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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Jane 15, 1956
The Southern Israelite
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St., N. E., Atlanta 3, Georgia, TR. 6-8249, TR. 8240. Entered as
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NATION A l EDITORIAL
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American Association
of English-Jewish
Newspapers
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimcr, Margaret Merryman, Sylvia Kletzky
Karen Schiftan, Kathleen Neasc
Russian Visas for Two
Observation Groups
Word has come that Russia has issued visas for another
group of American rabbis to visit USSR. The first group, Or
thodox rabbis, will be led by Daniel B. Hollander. The second,
led by Rabbi Morris Kertzer of New York, director of religious
activities of the American Jewish Committee, will include
Conservative and Reform representatives.
We will welcome the findings about Soviet Jews by these
two groups, particularly in view of Russia’s about face, of
late, on the question of anti-Semitism. We suspect another
token group of immigrants will soon be permitted to leave
for Israel in the flush of the new Russian attitude of friend
ship. If it follows the pattern, the policy could be little more
than another propaganda set-up. We trust however that the
visiting rabbis will be able to discern the true picture and
eagerly await their observations.
THEY CHANGE THEIR MINDS
What would have been a shameful blot on the record of
the U. S. Senate was fortunately avoided last week, thus
bringing to a close a silent but stern controversy that raged
for some time.
Prior to the adjournment of the last session of Congress,
President Eisenhower nominated Simon E. Sobeloff as Judge
of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth District.
Several Southern senators blocked the President’s nomi
nation. But a Senate Judiciary sub-committee has now ap
proved Mr. Eisenhower’s recommendation.
Sobeloff, who is presently Solicitor General of the United
States, found himself unacceptable to the southern gentle
men because of his role in the Supreme Court desegregation
ruling. Had the Senate again blocked the President’s nomina
tion, it would have meant our legislators’ submission to a type
of reasoning that is repugnant to the basic principles of
Americanism. -^JEWISH FLORIDIAN, MIAMI
. . . In Brief
(Continued from pagr 1)
28.
The American Jewish Congress
has called upon the N. Y. State
Commission Against Discrimina
tion to make a broad inquiry
into employment discrimination
in the field of insurance. The
AJC also called upon the U. S.
to abandon its policy of “collab
oration with Arab bigotry” and
demanded that the lease for the
U. S. Air Base at Dharan con
tain iron-clad safeguards against
the exclusion of American mili
tary and civilian personnel of
Jewish faith at Dharan.
Rabbi Mendel Feldman, presi
dent of the Rabbinical Alliance
of America, has made a plea to
all Orthodox Rabbinic and Lay
groups to disassociate themselves
with the N. Y. Board of Rabbis
and the Synagogue Council of
America. Rabbi Feldman sound
ed his call at the 14th annual
convention of the Alliance at
Greenfield Park, N. Y.
Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of
the Hebrew Union College-Jew r -
ish Institute of Religion, announc
ed this week that, in order to keep
pace w i t h the "phenomenal
growth” of Reform Jewish con
gregations, his institution decided
to re-establish its New York
School as a full graduate school
with a five year program leading
to the ordination of Reform rab
bis.
The National Administrative
Council of the ZOA — the ruling
body of the Organization between
conventions, met in extraordinary
session last weekend at New
York’s Hotel Biltmore and dis
cussed the current political sit
uation relating to Israel as well
as the future of the Zionist move
ment in the light of the proceed
ings and decisions of the World
Zionist Congress. Dean Acheson
will deliver the commencement
address at the 5th Commence
ment Exercises at Brandies U.
Questions on the Middle East
and the Israel-Arab dispute ad
dressed to Adlai E. Stevenson are
being replied with copies of the
letter the Governor wrote re
cently to Irving M. Engel, Pres
ident of the American Jewish
Committee. In that letter, Steven
son wrote: “It seems to me that
America’s policy must be directed
positively, vigorously and quick
ly to arresting the frightening
tensions in the Middle East, not
only for the sake of Israel, but
its Arab neighbors as well. A
first step, as I have said before,
should be the restraining effect
of an equitable balance of armed
strength between Israel and her
neighbors.”
A midwestern religious Christ
ian publication, The Restitution
Herald, has this to say in its
current issue on “Understanding
Israel’s Viewpoint”: “We might
better understand Israel’s view
point concerning refusal to stay
away from her own borders if
we would imagine ourselves in
the same position. Syria tells
Israel that if she does not want
her people killed she should
keep them out of range. Suppose
that Mexico would suddenly de
cide that El Paso, Texas,* was
too close to the border, especially
since Texas once belonged to
Mexico. Mexico would set up
guns on her side of the border
and begin shelling anything that
moved on the Texas side. When
the U. S. protested, Mexico woirtd
say, ‘Well, tell your people to
move back out of range.’ This is
the kind of advice,” the publica
tion concludes its editorial, “the
United States and her friends are
giving Israel.”
Drew' Pearson: “Here are some
of the facts which Brtish intel
ligence has dug up: it was Ameri
can royalty money which actual
ly paid for part of the Red arms
which Egypt got from Czecho
slovakia. King Saud has offered
280 million dollars to Jordan dur
ing the next 10 years if it will
stay out of the Baghdad Al
liance.”
ington Declaration of President
The N. Y. Times; “The Wash-
Atlantan’s Father
Honored in Canada
TORONTA, Canada — David
Abramowitz, former Jewish news
paperman, was honored by the
Jewish community of Toronto
Monday — his seventieth birth
day — for almost sixty years of
devotion to the cause of Zion
ism.
Mr. Abramowitz, who now op
erates a haberdashery with his
son Oscar, has been a frequent
visitor to Atlanta where he has a
daughter, Dr. Harry Lahman.
His wife was killed in an auto
mobile accident in early 1955
while in Atlanta. He has another
son, Murray, also of Toronto.
Born in Roumania, Mr. Abram
owitz had joined the “Rabbi Aki-
va Zionist Society" in Bucharest
in 1897. He is currently honorary
vice president of Canadian Zion
ists, a distinction which climaxed
almost an entire lifetime of ac
tive participation in the move
ment. He w’as recently made a
life member of Sinai Masonic
Lodge in recognition of thirty-
five years’ membership.
Many leaders of Canadian Jew
ry served on the committee of
arrangements and were present
at the June 11 banquet held at
Beth Tzedec Banquet Hall. Fea
ture of the evening was the sub
scription by those in attendance
of a forest of trees in the Cana
da Forest in Israel in honor of
Mr. Abramowitz. His friends in
Georgia and Florida can partici
pate through contributions of
$1.50 a tree to the JNF, 651 Spa-
dina Ave., Toronto.
Homansky-Arons
SAVANNAH—Miss Linda Ann
Homansky, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Homansky, became
the bride of Edward Bernard
Arons, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
uel Arons of Plymouth, Mass.,
June 3 in the Agudath Achim
Synagogue. Rabbi Isadore Bar
nett officiated.
The bride was attended by
Carol Sherman as maid of Honor
and Mrs. Robert Litel of Plymouth,
matron of honor. The bridesmaids
were Joanne Alterman of Atlanta,
Diane Kaminsky of Miami and
Anita Kaminsky.
Robert Litel was his brother-
in-law’s best man, and ushers
were Joel Homansky, Jules Ho
mansky, Joseph Homansky and
Larry Homansky. Philip Homan-
sk,y, brother of the bride-elect,
was the ring bearer.
A reception was held in the
social hall after the ceremony.
Lois Homans and Elaine Karsman
registered the guests.
Eisenhower and Prime Minister
Eden is a great salvo fired for
the free side in the cold war.”
Says Robert S. Allen from Wash
ington: “Communist China is
credited with having at least 10
nuclear weapons. Both Czecho
slovakia and Red China have al
so been equipped with the bomb
ers, crews and technicians neces
sary for the employment -of the
A-bombs. ‘The nuclear weapons
have been turned over to Czech
oslovakia and Red China in such
a way as to permit their use,
while the Soviet w’ashes its hands
and says it’s not responsible for
that,’ Allen reports on a certain
“intelligence report.”
How times change! It is report
ed from London that a group of
British Members of Parliament
have presented to the Israeli
Knesset a massive bronze Men-
orah. Eliahu Hath, Israeli Am
bassador to Britain, received it
on behalf of his government. The
Candelabra is adorned with 28
high relief panels depicting
events in Jewish history from
the time of Abraham to the
present time.
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Scenes at Goldstein Dinner
Honoree Goldstein is shown with his wife talking to U. S. Senator
John J. Sparkman. The Alabama senator who was the principle
speaker, lauded the record of Israel’s progress and urged its support
through a positive U. S. foreign policy. The dinner, which broke all
records for sale of bonds for Israel, also marked the thirty-fourth
anniversary of the Goldsteins.
Honoree Goldstein with Meyer Balser, who served as chairman for
the dinner and who MC-ed the program, which broke all records
for Bond sales In Atlanta.
Here is another group of the notables at the Goldstein dinner—
1. to r. Mrs. Gussie Garson, Atlanta’s Mayor William B. Hartsfield,
Ben Massell, Atlanta Bond Committee chairman, and Mrs. L M.
Weinstein.
S. A. Silverstein
SAVANNAH — Samuel A.
Silverstein, 91, of Savannah,
died May 10. Funeral services
were held at the chapel of Sip
ple’s Mortuary on May 10. Rabbi
A. I. Rosenberg and Cantor Paul
Gerwerz officiated. Interment was
in Bonaventure Cemetery.
Mr. Silverstein was a member
of B. B. Jacob Synagogue.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. J. Minkoff, Savannah and
Mrs. Isadore Lesser, Charleston;
two sons, L. Leroy Silverstein
Charleston, and a sister, Mrs.
Temie Cohen, Savannah.