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T I I SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, June 1, 1956
The Southern Israelite
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“REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO
KEEP IT HOLY.”
(The Fourth Commandment)
The Sabbath Resolution o/ the Rabbinical Association
of St. Louis, Missouri
The worship of God on the Sabbath has been at the very
heart of Judaism. The observance was urged in the Ten Com
mandments to remind us of the dignity of life and to refine
man’s sense of justice. The Sabbath for centuries cultivated
the spiritual sensitivities and moral and ethical knowledge
of our fathers. In the Jewish prayer book is found the sen
tence, “Even as Israel kept the Sabbath so has the Sabbath
kept Israel.”
All Jewish congregations provide for the community
opportunity for prayer, meditation, and religious study on
the eve of Sabbath and on Sabbath morning. To be mindful
of the schedules of divine worship in Jewish sanctuaries is
an obligation that every thoughtful and conscientious Jew
will acoept. Participation in public prayers, communion with
God, in company with fellow-believers, is good for the soul,
and strengthens the bonds of fellowship. It is every Jew’s
duty to strengthen the bonds of spiritual fellowship.
Because these truth are self-evident, we, members of the
Rabbinical Association, point out that the schedule social
functions which conflict with Sabbath worship is to weaken
the spiritual influence of our faith. To refuse social invitations
which compete with attendance at Temple or Synagogue is
the best Jewish practice. We appeal to all members of the
Jewish community to recognize that the Sabbath is the key
stone of Judaism, and so to uphold its observance as to make
it a fountain of enduring inspiration and of deepest faith.
(Adopted unanimously by the St. Louis Rabbinical As
sociation, and unanimously endorsed at the 69th Annual Meet
ing of Temple Israel, November 13, 1955.)
Bouquets for a Leader—to Aid State of Israel
It is easy to write an editorial about Abe Goldstein and
the Israeli Bonds. Both have achieved places of high and de
served esteem and value in their respective fields. They will
be combined attractions next Wednesday at a special Abe
Goldstein Testimonial Dinner by the Atlanta Israeli Bond
Committee.
Mr. Goldstein is widely known as a "practical” leader, a
man experienced at working with causes and securing action
without compromising the principles of the movement itself.
His ability to compromise while yet achieving his point is one
reason why he has carved out such a distinctive niche in the
community leadership. Many the cause which has claimed
his special talents—Community Chest, the Ahavath Achim
Synagogue, the Jewish Welfare Fund, Brandeis University—
and of course Bonds for Israel—just to mention a Jew.
Hundreds of his fellow citizens will join at the Testimoni
al Dinner to do him honor and purchase Israeli Bonds. Thus
his friends will give a material boost to one of his favorite
causes. We cannot think of a nicer form of recognition for
the distinct contributions Abe Goldstein has made to Judaism.
Mrs. Abe Rones Is Woman
Of Year at Augusta
Yeshiva University Discovers 7,000
Microfilm Plates of Talmudic Notes
Mrs. Abo Rones named Hadas-
sah Woman of Year was present
ed with a silver cup at Hadas-
sah’s Earning Fund Annual Din
ner held at the Garden Center.
Mrs. Rones embroidered a ban
quet cloth with names of Hadas-
sah members to raise $400 for the
organizations contribution to Is
rael. She also received a week’s
vacation at the Lakeside Inn,
Hendersonville, N. C. Mrs. Abe
Schneider, runner-up won a
week’s vacation at the Lucerne
Hotel in Miami Beach.
Mr. Raymond Kaplan of Aiken,
S. C., was elected president of
the Aiken Junior Chamber of
Commerce recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Weinberger
have returned from a vacation in
Mexico City.
Herbert Silver, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Silver, was recently
elected member-at-large on the
Student Council of George Wash
ington University in Washington,
D. C. In addition to his member
ship on the Student Council, Mr.
Silver is serving as president of
his fraternity, treasurer of the
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at
George Washington and is a
member of Gate and Key, the
fraternity men’s honorary.
A farewell supper party was
tendered Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Shapiro at the Richmond Hotel
prior to their leaving Augusta to
make their home in Atlanta.
The Walton Way Temple Bro
therhood held its annual spring
dinner dance recently at the
Richmond Hotel. Perry Smolen
is treasurer of the Brotherhood
and Marvin White vice-president
Mr. and Mrs. Grace Schwarz and
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Broudy were
official hosts for the event.
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Seigelson
announce the birth of a daughter
on May 22. Mrs. Seigelson is the
former Randy Cohen, daughter
of Mrs. Ethel Cohen and the late
Henry Cohen.
Mr. and Mrs. Musha Bolga an
nounce the birth of a daughter
on May 24. Mrs. Bolga is the
former Annette Popkin, daughter
of Mrs. Sam Dietz and the late
Morris Popkin.
Samra Jo Smolen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Smolen cel
ebrated her sixth birthday last
week in the kindergarten room
of the Adas Yeshuron Synagogue.
The Y. M. H. A. entertained
at an out-door cabaret dance last
week at the Jewish Community
Center.
Mr. and Mrs. William Pomer-
ance are spending a few days in
New York City.
The Daughters of Israel held
their closing luncheon meeting
and installation of officers this
w’eek at the Abram Pomerance
Social Hall.
The kindergarten class of Adas
Yeshuron Synagogue under the
direction of Mrs. Simon Zipper
presented the graduation exercises
May 20. Members of the gradu
ation class were: Charlie Allen,
Gary Bogoslawsky, David Carter,
Gary Daitch, Mary Erlich, Kenny
Fleishner, Sheah Hesh Klein,
Bobby Kriesberg, Meryl Moog,
Karen Shapiro, Gerald Silver,
Samra Jo Smolen, Alan Tenen-
baum and Marsha Novak.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
establishment of a Talmudic Re
search Institute at Yeshiva Uni
versity to edit and publish 7,-
000 tiny two-inch square micro
film plates of Talmudic literatures
smuggled out of Naxi-dominated
Europe over a decade ago, and
discovered recently in the United
States, was announced here by
Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of
the University.
The newly found manuscripts,
the only extant copy of the “Com
mentaries” of the Gaon of Rog-
ashov, represented the most im
portant addition to Talmudic lit
erature in modern times, Dr.
Belkin stated. Rabbi Menahem
Kasher, prominent editor of
Biblical texts and author of work
on Hebrew subjects, has been
appointed head of the Institute.
The project is being made pos
sible by the Conference on Jew
ish Material Claims Against Ger
many.
Joseph Rosen, Rabbi of Dvinsk,
in Latvia. (1858-1936) and called
2 Dead Sea Scrolls
Stolen by Arabs
BALTIMOSE. (JTA) — Two
eceritly discovered Dead Sea
scrolls have been stolen by Arabs
and are being held for ransom
somewhere in the Palestine area,
Dr. William F. Albright, profes
sor of Semitic Languages at John
Hopkins University, revealed
here.
In the course of a lecture, Prof.
Albright said that two scrolls
whose discovery had not previ
ously been announced, were
stolen from under the noses of
their guards. The scrolls were
found in a limestone cave in the
same area where other Dead Sea
scrolls have been discovered
during the past nine years.
VGA HILLEL NEWS
The major activities of the
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at
the University of Georgia drew
to a close with the annual ban
quet held last Sunday.
Inge Nachman of Columbus
was presented with Hillel’s
highest ward, the Hillel Gold
Honor Key. Barbara Feingold of
Camilla received the outstanding
award for Juniors; Bruce Horn-
stein of Baltimore was given the
award for the Most Studious Hill
el Student and David Goldring
of New York was also the re
cipient of an award. The remain
ing student awards were to the
two winners of the Hanuka De
coration Contest, the Delta Phi
Epsilon Sorority House and Joyce
Alpern of Savannah.
Two awards to adults who had
rendered outstanding service to
Hillel were made to Miriam
Thurman, assistant chaplain at
the University and to Mrs. E.
Michael, house-mother.
The following officers were in
stalled: Milton Jacobson of At
lanta, president; Patsy Braver of
Dalton, vice-president; Sandra
Isenberg of Brunswick, record
ing secretary; Marcia Topper of
Norfolk, Va., secretary and Nor
man Simowitz of Augusta, treas
urer.
Calan6ar
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the "Gaon” or genius of Roga-
shov, after the city of his birth,
was one of the most unique and
brilliant figures in the history of
Rabbinics. Possessed of an ency
clopedic mind, the Rogashov Gaon
could literally reel off volumes
from memory, as scholars who
knew him have testified. It was
said that he was his own library.
The Gaon of Rogashov died in
1936 at the age of 78, after hav
ing served the city of Dvinsk for
forty-seven years. He left behind
him a monumental four-volume
analysis of the works of Maim-
onides entitled “Tsofnath Pa-
anech” (The Explanation of the
Hidden) and a large body of
responses, replied to questions on
Jewish law. His greatest achieve
ment, however, were his “Com
mentaries.”
Rabbi Israel Alter Saffran-
Fuchs, successor tp the Goan in
the Dvinsk rabbinate, found the
document among the unpublished
papers of his predecessor. It was
in the form of marginal annota
tions on the texts of the Baby
lonian Talmud, the Jerusalem
Talmud, plus notes on a vast body
of Jewish law. In all, the work
consisted of 7,000 pages. Faced
by the mounting Nazi terror,
Rabbi Saffran-Fuchs engaged in
a desperate race against time to
preserve the manuscript.
Photographing it page by page,
he mailed it out piecewise in
small packages to his cousin, H.
Saffran, in the United States. He
managed to complete the job be
fore the Nazi fires reached their
fpll fury. In the holocaust that
followed, Rabbi Saffran-Fuchs
and his family, the descendants
of the Gaon and the inhabitants
of Dvinsk all perished. For
twelve years the existence of the
AZA f Cue June S
Members of AZA Chapter 134
lan to make their tenth annual
osher barbecue to be served
from 5 to 7 p.m. at Piedmont
Park Pavillion Wednesday, June
6, the “tastiest ever.”
Aleph Godol Jerry Blumenthal
said the proceeds support the
chapter’s charitable activities.
Tickets can be secured from any
chapter member for a dollar
each. Eddie Clein, VErnon 3700
is the ticket manager.
manuscripts was unknown here.
When it came to the attention of
Dr. Kasher, he brought it to Dr.
Belkin at Yeshiva University, and
the project for its publication was
formed.
DEADLINE
NOTICE
In order to give our printing
staff a vacation, we will print
two editions next week — the
issue of June 8 and June 15.
Thus, deadlines will be chang
ed: Tuesday morning for the
June 8 material and Wednes
day for the June 15 issue.
Presidents and publicity chair
man please take notice.
—THE EDITOR
NEWS in BRIEF
Palestine truce chief May. Gen.
E. L. M. Burns arrived Tuesday
from Jerusalem to attend the
UN Security Council session
which will act on Secretary Dag
Ilammarskjold’s report on his re
cent peace mission to the Middle
East. A high point of the pros
pective Council decision has been
the consulting—for the first time
— of the Soviet Union by the
West on any situation in the Mid
dle East. One advance paint of
unanimity with regard ta the
Middle East appeared to be a de
cision to increase the number of
observers from 40 to 61 . • •
President Eisenhower said at his
press conference about $16,000,-
000 worth of US munitions for
Arab states was approved last
August and indicated past and
future shipments came under this
deal. Shipments to Saudi Arabia
have included bombing planes,
tanks and other.
* * *
Charge of wide-pread discrim
ination among US contractors
and civil service employment has
been made by the American Jew
ish Congress. The complaints
pointed out that as a result of
Arab exclusion of American Jews,
American corporations hiring
workers for government contracts
to be performed in Arab Coun
tries refrain from hiring Jews.
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JUNE 3, Sunday:
1:30 P.M.—BB Youth Luncheon. Miss Sharon Blanch, National BBG
President Speaker. Progressive Club.
12-6 P.M.—Beth Jacobs Sisterhood Annual Fish Fry. Piedmont Park
Pavillion.
JUNE 6, Wednesday:
2:00 P.M.—Final Meeting, Atlanta Mizrachi Women. Or Ve Shalom
Synagogue Social Hall.
5-7 P.M.—Tenth Annual AZA 134 Kosher Barbecue. Piedmont
Pavillion.
7:00 P.M.—Abe Goldstein Testimonial Dinner, State of Israel Bonds
Committee. Sen. John Sparkman, Speaker. Mayfair Club.
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