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WIVERSIJY OF GEORGIA
The Southern Israel* 4
A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry — Est^ 1
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VOL. XXX
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1P F '
AUG 27 1933
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NO. 34
Miami Beach To Be Scene
For Regional ZOA Parley
“A Torch Rekindled” is the
theme of the Eighteenth Annual
Convention of the Southeast Re
gion of ZOA to be held in Miami
Beach September 2-5, according
to A. Arthur Pekelmer, chairman.
Mr. Pekelmer, who is presi
dent of the Miami Zionist Dis
trict, announced the convention
officially opens Saturday even
ing in the Delano Hotel with
greetings from Mayor Abe Aro-
novitz of Miami and D. Lee
Powell of Miami Beach. Leo R.
Burson, Memphis, Region presi
dent, will deliver his report.
Sunday’s session will begin
with a Youth Commission break
fast. Election of officers will fol
low in the afternoon, followed
by a Cabana Club Swim Party
at Delano Hotel Cabana Club.
Mr. Pekelmer is a past execu
tive vice president of the West
chester Zionist Region and a past
president of the Jewish Federa
tion of Yonkers.
One of the feature speakers
on the convention program will
be Jacques Toroczyner, vice
president o4 the Zionist Organi
zation of America.
Delegates to the convention wil
be entertained at an Oneg Shab-
bat on Friday evening, Sept 2,
by the Miami Beach Massada
Young Adults. This will take the
form of a reception honoring
those who have presidents of the
districts at Chattanooga and Jack
sonville and Mayor Harold Sha
piro of Miami Beach.
President Burson has appointed
as State and City Co-chairmen
for the Convention: A1 Ballin,
Memphis; Ben Epstein, Charles
ton; Dr. Sidney Q. Janus, At
lanta; Hugo Klein, Knoxville;
Rabbi S. Kling, Greensboro; Sid
ney Mazer, Birmingham; Mrs.
Hannah Kirshner, Nashville;
Robert A. Pcrsky, Augusta; and
Ben Solomon, Charleston.
Atlanta Jewn ^ .
Council Joins N. C. R. A. C.
nmunity
Arabs In Morocco Continue
To Burn Jewish Homes
CASABLANCA, Aug. 22 (JTA)
— An all-out attack on the Jew
ish quarter in the Moroccan
town of Mazagan was carried out
Sunday by Arab rioters as part
of their insurrectionary move
ment against the French admin
istration in Morocco. The Arab
mob stormed the Jewish section
where they burned Jewish homes
and looted Jewish stores.
The Jewish inhabitants, antici
pating riots, had left their homes
a day earlier and sought shelter
elsewhere. There were, therefore,
no Jewish casualties, but damage
to Jewish property is reported
to be very heavy.
Jewish houses were burned
down by Arab mobs also in Safi.
Because of the fact that the
rioters have sabotaged the com
munications lines between Casa
blanca and other Moroccan towns,
it was impossible to get a full
picture of what happened to Jew
ish families in various sections
of Morocco. However, from Oued
Zem it has been reported that
one Jew was among the Euro
peans killed in the riots on Sat
urday. Many of the 252 Jews
living in Oued Zem were evacu
ated Saturday to the Civil Con
trol Office in the town, which
is protected by French soldiers.
of Information and Documenta
tion, said here Tuesday.
Not only Istqlal, Moroccan In
dependence Party, but the Moroc
can people themselves have the
friendliest feelings toward Jews,
Mr. Anegay claimed. He declared
that he had no details about re
ports that, in the current riots
in Morocco, Jewish homes had
been wrecked, shops looted, and
some Jews injured.
"However, we can assure
the world that any unfortunate
suffering by any people in Mor
occo has nothing remotely to <Jo
with anti-Semitism, but is only
the result of the general situ
ation that has been provoked by
the French colonial regime,” Mr.
Anegay said. “We can say ab
solutely that almost never have
Moroccans attacked Jews as
such.”
Barney Medintz, president of
the Atlanta Jewish Community
Council, announced that as a re
sult of the action taken by the
Delegate Assembly at its meet
ing in June, the Council applied
for membership in the NCRAC.
Mr. Medintz stated that he had
been informed by Bernard H.
Trager, chairman of the NCRAC,
that its Membership Committee
and the Executive Committee had
given unanimous approval to the
application. ,
“Atlanta will be associated,”
Mr. Medintz said, “with 33 other
local Jewish Community Coun
cils, in cities throughout the coun
try, working together, in a coop
erative effort, to coordinate Jew
ish Community Relations pro
grams.
“Atlanta will continue its fine
cooperation with the national
agencies which have active pro
grams in this region.
“The Community Relations
Committee of our Council will
carry on its program locally and
will be responsible to the Execu
tive Committee and Delegate As
sembly of the Council for the fin
al determination of its policies
and decisions.
“The Council does not limit its
work to a program of community
relations only. It carries on a
variety of communal activities in
stimulating Jewish leadership in
Jewish education, in inter-organ
izational cooperation, in civic par
ticipation. It publishes a com
munity calendar. It issues the
publication “Together,” as a
means of interpreting the commu
nity, and engages in many other
projects where we work together
voluntarily.”
Mr. Medintz pointed out that
Atlanta’s membership in the NC
RAC should strengthen our pro
gram of community relations. It
will offer us the opportunity of
utilizing the resources and facil
ities of all national agencies
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA) — No Jews or Jewish
property are being attacked or
harmed because of anti-Semitism
in Morocco, Abdurrahman Ane
gay, head of the Moroccan Office
Jewish Services Held
At Interfaith Cathedral
In New Hampshire
BOSTON, (JTA) — The ninth
annual Jewish service was held
August 7 at the Cathedral of the
Pines, an inter-faitb chapel at
Rindge, New Hampshire, dedicat
ed to the memory of American
civilians and military personnel
who died in United States wars.
The Cathedral has been host to
36 religious demoninations, each
worshipping in its own fashion.
At the service itself, a pair
of bronze menorah flanking an
ark were dedicated. Rabbi Albert
Yanow of Brookline, Mass., con
ducted the service while the ser
mon was delivered by Rabbi Ro
land B. Gittelsohn of Boston.
Alex Kaminetsky Is New
Educational Director at A.A.
Max Rittenbaum, Chairman of
the Board of Education of the
Ahavath Achim Congregation, to
day announced that Alex Kamin
etsky has been elected as Educa
tional and Youth Activities Di
rector of the Congregation.
Mr. Kaminetsky has now as
sumed his duties and is available
to serve all parents and the Con
gregation and can be reached at
ATwood 3851.
Mr. Kaminetsky served Tem
ple B’nai Israel, New Britain,
Conn., for 3 years prior to coming
here and was the educationl
director of the Emanuel Synago
gue, one of tfie largest Synago
gues in the East, for eight and a
half years. Mr. Kaminetsky has
been closely connected with the
United Synagogue Youth pro
gram, being the organizer and
director of the Connecticut Reg
ional summer day camp and con
clave for teenagers.
He is the author of a ‘‘Ten-
Year Curriculum” for the Hebrew
School program; a “Teachers’
Bible, Prayer and Festival Kit,”
“Children’s Illustrated Passover
Haggadah" and numerous other
publications. Recently his article
on “The Use of Grouping in Jew
ish Education” appeared in the
National “Synagogue School” ma
gazine. He has also published a
“Guide For Youth Group Work
ers.”
Mr. Kaminetsky was graduated
ALEX KAMINETSKY
from Teachers Institute, Yeshiva
University, New York City, and
holds a secondary Public School
Teacher’s certificate from Hillyer
College, Hartford, Conn. He also
studied at Teachers College of
Connecticut and the Yeshiva Uni
versity Graduate School.
He is married and has two
daughters and a son. The fam
ily is residing at 853 Mentelle
Dr., N. E., Atlanta. Mrs. Kamin
etsky taught Nursery School in
New Britain, Conn.
working in the field of Jewish
community relations. It will give
us the benefit of the experience
of other communities.
“And last but not least,” Mr.
Medintz said, “Atlanta has a real
contribution to make to the field
of Jewish community relations.”
“After ten years of carrying on
a program of community rela
tions, we have exercised our re
sponsibilities of Jewish leader
ship and have taken our place
alongside of other communities
striving to strengthen, by volun
tary association, our democratic
institutions, where all groups can
live in peace and in dignity.”
Sam E. Levy, Chairman of the
Council Community Relations
Committee, in commenting on Mr.
Trager’s announcement about At
lanta becoming the 34th local
member agency of the NCRAC,
said: “It will be the responsibility
of our Committee to keep in close
touch with the activities of the
NCRAC.
“We shall continue to work to
gether with all agencies in the
field of Jewish community rela
tions. Our program will be gear
ed to local needs, and will oper
ate within the frame work of the
policies set by the Atlanta Jew
ish Community Council.”
Atlanta Is 34th
NCRAC Member
The Atlanta Jewish Community
Council has become the thirty-
fourth community agency mem
ber of the National Community
Relations Advisory Council, it
was announced this week by Ber
nard H. Trager, NCRAC Chair
man.
In making the announcement,
Mr. Trager said that approval of
the Atlanta application had been
unanimous both in the NCRAC
membership committee and the
executive committee.
“I know,” said Mr. Trager,
“that I speak for all the other
member agencies of the NCRAC
in extending a cordial welcome to
the Atlanta Jewish Community
Council.
“Atlanta is a major center of
Jewish life in a section of our na
tion that is of great and growing
importance, with distinctive prob
lems and with a distinctive con
tribution to make to the planning
and the carrying out of effective
Jewish community relations pro
grams.
“I look forward to an increas
ingly productive and pleasant
working relationship among all
our agencies, which now number
forty,” Mr. Trager concluded.
In Atlanta, Barney Medintz,
president of the Jewish Commun
ity Council, said in simultaneously
announcing the membership af
filiation there:
“We are glad to join the 33 oth
er local communities and the six
national agencies associated in
this cooperative endeavor to pro
mote good community relations.
Ours is the joint task, along with
others, of helping to strengthen
the forces for democracy in our
land. We must help build under
standing among all groups and
work together for the fulfillment
of our free way of life.”
Sam E. Levy, Chairman of the
Atlanta council’s community re
lations committee also expressed
gratification. In a letter to Mr.
Trager, he told the NCRAC
Chairman:
“You may count on our full
cooperation in making our pro
gram of community relations as
effective as possible.”
The constituent agencies of the
NCRAC are:
American Jewish Congress,
Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish
War Veterans of the United
States, Union of American He
brew Congregations, Union of Or
thodox Jewish Congregations of
Continued on page four
Progress Report: A.J.C.C.
REACHING FOR THE SKY — Steel girders go into place as work
on Atlanta’s new Jewish Community Center building, a $919,000
structure to house this city’s Jewish cultural, educational and
recreational facilities, got off the ground last week. Concrete for
the ground floor and swimming pool have been poured already
and the J. A. Jones Construction Co. is going to work now on the
two upper levels of the building. Meyer L. Balser, AJCC president,
reported that work is running well ahead of schedule.
Meanwhile, volunteer A. J. C. C. supporters, were organizing
a capital funds campaign to insure that the construction of the
new facilities continue without halt. First response to the campaign
have been encouraging and indicate wide community support for
the communal potential which the new Center will meet. Officials
expressed optimism that these volunteers would receive the warm
reception and generous backing which the movement merits.