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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
The Southern Israelite
Published Weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 390 Courtland
St„ N. K., Atlanta 3, Georgia, TR. 6-8249. TR. 6-8240, Entered as
second class matter at the post office, Atlanta, Georgia under the Act
of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscription five dollars. The Southern
Israelite Invites literary contributions and correspondence but is not
to be considered as sharing the views expressed by writers. DEAD
LINE Is 12:30 P.M., TUESDAY, but material received earlier will have
a much better chance of publication.
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Margaret Merryman, Sylvia Kletzky
Karen Hurtig, Kathleen Nease
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AS WE ENTER THE YEAR 1958
OPINIONS IN TIIE PRESS
DULLES’ PERFORMANCE
The recital delivered by Secretary Dulles, accompanied by a few-
vague, indistinct notes from President Elsenhower, destroyed any
remnant of excuse for Dulles’ continuance as Secretary of State. We
heard the performance with incredulity and heavy heart. In the brief
moments slotted to him, the President spoke with his usual earnest
ness and sincerity about Ills quest for peace. But it must have been
plain to any listener anywhere in the world that Dulles was treating
the President and the rest of us as If we were small children Incapable
of differentiating fact from fraud. Rarely has Dulles more clearly de
monstrated why he Is distrusted on both sides of the Iron Curtain,
and why his retirement Is Indispensable to the revival of any effective
free world diplomacy. In one sense Dulles was a new man. He pre
tended to have understood all along that "sabre-rattling” was bad
International politics; he sunned himself In the reflected spotlight of
Elsenhower’s palpably peaceful intentions. But once he had paid his
respects to the protocol of the occasion, he ugain unveiled himself as
the futile Machiavelll of the Western world . . . The things both Ike
and Dulles left unsaid were innumerable in the light of the reversals
we have suffered on so wide a front. But what Dulles said established
beyond dispute that we cannot regain any position of cmminrncc and
trust in the world until he is retired from his post.
—NEW YORK POST
BANKRUPT POLICY
. . . Our foreign policy is bankrupt*—in China, in the Middle East
and In Germany. Our scientists are being outstripped by Soviet
scientists. Until recently, our inept diplomacy was at least offset to
some extent by our presumed pre-eminence in physical power. Now-
even that illusion is gone. The world of John Foster Dulles — the
world in which a toothless UN was expected harmlessly to confine
itself to discussion and debate, while powerful military alliances con
tracted under Article 51 could be relied upon to preserve the peace—
that world is gone forever. Our ullianccs are not only crumbling. They
are becoming a source of acute danger . . . How long are w e going to
continue to fool ourselves? How long is it going to take us to realize
that there is only one road to security and that this road leads through
the establishment of world law enforced by a world organization that
not only possesses teeth but the authority and the will to use them?
—JAMES P. WARBURG, The Churchman
CAIRO A YEAR LATER
The UNEF is in Egypt by Nasser's consent to prevent trouble
along a line the Egyptians were unable to hold during the fighting
of late October and early November, 1956. If the UN soldiers were
not ramped on the shore of the Sharm al Sheikh, commanding the
Gulf of Aqaba, the Israeli would probably be there instead. If the
Gaza Strip and its unhappy refugees and inhabitants were not like
wise shut off by the moral force of the UN police there would be no
rest or safety on either side of that frontier. President Nasser accepts
this situation, a well as he might. But though the Egyptian Govern
ment will put up with UN aid to the extent that this suits its purposes
it is not backing down from the positions it vainly tried to uphold
by armed force a year ago. Defeated in the field, it clings to its rhet
orical victory. Mr. llammarskjold will therefore be told, so our Cairo
correspondent reports, that the Nasser regime will not concede the
right of the Israelis to have access to their own port of Elath at the
head of the Aqaba Gulf, nor will any ship flying the Israeli flag be
permitted to pass through the Suez Canal until there has been a final
settlement of the whole Palestine issue. This final settlement, as il is
contemplated in Cairo, seems still to call for the return of 990.000
Arab refugees to Israel — even though perhaps one-third of them
never saw Israel. It probably also calls for the retirement of Israel to
her 1947 frontiers. It comes near meaning the abolition of the State
of Israel altogether. These are the demands which a beaten Govern
ment may be about to place before the chief executive of the inter
national agency which saved that Government from utter ruin. All
this seems strange, even in the topsy-turvydom in which we luckless
moderns find ourselves. —THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Mail on Holidays
TRENTON, N. J., (JA) —
Gov. Robert B. Meyner signed in
to law this week-end absentee
registration and voting procedures
designed to permit Jews and oth
ers to participate in state and
local elections by mail when an
election conflicted with a religious
holiday.
The measure drafted and spon
sored by the American Jewish
Congress, amended the state’s vot
ing code which previously allowed
absentee registration and voting
only in the case of illness or phy
sical disability. Gov. Meyner’s
signing of the bill, which had the
support of all rabbinical bodies
in the state, was hailed by Sam
Brown, executive director of the
AJC New Jersey region.
Letter to L'ditor
December 30, 1957
NEW YORK
Dear Adolph:
As an ex-patriate New Yorker,
I welcome the opportunities that
take me back to this fabulous
city. The visits become an occas
ion to see old friends, to catch
up with family, to see some plays
and incidentally conduct the bus
iness which has provided the rea
son for coming.
This is a way, it seems to me,
of restoring and strengthening
perspective. This is the city where
I was born, where 1 struggled for
education and which shaped many
of my ideas.
It is in the same spirit that I
visit the New York offices of
the organizations with which I
am identified at home in Atlanta.
It enables me to strengthen the
link I have with the spiritual and
social forces which justify the
work I am doing.
One visit I made this time was
to the Jewish National Fund
House, just off Madison Avenue,
on 69th Street. As you know, I
am serving, along with Rabbi Har
ry H. Epstein, as chairman of the
JNF Council in Atlanta.
In the quiet hall, as I was wait
ing to see the dynamic director
of JNF, Mendel Fischer, I thought
of how’ often we take for granted
the most important things in
our lives — the place we came
from, the parents who bore us
and the other sources of our be
ing. As city dwellers we some
times forget the importance of the
land as one of these sources. A
moment's reflection reminds us
of the significance of land as the
source of our being. This is es
pecially true of the Jewish people
who for generations were a land
less people. It is the awareness
of this fact that made Jewish Na
tional Fund a by-word, for it was
JNF’s mission “to redeem the
land” in Palestine.
Mendel Fischer told me some
thing of the honorable history of
understanding of JNF in Atlanta
and of its continuing role since
the inception of the State of Is
rael.
It is this story which we want
the Jewish community of Atlanta
to hear at the “Rededication” din
ner to be held on Monday, Jan.
27, at the Mayfair Club. An in
ternationally known personality
has accepted an invitation to ap
pear as our guest speaker.
I shall look forward to seeing
you and many other Atlantans at
the dinner.
Shalom!
—JOE GROSS
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Friday, January 3, 1958
Hanukah Party at Or Ve Shalom
The Or Ve Shalom Sisterhood
gave its Hebrew School a Hanu
kah party during the recent holi
day season. Refreshments were
served together with a special
treat of the Spanish Latke "Bur-
mu.vlos.” Rabbi Joseph Uohen,
spiritual leader of the congrega
tion. led the children in the light
ing of the Menorah, after which
Atlanta Women
To Hear ORT
Speaker Jan. 14
Mrs. Harry Becker of Detroit
will speak to a group of Atlanta
women in the interest of ORT
(Organization for Rehabilitation
through Training) at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 14. at the home of
Mrs. Martin Shaw, 289 West Paces
Ferry Road, N.W.
“ORT is an international or
ganization devoted exclusively to
the task of giving technical train
ing to Jews throughout the world.
Probably the largest voluntary
vocational training network in
the world, ORT consists of 400
schools, workshops, apprentice
plans, agricultural training sta
tions and special courses for adults
in Europe. Israel and North Afri
ca,’’ according to Mrs. Shaw.
It has been particularly effec
tive,” she added “this past 12
years in preparing the displaced
persons and persecuted groups of
Jew* who must relocate in other
lands, giving them the technical
training and skills necessary for
new livelihoods.
ORT receives active support
from the government of most
countries that benefit from its ac
tivities, although the bulk of its
aid comes from Welfare funds
and individual group effort.”
The women’s division of ORT
has been interested in creating
chapters throughout the South,
as have been created in other
areas, and Atlanta has been
chosen as a beginning. Mrs.
George Klein of New Rochelle,
national expansion coordinator
will also be in Atlanta on Janu
ary 13. Anyone interested in
learning more about ORT is wel
come to attend the preliminary
meeting at the Shaw home. Res
ervations should be made with
Mrs. Shaw at Cedar 3-5930.
Mrs. Becker is national vice
president of the Women’s Ameri
can ORT and a liason from the
Midwest Region for expansion in
the South, and a national board
member in the overall American
Hanukah songs were sung. The
children exchanged gifts.
Mrs. Daniel Rousso, Mrs. Nace
Galanti and Mrs. Flo Friedman
prepared the special treat. Mrs.
Joseph Uohen. Mrs. Sam Galanti,
Sisterhood president, and Mrs. Al
bert Tenenbaum. vice president,
assisted w ith decorating and serv
ing.
organization. She was a founder
and first president of the Michi
gan Reci m of Women’s American
ORT. a past president of the
League of Jewish Womens’ Or
ganizations and has been out
standing in the national UJA work
as well as in other groups, in
cluding Hadassah, Council for
Jewish Women, League of Women
Voters, Sinai Hospital Womens’
Guild, Theatre Arts, Art Archives
of America. She has been a de
voted art student.
Mizrachi Women’s
Study Series To Open
The Mizrachi Women’s Organi
zation has instituted a study
group series, which will be of
fered once each month. The first
in the series will be held on
Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 8:30 p.m.
at the home of Mrs Ida Goncher,
612 Boulevard, N. E.
Members and friends are urg
ed to participate in these study
groups. For further information,
call Mrs. Joseph Shuchatowitz,
TR. 6-1275.
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