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Edward Schultz, (right) national chairman, reads the citation the National Anti-Defamation
League Commission awarded last weekend to re iring member Frank Garson, (center), Atlanta,
Bill Bloom, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Regional ADL Board Chairman, is ahown at loft.
Decade of Progress Parley
Called By Orthodox Groups
NASHVILLE — Tenth conven
tion of the Southeastern synago
gue Conference will be held in
here October 23, 24, and 25. The
Conference is the regional organ
ization of Orthodox Congrega
tions, representing thirty-eight
synagogues in nine southern states
Nashville’s congregation sherith
Israel, the host to the first con
vention in 1943, will have the hon
or of receiving the scores of dele
gates to the Tenth Convention.
Organizer and honorary president
of the Conference, Harry Stem of
Nashville, is serving as chairman
of the “decade of progress” con
vention. Abraham E. Rabhan ot
Savannah, president of the con*
ference, announced that the esta
blishment of the regional organiz
ation for teen-agers will head the
agenda. “I am delighted,” declared
Mr. Rabhan, “that the youth as
sembly is a product of grass-roots
demand. Our children are eager to
meet with those of other com
munities to plan co-ordinated
programs and exchange ideas. 1 *
The Southern Israelites
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OCTOBER 16, 1953
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At U.-J. A. Parley
No. 42
CLEVELAND (JTA) — Checks
totalling $14,973,000 were present
ed here Sunday by Jewish leaders
from various communities at the
final session of the two-day Na
tional Report Conference of the
United Jewish Appeal, giving the
UJA close to 60 percent of the
emergency $25,000,000 cash fund
it is seeking in the last four
months of the year. Sunday’s pre
sentations brought the UJA’s re
ceipts since January 1, 1953, to
$59,526,000.
The conference, attended by
more than 1,000 UJA campaign
leaders, was addressed by Edward
M. M. Warburg, Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, Rabbi Hillel Silver, former
U. N. Secretary General Trygve
Lie, William Rosenwald and
others. Mr. Warburg called atten
tion to the conclusion of the UJA’s
1953 campaign two months hence
when it will have completed 15
years of major fund-raising for
Israel and Jews in other parts of
the world.
Mr. Warburg said that the UJA
“started out as a temporary meas
ure nearly 15 years ago to meet
emergencies brought on by Hit
ler’s oppression of European Jew
ry and today has become a power
of enduring good.” He pointed out
that since January 1951, less than
three years ago, more than $197,-
000,000 has been received by the
UJA. This figure does not include
the sums presented here today. Of
this 33-month total of $197,000,
000, had been madte available for
reconstruction, agricultural devel
opment and allied programs in
Israel, and for refuge immigration
to Israel.
s For
Children While
Parents Worship
The problem of finding baby
sitters need not hereafter keep
parents away from Friday evening
services of Ahavath Achim Syna
gogue.
The congregation is arranging
a story and play hour for young
children during the services in the
Synagogue Vestry Room.
Mrs. Gerhard Spies and Mrs.
Morris Belger will attend the
children and arrange for enter
tainment. according to the Syna
gogue Bulletin.
Of course, the story hour is for
children out of arms and old e-
nough to be occupied with such
pastimes as games and stories.
Southern Governors Urge
Tercentenary Stamp
Five Southern Governors are tribute to our American way of
among the 25 chief state execu
tives on record as favoring the
issue of a stamp commemorating
the American Jewish Tercentary
next year.
They are John. S. Battle, of
Virginia, James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina, Frank G. Clement
of Tennessee, Herman E. Tal-
madge of Georgia and the late
Dan McCarty of Florida.
In his endorsement, Talmadge
declared “The Jews have played
a significant role in making the
United States the unique citadel
of Democracy that it is today.
Such a stamp as you have under
consideration would be a fitting
living as well as to Jewish Ter
centenary."
Governor Clement’s statement
to Assistant Postmaster General
Roberson follows:
“I think it would be very appro
priate for this Democracy to show
its gratitude and thanks for the
contribution made by the Jewish
people to the building of this great
Empire of ours. I would like to
lend my support to this endeavor
and earnestly request that fav
orable consideration be given to
the application of the Committee
for the issuance of a Special Com
memorative stamp in 1954.”
100th Anniversary of Centers
Celebrated in New \ ork
NEW YORK (JTA)
The 200 founders of Jewish Centers
100th anniversary of Jewish Com
munity Centers and Young Men’s
and Young Women’s Hebrew As
sociations in the United States was
observed here last weekend mark
ing the beginning of a six-month
celebration by Jewish communi
ties throughout the country. The
first YMHA was established in
Baltimore in 1854; today there are
345 Jewish Centers and Y’s in the
U. S., with a membership of over
500,000.
Last week’s inaugural event,
which was attended by more than
and Y’s across the nation, was ad
dressed by Judge Joseph M. Pros-
kauer, Frank L. Weil, Irving Edi
son and other leaders of the Jew
ish Center movement, Judge Pro-
skauer has been identified with
the movement for almost half a
century, ever since he bcame a
leader of a boys’ club at., the Ed
ucational Alliance in New York.
At the all-day annual meet
ing of the National Jewish Wel
fare Board’s Budget and Finance
Committee this week-end it was
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Hartsfield Leads Mayors
On Tour 0( Middle East
Atlanta’s Mayor William B.
Hartsfield packed his baggage this
week for a study tour of the Medi
terranean and Middle East Lands
where he will lead a party of fif
teen U. S. mayors and officials.
The Atlantan who is president
of the American Municipal Asso
ciation will leave New York by
Pan American World Airways on
October 18. Sharing the leader
ship of the tour will be Spencer
Irwin, foreign editor of the “Cleve
land Plain Dealer.”
The mayors joining the tour in
most instances have been invited
to go by friends in their respec
tive cities, who desired that their
top city officials have the oppor-
Regional ADL Board lakes Courageous
Stand in Issue of Segregation in South
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
In one of the most forthright the Clarendon, S. C., case,
and courageous actions taken by
Southern Jewry, members of the
Southern Anti-Defamation Board
in Atlanta last weekend approved
a national ADL step against segre
gation.
The decision was precipitated
by a resolution backing up the
national ADL in filing a brief in
The Southerners in previous
years had secured delays in the
national action to present the view
point of their region. This time,
members debated whether they
should stick by a “Southern view
point” and be afraid of what
someone might say or whether to
take an affirmative stand in favor
of the Jewish and Democratic
viewpoint which is for justice for
all people regardless of religion
or race. *
If we are to stand for ideals, one
member said, we must live by
ideals. . . Remember that our fore
fathers too were victims of segre
gation.
The Southern delegates might
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Anti-Defamation League Honors Garson with Citation
tunity to study America’s • role in
the Middle East.
The majors will visit Rome,
Italy; Athens, Greece; Istanbul
and Ankara in Turkey, Beirut in
Labanon; Damascus in Syria; Am
man and old Jerusalem, Jordan;
New Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa
and Nazareth in Israel.
Receptions and meetings with
local officials at these various
places are being planned and it
is expected that the American
leaders will hear the story of
American Technical Assistance in
each land.
They also intend to study the
Middle East refugee problem, the
absorption of some 200,000 reg-
ufees from Bulgaria by Turkey,
inspect the Arab refugee camps;
and observe the miracle of Israel.
The group, sponsors announced,
will be “introduced to the Ameri
can dilemma in the Middle East—
the desire to befriend each nation
yet being rejected for rciprocat-
MAYOR HARTSFIELD
ing the friendship of a rival na
tion.”
Mayor Hartsfield will report on
his trip at a meeting November 23,
at the Progressinve Club.
Husband, Wife Head Fitzgerald
Congregration and Sisterhood
than Kohen, the congregation’*
FITZGERALD—Dick Kaminsky
has been elected president of the
Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation,
which serves Jewish ’ residents
here and surrounding commu
nities.
He succeeds Charles Harris of
Ocilla.
Other officers installed for the
1953-54 term include:
Dr. Morris Kusnick, Alamo, first
vice president.
Meyer Miller, Cordele, second
vice president.
Meyer Caplan, Dublin, third
vice president.
Ralph Edwards, Fitzgerald,
treasurer.
Herb Sackett, Ocilla, secretary.
The officers were installed at a
ceremony conducted by Rabbi Na-
spiritual leader. Wives of the new
officers were presented corsages.
Mrs. Kaminsky, who serves as
president of the Sisterhood wa*
presented with a bouquet of carna
tions. |
Mr. Kaminsky served as presi
dent of his B’nai B’rith Lodge for
seven years. He is a member of
the Georgia Citizens Council and
was selected as Dean of the Gov
ernor’s Teen-Age Safety Confer
ence held recently at Lake Black-
shear, Cordele, Georgia. Thesa
conferences are being held to
promote Safety Education and
Driver’s Training Programs in tha
high schools of the state of Geor
gia.