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Friday. July 13, 1956
TOE
SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Seven
AT HOME IN ISRAEL WITH ANITA ENGLE
Sunshine and Candles
I was sitting at my typewriter,
writing about Benjamin Cooper,
the New York industrialist who
recently endowed Israel with a
school for Industrial Management.
I had just written his statement
“Israel must sell if it wants to
live,” when there w r as a knock
at the door.
Someone stood there whom I
had never seen before, but who
was not exactly a stranger to
me. It was Kalmon Sunshine,
and Mrs. Sun
shine who have
been in Israel
three weeks al
ready, but un
til they’d tak
en this week’s
holiday in Hai
fa, they hadn’t
stepped out of
Tel Aviv.
Mr. Sunshine has been devot
ing the whole time to one thing.
To seeing how he can help Is
rael manufacturers in his line
increase their exports to the
States.
A lot of preliminary work was
done before he came to Israel.
He already has some four
or five big distributors in the
States interested in forming a
company specially for the import
of candles and foodstuffs from
Israel. Now he is organizing
leading manufacturers in Israel
into a sister company to export
these products direct to the dis
tributors. Included are the well
established firms of Leiber Choc
olate, Assn, and the Menorah
Candle Co.
The distributors in America
would work in close cooperation
with the manufacturers in Israel,
keeping them in constant touch
with the requirements of the
American market.
“We could even supply them
with raw materials, if there was
an unexpected shortage,” Mr.
Sunshine explained. “Our aim is
to help the Government keep the
factories going.”
Mr. Sunshine is a Zionist, or
he wouldn’t be plugging Israel
exports when he can sell Ameri
can-made products with less
trouble to himself. But he is al
so a good business man, and he
maintains that selling Israel pro
ducts can be good business.
“The prices quoted by manu
facturers in Israel are not too
expensive,” he told me. “And the
quality is as good as anything you
can get in the States. If Israel
goods are sold at. uncompetitive
prices in the States, it’s because
1 of the excessive charges demand
ed by the middle men who hand
le the goods.”
“Now take candles,” said Mr.
Sunshine. (It wasn’t hard to see
that Mr. Sunshine has a particu-
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“When I came to Israel for the
first time four years ago, I chanc
ed to visit a candle factory. I
was shocked to find how few they
sold in America. When they told
me their prices, I realized why.
A box of Israeli Hannukah candl
es sold for fifty cents in the
States, competing with our lo
cally-made product, which sells
for twenty-five cents.”
Mr. Sunshine began to order
direct from the manufacturer in
Israel. He gave the Menorah
Candle Co. the specifications
that American women were used
to; he designed a box, and even
had included in the box the
prayer to be said when lighting
the candles.
He can sell his Israeli candles
for exactly the same price as the
American-made candles. Since
Mr. Sunshine visited Israel in
1952, Israel’s sale of Hannuka
candles alone has increased from
$15-$20,000 a year, to around
$65,000 a year. The export of
candles of every sort brings Is
rael something like $150,000 a
year.
“Bonds for building factories
are important, but Israel must
sell to live,” said Mr. Sunshine,
unconsciously echoing the New
York industrialist I was just
writing about.
“Can you imagine what it
would mean to Israel if every
Jewish woman in America lit
candles from Eretz Israel on Fri
day nights?”
As he spoke, I had visions of
Jewish homes all over America
aglow with the soft light of Sab
bath candles. Glowing with the
same light that women in Israel
kindle to welcome the Sabbath.
A chain of lights stretchinig
from the farthermost frontier
settlement in the Negev, to the
most isolated Jewish communi
ty in the Southern States. A
sort of Home Guard of Jewish
women, preserving, as they have
always preserved, the Jewish
home, and thus the Jewish peo
ple.
“My goodness, Mr. Sunshine,”
I said. “Someone should write a
poem about you!”
Come to think about it, maybe
someone has. Didn’t Shakespeare
once write: “See how yon cand
le casts its beam? So shines a
good deed in a naughty world!”
SHALOM V’ L’HITRAOT
“Naughty Marietta”
Next Offering
The Municipal Theater IJnder-
the-Stars will open a week’s run
of “Naughty Marietta,” Monday,
July 16, at the Chastain Park
Amphitheater.
Annamary Dickey and Erik
Rhodes will star in “The King
and I” through Saturday'at 8:30.
No Sunday performances are
given.
Yola Casselle, a petite brunette
who is recognized by musicians
and critics as the foremost lyric
soprano of California, is rehears
ing for the starring role of “Ma
rietta” daily and performing the
rple of Tuptim every night in
“The King and I.” Local audi
ences have beert thrilled by her
exciting voice in her current role.
Marvin Wordon will play op
posite her as the dashing Captain
Dick. He has appeared as tenor
soloist with many leading orch
estras, and for three years as
leading tenor with the Denver
Grand Opera Company and as
staff artist for NBC.
Taking the part of Lizette in
"Naughty Marietta" will be Gloria
Wallace, who deserted her career
on Broadway to play the role of
housewife, as her lifetime leading
man is Atlantan Donald C. Bow
en. Miss Wallace appeared on
Broadway and in the movie,
“Top Banana” and played the
subway circuit as the comedy
lead in “Top Banana” and “Gen
tlemen Prefer Blondes.”
Melton Moore, Blaine Cordner,
Rosalind Nadell and Glenn Ry-
man, who are currently appear
ing in “The King and I” will al
so play in “Naughty Marietta,”
Tickets sell for $1 and $2, box
seats for $3, at the Municipal
Theater Box Office in the Georg
ian Terrace Hotel ,at the Symph
ony Box Office in J. P. Allen’s
or at the Amphitheater before
the performance.
AUGUSTA NEWS
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Mr. and Mrs. L. Bogoslawsky
of Miami Beach are visiting their
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Ram of Aiken.
Miss Arlene Krasnoff, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kras
noff of Bishopville, S. C. was
elected “Miss Bishopville” in the
queen contest to reign in the air
show to spark the annual Hamp
ton Melon Festival.
Dr. Robert B. Grenblatt is one
of six out-of-state physicians tak
ing part in the 36th session of
the Southern Pediatric Seminar
being held at Saluda, N. C., July
9-28. The seminar is a postgradu
ate summer course in pediatrics,
internal medicine, obstetrics and
gynecology.
M. Tanenbaum, Inc., a jewelry
firm here has received a certifi
cate of honor from “National
Jeweler Magazine,” a trade pub
lication, for completing more
than 50 years of business. The
certificate awarded the firm in
dicates it is in recognition of
“faithful, conscientious, and con
tinuous public service in the jew
elry industry over the past half
century.
Savannah News
Cantor and Mrs. Paul Kavon of
Westbury, N. Y., are visiting Mrs.
Kavon’s mother, Mrs. Eunice
OdreZin Finn.
Mrs. Helen O. Steinberg of
Astoria, N. Y., is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Sara Odrezin.
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Cherkas
of Chicago are visiting Mrs.
Cherkas’ brother, Samuel Robin
son and Mrs. Robinson at Savan
nah Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Byron
Cherkas and son Marshall are
also visiting the Robinsons.
Yoeman Mitchell Segall was
among the members of the Arm
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what may have been the first
Jewish religious services ever
held on the Island of Formosa re
cently. This was the first re
corded Jewish service on the Is
land since there is no record of
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land.
Stuart Carl Levenson, son of
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