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VOL. XXXI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1956
090
NO. 23
Stalin Did It, ''Doctors Plot,”
Khrushchev Tells Party
Atlanta RespOk^s Generously
To UJ A Special Fund Appeal
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
State Department last week re
leased the full text of the speech
which Nikita Khrushchev de
livered at the Communist Party
congress in Moscow on February
24, denouncing Josef Stalin and
revealing that it was Stalin him
self who had fabricated the no
torious “doctors plot” in which
eleven doctors were arrested on
charges of serving as “agents” of
American Jewish organizations
and plotting against the Soviet
regime.
"Let us recall the ‘affair of the
doctors-plotters,’ ” Mr. Khrush
chev is quoted as telling the
Communist Party congress. “Ac
tually there was no ‘affair’ out
side of the declaration of the
woman doctor Timashuk, who
was probably influenced or or-
Southern JWB
Board Meets June 16
The Board of Governors of the
Southern Section of the National
Jewish Welfare Board will con
vene in Atlanta on Saturday and
Sunday, June 16-17, 1956, to chart
the work of JWB in the South
during the coming year, it was
announced by David H. White of
Houston, President of the South
ern Section.
Serving on this Board are pres
idents and board members of Jew
ish Community Centers in the 11
Southern States. Atlantans who
are included in this group are:
Mrs. Sam Alterman, Max Feld
man and Meyer Balser. Mary
Joel Weil, program director of
the Atlanta Jewish Community
Center, is an elected representa
tive of the Southern Chapter of
the National Association of Jew
ish Center Workers on the Board
of Governors.
The Board is expected to set
priorities in meeting the mount
ing requests for field service
from the Jewish Community
Centers in the Section, and from
communities in which Jewish
Centers are being formed.
Principal speaker at the open
ing session of this meeting, which
will take place at the Mayfair
Club, at 7 p.m., Saturday, June
16, will be Sanford Solender, di
rector of the Jewish Community
Center Division of JWB.
He will discuss “The Leadership
Responsibility of The Jewish
Community Center To The Total
Jewish Community.” Mr. Solen
der is nationally recognized as a
leader and authority in the field
of Jewish and general social
work.
In addition, consideration will
be given by the Board of Gover
nors to plans for the Annual Con
ference of the Southern Section
in Memphis on November 3-4,
1956.
Vandels Desecrate
Jewish Cemetery
Near Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH, June 4, (JTA)
—A gang of vandals broke into
a Jewish cemetery in the nearby
town of Homerville, West Mifflin,
last week and caused $10,000
worth of damage, it was report
ed here this week-end.
Eighty-six tombstones were
overturned and broken and grave
sites were ripped up and plants
trodden into the ground, police
reported. West Mifflin Borough
police, who estimated the cost of
the damage, asserted that a gang
must have been involved since
the extent of the damage was
too great for one or two persons
to have accomplished.
dered by someone to write to
Stalin a letter in which she de
clared that doctors were apply
ing supposedly improper meth
ods of medical treatment.
“Such a letter,” Mr. Krushchev
continued, “was sufficient for
Stalin to reach an immediate
conclusion that there are doctors-
plotters in the Soviet Union. He
issued orders to arrest a group
of eminent Soviet medical spec
ialists. He personally issued ad
vice on the conduct of the invest
igation. This ignominous ‘case*
was set up by Stalin; he did not,
however, have time in which to
bring it to an end. He died just
in time for an honest examina
tion to be made of the case. As
a result, all the doctors are still
alive and back at their former
jobs.”
Second Group of
Rabbis to Visit USSR
NEW YORK, (JTA) — An
other group of six American
rabbis, representing Reform and
Conservative congregations, have
been granted Soviet visas, it was
announced here. Led by Rabbi
Morris Kertzer of New York, di
rector of religious activities of
the American Jewish Committee,
the group will be permitted to
visit the USSR for the purpose
of studying Jewish religious life
there, the announcement said.
Similar permission was given
earlier to a group of American
Orthodox rabbis.
Louis E. Wolfson, Jewish alum
nus of the University of Georgia,
last week presented each mem
ber of the 1956 class with a share
of common stock worth approx
imately $18.
The thousand graduates re
ceived the surprise gift the day
Seminary Graduates
29 of 72 To Be Rabbis
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Seven
ty-two graduates of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of Ameri
ca were given certificates and
degrees at the 62nd annual com
mencement exercises here at the
Seminary. Eight honorary degrees
weer awarded. At a meeting of
the Seminary’s Board of Over
seers’ held in connection with the
commencement, Sen. Herbert H.
Lehman was re-elected chairman
of the board.
The honorary degrees were
awarded to Horace Stern, Chief
Justice of the Pennsylvania Su
preme Court, -who received an
honorary Doctorate in Letters;
and Rabbis Herman Hailperin,
Abraham Heller, Benjamin A.
Lichter, Joseph Miller, Arthur
Neulander, Morris Schussheim
and Morris Silverman, who re
ceived degrees of Doctor of Di
vinity.
Twenty-nine of the Seminary
graduates were ordained “rabbi,
teacher and preacher.” Among the
new rabbis is Abraham David
Feffer, a Polish Jew who sur
vived in the Nazi concentration
camps. He was saved by advanc
ing American forces and subse
quently served as an interpreter
with the Army. He came to the
United States ten years ago. Rab
bi Feffer will shortly enter an
Army chaplain’s school and will
serve as a chaplain with the
Army “to repay a debt for my
life.”
A little known story of the news
behind the headlines was releas
ed this week when the office of
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund
made known the results to date
of the campaign in behalf of the
Special Fund for UJA. It is a
story international in scope—de
monstrating the impact of events
far across the seas upon our own
lives.
“In the whiter of 1955,” states
the release, “the United Jewish
Appeal foresaw the handwriting
on the wall — it recognized the
increasing pressures that were
being used against Israel by its
Arab neighbors to stifle Israel’s
economy, to continue warlike acts
of infiltration, commando raids
and boycott — and the developing
emergency in North Africa.
“The UJA, along with other
organizations, realized the desir
ability of full equality and rights
of citizenship for Jews in North
Africa. The UJA, however, also
recognized the realities of the sit
uation. It felt that promises alone
could not overcome a long record
of treatment of the Jews in the
light of the experience of actual
relationships.
“Except for Algeria, the Jews
in every other port of North Af
rica were second class citizens
whp continued to live in misery
and degradation in the mellahs,
which are the ghettoes of North
Africa. Those who were familiar
with these conditions were con
vinced that emigration was the
of their commencement. It is in
Mr. Wolfson’s Merritt-Chapman
and Scott Corp., of which he is
president and chairman of the
board.
Mr. Wolfson who played foot
ball on the U. of Ga. team has a
daughter at Athens now. She has
just completed her freshman year
of study. Mr. Wolfson himself Is
know in the financial world for
having parlayed a junk yard in
to a fortune. He is remembered
also for his unsuccessful fight
to gain stock control of Mont-
gomery-Ward and for his associ
ations with the transit system in
Washington.
Mr. Wolfson who believes in
the broad ownership of industry,
explained the unprecedented
graduation gift as “a token of
my conviction that the American
democratic system is the world’s
News In Brief
by DAVID HOROWITZ
B’nai B’rith has adopted a 10-
point program to combat juvenile
delinquency, according to an an
nouncement by Sidney G. Gus-
worm of Dayton, Ohio, chairman
of the B’nai B’rith National Cit
izenship and Civic Affairs Com
mission. The same problem, name
ly, the unchecked growth of ju
venile delinquency and the social
implications of automation, re
ligions education in the public
schools, will receive top priority
by the more than 500 rabbis who
will attend the 67th annual con
vention of the Central Conference
of American Rabbis at the Ritz-
Carlton Hotel at Atlantic City,
N. J., from June 25 through June
(Continued on page 4)
one real hope for the Jews of
North Africa in their effort to
liberate themselves from century
old conditions.
“In these days, when one thinks
of the necessity of Jews migrat
ing, the one country that comes
to mind is Israel. In the face of
all dangers confronting it, the
borders of Israel still remain
open to all who want to come
and who need the freedom and
security of being among their co
religionists.
“The UJA knew that Israel had
to concentrate all its resources
building its defense against aggres
sion and could not afford any
expense in its budget for the ab
sorption of immigrants and their
rehabilitation— so they embark
ed upon a special fund campaign
for the purpose of raising $25
million — over and above the
regular 1956 campaign require
ments.
“The special fund appeal was
predicated upon the basic as
sumption that anyone who would
make a contribution toward this
emergency fund would do so with
the understtanding that he would
not reduce his contribution to
the regular campaign — and
would at least hold to the level
of his 1955 giving.
‘‘Toward the end of 1955, un
der the chairmanship of Ben J.
Massell, Atlanta initiated its
Special Fund Emergency Cam
paign among contributors in the
middle and upper brackets of
chief hope for peace and decen
cy.” He was not on hand to pre
sent the stock himself. Each
share of stock, which bore the
name of the recipient, was ac
companied by a personal letter.
giving. The committee was for
tunate in being able to enlist the
services of Golda Myerson, Min
ister of Labor in the Israel cab
inet who visited Atlanta soon af
ter the first of the year. Mrs.
Myerson helped Atlanta launch
its campaign during her visit.
“Atlanta’s effort toward the
emergency campaign has now
reached a total of close to $120
thousand — and this is over and
above the regular campaign
which now reached the sum of
more than $630 thousand — as
compared to last year’s total of
$624 thousand — and this is still
incomplete.
“While figures are important
in that they measure the tangible
contributions of our Atlanta Jew
ish community — what is even
more important is the great sense
of responsibility that they rep
resent on the one hand — and
the very real contribution to hu
man life that they represent on
the other.
“It is easy to speak in round
numbers and about general situ
ations, but that iB all the more
reason that we must never forget
that it i3 all made possible by
individual actions. Each contrib
utor had to apprise himself of
the facts, to make himself familiar
with the needs and the urgency
of the situation, to convince him
self that the need was real, im
portant, worthwhile — and then,
in turn, to determine the extent
to which his individual circum
stances would enable him to par
ticipate in the venture.
“On the other hand, each indi
vidual or family unit which was
helped to relocate in a new land
was a separate entity — even as
we are both individuals and part
of our community group. We be
lieve it was the ability of the
members of our community to
visualize the situation in person
alized terms that contributed in a
large measure to the success of
our project.”
Israel Consul Nahum Astar of Atlanta presents a placque in behalf
of the national Israel Bond set-up to Abe Goldstein. This was one
of the highlighths of the Testimonial Dinner given for Mr. Goldstein
at which a total of $176,000 in bonds was subscribed. (See additional
photos on page 4.)
Thousand U. of Ga. Graduates Receive
Share of Stock From Louis Wolfson