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The Southern Israelite
for Southern Jewry
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New Phone: Elgin 8249
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NOVEMBER 6, 1953
U. S. Aid Restored
For Israel
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Meas
ures to expedite payment to the
State of Israel of $26,000,000 in
Mutual Security Aid for the first
six months of the fiscal year were
being taken here this week fol
lowing President Eisenhower’s
Council accepted the Israel offer
“with satisfaction.”
In announcing restoration of aid
to Israel, President Eisenhower
said ne had conferred with Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
and *ias delighted to learn that
White House announcement that | Israel had given approval to what
American economic aid to Israel the President described as the
had been restored. \ United Nations recommendations
President Eisenhower moved to! on tl.e water question.
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left the short-lived suspension of
economic aid after a storm of pro
tect hit Washington over Ameri
can prejudgment of Israel on is
sues still to be adjudicated by the
United Nations Security Council.
His move followed, within 24
hours, Israel’s action in repeating
to the Security Council an offer
made in Jerusalem Oct. 31 by
Israeli Foreign Minister M o s h e
Sharett to Major Gen. Vagn Ben-
nike, UN truce chief in Palestine,
to suspend work on the Jordan
River project pending Security
Council consideration of the ques
tion.
Gen. Bennike rejected the Israel
proposal and insisted that Israel
should agree to halt work on the
project until it reached agree
ment with Syria. The Security
Mi. Dulles later announced he
had recommended to the Presi
dent that Israel receive a grant of
approximately $26,000,000 for the
first six months of the current
fiscal year. This, he said, was “the
amount which previously had been
tentatively earmarked for alloca
tion to Israel under the Mutual
Security Act of 1953 in agreement
with Mr. (Harold) Stassen, direc
tor of the Foreign Operations
Administration.”
The President said aid to Israel
was cut off under the policy laid
down by the United Nations. He
said that the U. S. does not want
to prejudice any question before
the United Nations but attempts
to support it in everything.
Mr. Dulles said “definitive ac
tion” in the matter of aid to
KNOXVILLE
KNOXVILLE — Recently elect
ed to serve with Mr. Karesh were
Irving Levkoff, treasurer; treas
urer; Bernard Olasov, treasurer
and Nat Shulman, secretary.
David M. Blumberg, outstand
ing Jewish and civic leader, has
been named to head the 1953
Knoxville Jewish Welfare Fund.
Other officers elected include
Max Morrison, vice president; I.
Rosenblatt, treasurer; Miles Sie
gel, auditor, Melvin Robinson,
secretary, and Milton Collins,
financial secretary.
Rabbi Irving Miller, president
of the American Jewish Congress,
was principal speaker at the kick
off dinner of the fund campaign
on October 25.
Contributors to the Fund have
decided to include the Center
Sunday School in the 1953 cam
paign.
An initial Gifts gathering was
held October 22 at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Popkin.
B’nai B’rith, Hadassah, the Cen
ter, the Knoxville Z. O. A. and
other local groups have pledged
the fullest kind of cooperation in
the 1953 drive.
BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM — The 1954
Israel had been deferred "because United Jewish Fund drive began
of differences between the State of | Sunday, Nov. 1, here with a Men’s
Special Gifts Dinner. Sol Luck-
Israel and the United Nations truce
supervision organization, relating
to a Jordan River water diversion
project. This work recently under
taken by Israel is in part in the
demilitarized zone between Israel
and Syria.”
Georgia Dentists Raise $13,000 in
Drive for Dental School in Israel
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president of the Charleston Jewish
Welfare Fund announced that
$53,000 has been raised to date—•
37 per cent of the goal of $97,000.
A. V. Williams is chairman of
the Women’s Division. Jack Brick-
man heads Division B of the
drive’s organization and Louis
Tanenbaum the General Solicits*
tion division.
man of Cincinnati was guest
speaker. . . Minimum gift was
$500.
The ladies followed suit Mon
day, Nov. 2, with a luncheon Spe
cial Gifts luncheon to hear Luise
Rainer and Dr. Ruth Gruber
Minimum gift was $105.
The drive’s official opener was
Tuesday, Nov. 3, at a community
dinner. John Stanley Gravel and
Joey Adams were guest speakers.
A Koffee Klotch November 4
held in at the Jewish Community
Center set the women’s solicitors
into action.
CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON — Karl Karesh,
Rabbi Wermuth
Is New Rabbi
In Charleston
CHARLESTON — Rabbi Joseph
Wermuth of New York City ha»
assumed duties as spiritual leader
of Beth Israel Congregation here.
He succeeds Rabbi Louis Tuch-
man.
Rabbi Wermuth received his
rabbinical training at the Rabbi
Isaac Elchanan Theological Semi
nary of Yeshiva University, grad
uating in 1945. Subsequently he
received a degree in law from La
Salle University.
He has served as spiritual lead
er of the Jewish Center of Kings
Highway in Brooklyn and of the
Walden Jewish Community Cen
ter in Walden, N. Y.
He has been active in numerous
civic and religious organizations.
He and his wife have a son, Neil
Harris, 3.
Mordecai Kaplan Speaks
In Atlanta Wednesday Nov 11
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AT ALPHA OMEGA BANQUET for erection of a dental school at Hebrew University in Israel were
the above (from Atlanta unless specified otherwise): (left to right) front row. Drs. M. C. Gold
stein, Jack Silver, George Chait, Nathan Blass, Aurom Rubin of Macon, Harry Seldin of New York,
Irving Goldstein, Hyman Zimmerman, Alex Paderewski of Savannah; back row, Drs. A. L. Sanders,
Milton Smithloff, Melvin Weinman, H. M. Davis, T. C. Levitas, Sam Zion, Bert Sobelson, Bernard
Agoos of Augusta and Herschel Isacson. Not in tin picture: Drs. William Weichaelbaum Jr. of Sa
vannah, Joe Glazer, Louis Silver and Victor Halpem.
Jewish dentists in the state of
Georgia have raised over $13,000
for a dental school at the Hebrew
University in Israel.
Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity,
working with the American
friends of the Hebrew University,
has undertaken to raise $300,000
for the construction of this badly
needed school. Contributions have
been received from dentists, re
gardless of their fraternal affilia
tion, and from lay people from all
walks of life.
At a meeting held during the
recent Georgia State Dental Con
vention, Dr. Harry Seldin, inter
nationally known oral surgeon
from New York, here for the con
vention, addressed a group of
Alpha Omegans on Sunday, ,OcL
18, and made a stirring appeal for
funds.
Dr. I. Franklin Miller, promi
nent Pittsburgh dentist, an Alpha
Omegan as is Dr. Seldin, Was in
Atlanta as a convention clinician
also. Dr. Miller spoke briefly to
those assembled and lauded the
Jewish practitioners for their high
standards and concept of ethics.
The next day Dr. Seldin ad
dressed a luncheon group to which
all Jewish dentists were invited.
To further swell the fund, Dr. Sel
din donated his honorarium of
$300 which was given him by the
GDA. The grand total raised at
both meetings was $13,150.
Contributors are divided into
three categories: Founders—dona
tions of $1000 or more: Donors—
over $500; Foster Alumni—up to
$500. Founders of the new school
will have their names engraved
on a bronze tablet, which will
hang permanently in the dental
school, and will receive a certifi
cate. Thus far, Drs. Irving H.
Goldstein, Nathan Blass, H. M.
Davis, Marvin C. Goldstein, A. L.
Sanders, Milton Smithloff, Jack
Silver all of Atlanta, and Alex
ander Paderewski of Savannah
have become Founders.
In the Donor Group are Drs.
Herschel Issacson and Henry
Caplan of Atlanta, Avrom Roobin
of Macon, and Bernard Agoos of
Augusta. These men will be in
scribed in the Donor Book and
will also receive certificates. Fost
er Alumni include Drs. H. S. Zim-
Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, foun
der of the Reconstructionist move
ment, will be in Atlanta Wednes
day, Nov. 11, to address Gate City
Lodge of B’nai B’rith.
His talk at 8:15 p.m. at the Pro
gressive Club is open to the pub
lic, according to Dr. Nathan Blass,
program chairman, and members
are especially invited to come and
bring friends.
Herbert Ringel, lodge president,
described Dr. Kaplan as “one of
the most vibrant personalities in
contemporary Jewish life.”
Founder and leader-emeritus of
the Society for the Advancement
of Judaism, Dr. Kaplan is on the
faculty of Yeshiva University. Mr.
Ringel added, “He is considered to
oe one of the foremost thinkers in
Jewish life today. He is a propon
ent of the clear-eyed approach to
American-Jewish life, not as we
idealistically wish it to be, but
rather as we realistically know it
to be. His thinking is geared to
the American scene and he is
concerned with the reevaluation
of Judaism in this country, the
reexamination of the Jewish or-
merman, Sam Zion, Morris Erbes-
field, Joe Glazer, George Chait, M.
I. Weinman, Ted Levitas, Albert
Berger, Bert Sobelson, Victor Hal
pem of the Emory University
Dental School faculty, and Louis
Silver of Atlanta, and William
Weichselbaum Jr. of Savannah.
Anyone interested in contribut
ing to this project should contact
Dr. Irving H. Goldstein, 514 Grant
Building. Dr. Goldstein is serving
as Southeastern Regional Chair
man. All contributions are pay
able over a three year period.
DR. M. M. KAPLAN
ganization in its communities.”
Dr. Kaplan is in wide demand
as a lecturer and teacher and in
addition is an outstanding writer.
He is the author of “A New
Approach to the Problem of Ju
daism,” “Judaism as a Civiliza
tion,” “The Meaning of God in
Modem Jewish Religion,” “Ju
daism in Transition.” Dr. Kaplan
is editor and translator of Mesillat
Yasharin, one of the Schiff classics
published by the Jewish Publica
tion Society; author of “Supple
mentary Prayers and Readings for
the High Holidays.” He is Chair
man of the Editorial Board of The
Reconstructionist, a bi-weekly
paper published by the Recon
structionist Foundation and co
editor of the New Hagaddah and
the Reconstructionist Sabbath
Prayer Book.