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No. 43
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NASHVILLE — Orthodox rab
bis and laymen will assemble
here this weekend to commemo
rate the tenth anniversary of the
creation of the Southeastern
Synagogue Conference.
The occasion October 23-25 will
be the tenth convention, in the
community where the first was
held upon the call of Harry Stern,
honorary president, who is serv
ing again as convention chairman.
Congregation Shearith Israel
here will be host to the delegates
who will consider their achieve
ments and projects of the future.
A panel on the day schools In
American life will feature the Fri
day evening forum. On the panel
will be Rabbi Arnold Heisler of
Shearith Israel Congregation in
Atlanta and Dr. Ted Landsman of
Vanderbilt University, head of the
psychology department, and a day
school enthusiast. Moderator will
be Chaplain Zimmerman of Camp
Gordon, Georgia.
Guest rabbis will deliver the
Shabbos morning sermon and
participate in the services. A
reception will follow at the home
of David S. Bubis, Southeastern
Synagogue Conference vice presi
dent.
Abe Cohen is president of the
host synagogue and Mrs. Charles
Beres of the Sisterhood.
Business sessions and committee
meetings are scheduled for Sun
day. Among the national leaders
expected from New York for the
convention are Rabbi Theodore
Adams, president of the Rabbini
cal Council of America; Isidor
IqPI f Israelis Killed in Four Years of Arab Raids,
premier i>en Burion Says in Public Statement
RABBI ARNOLD HEISLER
. . . forum speaker
Margolis of the Mizrachi National
Education Committee, and Rabbi
Harold Cohen, youth director for
Young Israel and Union of Or
thodox Jewish Congregations.
Climaxing the program will be
the Sunday evening banquet in
the auditorium of the Jewish Com
munity Center, with Abraham
Rabhan of Savannah, conference
president, presiding.
Rabbi Zalmon I. Posner is pro
gram chairman for the conference
and Rabbi A. Rosenberg of Savan
nah, Rabbinical Authority Coun
cil chairman.
Rabbi and Mrs. Emanuel Feld
man will represent Beth Jacob
Congregation of Atlanta at the ses
sions.
The explosive Israel-Arab prob
lem this week leaped back into
the world spotlight with these
developments.
1. The United Nations Truce
Commission reported a protest
from Jordan over the raid slaying
of approximately 56 Arab vil
lagers by Israelis.
2. Charges that the raid were
simply examples of brutality were
countered by Premier David Ben
Gurion who said Jordan and
other Arab Countries’ forces had
been breaking into Jewish settle
ments along their borders for four
years and that hundreds of Israeli
citizens had been killed in the
raids. He said his government was
firm in its position that the West
ern powers should judge Israeli
actions concerning security with
the same yardstick they applied to
the Arab nations.
3. Protest by Syria to the United
Nations over Israel’s alleged re
fusal to halt work on the canal and
power dam along the Jordan
River.
4. The Security Council of the
United Stations requested a full
report from U. N. Truce Supervi
sor, Major Gen. Bagn Bennike of
Denmark, who was reported fly
ing to the U. N. seat in the United
States for this purpose.
5. In Washington, Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles an
nounced the withholding of
economic aid to Israel because she
was flaunting U. N. orders. Both
Israel and the State Department
refused to comment on whether
this was a pressure device to force
Israel to conform to policies de
sired by the State Department.
6. Arab countries began the
massing of troops along the border
and Israel was forced to follow
suit.
Meanwhile, a number of war
ships from the U. S. fleet on
maneuvers in the Mediterranean
sailed into a Lebanese harbor on
a goodwill mission.
In his statement Ben Gurion
said the attack on Qibya was car*
ried out by border settlers from
Israel, not regular Israeli troops.
All our appeals to the members
of the U. N. Mixed armistice
commission and our attempts to
an end to the raid crimes which
get the Arab governments to put
have been going on for years have
proved fruitless, Ben Gurion said.
The Arab states, sponsored these
actions directly and indirectly in
order to undermine Israel’s normal
life, he added.
"The patience of some of the
frontier settlements was exhaust*
ed after a mother and her two
children were killed in their sleep
in Yahud village,’’ Ben Gurion
said, explaining why the attack
on Jordan was made.
SOUTHERN ISRAELITE EXCLUSIVE
Augusta Center, South’s Oldest
To Be Honored at JWB Parley
The Jewish Community Center
of Augusta, Georgia, will be hon
ored as the oldest Center in the
South, at the forthcoming .Eighth
annual meeting of the Southern
Section-JWB November 7, 8, 9, in
Miami Beach.
Historic records from the Israel
ite newspaper, dated January 23,
1857, indicate that on January 11th
of that year a group of young
Israel Faces Greater Fight for Survival
Than for Independence, Goldman Tells
Special to The Southern Uroelfte
MEMPHIS — In a brilliant ad
dress at the evening convention
banquet of the Southeastern Zion
ist Region, Dr. Nahum Goldmann
warned Dixie Zionists that the
struggle to consolidate Israel’s
economic independence and bols
ter her in her fight against the
Intransigent Arabs and their fol
lowers will be greater than that
which led to its establishment,
unanimously elected regional
president, Leo Goldberger, treas-
Leo R. Burson of Memphis was
urer, Seymour B. Liebman, chair
man administrative council, and
Harry Jaffe of Birmingham, vice
chairman.
Atlantans elected members of
the council were: Adalbert Free
dman, Joe Benamy, Adolph Rosen
berg, Harry Harrison ,and Dr.
Sidney Janus. Sam L. Eplan, At
lanta, was elected vice president
for Georgia. Bob Travis and Sol
Benamy were re-elected honorary
presidents.
The Regional conference was at-
New York State University
Bars National Freternities
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
trustees of the State University of
New York has ordered all fraterni
ties, sororities and similar organi
zations in state-operated colleges
to sever their connections with
national organizations because in
at least three instances, the na
tion fraternal groups had refused
to permit local chapters to accept
Jews or Negroes as members.
Chapters of 25 national fraterni
ties and sororities on 11 state uni
versity campuses are affected by
the order. Dr. William S. Carlson,
president of the university, said
the "sham and insincerity” of the
national organizations points up
"the futility of relying upon stated
,or .written rather than practiced,
policies.”
“Although they all claim a clean
bill of health and declare that the
organization does not discriminate
. . . unfortunately we cannot take
these assurances, at face value,"-
Dr. Carlson said. He added that
the clauses in constitutions and
by-laws were not the problem, but
“the actual pernicious practices
based upon informal and unwrit
ten tacit understandings.”
“So long as the student organiza
tions areJacal in nature,” Dr.
Carlson said, “the situation is
manageable. But when they in
volve ties outside the university,
over which the university can ex
ercise no fcontrol, serious conflicts
can arise. This is something a uni
versity cannot tolerate.”
tended by a record delegation of
200. Members again passed a res
olution unanimously end o r s i n g
Mortimer May of Nashville for the
ZOA Presidency at the next Na
tional convention
Five hundred Zionists attended
the Goldmann banquet on Sun
day evening, at which reporters of
the major wire services were pres
ent.
Editor Dies
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Menac-
hem Ribalow, editor of Hadoar,
the only weekly magazine publ
ished in Hebrew in the United
States, died here recently from a
heart ailment. He was 58 years
old.
Born in Chudnow, in the Ukrai
ne, he came to the United States
in 1921 and took an active part in
developing Hebrew literature in
this country, soon becoming vice-
president of the Histadrut Ivrith
of America which promotes the
Hebrew language. As editor of
Hadoar, he distinguished himself
in developing the publication in
to one of the best Hebrew-lan-
guage magazines in the world, i
Mr. Ribalow was also Editor of
the American Hebrew yearbook
Sefer Hashanah. He was the auth
or of several books on Hebrew
and Yiddish literature and editor
of an anthology of Hebrew poetry.
He also published numerous art
icles in New Palestine, official or
gan of the Zionist Organization
of Apaerica.
Jewish men, in Augusta, Georgia,
community.
Dr. William Wexler, Raymond
Rosen, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shon- U AQra
field, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Bodziner, * ICSIUCIII Hc<U9
Irwin Giffen, Earnest Siegel and
Norton Melaver will comprise the
delegation from Savannah.
The delegates will devote them
selves to a discussion of the cur
rent trends in Jewish Community
organized an association bearing
the name of “Young Men’s Hebrew
Association.’ 1 -
The Augusta Center is the sec
ond oldest in the entire nation.
Max Estroff, current president
of the Augusta Jewish Community
Center, will attend the Miami
meeting. He will be accompanied
by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Rosen,
Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Shapiro, Mr.
and Mrs. Leopold Mothner and
Artie Bloom.
Several hundred delegates from
Jewish communities in the eleven
Southern States, - between Florida
and Texas, will participate in the
JWB Section Annual Meeting,
which will be dedicated to the
celebration of the Centennial of
Jewish Community Centers. David
L. Slann, Hyman Jacobs, Dr. Rose
Lahman, Jack Chilnick and others
will represent the Atlanta Jewish
Centers, and will set the direction
for Center activity in the South
for 1953-54.
HILLEL HOUSE
DEDICATED AT
FLORIDA U.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More
than one thousand guests were
present at the ceremonies in
Gainesville dedicating the Hillel
House for the University of Flori
da and heard greetings from Dr.
John S. Allen, - University Vice-
President and Maurice A. Wein
stein, president fo B’nai B’rith Dis
trict Grand Lt^dge No. 5. The in
vocation was given by Dr. Donald
D. Michaelson, Director of the
B’nai B’rith foundation at the Uni
versity of Miami. The presentation
of a Torah for use in the new
building was made by Rabbi Jer
ome Kestenbaum, Interim Direc
tor of the Hillel Foundation at the
University of .Florida.
Security Council
President He
Israel Envoy -
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) — Ambassador Abba Ehan
of Israel has called on Ambassa-
dor William Borberg of Denmark,
president of the U. N. Security
Council, to discuss consideration
in the Security Council of the
tension between the Artfb states
and Israel. The head of the Israel
delegation has also consulted other
delegates to the Security Council.
The Israel delegate pointed out
that the incidents of last week are
a regrettable culmination of a long
series of events marked by a
tragic and intolerable loss of Jew
ish life under armed Jordanian
attacks. He pointed out the follow
ing facts:
1. Since the declaration in 1950
by Britain, France and the United
States guaranteeing order and
security in the area, Israel has
suffered at the hands of Jordan
the following losses and damages:
421 killed and wounded; 128 cases
of sabotage; 866 cases of armed
attacks and 3,263 cases of rob
bery. The intensity and violence
of these aggressions have been in
creasing steadily since January,
1953. . •
2. The results of this brutal
guerrilla warfare organized by
Jordan against Israel homes and
villages have taken a tragic toll
on both sides of the frontier, and
Israel’s efforts in July, 1953, to
secure effective intervention of
the powers were unfortunately
without avail.
“In the light of recent state
ments, the question whether the
powers which have submitted the
item to the Security Council feel
compunction or sympathy for
these Jewish dead, as well as for
Arab victims of this frontier
tension, is understandably causing
concern to the people of Israel,*
Mr. Eban said, adding that he has
received instructions from his gov
ernment to present the full ac
count of these aggressive
uom to the United Nations."