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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
The Southern Israelite
OCT 10'W 55
LIBRARIES
Harry Kosansky Named New
Sou. Zionist Youth Director
VOL. XXX
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7,
NO. 40
National T. E. P. Fraternity
Elects Heiman Grand Consul
by Adolph Rosenberg
Isadore Heiman this week was
busy scanning the national hori
zon in behalf of his college so
cial fraternity — Tau Epsilon
Phi.
The national TEPS at their
Washington convention selected
him from several thousand alum
ni for their highest post — na
tional Grand Consul.
None who has Watched this
dynamo of energy is surprised.
He originated and promoted the
Tau Epsilon Phi Scholarship and
Student Aid Fund.
For 36 years, he had been out
standing in the fraternity, being
one of the founders of the Emory
Chapter and long active in its
work and in behalf of the fra
ternity elsewhere.
Nor is his enthusiasm confined
to TEP. Since the age of 21, he
has been a member of the Board
of Trustees of Ahavath Achim
Congregation in Atlanta, serving
as treasurer • for many years.
A veteran of World War T, he
was one of the founders of the
Jewish War Veterans Post 112 in
his community and served in
many of its top offices. He was
given the group’s distinguished
service award only a few months
ago.
Among his other wide interests,
indicated by the offices he holds
and his associations, are past
master of Fulton Masonic Lodge,
Blood Procurement chairman for
Quarterly Drives of the Red
Cross Blook Bank, director and
trustee Atlanta Masonic Temple
Co., American Legion, 40 and 8,
National Regional Chairman Ser
vice ' Officer Committee Jewish
War Veterans, Member of the
board of Jewish Welfare Fund—
and others.
He is also prominent in local
business circles, being a partner
of the Star Provision Company
and president of the United
Egypt's Bid ^.umunist Arms
Alarms Israeli, U. S. Diplomats
Egypt threw a bomb shell in
the Middle East security pro
gram with her announcement she
would receive arms from Soviet
Russia, via an arms-for-cotton
exchange with Czechoslovakia.
The decision set into motion a
series of counter developments in
which Israel found herself hope
lessly involved.
As long as arms could come
from the United States, there
was always the possibility there
would be preserved a certain bal
ance.
With Soviet Russia in the sad
dle, this possibility was ruled out
and there remains the threat she
would take advantage of Egypt’s
friendship for creation of bases
for her own use.
The , Israeli cabinet, meeting
Monday, decided to acquire what
ever arms are needed to main
tain a balance of armaments
with Egypt.
In the meanwhile the U. S. is
offering war munitions to Syria
through a reimbursible military
aid agreement in an attempt to
prevent Syria from negotiating an
arms deal with the Soviet bloc
similar to the arrangements made
by Egypt with Czechoslovakia.
In Washington, Israel Ambas
sador Abba Eban made a public
plea on the “Meet the Press”
Program for the U. S. to arm his
country as Egypt is armed by
Communist lands.
Mr. Eban, who noted that
Israel is continuing to ask for
American guarantees as well as
arms, opposed the idea that it
would be better for the U. S. to
arm the Arab states rather than
permit the Communist bloc, to do
so. This would mean that all the
Arab states would have to do to
obtain arms would be to threaten
to accept them from the Com
munists.
Mr. Eban denied that Israel had
more arms than all the Arab
states together. He noted that
Israel was prepared to make
peace, which Egypt was not. At
the same time, he stressed that
Israel would not sit “like a rabbit
to allow the snake to get big
enough to devour it.” The Israel
envoy spent an hour and a
quarter in conference with Sec
retary of State John Foster Dulles
last Friday discussing the Egypt
ian arms situation.
I. Ileiman
Butchers Abattoir, Inc.
Two other Atlantans were also
honored at the convention. Joe
Gerson was elected national sec
retary of the Grand Council and
Mendel Romm Jr., was named
member-at-large.
Durham Mayor E. J. Evans
presided at the presentation of
the fraternity’s “Man of the
Year” Awards to alumni Stanley
C. Meyers and Max Orovitz of
Miami for outstanding com
munity contributions.
Biennial Convention
Of United Synagogue
NEW YORK—“Creating a Cli
mate for Jewish Living” will be
the theme of the United Syna
gogue Biennial Convention at Ki-
amesha Lake, N.Y., from Nov.
13-17.
The convention at Concord
Hotel will be preceded by a Torah
Institute, beginning Nov. 11 under
sponsorship of the National Aca
demy for Adult Jewish Studies.
South Carolina U J A Parley
Set for Oct. 16 in Charleston
CHARLESTON—Colonel Katriel
P. Salmon, Israel’s Military,
Naval and Air Attache in the
United States and Canada and an
outstanding war hero, will be
principal speaker at the South
Carolina Regional Conference of
the United Jewish Appeal at the
Francis Marion Hotel in Charles
ton, Sunday, October 16, it was
announced by Sylvan Rosen,
Mayor of Georgetown, who is
serving as the Conference Chair
man and UJA State Chairman.
His Conference Co-Chairmen are
M. B. Kahn of Columbia and
Henry Yaschik of Charleston.
Colonel Salmon will speak on,
‘‘Israel, Outpost of Democracy.”
An outstanding Israel war
hero, Colonel Salmon was an of
ficer in the Haganah, the self-
defense organization of the Jew-
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To New Synagogue
ish community of Palestine prior
to the establishment of the new
state. In 1941, Colonel Salmon
joined the British Army and saw
action in the famous African des
ert campaign. Later, he served
with the Jewish Brigade in Italy,
Belgium, and Holland.
In 1948, during Israel’s War of
Liberation, Colonel Salmon be
came Commander of an artillery
regiment. Upon recovery from
wounds sustained in action, he
was appointed to the General
Staff of the Israel Defense
Forces.
Between 1950 and 1954, Colonel
Salmon served as Israel’s Mili
tary, *Naval and Air Attache in
the United Kingdom. He was ap
pointed to his present post in
the United States in September,
1954.
Colonel Salmon was born in
Jerusalem in 1914. His family,
one of the oldest in the country,
settled in Israel over 160 years
ago and has made notable contri
butions to the country’s develop
ment. Colonel Salmon’s great
grandfather, Joel Moshe Salmon,
introduced the first Hebrew news
paper and printing press into the
country and was a founder of
Petach Tikvah, the first modern
Jewish settlement established in
Palestine.
Colonel Salmon is a graduate of
the London School of Economics.
The conference will begin with
a morning session at 10:00 a.m.
A luncheon and afternoon session
will follow. There will be no
solicitation of funds.
Turkey Sorry Jews
Were Victimized In
Anti-Greek Riots
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Turkish legation in Israel has ex
pressed the Turkish Govern
ment’s regrets that Jews were
molested during the recent anti-
Greek riots in many Turkish
cities, it was learned here.
The Turkish Government, the
legation said, assures Israel that
there is no intention nor tend
ency to affect in any form the
security or rights of Turkish
Jews. At the same time, the
Legation drew the attention of
the Israel Government to a Turk
ish Government station explain
ing the background of the riots,
which began in reaction to Greek
demands that Cyprus be returned
to Greece.
Harry Kosansky was recently
elected Director of the Southern
Zionist Youth Commission ac
cording to an announcement made
by Mrs. Herman Klausner, Chair
man, and Mr. Maurice Pilsk, Co-
chairman.
Mr. Kosansky attended Long
Island University and Brooklyn
College, from which he received
his B. A. Degree, with a major
in sociology and psychology. He
recently received his Masters De
gree at the School of Social Work
of Wayne University, having also
studied in the graduate depart
ment of community organization
at Yeshiva University.
A graduate of the Herzliah He
brew High School, Mr. Kosan
sky attended the Herzliah Teach
ers Academy for one year and
comes to us with a knowledge of
Jewish life. He has a reading,
writing and speaking knowledge
of Hebrew and Yiddish.
Harry Kosansky is a member
of Young Israel of Brooklyn and
the American Association of
Group Workers. He has worked
. in a supervisory capacity with
the Hillel Foundation of City
College - Downtown, New York;
Harry Kosansky
the Williamsburgh Y.M.&W.H.A.
and at Camp Tamarack in Mich
igan.
While attending Wayne Uni
versity his field work placement?
were with the Grosse Pointe
Woods, Michigan; at Camp Wei-
Met in New York and with the
B’nai B’rith Youth Organization
in Michigan.
BULMIN GUAM — When Knes
seth Israel Synagogue moved to
its new building on Montevallo
Road in Mountain Brook recent
ly, these leaders carried the
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sacred Torahs at the head of a
procession of fifty cars. Seated,
left to right, are I. Mazer, vice
president; Rabbi E. Tamarkin; I.
Perlm utter, president; standing.
D. Silberkraus, secretary; R. Ber
man, treasurer, and Cantor
Phillip Bernstein of Utopia Jew
ish Center, Long Island. The Con
gregation had occupied its old
quarters since 1905.