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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry — Establi'*'
XXXII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1957
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NO. 35
60th ZOA Convention In New York North A ...ia Rabbis
To Have Truman As Speaker Hail School Integration
By David Horowitz
NEW YORK, (AJP) — Judging
by the hum of beehive activities
at the ZOA headquarters here—
which the writer visited this week
—the 60th Anniversary Conven
tion of the Zionist Organization of
America — opening at the Wald
orf-Astoria Hotel on Thursday,
September 12 and concluding the
15—promises to be the most signi
ficant and historic in the annals
of the Zionist movement here.
In the light of the recent crit
ical Middle East developments, the
pro-Soviet coup in Syria in the
face of the Eisenhower Doctrine,
the internal political strife in Is
rael itself, the Goldman-Ben Gur-
ion feud, coupled with the local
rise of the new American Jewish
League for Israel, the ZOA Con
vention, Zionist leaders contend,
is faced with its most critical
challenge since the inception of
the movement before the turn of
the century.
To meet this challenge, the ZOA
leadership is expected to present
to the Diamond Jubilee Conven
tion an ambitious program for
the coming year- One of the high
lights of this program will con
cern Aliyah for Jewish youths.
To foster this endeavor, Dr. Eman
uel Neumann announced the for
mation of a national committee
of both Zionist and Jewish lead
ers to sponsor special scholarships
for young American Jews for a
year of work and study in Israel.
The ZOA, it was learned, intends
to go all out on this vital phase.
The Convention is also expected
to take action on a stepped-up
program on educational and cul
tural activities with special em
phasis given to establishing a bet
ter and a more friendlier pro-
Zionist attitude among Israelis.
Former President Harry S. Tru
man, who is scheduled as one of
the main speakers along with Lord
Russell of Britain and Ambas
sador Abba Eban, is expected to
deliver an important political ad
dress challenging the Eisenhower
Administration to take immediate
action on the whole Palestine
question through the UN. Inform
ed sources say that he will bitter
ly criticize our government for
lack of foresight and for failing
to do anything definite in meeting
the octopus-like Soviet menace.
He will then proceed to outline a
practical U.S. policy for the Mid
dle East.
Delegates from all parts of the
country, realizing the historic
significance of this Convention,
are already beginning to stream
into metropolitan New York. The
ZOA headquarters, in all its de
partments, has taken on the semb
lance of a center of a major pol
itical party during a Presidential
campaign. Besides a steady flow
of out-of-town visitors, tele
grams and letters are flooding the
offices and the wires are busy
throughout the day-
To this writer it appeared that
the leadership of the ZOA, in a
combatant mood, is determined on
a Zionist revival such as has never
been witnessed before in the 60
years of the movement. And bas
ed on the preparatory work and
planning put into the Convention,
the revival may well become a
reality.
Atlanta Religious School Teachers
Conference Set for AJCC Sept. 8th
All arrangements have been
completed for the third annual
religious school teachers confer
ence and get-together in Atlanta
on September 8.
Arrangements have been made
by the Atlanta Bureau of Jew
ish Education and the educational
directors of the Jewish Schools of
Atlanta, according to Mrs. A1
Smiley, chairman of the Jewish
Religious School Teachers Com
mittee. Mrs. Smiley announced
the event will take place at 8 p.m.
Sunday at the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center.
Mrs. Carol Porter will act as
conference chairman and the
school faculty of Congregation
Beth El will serve as hosts. The
conference committee includes
Mrs- Miriam Belger, Martin Fels,
Miss Stella Franco, Miss Sylvia
Hochbaum, Louis Pitt, Jack Rous-
so, Mrs. Abe Shurgin, Mrs. Al.
Smiley and Miss Lillian Warshaw.
The evening program will open
with a panel discussion on “Com
mittments of the Jewish Teacher."
The moderator will be Rabbi
Joseph Cohen. Jacob Salz, Edu
cation director of the Temple, will
discuss, “Our Personal Commit
ments;” Alex Kaminetsky, edu
cation director of Congregation
Ahavath Achim, will discuss, “Our
Commitments to the Home,” Irv
ing Fried, director of the Hebrew
Academy, will discuss, “Our Com
mitments to the Children;” Joseph
Shuchatowitz, principal of the He
brew Institute, will discuss, “Our
Commitments to the Community."
Samuel H. Rosenberg, Executive
Director of the Bureau, will lead
the discussion which will follow
the panel.
The panel discussion will be fol
lowed by square dancing and the
serving of refreshments.
The education directors and the
religious school teachers commit
tee are urging the full participation
of their staffs and colleagues and
“assure them a satisfying even
ing of education and sociabilty.”
The committee emphasized that
this conference “serves a three
fold purpose: It will clarify and
deepen our understanding of our
responsibilities to ourselves, to
the children, to the home and to
the community; it will give us the
opportunity to exchange ideas re
lating to the religious school and
it will highlight the spirit of fel
lowship and cooperation that
exists amongst the teachers of the
different schools in our commun
ity."
WILDACRES, N. C., (JTA)—A resolution approving “whole-heart
edly and unstintingly” the actions of the school boards of three North
Carolina cities which had decided to comply with the United States
Supreme Court’s desegregation decision was adopted unanimously this
week-end by the North Carolina Association of Rabbis. The rabbis have
just completed their week’s retreat here.
The desegregation resolution commended the school boards of Char
lotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, and expressed the hope that
similar action would be taken soon by school districts throughout this
state-
Another resolution by the rabbis expressed opposition to a bill now
before Congress on the grounds that it would interfere with the
slaughtering of animals in accordance with Jewish religious precepts.
Knoxville’s Temple Beth El
Dedication This Weekend
Knoxville — Congregation Beth
El members will dedicate their
new House of Worship this week
end in a series of special pro
grams.
On the program for Friday
evening services, Sept- 6:
Processional of Torah Bear
ers: Lester Popkin and Dr.
George Finer, vice presidents;
Albert A. Levy and Harry Gold-
berger, honorary vice presidents;
Seymour Gerson, and Harry
Gluck.
Invocation and Ark Service:
Kindling of Perpetual Light; Dr.
Maurice Konigsberg, co-chairman
building committee, and Mrs. I.
Beiler, honorary vice president
of the Sisterhood.
Blessing of Menorahs: Dr. Her
bert Nash, Brotherhood president,
and Dr. E. E. Miller, chairman-
Lighting the Temple: Edward
Reich, fund raising.
Presentation of Keys: Dr.
Harold Winston, chairman, build
ing committee.
Acceptance of Keys: Melvin T.
Goldberger; Congregation presi
dent.
Kindling of Sabbath Lights:
Mrs. E. E. Miller, Sisterhood pres
ident.
Reading of the Sabbath service:
Rabbi James A- Wax, Temple Is
rael, Memphis; Rabbi William B.
Silverman, Temple, Nashville;
Rabbi Lou H. Silberman, Hillel
professor of Jewish Literature
and Thought, Vanderbilt Univer
sity, Nashville.
Dedicatory sermon: Rabbi Jay
Continued on Page 4
Anti-Semitic Whispering Campaign
Becomes Factor In Bonn Elections
BONN, (JTA)—West Germany
goes to the polls on September
15 to elect a new Bundestag, the
Lower House of the German
Parliament, and the expectations
today were that the Christian
Democratic Union (CDU) headed
by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer,
and the Social Democratic Party
(SDP) would attract more than
three-fourths of the entire vote-
Hence the electoral struggle is
being fought with mounting heat
and reports from various sections
of the country indicated that at
tempts were being made to create
opposition to the Social Demo
crats by falsely labelling Erich
Ollenhauer, leader of the party,
as a Jew. A word-of-mounth
campaign stressed that "good Ger
mans” could not support a party
which might nominate a Jew as
Chancellor.
In the first court case involv
ing this whispering campaign, an
official of Chancellor Adenauer’s
party offered a formal apology
for having represented Dr. Ollen
hauer as a Jew and the national
executive manager of the party
followed this up by expressing
regrets to the Social Democratic
leader for the “ludicrous and
stupid assertion.”
These apologies followed action
by the Social Democratic Party
in Aachen against Enrich Rade-
macher of the CDU. The public
prosecutor indicted Rademacher
for insulting Dr. Ollenhauer. Prior
to the opening of the proceedings,
however, the defendant, on in
structions from national CDU
headquarters, proferred an apo
logy and the Social Democrats
deferred pressing the criminal
complaint pending formal repudia
tion by CDU of the anti-Semitic
innuendos. This was forthcoming
with Dr. Heck’s letter to Dr.
Ollenhauer.
In the Bundestag elections four
years ago, Dr. Ollenhauer was
constrained to prove his “Aryan”
origin. In the 1953 elections, the
anti-Semitic appeal was restricted
to provincial areas but took forms
which lent themselves to reply-
In this election, however, the anti-
Semitic theme has been carried
by word-of-mouth and has been
most difficult to check.
A paradox in the situation has
been, that the only reply has been
to sue on the grounds that a state
ment that a man is a Jew is libel
ous and insulting. But the Social
Democratic campaign directors
are aware that to ignore the
whispering campaign and not reply
to charges that their leader is
Jewish would cost them heavily
in votes.
Center Athletes Make Up Nearly Half of U.S. Team in 5th Maccabiah Games
TEL AVTV, Israel: — Jewish
Community Center athletes, in
cluding many who starred in Nat
ional Jewish Welfare Board inter-
Center tournaments, constitute
nearly half of the American team
in the 5th World Maccabiah
Games which gets under way
here Sept. 15 and continues
through Sept. 24. There are 47
Center athletes from 23 different
Centers representing the United
States. The American team is
sponsored by the U- S. Committee
for Sports in Israel, whose chair
man, Col. Harry D. Henshel, is
also chairman of JWB’s Armed
Services Division and vice-chair
man of JWB’s National Health
and Physical Education Commit
tee.
The American volleyball entry
is made up entirely of players
from the Westside JCC, Los Ang
eles, winner of the 1957 JWB
.volleyball title, and from the
Lynn, Mass., JCC. The Los Ang
eles contestants are Jack Backer,
Harry Cohen, Raymond Cone,
Paul Green, Gene Selznick, Ber
nard Holtzman and Leonard Reif-
man. The Lynn entries are Jack
Stahl, Leonard Luther, Herb
Chandler, Mel Ossoff and George
Gushen, and Max Kremen, coach-
manager.
Other Center participants are:
Paul Ash, wrestling, Tucson JCC;
Paul Howard, swimming, West-
side JCC, Los Angeles; David
Kurland, swimming, New Haven
JCC; John Halpern, track and
field, New Haven JCC; Barbara
Chesneau, swimming, Greater Mi
ami JCC; Robert Friedman, swim
ming, Pittsburgh YM - YWHA;
Stewart Greenberg, swimming,
Greater Miami JCC; Don Gold
stein, basketball, Louisville JCC;
Ralph Goldstein, basketball,
Detroit JCC; Mickey Winograd
and Sid Levy, basketball, Jersey
City JCC; Jerry Zwirn, swim
ming, 92nd St. YM-YWHA; Eu
gene Adler, swimming, Union
Temple Center, Brooklyn; Her
man Antonoff, swimming, Beth
Elohim Temple House, Brooklyn;
Sid Cohen, basketball, Williams
burg YM - YWHA; Jane Katz,
swimming, Jewish Settlement
House of the East Side, New York;
Paul Kravitz, track and field,
92nd St. YM - YWHA; Allan
Abramson, swimming, Jamaica
Jewish Center; Ruth Abramson,
swimming coach, Jamaica Jewish
Center; Allan Seiden, basketball,
Hillcrest JC, New York; Henry
Laskau, walking, 92nd St. YM-
YWHA; Morris Goldman, trainer,
Port Chester N. Y., JCC; Harold
Swidler, track and field, Harris
burg JCC; Allan Frank, basket
ball, Pittsburgh YM-YWHA; Jack
Morris, swimming coach, Pitts
burgh YM-YWHA; Bernard Kap-
ner, basketball, Houston JCC;
David Reisbord, track and field,
Los Feliz JCC Los Angeles; Linda
Simon, track and field, both Jam
aica JC; Neel Morgan, track and
field, Temple Beth El Center,
New Rochelle; Sigo Falk, swim
ming, Pittsburgh YM-YWHA; Ar
thur Ravitz, wrestling, Easton,
Pa-, JCC, and Frank Weiss, bas
ketball, Bensonhurst JCH, Brook
lyn, N.Y.
Many JWB and Center leaders
were active in organizing the
American team through their
participation in the U. S. Commit
tee for Sports in Israel. Vice-
chairmen of the Committee in
clude Charles L. Omstein, who
heads JWB’s Health and Physical
Education Committee; Philip
Schiff, director of JWB’s Wash
ington office; Harold Zimman,
Lynn, and Henry Wittenberg, New
York.
Serving the board of the Com
mittee are Leon M. Ginsberg,
Baltimore; Rabbi Philip Good
man, Philip M. Klutznick, Louis
Kraft, Maj. Gen. Melvin L- Krule-
witch, Robert Morrison, Edward
Rosenblum, Washington, D. C.;
Sanford Solender and Mike Rand.
The later, director of JWB’s De
partment of Health and Physical
Education, was particularly act
ive in developing the American
team. A number of Centers helped
raise funds to underwrite the cost
of sending the American athletes
to Israel.