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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
VOL. xxxi
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1956
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Senate Votes to strike Brandeis Community Center Open House
Medal; Covers Cost of Salk Medal ^ .
"Come and See” Tours Start Sunday
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Senate passed a bill to strike a
medal commemorating the 100th
anniversary of the birth of the
late Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
The measure, which has been
sent to the House, provides that
3,000 medals be struck and fur
nished to Brandeis University.
Another bill passed by the Sen
ate provides for the reimburse-
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) —
The unanimous Security Council
approval of Morocco’s admission
to the UN — giving the Arab
bloc one more vote — was not
enough to compensate for the
series of bitter disappointments
which this July Tisha B’av sea
son brought upon the gasping
Arab leaders. They came as de
vastating thunderbolts from the
East as well as the West and
the so-called neutralist center.
Things just did not go right
for the Arabs.
Out of Moscow came news
that the Soviet Union was in
creasing its oil shipments to Is
rael. Leaders of the Arab world
—with the exception, possibly of
Nasser—were stunned! Said Le
banon’s Premier Abdullah Yaffi:
“One cannot but be astonished
by it at a moment when the
Soviet Union is multiplying its
advances toward the Arab coun
tries." The Soviet-Israel agree
ment was “eminently regrett
able,” he bemoaned.
Out of Washington came the still
more shocking news for the land
of the Nile that the U. S. was with
drawing its 56 Million-dollar
offer to help build the colossal
Aswam dam. A day later London
joined Washington in a similar
move. Could it be that President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State Dulles were finally waking
up to Nasser’s double-dealing
game? If so, it certainly took a
long time for the slumbering
State Department to act. And, as
a first move, they had to let
Byroade go. What a much-delay
ed action!
ment of $2,500 to Saul Lehman,
the head of a New York printing
firm, who advanced this sum to
the government to help pay for
the gold medal award to Dr. Jonas
Salk, discoverer of the anti-polio
vaccine. Mrs. Lehman agreed to
put up $2,500 to pay for the medal
after learning that Congress had
adjourned last year without mak
ing provisions to finance it.
by David Horowitz
Readers will recall that in last
week’s column “this writer ven
tured to predict that the United
States will put its foot down
and call for a halt and expose
the “Big (Arabian) Lie.” But he
expressed the fear that “this act
ion might come a little late —
on the very brink of disaster and
when U.S.’s as well as Israel’s
interests are threatened.” Having
commenced to act now, let us
trust that Washington will be con
sistent and realize also that the
arming of Israel is as important
to our defense as the security of
the Panama Canal and Alaska.
And so it seemed that there
was no end to Arab setbacks.
Gamal Abdel Nasser, meeting with
Tito and Nehru in Brioni, Yug
oslavia, failed to win the full
support of these veteran leaders
for his all-out anti-Israel pro
gram. All he got was a “Ban
dung” commitment, meaning not
destruction but just toleration of
the Jewish State. So a somewhat
dejected Nasser flew back to
Cairo only to meet a Ben-Gurion-
inspired Dag Hammarsjold who
further deflated the dictator’s ego
by calling upon him to make a
more serious effort in settling the
current differences with Israel by,
first, complying fully with the
Israel-Egyptian armistice agree
ment which, of course, includes
the lifting of the Suez Canal
Blockade to Israel-bound ships.
The Arabs, of course, have not
given up hope. They trust that
the present U. S.-British stand
on the Aswam dam is a tempo
rary one and that a Hitler-like
maneuver will bring about a
Members of Atlanta’s Jewish
community will have their first
chance to view their new Com
munity Center in its full glory
next Sunday between 10 a.m.
and 4 p.m. when the first of a
series of four “Come and See”
open house tours gets underway.
The distinctive modern bulding,
designed by Alexander & Roths
child, architects, is located at
1745 Peachtree Road, N. W. Ap
proached by a gently sloping and
curving driveway, the building is
three full stories of brick, mor
tar, steel, and plate glass con
structed to integrate interior and
exterior areas of the Center.
The building, which is com
pletely air-conditioned with the
exception of the psysical educa
tion department, features an AAU
regulation-size swimming pool, a
full-size gymnasium with tele
scopic bleachers seating 600, and
an acoustically-designed audi
torium seating 700. The auditori-
change. The Arab mind reasons:
“The U.S., like a fickle woman,
is known to change its policies
overnight, as in the Eisenhower
case of the 18 Saudi Arabian
tanks.” The Arabs, moreover,
are encouraged by certain state
ments in the U.S. press. Take, for
example, those made by the Alsop
brothers. Said they: “Dulles has
decided to take a downright
breathtaking risk, which may
have genuinely catastrophic con
sequences. The Dulles decision
will, at the most, mean Russian
domination of the whole Middle
East, and, at the least, the open
hostility of the most powerful
figure there.” It seems some in
America still find it wise to ap
pease the blackmailer.
Let us hope that Ike, unlike the
fickle woman, will remain firm
in his stand and let Nasser know
that he cannot continue to use
blackmail as a means of securing
genuine help. The Alsop brothers
have overlooked one important
factor — probably knowrf to the
U.S. Intelligence Service — and
that is that in the secret deal
which Nasser had entered into
with the Soviet Union there is an
understanding that Cairo should
continue to get as much aid as
possible out of the U. S.
While the going is good. The
purpose being to drain America
of her resources readying her for
the economic '“kill.” Yugoslavia
is one classical example. Let dip
lomats in Washington ask them
selves this question: “How much
of the military and economic aid
we are now giving the world will
eventually be used against us?”
KNOXVILLE — For the first
time in history, a Knoxville con
gregation is to have a new House
of Worship.
Temple Beth El broke ground
for its Kingston Pike edifice on
Sunday, July 15.
In the past, both Knoxville con
gregations have acquired former
church buildings.
Rabbi Jerome Mark of Lake
Charles, La., was guest speaker.
Mrs. I. Beiler, A. A. Levy and
um, which is adjacent to a fabu
lously modern, stainless steel,
kosher kitchen, can also be used
for dinners and dances.
Separate lounges and game
rooms are provided for all age
groups. Activities have been
planned to include every member
of the family “from 3 to 93,” ac
cording to Meyer Balser, presi
dent of the Center. Expected to
be especially popular with the
younger generation and their mo
thers is the modern nursery school
for 3- and 4-year olds.
Something entirely new and dif
ferent are the arts and crafts
workshop, complete with kiln, the
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Pres
ident Eisenhower’s appointment of
Solicitor General Simon E. So-
beloff as Judge of the U. S. Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals was fi
nally confirmed by the Senate,
overriding Southern opposition.
The vote was 64 to 19.
The issue beneath the South
ern opposition appeared to be Mr.
Sobeloff’s presentation before the
Supreme Court of the Administra
tion’s plan for carrying out the
court’s school desegregation de
cision. The response of his sup-
Harry Goldberger, oldest living
local members, and children of
the Temple participated in the
program, arranged under chair
manship of David Blumberg.
“We hope to have the new
building completed within a
year,” President Goldberger de
clared. Dr. M. K. Konigsberg and
Dr. H. J. Winston are building
committee co-chairmen.
The $219,000 building contract
was awarded on July 11.
Drama Workshop for amateur
Thespians, and the Camera Work
shop where shutterbugs can do
their own developing and print
ing.
A number of club rooms, one
seating as many as 200, will be
available for your organization's
use.
In addition to Sunday’s tour,
three more have been scheduled:
Wednesday, Aug. 1, 7-10 p.m.;
Sunday, Aug. 5, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.; and Tuesday, Aug. 7, 7-10
p.m. Your entire family is invited
to any or all of these open
houses.
porters was that he argued before
the court eleven months after the
decision and wasn’t even Solicitor
General when the court made its
original ruling in 1954.
On the roll call 35 Republicans
and 20 Democrats voted for con
firmation and 15 Democrats and 4
Republicans against. President
Eisenhower first submitted Sobel-
off nomination July 14, 1955, but
it was still bottled up in com
mute when Congress adjourned
the following month. The Presi
dent renominated Sobeloff Janu
ary 12 and the Senate Judiciary
Committee finally approved on
June 29. The Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals covers Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Mary
land and West Virginia. Mr. So
beloff, a Baltimore resident is a
former Chief Judge of Maryland
State Court of Appeals.
Long active in Jewish affairs,
Mr. Sobeloff is a former national
vice president of the American
Jewish Congress. He also served as
president of B’nai B’rith in Bal
timore, as well as president of
the Board of Jewish Education
there. He has been a member of
the board of directors of the As
sociated Jewish Charities in his
home city since 1925.
Geographic Globe - Full Color ■ Offered
An interesting, educational bright geographic globe
is now available to new subscribers to The Southern
Israelite for a limited time.
This sparkling premium is being offered with a
new subscription to both our newspaper and maga
zine for $5 ($5.15 in Georgia) in a mail campaign now
being conducted, according to Adolph Rosenberg, edi
tor and publisher.
Similar to full color globes which sell for two and
three dollars, the premium is made possible because
no commission is being paid to salesmen or to organi
zations. A coupon is printed on page 6 of this news
paper.
A geographic globe is a wonderful school auxiliary
for children, Mr. Rosenberg added. Nice for adults
too to follow the news in modern fashion. The globe
can be picked up in person at The Southern Israelite
offices or mailed for 35c.
AT THE UNITED NATIONS
Arabs Have A Bad Week
Knoxville’s Beth El Breaks Ground
For New $219,000 Facilities
3,300 Immigrants Land in Israel in
One Day; No Restrictions Planned
JERUSALEM, July 23, (JTA) — Reports in the press that the
Israel Government and the Jewish Agency have discussed restricting
emigration of Jews from North Africa were flatly denied in Parli
ament by Premier David Ben Gurion.
The Premier was also asked in Parliament whether the government
plans to take any action on the halting of Jewish emigration by the
authorities in Morocco. He replied that this question could not be dis
cussed at a public session of Parliament at the moment.
Meanwhile, a total of 3,300 immigrants landed in Hal£i today,
with most of them coming from North Africa. They were transferred
from the ships which brought them to settlements previously prepared
for them in various parts of the country.
F.B.I. DIRECTOR HOOVER CHARGES
KHRUSHCHEV WITH ANTI-SEMITISM
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The charge that Nikita Khrushchev,
leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, had instituted in
the Ukraine, under Stalin, some of the “most extreme” anti-Semitic
measures, was voiced here yesterday by J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a television interview.
The anti-Jewish measures instituted at Khrushchev’s behest were
“far more stronger in many respects than those of Hitler’s” Mr. Hoover
stated. He warned against the present Soviet rulers and emphasized
that Khrushchev had served under Stalin for 26 years. This was the
first televised news interview given by the FBI chief since he entered
government service some forty years ago.
Senate Approves Sobeloff;
Opposition Looses 64 to 19
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