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VOL,. XXXI
The Southern Israelite
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A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry — Establish^ -
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1956
AJP ROUND-UP
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The News Picture
Hie deteriorating situation in
the Middle East continues to be
the number one headline news
in the world’s press. President
Eisenhower’s implication last week
that 1,700,000 Israelis could not
match 40,000,00 Arabs in their ca
pacity to absorb modern weapons
came as a great shock and dis
appointment to Israeli officials
who had placed their last hope
for U. S. arms in the American
chief executive officer.
The disparity in population,
they held, meant little compared
with the will to fight. Since when,
they inquired, does the U. S. re
fuse to arm little countries because
they are overshadowed by bigger
ones. If that concept dominated
U. S. policy, no arms would have
been sent to Formosa, Iran and
other countries. t
Meanwhile, Ambassador Abba
Eban made one more attempt this
past weekend to find out what the
U. S. plans to do about the Israeli
request for arms. Following a
thirty minute talk with Robert D.
Murphy, Deputy Under Secretary
of State, Eban made it clear that
he had failed again to get the
yes or no answer he wanted. “Our
mood coutlnues to be one of pro
found concern,” he said, “at the
lack of any action on our re
quests.” Eban also made a flying
trip to the UN where he spent an
hour with Dag Hammarskjold dis
cussing the tense situation in the
Palestiine area. Neither he nor
Mr. Harrarskjold hinted at the
possibility of a Security Council
meeting.
While David Ben Gurion told
the Knesset that “Israel will not
start a war, Premier Nasser in
Cairo was meeting with King Saud
of Saudi Arabia and President
Shukri al-Kuwatly of Syria. Their
discussions concerned joint action
against Israel. They sought ways
and means of bringing Jordan
“into line.” King Husein, how
ever, still feeling somewhat at
tached to Britain despite his dis
missal of Lieut. Gen. John Bagot
Glubb, is stalling.
The Jordanian raid on an Is
raeli village near Jerusalem last
Saturday — ending two years of
comparative quiet along the Is-
rael-Jordan border — clearly in
dicates that notwithstanding Hus
sein’s pro-British professions his
“kingdom” has come under the
sway of Cairo which has assumed
actual leadership in the Arab
world.
“A new world power might well
be in the making in the Middle
East,” reports Osgood Caruthers,
N. Y. Times correspondent in
Cairo. “Under Egyptian leader
ship,” he writes, “the Arab bloc
flouts the West, basks in the
warmth of growing Soviet sup
port and hopes to become an en
tity with which neither side can
tamper. . .” So Nasser “hopes,”
little realizing that he has no es
cape from the Soviet Bear. Con
fronted with the crumbling of her
Middle Eastern bastions, Britain,
still not recovered from the shock
of the Glubb ouster, is seeking to
avoid force and save face. Glubb
himself has asked Britain not to
“get tough.”
The Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith, following four years
of intensive investigation, has
charged that anti-Semitism in the
U. S. is linked to a world-wide
political plot invloving Arabs as
well, as West Germans. The
League’s disclosure was^ made co
incidental with new demands up
on both the Army and the FBI
for an investigation of security
suspensions of personnel at Fort
By David Horowitz
Monmouth, N. J., who, it was
said, were “hapless victim of anti-
Semitism, pure and simple.”
A detailed and documented ac
count of the Communist blue-
.print to erase Judaism from the
face of half of Europe, linked with
the Soviet’s Mid-East policy, is
revealed in the current issue of
Jewish Life, the national maga
zine published by the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America.
Reports from Geneva indicate’
that Soviet imports hold a new
peril for the West. Capacity of
the Communist empire to enter
world markets is now regarded
as a “Cold War" weapon. A Reu
ters dispatch from Cairo reveals
that the Soviet Union has just
concluded a trade agreement with
Yemen. The March issue of B’nai
B’rith’s National Monthly asserts
that Jewish survival in Italy Is
seriously threatened by poverty,
dispersion and lack of leadership.
The Shofar, offical organ of the
B’nai B’rith Youth Organization,
contains a fascinating article by
the former 19-year-old Christian
Philip R. Robinson explaining
“Why I converted to Judaism.”
Robinson is President of Viceroy
Chapter of Aleph Zadik Aleph in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Governor Theodore R. McKeld-
ln of Maryland, president of the
American-Israel Society, this week
announced that the Society’s Third
National Dinner in tribute to the
creative spirit of the people of
Israel will be held in the Wil
lard Hotel, Washington, D. C., on
Tuesday evening, April 17, to mark
the eight anniversary of the estab
lishment of the State.
The Rabbinical Alliance of
America has released the text of
a Rabbinic interdiction signed by
Georgia U.
Will Hold Pc. tey
NO. 10
With Zvi Kolitz, Israel author
and motion picture prgtfucer as
the principal speaker, Jewish
community leaders from all parts
of Georgia will convene the
Georgia state emergency, leader
ship conference Sunday, March
18 at the Dinkier Plaza in At
lanta.
The Conference will discuss the
grave threat to Jewish lives and
freedom overseas and map plans
to accelerate support by Jewish
communities of Georgia for the
nationwide 1956 campaign of the
United Jewish Appeal.
Principal Speaker
ZVI KOLITZ
“HILL 24” PRODUCER
the Deans of the leading Ortho
dox Rabbinical Seminaries of the
U. S. forbidding orthodox rabbis
to participate in the N.Y. Board
of Rabbis composed of Reform
and Conservative ministers.
ADL Urges Army to Reopen
Ft. Monmouth Bias Probe
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith has reported, on the basis
of its own investigation “that
many of the Federal employees
suspended during the 1953 securi
ty investigations at Ft. Monmouth,
N.J., were ‘hapless victims of
anti-Semitism, pure and simple.’ ”
The ADL characterized the Ft.
Monmouth investigation as a
“scandal.” It maintained that the
probe “leads us to the conviction
that anti-Semitism was involved
in the initiating of the suspension
or declassification of scientists
there — almost all of whom have
since won vindication, although
not without having paid an ir
retrievable penalty in emotional
anguish for themselves and their
families.” The ADL said it had
uncovered “new information” to
sustain this belief and had sub
mitted the evidence to Secretary
of the Army Wilbur Brucker and
the F.B.I.
Henry E. Schultz, national
chairman of the ADL, described
the material as “substantial proof”
that those who suffered at Ft.
Monmouth were victims of “un
trained and anti-Semitic” persons
involved in security procedures,
who were able to “wreck havoc
by taking advantage of the un
sophisticated, unreal criteria that
had been established for determ
ining loyalty and security risks.”
This contradicts the conclusion
of an “independent investigation”
conducted by the Army in 1954.
At that time, Lewis E. Berry, Jr.,
deputy counselor for the Army,
Calling for maximum attend
ance at the Georgia UJA Con
ference, Barney Medintz of At
lanta, Conference Chairman and
Gus B. Kaufman of Macon, Con
ference Co-Chairman stated that
“the people of Israel are living
in a crucial hour — akin to the
decisive days of 1948. Once again,
the courage and devotion of
American Jewry can help tip the
balance in favor of freedom and
humanity. Your attendance at
this conference will be a meas
ure of American Jewry’s sense of
responsibility in this perilous
time.” ' *
The Conference will begin with
a morning work session at 10:00
a.m. to be devoted to a discussion
of campaign problems. A lunch
eon and afternoon session will fol
low at 12:30 p.m. There will be
no solicitation of funds.
aders
Sunday
Mr. Kolitz, who has lived in
Israel since 1936, will report on
the tense and ominous develop
ments affecting the freedom of
Israel's people and the 350,000
Jews of Morocco and Tunisia, and
the role of the United Jewish
Appeal in the present emergency.
Mr. Kolitz is the author and
producer of “Hill 24 Doesn’t Ans
wer,” the first full-length motion
picture made in Israel. An inter
national prize winner, it was
named among the best ten pic
tures of the year by the New York
Post.
Bom in Lithuania, Mr. Kolitz
was educated at the University
of Florence in Italy and at the
Naval Academy of Italy. He writes
and speaks both English and He
brew with equal fluency, and is
the author of many articles and
stories.
Atlanta Welfare Fund
Campaign Round-up
advised the ADL that the Army
was “unable to establish that re
ligious bias had a bearing upon
the activities of the security of
ficer or other personnel responsi
ble for initiating or processing of
security cases.”
Mr. Schultz urged that in the
light of the additional evidence,
“corrective action” be taken by
the Department of Army.
Bush Lodge
Installs Officers
ATHENS — Nathan Jay has
been installed as president of the
J. Bush Lodge, No. 1282, B’nai
B’rith, here.
He was elected and took of
fice at the annual luncheon held
March 11 at the Georgian Hotel.
Serving with him are Leo Fox
and Sanford Schwartz, Winder,
vice presidents; Rabbi J. D. Spear,
secretary; Abe Yudelson, treas
urer; Erice Mandel, Ila, Ga., war
den, and Dave Gordon, chaplain.
Mr. Gordon, retiring president,
made a report. The Rev. William
Tate, dean of men at the Uni
versity of Georgia, spoke on “The
Past, Present and Future,” stress
ing advancement towards a new
era. The Rev. Robert Ayes gave
the invocation.
Dr. Theodore Levitas, Atlanta,
first, vice president of the Georg
ia State Association of B’nai
B’rith Lodges, Installed the of
ficers.
About sixty persons were pres
ent, some of them traveling sixty
miles for the banquet.
The first report meeting of the
Men’s Second Advance Gifts Di
vision has already held its first
report meeting although the Cam
paign has not yet officially open
ed.
Under the leadership of Sidney
Feldman, Elliott Goldstein, Ber
nard Howard, Nathan Lipton and
Barney Medintz, the group met
on Monday, March 12. Also in at
tendance at the meeting were the
general chairmen of the Cam
paign who have assumed person
al responsibilities in helping this
division go over the top.
Leaders and workers in the
Second Advance Gifts Division,
which represents givers in the
brackets between $400.00 and $1,-
000.00, have already completed
50% of their cards. It is anticipat
ed the other half of the cards
will be completed before the
Campaign gets officially under
way on March 18. This remark
able record has not been matched
in many years. It is an accom
plishment of which the leaders of
this division can be really proud.
Scrap Metal Industry
To Organize
Under the leadership of M.
William Breman, Bernard W.
Cohen, Samuel L. Eplan, David
Koplin, Max London and Max
Rittenbaum the Scrap Metal Di
vision has met to plan the annual
dinner meeting for this industry
group. This function has in the
past spearheaded the Campaign
and it will do so again this year.
Mens Special Gifts
Meeting This Week
Under the leadership of Irving
Kaler, Merton Levin, Hyman
Meltz, Sol P. Benamy, William
B. Schwartz, Jr. and Philip Shul-
hafer the Mens Special Gifts Di
vision meeting, including colonels
and captains, was held on Wed
nesday, March 14.
This group represents the brack
et between $75.00 and $400.00.
This division is going full speed
ahead with their Campaign assign
ments. It is anticipated making
great strides because it is believed
of the division leadership that the
greatest potential for increased
giving will be found among con
tributors in this bracket.
Women*8 Advctnce
Gifts To Hear Israel
Consul Wednesday
Nahum Astar, newly appointed
Consul of Israel for the South
east, will be the guest speaker
at a brunch to be held at the
Progressive Club on Wednesday,
March 21, by the Womens Ad
vance Gifts Division under the
leadership of Mrs. M. William
Breman, Mrs. Philip Schwartz,
Mrs. Simon Selig, Jr., Mrs. S. J.
Steinbach and Mrs. Harry K.
Stern.
Mr. Astar, who has established
the offices of his consulate in At
lanta, has been in the service of
Israel’s foreign ministry for many
years. He will function in this
area as both a diplomatic and
commercial representative.
Physicians, Dentists
Plans Developing
The annual fund raising function
on behalf of the Welfare Fund
Campaign is now being planned
by the Physicians and Dentists
Division. Under the learership of
Dr. Nathan Blass, Dr. Marvin C.
Goldstein, Dr. Irving L. Green
berg and Dr James Kaufman the
group has met and is proceeding
with plans for the organization
of the division and with the set
ting of dates and all other details
necessary for a successful 1956
campaign.
jReligious Schools
Drive In Full Swing
The Atlanta Jewish Welfare
fund Campaign in the religious
schools is now in full swing. Pu
pils in the schools began their
campaign on March 4 with great
enthusiasm and with the usual
fine cooperation of all the rabbis,
educational directors, and mem
bers of the faculties.
Each class has set a quota for
itself, the progress of which is
being recorded on a thermometer
with a heart at the base. As the
class reaches its goal the ther
mometer records the highest tem
perature of giving.
The Campaign is utilized as an
educational adventure in teaching
boys and girls the meaning of be
longing to a Jewish Community
and the obligations and respon
sibilities which this entails.