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The Southern Israelite
VOL. XXVIII
Most of New York’s Jewish
Receive No Jewish Education
NEW YORK. (JTA) — There ported by the Jewish Education
are some 270.000 Jewish children j Committee of New York on the j
attending the elementary and: basis of tentative findings,
junior high schools of New York j The survey also revealed that 1
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City, of whom some 18,000 attend there
all-day Jewish schools, it was re-
Southeastern Z. 0. A.
Has New Director,
Helen Schneider
are approximately 76,000 WASHINGTON — The Anti- four-day affair is without pro-
Jewish^ children attending some | Defamation League of B’nai B’rith i cedent in magnitude and national
attention in the history of Jew
ish organizations in the United
States.
type of religious class, with 66,-, . xr
500 attending organized schools, i Friday > N ov. 20, opens its 40th «n
7,500 to 8,000 in released time
classes and 2,000 receiving private
instructions. Between 1935 and the
current survey the percentage of
Jewish children receiving a re-
nual meeting here and before it
ends at least half of America will
know about it.
The League commemorates its
40th Anniversary with a “Free-
ligious education rose from 21.2 to ; dom Forum” including more than
28. | 100 distinguished American lead-
The method of obtaining the ers and an array of celebrities —
number of Jewish children attend- ! from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to
ing public schools is called “The the entire “I Love Lucy” cast —
Yom Kippur Method” because it j climaxed by President Eisenhow-
uses the absence figures on the; er’s acceptance of ADL’s 1953
Day of Atonement as the basis of 1 America's Democratic Legacy
The President will participate
in a combined, four-network tele
cast Monday evening (Nov. 231
that will come from the May
flower Hotel here, where he and
Mrs. Eisenhower will attend the
Anniversary Dinner for ADL giv
en by the Board of Governors of
B’nai B’rith.
computation. The survey is being
carried out by the Jewish Educa
tion Committee with the support
of the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New York City.
Award.
The program concludes with a
coast-to-coast television tribute to
ADL that will be seen by an es
timated 40 million viewers. The
HELEN SCHNEIDER
The Zionist Organization of
America announced this week
that Helen Ruth Schneider will
assume the post of Executive Di
rector of the Southeastern Zion
ist Region. She succeeds Irving
Abramowitz, wTio has been in the
post for the past two years.
Born in Chicago, Miss Schnei
der received her education in the
local schools. She is a graduate of
the College of Jewish Studies and
the American Conservatory of
Music there.
She has been associated in the
Zionist movement with the Zion
ist Organization of America, Jew
ish National Fund, the Chicago of
fices of the Consulate of Israel
and the State of Israel Bonds. She
also served as one of the Directors
of activities for the Conservative
Synagogue Youth Movement in
Chicago. Just previous to her tak
ing the post with the Southeast
ern Region, Miss Schneider was
Director of the New York State
Region of ZOA.
Mr. Abramowitz has been trans
ferred to Syracuse, N. Y., where
he will take up the post of Di
rector of the New York State
Region.
Kaplan Blue-Prints New Set-Up for Jewish
Survival at Atlanta B'nai B rith Meeting
.By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
A blue-print for a new Jewish
community was presented in At
lanta last week by Dr. Mordecat
Kaplan, founder and foremost ad
vocate of the Reconstructionist
movement.
Speaking before several hun
dred persons at a meeting of Gate
City Lodge of B’nai B’rith. Bf.
Kaplan outlined a plan for an or
ganic community, which would:
1— Transcend current lines of
separation.
2— Create Jewish spirit and Jew
ish enviroment without the Ghet
to.
3. Reinterpret religious life and
religion in the light of modern life.
The whole Jewish people, he
said, is now passing through a
very serious crisis and cannot live
without becoming fully united. We
are now a very much dismember-
dividing Judaism into three dis
tinct elements—1 peoplehood, 2
religion and 3 culture.
Appropo of the inclusion of the
Old Testament in the religious
tents of Christianity, Dr. Kaplan
asserted we live In a Christian
culture and we live in the con
sciousness of the Christian more
as Jews than in our own—like a
bone they can’t eject us.
He’ proposed the Reconstruc
tionist movement as the answer to
the disjointed, cumbersome multi
faceted group of organizations
comprising today’s Jewish com
munity.
We must all belong to a house of
Israel that outlasts others, that
transcends classes, parties.
He said Reconstructionism is
analagous to the Zionist move-
ed people - geographically and ment - bul morc embracive. We
must reconstitute ourselves as a
They will be greeted by Philip
M. Klutznick, President, of B’nai
B’rith, acting as host for the din
ner. ADL National Chairman
Henry Edward Schultz will pre
sent the medallion to President
Eisenhower, the tenth American
to receive the award that the
League established in 1948.
The top strata of "Who’s Who’*
in the government — including!
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, Chief Justice Earl Warren
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Mayor Hartsfield Will Report
Nov. 23 On Trip To Israel
Israel and the Middle East will Sol Benamy, chairman of the board
be the subject of a talk by Atlan
ta’s Mayor William B. Hartsfield
which is scheduled Monday night,
Nov. 23, at the Progressive Club.
This will be the mayor’s first re<-
port to his constituents on his re
cent trip, except for a brief inter
view with reporters on his return.
Atlanta District ZOA is sponsor
ing the meeting, which is open to
the public free of charge.
An elaborate evening has been
worked out by Irving Kaler, pro
gram chairman. The meeting will
begin at 8:15 p.m., following a
dinner at the Club at which the
mayor will be guest of officers of
the Atlanta District. Vice Presi
dent Irving Libowsky will lead
and president of the Atlanta Zion
ist Council. Following the meet
ing Rabbi Harry H. Epstein will
give the benediction.
Hartsfield, as president of th®
American Municipal Association
under whose auspices the trip wa®
made, led a study tour of twelv®
American mayors through the Holy
Land and the Middle East, includ
ing stops at Paris, Rome, Athena*
Istanbul, Ankara, Beirut, Damas
cus, Amman, Old Jerusalem, New
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and
Nazareth.
The mayor took moving pic
tures along the route, and If thea®
come back from the printers iA
good shape they will be shown at
, , . .. the meeting along with his factual
the WV guard in presentation!^ Qf what he gaw and heard on
otherwise.
Now the only thing which unites
us is anti-Semitism and that does
not satisfy us, he declared.
This union, he advocated, must
come from within and not from
without v He discussed a Judaism
which allows for diversity in re
ligious beliefs and religious prac
tices. T'tle of his address was
"What It Takes To Be a Jew.”
Judaism, he declared, is more
than a religion. Is it a culture?
I prefer civilization, he continued,
of colors. Miss Beverly Wolff will
sing the Star Spangled Banner,
and the public will join in singing
Hatikvoh. The invocation will be
given by Dr. Herman Turner, pas
tor of the Covenant Presbyterian
Church.
President Dr. Sidney Q. Janus
will introduce honored guests, in
corporate entity. We are not a
race, not a nation. We are a peo
ple, like an enlarged family.
He proposed a constitution for
a world Judaism. Suggesting we
“must renew the covenant and
speak out to the rest of the world
not only as descendants of a peo
ple that was but as one to come.”
We must reorganize the-entire
communal set-up formulating an
organic set-up which would create
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the trip, Hartsfield stated yester
day. “We were greeted by mayor®
and dignitaries in each plac®
visited, and we saw first hand
results of the U. S. aid program,**
he declared. "We visited Arab re
fugee camps, and observed prog
ress in Israel both in resettling re
fugees and in industrial expan-
cluding leaders of Atlanta’s sev- sion.”
eral Zionist groups and Board’ Other mayors on the jaunt wer®
member Bob Travis will introduce W. Haydon Burns, Jacksonville;
former members of the Atlanta ■ John Butler, San Diego; Lauranc®
Executive Council of the Ameri
can Christian Palestine Commit
tee, including George Goodwin,
Glenn Rainey, Dr. Philip Weltner,
Ralph McGill and Heleh Bullard.
The mayor will be introduced by
Gross, Berkeley; John Gibson, Lot
Angeles, Paul Goebel, Grand Ra
pids; Fred Hervey, El Paso; John
Hynes, Boston; Fred Peterson,
Portland; Allan Pomeroy, Seattle;
John Scott, South Bend.
Rabbi Adams Urges Positive and
Vibrant Approach to S. E. Orthodoxy
NASHVILLE — A "positive and
vibrant approach for Jewish Or
thodoxy” was advocated here re
cently by Rabbi Theodore L.
Adams, of New York, president of
the Rabbinical Council of Ameri
ca.
Rabbi Adams addressed a group
of delegates here for the tenth an
niversary assembly of the South
eastern Synagogue Conference.
“In this day and age when
forces of anti-religion and totali
tarianism seem to be spouting
their venom, we must bring the
message of real religion in the true
sense of the word to our youth
and adults so they may be well
fortified to combat these philoso
phies which would deprive them
of the basic rights of man as giv
en by God himself."
He spoke of a "great need in
Jewish life” to “bring the message
of Judaism to all people in each
community.*
Delegates reelected Abraham E.
Rabban, Savannah, as president,
and Harry Stern, as honorary
president. Rabbi A. I. Rosenberg,
of Congregation B. B. Jacob of
Savannah, was reelected chairman
of the Rabbinical Authority.
Seymour ..Kutnor— -of- Memphis
was elected- Norman Robbins, Sa
vannah, was reelected fin. sec. and
recording secretary. Elected vice
presidents were: David Bubis of
Nashville, Area A, consisting of
Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas,
North and South Carolina; George
Human, of Mobile, Area B, Geor
gia, Alabama, Northern Florida
and Louisiana; Sidney H. Palmer,
Area C, Southern Florida.
“Basically the vast majority of
the Jewish people are traditional
in their convictions,” Rabbi Adams
said, adding, "Only lack of under
standing causes them to stray in
to other vineyards.”
He added the majority of young
Jewish men in the armed forces
believe in “maximum Judaism”
but have never had the oppor
tunity of learning “how it could
be implemented in their daily
lives.”
“When these young men return
to civilian life, we must have es
tablished the means by which they
can live as traditional Jews,” he
said.
Mortimer May of Nashville and
Rabbi Alfred Fruchter, of Beth
“El 'Emeth congregation, Memphis,
spoke on “Jerusalem’s Anniver
sary, 3000 Years.” Harry Stern,
Nashville, who founded the con
ference 10 years ago and is honor
ary president, presided.
Mr. May said “The Arab states
are engaging in a process of econ
omic strangulation of the state of
Israel. As part of this, they (Arab
states) are constantly harassing
the borders, making frequent in
cursions which have resulted in
many casualties in Israel and
numerous deaths.
“To protect themselves the set
tlers in Israel have organized cer-
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