harm to the
morals of adolescents and adults
alike,” the statement says. “A
book of this kind belongs properly
only in the hands of clergymen,
physicians and educators. The lai
ty will see in this book only an
other addition to an already too
extensive pornographic literature
and will infer from the statistics
contained in it justification for
immoral actions heretofore pro
perly condemned.
“Without taking issue with the
scientific validity of Dr. Kinsey’s
findings, we feel that the publiciz
ing ol these statistics instead of
encouraging greater watchfulness
and moral restraint, will have the
reverse effect and result in a fur
ther breakdown of chastity and
the purity of the home life, the
pillars of our American civiliza
tion.
“The danger of this ieport is
amply evidenced by the fact that
many reviewers have stated that
it should become the basis for de
cisive downward revisions of the
American law and moral code,
thus giving sanction to sex license.
Moral standards of necessity are
the goal toward which human
pratices must aim. Their lower
ing will, therefore, lead only to a
further deterioration of conduct,”
the statement concludes.
Hy ADOLPH ROSENBERG
While Army officials hunted a
possible arsonist, Jewish Welfare
Board officials in the Southeast
were galvanized into extraor
dinary action this week to insure
Rosh Hashonah services for Jew-!
ish soldiers at Camp Gordon.
Early Saturday, around 1 a.m.,
a few hours after some 300 Jewish
servicemen concluded their Sab-i
bath Evening Services, the Jew- J
ish Chapel burst into flames and |
burned to the ground. All the High |
Holiday religious items as well as j
the Sefer Torah loaned by a Jew- i
ish congregation at Augusta were j
destroyed.
While Camp Gordon firefighters •
were seeking to extinguish the J
flames at the Jewish chapel, fire j
was discovered at the Catholic j
Chapel.
The Catholic Chapel is located
about a quarter mile from the site
of the Jewish Chapel. Officials
viewed the two fires as two much
of a coincidence to be accidental.
Chaplain Philip W. Zimmerman
told Leon Goldberg, regional field
representative for the J e w i s h
Welfare Board, with headquarters
in Atlanta that the entire supply
of High Holyday supplies as
sembled for the special services
had been destroyed in the flames.
In 1952, the men of Camp Gor
don were excused from classes
and enabled to come to Atlanta
and other central’areas to attend
services. For reasons of scheduling
essential to security regulations,
the men were not excused a full
day for Rosh Hashonah this year.
The Army had instructed Chap
lain Zimmerman and JWB Di
rector Goldberg that the men
would have to report to classes at
1 p.m. but would be excused dur
ing the morning and the previous
evening. It was impossible then
for the men to attend services in
Augusta and return to the post in
time.
Accordingly, prayer books and
other religious material had been
assembled on the post for local
services.
Loan of a Sefer Torah for the
occasion was arranged by Congre
gation A h a v a t h Achim, whose
Rabbi Harry H. Epstein made the
Scroll immediately available. It
was flown to Augusta, along with
other supplies assembled by Mr.
Goldberg from Fort Benning, An
niston and other posts in this area.
It was possible that a supply
of prayer books and other articles
could be secured from head
quarters in New York in time for
Wednesday evening’s rites.
Chaplain Zimmerman mean
while was having supplementary
material turned out on a mimeo
graph.
Many of the Camp Gordon men
and others from other encamp
ment will be in Atlanta for the
Yom Kippur weekend and per
sons having room to put up the
servicemen overnight and to feed
them too if possible have been
asked to register at the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center—Emer
son 4771.
Israels Indebtedness
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s
total indebtedness at the end of
June, 1953, was $397,280,000, ac
cording to Treasury director Pin-
chas Saphir.
Mr. Saphir tqjd newsmen that
$365,000,000 of the total was
owed in United States dollars, and
the remainder in French, Swiss
and Belgian francs and Dutch
florins.
‘I Give You Good Doctrine’
CPL. BERNARD BERMAN (right), of Lakewood, N. J., first
Jewish soldier repatriated in Operation Big Switch, is shown in
Jewish Chapel at Fredom Village taking Torah from hands of
Chaplain Murray I. Rothman to recite “Birchas Hagomel,” tradi- .
tionai prayer of thanks for deliverance from bondage. Chaplain
Rothman, on special assignment in Freedom Village, is one of
seven Jewish chaplains on duty in Korea. Ark and Torah shown
here have been all through Korea, from rear areas right up to
combat lines, and are now in Freedom Village to bring “imperish
able message of wisdom and welcome to liberated Jewish GIs.”