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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1957
English-Jeivish Newspapers To Salute
J TA At 15th Annual Convention
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
fifteenth annual convention of the
American Association of English-
Jewish Newspapers will be held
at the Park Sheraton Hotel in
New York City, according to Ab
raham Slabot, association presi
dent and publisher of the Jewish
Ledger of New Orleans.
The three-day convention will
open with a .luncheon and a din
ner on June 13, Mr. Slabot said.
The dinner will be dedicated to
the 40th anniversary of the Jew
ish Telegraphic Agency, only
world-wide press service special
izing in Israeli and other news
coverage of Jewish concern. The
dinner will be the first in a se
ries of events scheduled during
1957 in observance of the JTA
anniversary.
Publishers-members of the As
sociation, representing 28 week
lies published in 22 states, will
consider current problems in both
editorial and advertising areas.
Mr. Slabot said.
Jewish readership, like general
readership, has been ‘‘profoundly
affected” by the shift to suburbia,
the association president said,
creating new problems for Eng-
lish-Jewish publishers in circula
tion and news coverage.
Workshops and business ses-
iens, officers’ report and election
of new officers will occupy the
publishers during the convention,
which ends Saturday June 15.
Israel Moves Towa
Of Eisenhower Doc.me
I
sement
Historians See Major Changes
In Jewish Community By 2000
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Ma
jor changes in the Jewish com
munity of the United States and
transformation of its religious
and cultural values were fore
cast here this weekend by two
well known historians of the
American Jewish scene.
In separate articles in the cur
rent National Jewish Monthly,
publication of B’nai B’rith, Profs.
Oscar Handlin of Harvard and
Jacob R. Marcus of Hebrew Un
ion College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, predict that under the
impact of suburban life, choking
off of immigration, decreasing
anti-Semitism, intermarriage and
pressures to conform to a non-
Jewish homogeneity, the Ameri
can Jewry which survives in the
year 2000 will be substantially
different from what it is today.
Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. Hand
lin asserts that “the danger is
not so much that the Jewish com
munity will disappear, but that
its culture will become a mu-
Ike Lauds Overseas
Writing in Letter
From Augusta, Ga.
President Eisenhower has placed
his endorsement on American
correspondence with people over
seas in a letter released upon the
occasion of “Letters from Ameri
ca Week” May 19-25.
The communication on White
House stationery was dated April
27, 1957, in Augusta, Ga. and ad-
dessed to Read Lewis, executive
Director, Common Council for
American Unity, Willkie Memo
rial Building, New York, the
sponsoring group sponsoring the
special week.
The President’s letter follows:
“Each American who writes to
someone abroad is a potential am
bassador of good will and under
standing. His letters can be filled
with natural discretions of our
country and its customs. No state
ments about the “American Way
of Life” made by government of
ficials have a better impact on
the people of other lands than
the personal accounts of individ
ual Americans writing from their
local communities about their
schools and homes and work.
“It is good to learn that the
Letters from American program
is being expanded by the Common
Council for American Unity.
This program is an adjunct to the
People-to-People Program begun
last year. Through it, private
citizens are encouraged to carry
on activities that officialdom is
far less able to do.
“During Letters from America
Week, May 1925, our citizens will
be reminded of the power of their
nands and hearts in the building
of a peaceful world. Their letters
are a force for good and I hope
more Americans will write to
their friends abroad.”
seum piece, preserved out of cu
riosity and ancestral piety, but de
void of meaning.”
Dr. Marcus, one-time president
of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, sees: “A tight
Jewish community will have to
come into being (and) a new fu
sion type of religion may well be
in the making.” He believes that
distinctions among the Orthodox,
Conservative and Reform wings
of Jewry will be erased by amal
gamation.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Israel Embassy was scheduled to
begin talks last week with State
Department officials on the word
ing of an Israeli declaration on the
Eisenhower Doctrine following
talks between Prime Minister
David Ben Gurion and special
presidential envoy James P. Rich
ards during his recent Middle East
tour.
With the Premier again taking
the lead in the face of opposition
from within his own Mapai party,
as well as his Mapam and Achdut
Avodah partners in the Coalition
Government, the problem appear
ed to be a question of wording
and timing.
Israel wanted to be certain that
the wording would be agreeable
to Washington as well as to the
opposition within the Israel Cab
inet. Spokesman for the two left-
wing parties reaffirmed their op
position to Israeli support of the
Eisenhower Doctrine but Mapai
sources discounted reports of any
Cabinet crisis.
The objections were based on
Scviet-Israeli considerations in
volving still-unabated Israeli
hopes that the Soviet Union might
yet permit open emigration of its
Jews to Israel.
Richards, returning from his
tour, made a nation-wide radio
and television address in which
he refrained from listing any spe
cific commitments made by the
Arab countries he visited.
He also refused to say at a
State Department press confer
ence later whether he had enter
ed any commitment to provide
military or economic aid to Israel
as part of any understanding on
the Elsenhower doctrine, asserting
that any statement on the matter
should come from Israel.
The envoy said that the State
Department decided to include
Israel on the Richards’ itinerary
after an invitation was received
from Israel. He also said that on
his tour ho had avoided discus
sions of such “regional disputes”
as the Gulf of Akaba, Arab refu
gees, Jordan River rights and
similar conflicts.
He expressed the opinion that
the Eisenhower Doctrine might
promote an atmosphere condu
cive to ultmate settlement of the
Arab-Israei disputes.
Despite Richards’ flat denial of
any commitments to send Saudi
Arabia a considerable quantity of
tanks, artillery pieces and jet
fighters. The same sources said
the commitment had been approv
ed by President Eisenhower as a
move to bolster King Hussein in
Jordan by strengthening Hussein’s
ally, King Saud.
Charles Blank Heads Augusta s
Drive for United Jewish Appeal
AUGUSTA — Charles Blank
has been named chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal in the Au
gusta area.
The local organization is join
ing immediately with the Feder
ation of Jewish Charities Inc.
throughout the nation in an ef
fort to raise $100,000,000 as a re
fugee rescue fund.
Other officers of the local cam
paign are David Silver, co-chair
man; Hill Silver, treasurer; Max
Estroff, initial gifts chairman;
Israel Bonds Plans Testimonial
Dinner for Medintz on June 12
Barney Medintz, one of Atlanta’s
outstanding citizens as well as a
leader in many national Jewish
organizations will be given a tes
timonial dinner, at 7 p.m. Wed
nesday, June 12 at the Progres
sive Club by the Atlanta Israel
Bond Committee, it was announc
ed this week by Ben J. Massell,
the committee’s general chairman.
Simultaneously, it was an
nounced that Dr. Irving L. Green
berg, prominent surgeon and civic
leader, had accepted the chair
manship of the Dinner Commit
tee Dr. Greenberg will have as
his co-chairman, Meyer L. Balser,
who served as head of the com
mittee for the Abe Goldstein
Testimonial Dinner last spring.
The announcement of the din
ner for Barney Medintz has
sparked intensive activity among
many of the community’s key
figures. The reaction was unani
mous:
“For Barney, I’ll go all out —
especially if it helps Israel.”
The reason for Barney Med-
intz’s popularity is explained to
a great extent by his record of
activity. But as one community
leader expressed it, “It’s not so
much that Barney takes a part
in all of these causes, but the
quality of his participation.”
A true leader, he has served
as president of the Atlanta Jewish
Community Council, Atlanta Fed
eration of Jewish Social Service,
Southeast Region Council of Jew
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds, B’nai B’rith Gate City
Lodge and the Progressive Club.
A member of the Atlanta Israel
Bond Committee since its incep-
Cantor's Daughter To Be Guest
At Bond Sponsors Tea May 28
Marilyn Cantor, talented daugh-
tei of the famed Eddie Cantor,
who is currently standing in for
her ailing father in his many ac
tivities in Israel’s behalf, will be
the special guest and principal
speaker at a Sponsors Tea at the
home of Mrs. Israel D. Shapiro,
2745 Ridgewood Road, N.W., it
was announced this week by Mrs.
Ben Golden and Mrs. Philip
Schwartz, chairmen of the Spon
sors Society of the Atlanta Israel
Bond Committee.
The tea will be the opening
event of the Women’s Division
of the Israel Bond Committee in
the 1957 Bond Drive. The Women
are headed this year by Mrs.
Shapiro with Mrs. Frank Garson
as Honorary Chairman.
Marilyn is the only one of the
celebrated five Cantor girls to go
into show business. Her entry in
to this crowded and competetive
field was not made on the basis
of her famous name, however,
but with hard work. A graduate
tion in 1951, Medintz has also
served as General Chairman of
the Jewish Welfare Fund.
Currently, Barney Medintz is
leading member of the Boards of
approximately 13 local and na
tional organizations and agencies.
Among these we firtd the United
Jewish Appeal of which he is
the State Chairman. Barney is
also a member of Board of Trus
tees of Ahavath Achim, the
Southern Regional Board of the
ADL, the Executive Committee of
the Atlanta American Jewish
Committee, the Committee of 100
of the Atlanta Community Chest,
the National Executive Commit
tee of the National Community
Relations Advisory Council as
well as the Council’s Committee
on the Middle East and the
American Jewish Committee’s
Committee on the Middle East.
Barney’s efforts have not gone
unrewarded, but chief among his
distinctions are the Distinguished
Service Award of the Atlanta
Post of the Jewish War Veterans
Howard P. Jolles, secretary and
the following executive commit
tee:
Sydney Carter, Philip Daitch,
Abe Fogel, Abe Friedman, Isa-
dore Itkow, Jake Isenberg, Mor
ris Marks, Harry Shapiro, Ike
Shapiro, Bernie Simowitz, Mau
rice Steinberg, Harry Steine, Louis
Pintchuck, Dr. Morton Witten
berg, Rabbi Norman Goldbuvg
and Rabbi Chaim Seiger.
Lee Blum and Sam Silverstein
were named honorary chairmen.
Commenting on the goal, Blank
said:
“The Emergency Rescue Fund
must be built up swiftly so at
least 100,000 victims of totali
tarian regimes in Europe and the
Middle East can be saved and
resettled in countries of the free
world, including Israel and the
U. S.”
“Under today’s Pharoah,
Egypt’s President Nasser, an en
tire Jewish Community of more
than 50,000 people is being ruth
lessly despoiled and dispersed,”
Blank added.
Turning to the tragic events in
Hungary, Blank noted that more
than 170,000 Hungarians have fled
into Austria from Soviet terror
and that more than 17,000 were
Jewish refugees.
Blank called for “maximum
support from the community for
all phases of the gigantic life
saving and freedom-building pro
gram” and announced the cam
paign would be kicked off this
month instead of later because of
“an emergency.”
MARILYN CANTOR
of the American Academy of
Dramatic Art, she’ served her ap
prenticeship traveling with road
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BARNEY MEDINTZ
and the Man of the Year Award
of the Gate City Lodge BB.
Taking on the chairmanship,
Continued on Page 4
September 30 Is
Deadline for Claims
Against Germany
Have you filed your claims
against the German Govern
ment?
If you are a victim of Nazi
persecution, you can claim un
der the German Indemnifica
tion law:
Compensation on account of
Loss of Life
Injuries to Health
Deprivation of Liberty
Damage to Property and to
Economic Prospects
This last claim includes the
loss of education through emi
gration.
The Jewish Social Service
Federation of Atlanta, which
works in close cooperation with
the United Restitution Organi
zation in New York, can facil
itate the filing of the claims
and also obtain further data
for persons eligible for compen
sation.
An extension of the dead
line is not expected. Contact
the office of the Jewish So
cial Service Federation, 41
Exchange Place, S.E., JAckson
5-4825.