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ZEP Employees Present $4,500 to new AJCC—(Story Page 2)
MAJOR MARGOLIT, principal
speaker* at April 8 Israeli Bond
Dinner for Valdosta Community
(Story Page 4).
DR. IRVING GOLDSTEIN to re
ceive “Man of Year” award of
Atlanta JWV Post Sunday even
ing (Story Pa*re 4).
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MtRSIRMF GEORGIA
17 1956
§raelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Estah 11 ' 1 ^25
VOL. XXXI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 19*”
Rabbi Hero of 1947 Train
Wreck at HUC-JIR Rites
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NO. 14
of Israel
CINCINNATI, (JTA) — A
rabbi, whose faith and heroism
during a tragic train accident in
1947 attracted national attention,
delivered the opening sermon of
the 81st Founder’s Day program
of the Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion here.
Rabbi George B. Lieberman’s
sermon highlighted the religious
services dedicated to Dr. Julian
Morgenstern, president emeritus
of HUC-JIR, on the occasion of
his 75th birthday.
The story of Rabbi Lieberman’s
bravery in the train crash began
when a Pennsylvania Railroad
train plunged down a 150 foot
embankment near Altoona, Pa.
For more than five hours after
the train was derailed, the rabbi
was wedged in an upper berth
and suspended in mid air. Amidst
the dead and dying, he led peo
ple of all faiths in prayer. In
addition, by his presence of mind
he also prevented the wreckage
from becoming a fiery death trap.
A rescue squad took him to the
hospital where it was feared he
would never walk again.
For three years, doctors fought
to save his legs. One day he re
turned to his congregation in
Canton, Ohio with a steel brace
supporting his back and other
braces supporting his legs as he
resumed an active ministry. A
graduate of Hebrew Union Col
lege, Rabbi Lieberman also holds
a Doctor of Literature from West
Virginia Wesleyan College. Dur
ing the war he served on the Na
tional War Labor Board and was
arbitrator of a number of indus
trial disputes. In 1954, he became
the spiritual leader of Central
Synagogue of Nassau County,
New York.
Eighth Ann
Independence To Be Observed
Atlanta Program
Monday Evening
by Adolph Rosenberg:
While the State of Israel fluc
tuates in an atmosphere of inter
national tension as fraught with
danger as her birth, the eighth
anniversary of her founding will
be celebrated Monday, April 16,
by many communities, including
Atlanta.
The Atlanta observance, sched
uled for 8:30 p.m. at the Progres
sive Club, under sponsorship of
the Atlanta Zionist Council, is
open to the public.
Principal speaker will be
Arthur Liberan, permanent mem
ber of the Israel delegation to
the United Nations.
Mr. Liberan, Oxford trained, is
the former first seertary of the
Israel Embassoy in Washington.
He later returned to Israel to
work in the UN Department of
the Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. He returned to America
to take a permanent seat at the
U. N. He replaces Dr. Emanuel
Ben Dor, as the principal speaker.
Dr. Dor was forced to cancel his
tour on account of the growing
tension.
Another event planned in At-
Seattle Judge Bars "Captive
Religious Services In Jail
Atlanta Assembly April 22 to
Memorialize Warsaw Uprising
SEATTLE, Wash., (JTA) —
Superior Court Judge Howard J.
Findley has ruled that ‘’captive”
religious services shall not be al
lowed in the county jail and has
upheld the King County prison
rule that all religious services are
to be held in the chapel. In ef
fect, this banned evangelistic ser
vices in corridors and “tanks” of
the jail, following a suit brought
by a county jail inmate, William
Harvey Rhea, 25, a roofer serv
ing a year on vagrancy and as
sault charges, against 19 religious
organizations which held their
services in the jail corridors and
“tanks.” Rhea said that he “be
lieved in God” but that he and
other prisoners objected to being
captive participants in such serv
ices.
The Washington State affiliate
of the American Civil Liberties
Union filed friend of the court
briefs. The ACLU was not op
posed to the holding of proper
religious services in the jail, it
objected to the “captive” nature
of the audience which was forced
to hear them from corridors in
stead of voluntarily hearing them
in the chapel. During the four-
day trial, Rhea’s attorney Janies
J. McBride, told the court that
Rhea and other prisoners want
the sheriff and the jail superin
tendent to enforce their own
rule, which was the one cited by
Judge Findley as requiring re
ligious services to be held in the
chapel only. Another prisoner
who was supporting Rhea’s case,
Frank S. Abbey, 19, serving six
months for petit larceny, stated
that “there was no place to go to
get away.”
A community-wide assembly to
memorialize the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising and the destruction of
6,000,000 of European Jewry by
Hitler, has been scheduled for
Sunday, April 22, at 8:15 p.m. at
the Progressive Club under aus
pices of the Atlanta Jewish Com
munity Council, according to Irv
ing Libowsky, chairman of the
special committee in charge.
In keeping with an established
custom which has developed
throughout all countries in the
world wherever Jews are in resi
dence, the committee is urging
that there be lighted in every
Jewish home in the community
six candles in memory of the
Landau Prize To Author
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Landau award which is given an
nually by the B’nai B'rith Lodge
here for services in the field of
journalism, was presented here
to Dr. Nahum Sluschz, noted
author, for his ‘‘best record” in
correspondence and the expo
sition of Zionism. The award is
named after Jacob Landau, late
founder of the JTA.
Yartzeit For
6,000,000
Jewry throughout the
world has been asked to
light six yartzeit candles
the evening of April 19, an
niversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising, in mem
ory of the six million
Nazi victims.
Warsaw dead and the six million
victims of Hitlerian persecution.
Date for this event is Thursday,
April 19, which is the anniversary
date of the Warsaw Ghetto up
rising.
Germany Observes
“Brotherhood Week”
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — Public
meetings, broadcasts, theatrical
and musical performances in near
ly a score of cities, highlighted
the annual observance of “Bro
therhood Week,” arranged by the
German Societies for Christian-
Jewish Cooperation.
Federal President Theodor
Heuss, who as in previous years
consented to be the sponsor of
“Brotherhood Week,” opened it
with an address to a select as
sembly gathered in the Bundestag
chamber at Bonn. “Even though
it is bound to go against the
grain of some people,” he remark
ed, “days and hours such as this
must be held ever anew.” With
respect to indemnification, he urg
ed Germans to feel a degree of
personal Involvement.
In Munich, Brotherhood Week
was marked by a joint songfest of
Jewish and Christian children. In
Stuttgart, the new German film
“Israel - Land of Hope” was in
troduced by its producer, German
newspaperman Rolf Vogel, and
by Dr. A. Bergmann, deputy head
of the Israel Purchasing Mission
in Cologne. F. Sternberg, a staff
member of the Israel Mission,
shared the platform in Wiesbaden
with Chester S. Wright, honorary
president of the Federation of
German-American Clubs. In Ber
lin, high school students offered
readings from books that were
burned by the Nazis and from
“The Diary of Anne Frank.”
lanta will be a broadcast over
Station WSB of “Eight Little
Acres,” at 11:15 p.m. Saturday,
April 14, in observance of the
eighth anniversary.
* * *
As the date for the anniversary
approached, the security of the
Jewish state seemed more in
doubt than at any time in her
history.
Egypt and the Arab lands ap
pear to be gaining continually in
armed might, while Israel’s abili
ty to defend herself fell with
each shipment of the heavy arm
ament and airplanes being fur
nished by Soviet countries to her
adversaries.
UN Secretary Hammarskjold
flew this week to the Middle East,
where border instances had again
broken out, and began a series of
conferences aimed at easing the
tension. The first was with Pre
mier Nasser.
Meanwhile,. the United States
issued its most positive stand on
the situation declaring its inten
sion to come to the aide of which
ever side was the victim of agres
sion. All this was to be within the
framework of the UN. Close ob
servers wondered what exactly
had been added to the picture by
the Eisenhower-Dulles statement
for the basic problem of arming
Israel appeared still untouched
and the potential of UN action,
which had been there all the
time, and which is available af
ter protracted debate, could be of
small value since Israel could be
decimated within a matter of
minutes.
Two Elected To
Tunisia Assembly
TUNIS, (JTA)—Tunisia’s first
National Assembly will have two
Jewish members, it was announced
here following final tally of the
ballots cast in Tunisia’s election
last Sunday. The two Jews, Al
bert Bessis and Andre Barouch,
were both elected on the National
Front ticket, which carried Tu
nisia in a landslide victory, cap
turing every seat in the legisla
ture. Principal party in the Na
tional Frgnt is the Neo-Destour
(nationalist), group which is led
by Habib Bourguiba.