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VOL. XXXI
The Southern Israel
A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry — Established ir '~
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1956
NO.
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Georgia Parley to Hear Augusta Sets . ^«*ys
Israel Author Producer $75,000 of Israel Bonds
Zvi Kolitz, brilliant Israel
author and motion picture pro
ducer, will be the principal speak
er at the emergency Georgia
Leadership Conference of the
United Jewish Appeal at the
Dinkler-Plaza Hotel in Atlanta on
Sunday, March 18.
Mr. Kolitz who has lived in
Israel since 1936, will report
on the tense and ominous
developments affecting the free
dom of Israel’s people and the’
350,000 Jews of Morocco and Tu
nisia, and the role of the United
Jewish Appeal in the present
crisis.-
The Conference will begin with
a morning work session at 10:00
A.M. to be devoted to a discussion
of campaign problems. At 12:30
p.m. a luncheon and afternoon
session will follow. There will be
no fund solicitation.
Mr. Kolitz is the author and
producer of “Hill 24 Doesn’t An
swer,” the first full-length mo
tion picture made in Israel. An
international prize winner, it was
named among the best ten pic
tures of the year by the New
York Post.
Born in Lithuania, Mr. Kolitz
was educated at the University
of Florence in Italy and at the
Government’s Naval Academy of
Italy. He writes and speaks both
English and Hebrew with equal
fluency, and is the author of many
articles and stories.
The Conference Chairman is
Barney Medintz of Atlanta, who
is a member of the National Cab
inet of the UJA. Gus Kaufman
of Macon is Co-chairman.
by Adolph Rosenberg
AJP ROUND-UP
Interesting To Know
By David Horowitz
Under the heading “Kosher Re
vival,” Time Magazine had this
to say in a recent issue: “I» the
revival of religious observances
in the U.S., Jews are regaining
their interest in the Jewish dietary
laws, generally known as kash-
ruth.” Time introduced its two-
column “kashruth” story — read
by millions all over the world —
with this situation from Herman
Wouk’s Marjorie Morningstar:
“Food disciples are part of every
great religion. Psychologically
they are almost inevitable, and
extremely practical. Didn’t you
feel more at home in the world,
warm, safe, good, while you were
observing your laws?”
The new Soviet Kit released at
the UN contains favorable stories
on Benjamin Franklin and Mo
zart. The general news in the Kit
indicates a definite new trend on
the world scene.
Joe McCarthy came back to life
last week by charging that “trait
ors are still at large in high posts
of our government and are every
day doing their bit to expedite
the Communist conquest of the
world.”
The undefeated Wrestling Rab
bi, Raphael Halpem, is winning
, new laurels in S. Africa. Referred
to as the “Leopard” from Israel,
he defeated the South African
champion Les Herbert who had
never lost a match to anyone else.
Margaret Truman, 32, has writ
ten heh memoirs in a new book
called “Souvenir,” thus becoming
the second author in the im
mediate Truman family within a
year. The late Cantor Yoselle
Rosenblatt’s son, Cantor Henry
.Rosenblatt, sent this congratula
tory telegram to Cantor Aaron
Horowitz whose 60-year service
as a Cantor was commemorated
in Wilkes-Barre’s B’nai Jacob
Purim night: “Just as my father
inspired our many Jewish peo
ple you have inspired and are
inspiring ur people in the same
spirit. I have always considered
you the true successor of my late
great father.”
Soviet To Print
First Prayer Book
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
first Jewish prayer book to be
published in the Soviet Union
since the Bolshevik revolution
will be printed in Moscow next
month, the New York Times re
ported from the Soviet capital.
The volume, which will include
the daily prayers, Sabbath ser
vices and abridged versions of
Passover, Yom Kippur and other
holiday services, will be financed
entirely by voluntary contribu
tions of Soviet Jews, according
to the Times. ’ It will be pub
lished in an editorial of several
thousand.
Paul Balsam has accepted to
serve as the chairman of the
Israel Music Festival to be held
Saturday evening. March 10, at
the Forest Hills High School,
Long Island. Rabbi Mordecai
Waxman, Temple Israel, Great
Neck, L. I., will serve as the
chairman of the 1956 Convention
Committee of the Rabbinical As
sembly of America. U. S. Solicitor
General Simon E. Sobeloff will
head a 15-member committee to
select recipients of the Stephen
Wise awards of 1955.
AUGUSTA — Leaders of the
Jewish community here this week
were winding up the loose ends
of an unprecedented campaign
marked by the purchase of $75,-
000 worth of Israel bonds.
The campaign which set a new
pace for 1956 sale of the Develop
ment Bonds for Israel, came to a
climax Sunday, February 19, with
a community-wide rally attended
by nearly 450 persons.
They heard Congressman James
Roosevelt of New York make a
stirring plea for arms for Israel
and a security pact between the
United States and Israel.
Led by Chairman Ike Shapiro,
Augusta Jewry rallied together in
behalf of the economic develop
ment of Israel as it has never
before united, local annals show
ed.
Most of the $75,000 worth of
bonds was purchased with cash.
Leaders expected the community
would press forward to a goal
of $100,000, unique for the ap
proximate 500 Jewish families of
Augusta and environs.
The February 19 audience gave
a standing ovation to the visit
ing Congressman. The rally was
also addressed by Rabbi James
G. Heller, Mrs. Beverly Wolff
Dwiggins, prominent contralto
from Atlanta, sang several Jewish
numbers on the program.
One feature of the campaign
which won the enthusiastic sup
port of nearly all of Jewry here
was the purchase of bonds by
thirty-two non-Jewish persons,
including Augusta’s Mayor Hugh
L. Hamilton. Mayor Hamilton had
set aside the week of February
13-19 as “Action Week for Israel.”
At a parlor meeting held earl
ier at the home of Chairman
Shapiro, approximately $41,000
in bonds were bought — nearly
all in cash.
Congressman Roosevelt had
high praise for the support Ameri
can Jewry is giving to Israel.
Without this, he said, the new
nation could not stand as it does
today. .
Nassar, the Egyptian chief, iff
committed to kill Israel, Roose
velt declared.
Congressman Roosevelt was in
terviewed on the question of the
shipment of the twelve tanks to
Saudi Arabia by the National
Broadcasting Company. His re
plies were broadcast twice during
the day over the Monitor Week
end network.
AUGUSTA—Congressman Roosevelt is shown being greeted upon
his arrival at the airport for the Augusta Bond Rally by Mayor
Hugh L. Hamilton. At left is the Augusta Bond Chairman I. D.
Shapiro and his wife Louella. (See page 8 for other Augusts Israel
Bond Scenes.)
Atlanta Jewish Community Council
Elects Abe Goldstein President
Atlanta to Hear
Senator Sunday
The Atlanta Jewish Communi
ty Council at it eleventh Annual
Meeting, Monday Feb. 27, at the
Mayfair Club elected Abe Gold
stein, prominent Atlanta business
man and active worker in the
civic life of the community, as
the new president to succeed
Barney Medintz, who had served
in that capacity for the past
three years.
Elected with Mr. Goldstein to
serve for a term of one year were:
vice presidents - Sol P. Benamy,
Mrs. Harold E. Marcus, and Mor
ton L. Weiss; secretary treasurer
- Joseph Cuba.
The following were elected to
serve on the Executive Committee
for the ensuing year: Meyer Bal-
ser, M. William Breman, Lewis
Cenker, Rabbi Joseph Cohen,
Herbert Elsas, Rabbi Harry H.
Epstein, Rabbi Emanuel Feld
man, Morris Freedman, Rabbi
Tobias Geffen, Mrs. Harry M.
Gershon, Ben Golden, Elliott
Goldstein, Dr. Irving Goldstein,
Dr. Irving Greenberg, J. Kurt
Holland, Mrs. Niels Jacobson, Dr.
Sidney Q. Janus, Irving Kaler,
Sam E. Levy, Irving Libowsky,
Rabbi David Marx, Ben J. Mas-
sell, Armand May, Barney Med
intz, M. J. Merlin, Rabbi Jacob
M Rothschi l.d, William B.
Schwartz, Jr., Philip E. Shulhafer,
Morris Smith, Mrs. I. F. Sterne,
ABE GOLDSTEIN
and Robert M. Travis.
The following committee reports
were received ( at this meeting:
Robert M. Travis, Chairman of
the Council’s Committee on Pub
licity and Interpretation, reported
that the Council publication, “To
gether,” received an award for
the second consecutive year as
the best publication interpreting
community work in communities
the size of Atlanta. This award
was made at the 24th General
Assembly of the Council of Jew
ish Federations and Welfare Funds
held in Chicago. Mr. Travis also
reported that during 1955 the
Council had two institutes — one
on publicity in which a group of
outstanding newspaper men and
women participated, and an in
stitute on Organization Leader
ship. This last institute was in
tended especially for officers and
committee chairmen of adult or
ganizations to acquaint them with
the techniques and procedures of
organization activity and how
they can be most effective in the
leadership of their organizations.
Mrs. Harold Marcus reported on
service which the Council has
been rendering to its affiliated
organizations, that of issuing a
community calendar of events and
clearing all dates so as to avoid
conflict in time and arrange
ments. Mrs. Marcus also reported
on the method of cooperation
which the women’s organizations
have developed of once a year
clearing their projected fund
raising projects and entering in
to a voluntary agreement on the
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Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund School
Campaign Set to Start on Sunday, March 4
The religious schools of 'At
lanta—Ahavath Achim, Beth El,
Beth Jacob, Or Ve Shalom, Shear-
ith Israel and the Temple—will
open the Atlanta Jewish fc Wel-
fare Fund School Campaign on
Sunday, March 4. This campaign
will continue through March 25.
The objectives of the Atlanta
Jewish Welfare Fund School
Campaign are twofold. Firstly, to
point up the importance of
Tzedakah in Jewish living and
thinking. Secondly, to fulfill the
concept of Tzedakah through the
participation of all the children
in the campaign.
The Atlanta Bureau of Jewish
Education acts as coordinator and
provides the schools with the
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U. S. Senator Richard Neu-
berger, shown on the steps of
the Capitol in Washington with
his wife, will address a dinner
meeting of Gate City Lodge of
B’nai B’rith at 7 p.m. Sunday,
March 4, at the Mayfair Club.
Attendance is not limited to
B’nai B’rith members, Dr. Nathan
Blass, president, announced, indi
cating that reservations can be
made by calling CY. 2965. Persons
unable to attend the dinner can
come to hear the Senator at the
meeting which begins at 8 p.m.
Senator Neuberger is the first
Jew elected by the State of Ore
gon in 40 years. He is widely
known as a journalist.