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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Established 1925
VOL. XXIX
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1954
No. 12
Hunt for Negev Slayers Advance Gifts Dinner Meeting at
Abandoned Near Jordan Standard Club to Pace 54 Campaign
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
search for the Arab gang which
massacred 11 Israeli men, women
and children in the Negev bus
ambush last Wednesday, March 17,
has been called off because the
Israeli, Jordanian and United Na
tions trackers lost the tracks of
the murderers in a wild, rocky
wadi about five miles from the
Jordan frontier, it was announced
here.
Jordanian trackers joined the
UN and Israeli party after the
commander of the Arab Legion of
fered, through the Mixed Armis
tice Commission, to send men to
participate in the hunt. Gen. Moshe
Dayan, Chief of Staff of the Is
rael Army, instructed the Israeli
delegates on the MAC to accept
the Jordanian offer. The Jordan
ian trackers remained with the
party one day until the hunt was
abandoned.
The tracking teams — led by
bloodhounds — had established
before the search was called off
that the gang of attackers had split
up at the scene of the murders
and had retreated in two paths at
Special To The Southern Israelite
The Advance Gifts group of the
men’s division of the Atlanta Jew
ish Welfare Fund, which initiates
the campaign each year, will play
right angles from each other. The j host to a group of invited guests
trackers spent two nights in the
wilderness of wadis and rocks in
at dinner at the Standard Club
Sunday, March 28, at (5:30 p. m., to
the fruitless attempt to follow the j open the 1954 campaign
marauders.
The Israel-Jordan Mixed Armis
tice Commission, to which Israel
complained about the massacre,
met Friday to discuss it, but
adjourned pending the results of
the search. In the meantime, the
commission gave this complaint
priority over a number of other
incidents it had on its agenda.
The massacre of the 11 Jews
has cast a pall of gloom over the
entire country and overshadowed
the traditionally festive atmos-
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Public Invited to Hear Torah Tour
Rabbis in Atlanta Monday, March 29
Two of the nation’s outstanding
rabbis will visit Atlanta next Mon
day as a part of the Torah Tour,
sponsored by the Rabbinical Coun
cil of America.
They are Dr. Israel Tabak of
Baltimore and Rabbi Solomon
Roadman of Louisville, Ky.
The pair will appear on a pro
gram open to the public at 8:15
p. m. Monday, March 29, at the
Progressive Club.
Dr. Irving L. Greenberg will be
moderator of the program, pre
siding during the question and
answer period following the talks
of the guests, which has invariably
been provocative and lively in
other communities, according to
Rabbi Arnold Heisler of Shearith
Israel and Rabbi Emanuel Feld
man of Beth Jacob Synagogue,
W’ho are sponsoring the local ap
pearance.
The Torah Tour, which has been
in operation for five years, brings
a team of outstanding rabbis to
American communities to show the
role basic Judaism plays in modern
times.
Rabbi Tabak, who attended
Yeshiva University in New York
and New York University, is the
author of several books. He is
honorary president of the Rabbini
cal Council, chairman of the Com
mission of Welfare Synagogue
Council of America and rabbi at
Shearei Zion Congregation in
Baltimore.
Rabbi Roadman is a noted
authority on education and on
Southern Jewish cultural patterns.
He is a past president of B’nai
B’rith Ix>dge and Mizrachi in
Louisville and organizer of the
new Louisville Day School.
The dinner will be preceded by
a cocktail hour and reception for
Sol Luckman — a national chair
man of the United Jewish Appeal
and one of the outstanding Jewish
and civic leaders in Cincinnati.
Mr. Luckman has served for
many years as president of the
Jewish Welfare Fund of Cincin
nati. In 1953 he was one of the 44
American - Jewish leaders who
volunteered their services to head-
up the “high command” of the
UJA. Mr. Luckman is one of Ohio’s
foremost civic and communal
leaders and is president of the
leading manufacturing concern in
the ladies wearing apparel field.
In addition to serving as presi
dent of the Cincinnati Jewish Wel
fare Fund, Mr. Luckman also
serves as an officer in many of its
social agencies. He is a member of
the national board of the United
SOL LUCKMAN
...speaks at drive “opener”
Israel Appeal, the United Service
for New Americans and serves on
the board of the East Central Re
gion of the Joint Distribution
Committee. Mr. Luckman has also
served as consultant to the Israeli
government on its economic prob
lems.
Mr. Luckman is an able and elo
quent speaker who knows condi
tions in Israel at first hand. He is
a successful businessman who de
votes much of his time to the
humanitarian causes included in
the Welfare Fund. As a volunteer
who has given much, he believes
that American Jewry has the
opportunity and the -capacity ta
strengthen Israel’s economy, to
help Israel settle 100,000 immi
grants on the land, to enable im
migrants from the tension areas
of North Africa to migrate to Is
rael: to provide food, clothing,
shelter, educational and vocational
training, medical aid to sick, needy
men, women and children in
Europe and North Africa, and to
help in the settlement and read
justment of new . comers to this
country — all this in addition to
the necessary support of the
health, welfare, cultural and re
ligious agencies, both national and
local in scope, in our own country.
The Advance Gifts group of th«
1954 campaign of the Atlanta Jew
ish Welfare Fund is headed by
Abe Goldstein, Ben J. Massell and
Barney Medintz. The president of
the Welfare Fund, Frank Garson,
and the general chairman, A. L.
Feldman and David L. Slann, are
taking active part in the work of
this group.
In addition to the chairmen and
top leadership, those working to
make the Sunday event an out
standing success are: Isadore Al-
terman, Louis Aronstam, Meyer
Balser, M. William Breman, Man
Cuba, Mike Ellman, Lawrence M.
Fox, Harry Harrison, J. B. Jacobs,
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JWV Installation Will Feature
Trager Talk, Levy Citation
RABBI SOLOMON ROADMAN
DR. ISRAEL TABAK
Knoxville Center Announces
Plans for Jubilee Silver
KNOXVILLE — The Jewish
Community Center here this week
announced a seventh-month cal
endar in commemoration of its
Silver Jubilee.
Several events are scheduled
druing April. A “Tween” Party
and weiner roast is scheduled for
April 3 for children 9 to 12. The
following day, a puppet show and
Conservative Synagogues Call
Seminar Sessions in Macon
Conservative congregations from j be host to the seminar, with Isa-
three states will assemble in Ma- ! dore Chanin, congregational presi-
_ : dent, serving as chairman. Rabbi
con on Sunday, April 4. for an all
day seminar.
Theme will be “What Is Your
Synagogue Problem,” Principal
address will be given by Rabbi
Jerome Labovitz, director, Phila
delphia Region, United Synagogue
tof America. His subject will be
{“Overall Planning for Your Con-
regation.”
Congregation Sherah Israel will
clown performance has been set
for four-year-olsters and up. Jer
ry Collins and his orchestra will
play for a free dance for members
on April 11. The Silver Jubilee
bridge tournament will get under
way April 8. A father and son
athletic night is scheduled for
April 6.
During May, Jubilee Sabbath
Services will be held at Beth El
Temple and Heska Amuna Syna
gogue.
A Silver Jubilee Carnival will
be held during June and in July
a family picnic.
During August, a Silver Jubilee
program will be held, featuring
membership election certificates
Rubel,
leader,
Sherah Israel
is co-chairman.
spiritual ] to charter members.
September wil bring
a Yom
Topics of the seminars will be | Kippur Dance with surprise en-
Spotlight on Your Board Meeting, tertainment and October a gi-
Activating Your Membership, the! gantic musical extravangaza with
School Board and Its Function,
Synagogue Administration and
Financing.
Representatives are expected
from West Georgia, Alabama and
West Florida.
a cast of 75.
The series of events will come
to a climax during November with
a finale banquet, presenting a
nationally known comedian and
entertainer.
The Atlanta Post of Jewish War
veterans will honor one of its out
standing members, Sam E. Levy,
on Wednesday, April 7.
One of the community’s out
standing communal and civic lead
ers, Mr. Levy has been active in
behalf of the J. W. V. for the last
fifteen years. He served as presi
dent of the Atlanta Jewish Com
munity Council for two years. He
has been a leader in the Atlanta
Jewish Welfare Fund Campaign
and in many other organizations.
He has been chairman of the At
lanta Funds Review Appeal Board.
For a number of years he was
chairman of the Community Re
lations Committee. He is vice pres
ident of the corporation which
publishes The Southern Israelite.
A veteran of World War I, Mr.
Levy is remembered as a hero who
barely escaped with his life when
the transport on which he was
bound for France was torpoedoed
and sunk.
Sharing honors with Mr. Levy
at the diner meeting, which will
be opened to the public, will be
Bernard Trager, chairman of the
National Community Relations
Advisory Council, who is to be
guest speaker.
Mr. Trager is one of the out
standing leaders in the American
Jewish Community and the J. W.
V. is inviting the entire communi
ty to participate in the banquet,
which will begin at 7 p. m. at the
Progressive Club. Registration
Reservations, at $3 a plate, should
be made with Sam Bredow, Cy
press 3242, or Irving Libowsky,
Cypress 2881. Dr. Marvin Gold
stein, who will be installed as
commander of the Post, urges all
members of the community to join
in the occasion.
SAM LEVY
. to be honored
BERNARD TRAGER
. . . principal speaker
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