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Friday, January 15, 1954
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COLUMBIA COLUMN by Saul Levitsky
Israeli Delegate to United Nations
Makes Several Appearances in S.C.
Report Doubtful About Rebuilding
Eleventh Century "Rashi Synagogue"
Arthur Liverman, a member of
the Israeli delegation to the
United Nations, was in Columbia
on January 12 and 13 where he
appeared on local radio and tele
vision programs and addressed a
gathering of all the Jewish organ
izations in the city.
Liveran is a distinguished stu
dent «f international law and an
able diplomat. He is a deputy di
rector in 'the Israel Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and has repre
sented his country at many other
international conferences.
While in Columbia, Liveran met
with representatives of press and
radio at the home of M. B. Kahn,
who just recently returned from
a trip to Israel. He also addressed
a meeting at the Columbia Minis
ters’ Association and spoke to the
Faculty Club of the University of
South Carolina.
Liveran was born in Germany,
Savannah News
Bar Mitzvah ceremonies were
conducted January 9 at B. B.
Jacob Synagogue for Aaron Malitz
Levy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack M.
Levy, grandson of Mi's. Morris
Siotin, the late Morris Slotin and
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Malitz LeVy.
David L. Meddin was one of 47
students named to the fall dean’s
list at the University of Georgia
where he is a student. Charles D.
Kaufman of Brunswick was also^the convention’s first meeting,
on the list.
Hrs. Harry Silverman and
.daughter Davida, were in Atlanta
recently as guests of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Merlin. They
will attend the fifth anniversary
of the Merlin Family Circle.
attended the Universities of Lon
don and Cambridge, and settled
in Palestine in 1935. With the es
tablishment of the State of Israel
in May, 1948, he was appointed
to the Israeli embassy in Wash
ington, returning home in 1951 to
a post in the Ministry of Foreign
affairs.
The annual New Year’s Eve
dance sponsored by the Akiba
Club, the men’s organization of
the House of Peace Synagogue,
was a successful one, according
to Club President Jake Freed. The
club donated $500 from the pro
ceeds to the House of Peace Sun
day School. More than 200 people
attended the dance.
Leon Ritter of Artie Fur Com
pany spoke to officers wives at
nearby Fort Jackson recently on
“Furs and Their Care.”—Isadore
S. Bernstein was one of the candi
dates in a class of Elks-to-be
which was dedicated to the visit
ing District Deputy Grand Exalt
ed Ruler.—The Columbia B. B. G.
girls won the alma mater song
contest at the recent Southeastern
Regional Convention of A. Z. A.—
Mrs. Sam Reyner of Columbia is
treasurer of the South Carolina
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
and will attend the 30th annual
convention which will be held in
Darlington on January 20. Rabbi
David Gruber of the Tree of Life
Temple will be guest speaker at
WORMS, Germany, (JTA)—Re
ports in the Berlin press that the
ancient “Rashi Synagogue” here,
used by the great Biblical .c<?m-
mentator of the 11th century, is
to be reconstructed have been
established to have little basis in
fact.
Built in 1034, the venerable edi
fice was in constant use as a house
of prayer until Nazi vandgls dyna
mited it during the November
pogroms of 1938. The famed
“Rashi Chair” was later salvaged
from the wreckage, together with
some tablets and a number of rit
ual objects. They are now show
pieces of the local St. Andrew's
Museum, where devout Jews visit
them on occasion. The centuries-
old archives of the Worms Com
munity are also at the disposal of
interested scholars.
Today, however, two old women
are the entire resident Jewish
population of Worms, one of the
three Rhine cities—S peyer,
Worms and Mainz—known and
renowned in the Middle Ages a-
mong Jews everywhere as com
munities of wealth and learning,
distinguished by the Hebrew ab
breviation of “SHUM.” News
paper stories to the effect that the
spokesmen of German Jewry are
anxious to have the Synagogue
rebuilt are not to be taken seri
ously, since there is no chance
Augusta News
Wedding anniversaries this
week—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ar
nold on January 20, and Mr. and
Mrs. Sol Kohn, Sr., on January 22.
Birthdays — Bernard Fleischman
on January 17; Alex Edelsburg on
January 18; Herman Lowe on Jan
uary 20 and Louis Kligman ^n;
January 21.
Dr. and Mrs. Ben Bolgla and
children have returned from Chi
cago, where they visited Mrs. Bol-
gla’s mother, Mrs.
family.
Aiken B’nai B’rith Lodge in
stalled the following officers east
‘Sunday at Kap’s Plantation Room:
James Lyman, president; Martin
Efron, vice president; Lou Lusher,
secretary; Martin Sawllowsky,
treasurer and Nathan Persky,
chaplain.
Directors of the lodge are Max
Efron, Herbert Rudnick and Na
than Persky.
Julius Banks, Columbia psy
chologist, was the principal speak
er.
Mr. and Mrs. Neuman Tane-
baum were official hosts when
the Daughters of Israel held their
Sunday party for USO-JWB at
•the Johns road recreational and
educational building.
Mr. and Mrs. William Sander
IPeiser of San Francisco, announce
the birth of a son on January 1.
Mrs. Peiser is the former Jane
Silver, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
D. Marion Silver of Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Estroff
announce the birth of a daughter
on January 6. Mrs. Estroff is the
former Freda Seriss of Nashville,
Ga.
Brunswick Delegates
BRUNSWICK — Sam Altman,
president of Temple Beth Tefilloh,
Tuchman and j and Mrs. Altman, Judge and Mrs.
Phil Ringel and Rabbi J. D. Spear
will attend the conference of the
S .E. Council of UAHC this week
end in Savannah.
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CHATTANOOGA—Barney Me
dintz, Atlanta, Regional president
of the Council of Jewish Federa
tions and Welfare Funds will
moderate a panel discussion at the
annual meeting of the Chata-
nooga Federation on January 25.
The twenty-fourth annual meet
ing of the group will be held at
Edgewood Country Club, accord
ing to Felix Diamond, chairman.
Subject of the panel will be
“What Shall Federation Empha
size in 1954?” and participants
will include George Berke, Eman
uel Feinluch, M B. Finkelstein,
Herman Lebovitz and Mrs. Louis
Winer.
The meeting will, be preceded
by a dinner beginning at 7 p. m.
Reservations can be made through
the Jewish Community Center.
Louis Winer is president of the
Federation. He has announced that
recognition will be given at the
Federation meeting to the follow
ing committee chairmen: Harry
Levin, 1953 Campaign; George
Berke, Budget; Jay Solomon, Pub
lic Information; Felix Diamond,
Annual Meeting; Henry Morris
and Sam Diamond, Collections;
Mrs. Louis Winer, Social Work;
Rabbi Aaron Walden, Rabbi’s
Itenerant Fund; Mike Edelstein,
Transients; Ben Block, Special
Committee; Harold Gross, Trea
surer; Lawrence Rubenstein and
Henry Morris, Loan Fund; Louis
J. Epstein, Restitution and Indem
nification.
Leaders Renamed
To J. D. C. Board
The following prominent Atlan
ta citizens were reelected to the
Board of Directors of the Joint
Distribution Committee, which is
a major American Agency aiding
distressed Jews abroad: Frank
Garson, Armand May and Abe
Goldstein.
The three of them have been
active in civic and community
work for many years. The election
took place at the 39th Annual
Meeting of the Joint Distribution
Committee held recently in New
York. This organization carries on
relief work and reconstruction
aiding needy Jews in Europe,
North Africa and the Near East
including Israel. Nearly 50 per
cent of its budget is spent on a
program on behalf of the aged, ill
and handicapped newcomers in
Israel.
In Atlanta the JDC receives its
funds from the campaigns of the
Jewish Welfare Fund.
At this annual meeting Edward
M. M. Warburg was reelected for
the ninth successive year as its
national chairman; Moses A. Lea
vitt was reelected JDC vice chair
man and Moses W. Beckelman as
the JDC director-general for over
seas operations.
The meeting was addressed by
Mayor Robert F. Wagner, of the
City of New York.
that a Jewish congregation will
arise again. The Kehillah at
Mainz, which encompasses Worms,
knows as little about such plans
as does the Central Council of the
Jews in Germany.
Shortly after American troops
occupied Worms in 1945, the Mili
tary Governor encouraged the
city’s Custodian of Monuments,
.Dr. Lilcirt, to have the entrangeway
to the synagogue reconstructed
with the original stones that were
still littering the area. He also had
•the ancient cemetery put in order.
The Mayor of Worms is among
those who would like to have re
stored as tourist attraction, this
building, which until its destruc
tion was Europe’s oldest syna
gogue still in use. The total cost
is estimated at 200,000 Marks. His
attempt to secure a good part of
the necessary sum from the state
or federal governments has met
with little success so far.
TEPs Okay Plans
For Student Aid
National adoption of the Tau
Epsilon Scholarship Fund, Inc.,
took place at the national fraterni
ty’s recent convention in Miami
Beach.
Purpose of the scholarship fund,
delegates decided, will be to a-
ward grants, scholarships and aid
in other forms to help boys who
would not otherwise have the op
portunity to attend college. The
scholarships will be awarded on
merit and need with no regard to
race, religion or national origin.
The fund was chartered in At
lanta last summer upon the peti
tion of Frank Constangy, Alfred
E. Garber, Joe H. Gerson, Joseph
Ginberg, Sol I. Golden, Harry
Harrison, Sidney Haskins, Isadore
Hciman, Dr. Teddy Levitas, Ben
J. Massell, David N. Meyer, Otto
Orkin and Lewis Willner.
Representing Mu Chapter from
Emory were Mark Rubin, Richard
Heiman, Alvin Siegel and Robert
Levin, and advisors Sam Bredow
and Mendel Rflmm.
The Emory group won the Louis
S. Leventhal Memorial Chapter
Improvement Trophy. Wesley
Boodlsh received one of the four
national awards for extra-curricu
lar activities.
B. B. G. 330 to Meet
B’nai B’rith Girls, Chapter 33Q,
will have a Mother-Daughter MIT
installation Tea at the home pf
Rita Skott on Sussex Rd. on Sun
day, Jan. 17, at 3 o’clock.
Miss Toby Dwoskin is chairman
of the tea and Mrs. Eleanor Parks,
president of B’nai B’rith Wom|^,
will install officers.
New MITs ace Sue Ellen Epstein.
Susan Fien, Judy Rich, Phyllis
Beck, Madeline Linear and Sherry
Kersh.
Advisors to the chapter are Mrs
Leonard Bagen, Mrs. J^Iike Parvei
and Mi's. H. Schenk.
Havdalah Service
The newly formed United Syna
gogue Youth of the Ahavafh
•Havdalah Services and social 41.
Achim Congregation will sponsur
8 p. m. Saturday, Jan. 16.
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