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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry ' „•< ; shed 1925
VOL. XXX
Jewish Press Service
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JT^ '©O
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No. 30
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On Jews
News Round-Up Contim m Casablanca
The voluminous “Soviet Kit”
released at the UN six weeks ago
and which contained M. Rabin-
owich’s article titled “The Jewish
Faith in the Soviet Union,” in
cluded all the latest Russian pub
lications and some fifty releases
of which Rabinowich’s was one.
Attached to the Rabinowich story
was an article titled “The Status
of Religion in the Soviet Union,”
written by Metropolitan Nikolai
of Kolomna. Explaining “Free
dom” of Religion in the Soviet
Union, Nikolai says that “all re
ligious associations in the Soviet
Union are equal under the law
before the state. Another article
in the “Kit” advocated “friend
ship between Soviet and British
peoples.
As the Big Four Geneva Con
ference wound up in a deadlock,
Senators and Congressmen in
Washington are viewing the situ
ation with calm and without pes
simism. Some of them feel that
the Kremlin leaders made certain
minor concessions to the West.
Tisha B’Av this year fell on
Thursday, July 28. Rabbis and
Cabbalists have always conjec
tured about the strangeness of
this date. They say that World
Wars I and II both broke out in
and around this date which saw
the destruction of the First Tem
ple and then, generations later, on
the same date, the destruction of
the Second Temple by Titus the
Roman.
Max Lerner on “Hildy and the
Finaly Boys:” “I have been wait
ing for the inevitable in the strug
gle over Hildy — for someone to
bring up the subject of the two
Finaly boys. This has now hap
pened, in a story published in
the official Catholic weekly in
Boston, the Pilot, headed ‘EUlis
Case — Finaly Case Reversed.’
Since the Pilot has raised the is
sue, it is best not to ignore it but
to confront it squarely. I don’t
agree at all with the Pilot that
the effort of the Jewish family to
reclaim the Finaly boys from the
Catholic nuns who were bring
ing them up is now paralleled by
the effort of Hildy’s Catholic mo
ther to reclaim her from the Jew
ish family of the Ellises. In the
Finaly case the parents did not
give up their boys voluntarily,
but were sent by the Nazis to
some extermination camp and
burned. Thus it was morally a
curious thing, when they were
claimed by close relatives in Is
rael, for the Church to refuse to
return the boys. Where so many
HOUSTON, TEXAS (JTA) —
The board of directors of the
Jewish Community Center here
has voted to open the Center on
Saturday at 2 p. m. following
a recommendation by a committee
that it do so. The committee had
considered the question of Sab
bath opening for nearly a year.
The Center had opened on Sat
urday at 6 p. m. until now.
•nie reading room, television
room, game rooms and swimming
pool will be open under the new
plan, but other athletic facilities
and the health club will be clos
ed. The committee which recom
mended the move stressed that
youth of the community was at-
had been taken, it was hard to
deprive the Jewish relatives of
two who had survived. More im
portant,” continues the N. Y. Post
writer Lerner, “unlike Hildy Mc
Coy the F'inaly boys were not be
ing claimed for an impersonal in
stitution or an adoption agency.
They were being claimed by close
and loving relatives. The Ellises
have repeatedly said they would
return Hildy if the mother prom
ised to bring her up herself.”
The Danish edition of “The
House of Dolls” by Ka-tzetnik
135633 is now in its fourth edi
tion, having sold some 15,000 co
pies, numerically exceeding even
the sales of the book in its origin
al Hebrew edition in Israel, where
it was a record-breaking best sell
er. The American edition, pub
lished recently by Simon and
Schuster and acclaimed by critics
all over the country, has had two
printings. A glorious commen
tary on the health of the Danish
people, whose record of active
sympathy to the Jews under the
heel of Hitler Germany is second
to none.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses, who
have been meeting in convention
at the Yankee Stadium in New
York, are anti-Zionists and anti
Israel despite their professed
knowledge of the Bible. The
founder of the Movement, the late
Paster Russell, who understood
prophecy well, was a Zionist and
did believe that Israel’s return
to Zion was predicted. The New
Jersey conference of Seventh Day
Adventists have lodged a protest
against the enforcement of the
state’s blue laws. The members
of this movement keep Saturday
holy as the true Sabbath and also
abstain from eating prohibited
foods.
Connecticut’s new Jewish Gov
ernor Abraham A. Ribicoff sur
prises political bosses. “After six
months of Abraham A. Ribicoff
as Governor,” writes Leo Egan in
the New York Times, “Connec
ticut is becoming convinced it
elected a new type of politician
last fall. He has confounded the
Democrats, who nominated and
elected him, by refusing to make
the usual partisan attacks on Re
publicans — or even to answer in
kind when attacked. And he has
disarmed Republicans by his will
ingness to consider their views
and to accept suggestions from
them. Moreover, he has amazed
newspaper reporters and editors
by acting as his own press secre
tary and ghost writer.”
tending various outside activities
during that tin^e period in any
event, and expressed the hope
that some form of “Oneg Shab-
bat” program would be develop
ed wd give the young people a
chance to meet their recreational
needs in a Jewish environment.
At the same time. The Jewish
Herald-Voice of this city printed
a ballot on its front page asking
for a community wide vote on the
question of whether the Center
should open on Saturdays. The
newspaper made it clear that the
vote was in the nature of a pub
lic opinion poll and was not bind
ing in any way on the Center’s
board.
CASABLANKA, (JTA)—
Jews in Cassablanca were
deeply concerned as nationalist
Moslem mobs turned to beating
Jews and destroying their proper
ty in the Old Medina (native
quarter) of this city this week.
All Jewish stores in the Old Me
dina were closed for some time
For the first time, veiled Mos
lem women joined the mobs in
attacking Jews. Both Jewish men
and women were stripped and
beaten by the nationalists. Police
came to the assistance of the Jews
and managed to beat off the mobs
In addition, when small groups
of Jews had to go into the streets
they were accompaihed by young
Jewish guards.
Observers touring the Old Me
dina found many Jewish shops
Nazareth Gets
Water Pipeline
For First Time
TEL AVIV, July 25, (JTA)—
For the first time in history to
day, the inhabitants of Nazareth,
Israel’s all-Arab city, were able
to get frest drinking water as they
needed it.
The city was cut into a main
water supply line of the Mekerol
Water Company, ending “water
less days” in Nazareth. Previously,
water was distributed only week
ly in the city. The project cost an
estimated $135,000 part of which
was borne by the city and part by
the Israel Government. This Spr
ing and Summer the Israel Army
had been trucking in water to
supplement the failing springs
which used to supply the city’s
water.
Turning the valve that linked
Nazareth with the countrywide
water system, Premier Moshe
Sharett said that it was “a happy
occasion to see the inhabitants
of this city heaving a sigh, of re
lief as their toil of drawing and
carrying water in buckets comes
to an end.” He also told his listen
ers that water development “is
the pivot of this country’s de
velopment”
WASHINGTON (JTA) — So
licitor General Simon E. Sobeloff
was nominated by President Eis
enhower last weekend to the Unit
ed States Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Judicial Circuit which
embraces Maryland and areas of
West Virginia, Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina. If
the nomination is confirmed by
the Senate, Mr. Sobeloff will suc
ceed Judge Morris A. Soper, of
Baltimore, who retired on June 2.
Mr. Sobeloff, 62, has served as So
licitor General since February,
1954. He prepared and argued
in part of government’s position
in the historic segregation case in
which the Supreme Court ban
ned racial segregation in the pub
lic schools of this country. Before
becoming Solicitor General, Mr.
Sobeloff was Chief Judge of the
Maryland Court of Appeals, the
first Jew in the history of the
state to hold its highest judicial
post.
and stalls burned down and some
still smoking. The debris from
sacked Jewish stores was scattered
all about. The interpretations of
District 5 and District 7 of
their annual Institutes of Juda
ism.
B’nai B’rith will shortly begin
District 7 is planning three In
stitutes. The first opens August
5 and continues through August
7 at the Tulsa, OkJa.,WesteriT
Village Drivq-In Village.
The faculty includes Dr. Sol
omon Grayzel of Philadelphia,
editor of the Jewish Publication
Society of America, noted histor
ian and lecturer; Dr. Irving Le
vey, director of the B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundation of Princeton
University, known as a world
authority on Greek Judaic era;
and Dr. Marvin Fox, professor of
philosophy of Ohio State Uni
versity, author and scholor.
Following the Oklahoma In
stitute, 1 the Institute faculty moves
to Kerville, Texas, for an Insti
tute from August 8-11, then to
'tafford Springs, Miss., from Autf'
ust 14-17.
Theme and program for the
1955 Institutes, the fifth season
for District 7,is “Great Moments
in Jewish History.” A symposium
on the theme will open the sess
ions' and sponsors report the re
mainder of the course will be de-
RICHMOND,— Rabbi Ariel L.
Goldberg of Congregation Ahab-
ah here has been elected presi
dent of the Hebrew Union College
-Jewish Institute of Religion
Alumni Association.
Rabbi Goldberg, brother of
Rabbi Norman Goldberg of Au
gusta, has served the Richmond
congregation since 1945. He is a
He has long been active in Jew
ish life. He has been president
of the Baltimore Board of Jewish
Education, president of the Balti
more Jewish Council, founder and
president of the local American
Jewish Congress chapter in Bal
timore, a member of the board
and legal counselor of the Asso
ciated Jewish Charities, and an
active worker on behalf of Israel.
To Name Blaustein
Member of U. S.
Delegation to U. N.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jacob
Blaustein, honorary president of
the American Jewish Conlmittee,
will be nominated by President
Eisenhower to the ten-member
United States delegation for the
tenth session of the United Na
tions General Assembly which
opens in New York, September
20, the AJC reported here.
the observers was that the Mos
lem mobs turned on the Jews be
cause they indentify the jews
with the FVench.
vote as follws:
The Rise of Rabbinic Judaism:
Lecture 2-Dr. Grayzel, The Em
ergency of Rabbinic Judaism;
Lecture 3-Dr. 1 Levey, Men and
movements in the Ages of the
Pharasees; lecture 4-Dr. Fox, The
Rabbinic Mind (with readings).
Judaism in the Age of the
Crusaders: Lecture 5-Dr. Grayzel,
The Crusades—A Jey/ish View;
Lecture 6-Dr. Fox, Religious
Thoughts and life; Lecture 7-Dr.
Levey, The Legacy of Medieval
Jewry.
The Emancipation Period: Loo-
ture 8-Dr. Grayzel, Emancipation
Comes to .Western Jewry; Lecture
9-Dr. Levey, Philosophical and
Religious Reaction to Emancipa
tion: Dr. Fox-The Making of the
Modern Jewish Mind.
District 5 will hold a single In
stitute at Little Switzerland, whet
the B’nai B’rith Instntute move
ment started eight years ago.
The faculty for Wildacres In
cludes Dr. Trude Weiss Rosmarin,
noted editor and lecturer; Dr. Na
than Glazer, author and lecturer,
both of them noted authors and
lecturers.
The Wildacres sessions begin
July 31 and last through August
4.
member of the executive board
of the Richmond Ministerial
Association, vice president of the
Richmond Community Chest and
a member of the boards of the
Community F*und and Boy Scouts.
In Charleston, W. Va., where he
led the Virginia Street Temple
from 1929 to 1945, he was a
founder of the Community Chest,
serving as its general chairman
and co-chairman. He also helped
organize the Federated Jewish
Charities and served as chairman
of the Advisory Board to the
State Department of Public Assist
ance. A member of the College
Institute Board of Governors, he
has received an honorary doctor
of Hebrew Letters degree from
HUC-JIR this June.
Elected to serve with him in
the alumni group are Rabbi Sam
uel D. Soskin of Temple Emeth,
Brooklyn, and Rabbi Abram V.
Goodnran of Temple Sinai, Law
rence, N. Y., vice presidents, and
Rabbi Herman E. Snyder of Tem
ple Sinai, Springfield, Mass., sec
retary-treasurer.
Newly elected to the Associa
tion executive board are Rabbis
Richard C. Hertz, Temple Beth
E3, Detroit; Albert M. Lewis, Tem
ple Isaiah, Los Angeles; H. Goren
Peremuter, Beth Zion Memorial
Temple, Johnstown, Pa.; Max
Schenk, Shaari Zedek Congrega
tion, Brooklyn, and Samuel R.
Shillman, Temple Emmanuel, Roa
noke.
Directors Decide to Open
Houston Center on Sabbath
Eisenhower Names Sobeloff
To U. S. Court of Appeals
District 5 and 7 Institutes of
Judaism Open Next Week
IIUC-JIR Alumni Elevate
Goldburg to Presidency