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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1958
NO. 8
Top Leaders Listed For Atlanta Welfare Campaign
Women's Division Leaders
Three of Atlanta’s outstanding
campaigners have been named to
head the Women’s Division of
the 1958 Campaign of the Atlan
ta Jewish Welfare Fund, it was
announced by Ben Massell, Wel
fare Fund president. The an
nouncement follows:
‘The new general chaimen for
the division are Mrs. Jake Fried
man, Mrs. Bernard Howard, and
Mrs. Harold Marcus.
“Mrs. Friedman, a former
teacher in the Atlanta Public
Schools, helped organize the
first Hadassah Choral Group.
She was president of the AA
Sisterhood, has served on the
boards of the B’nai B’rith Women
and the Atlanta section of the
council of Jewish Women and is
presently on the boards of the
Jewish Home, the AA Sisterhood,
the Atlanta Chapter of the Na
tional Women’s committee of
Continued on Page 2
General Co-Chairman
Sidney Feldman and Nathan
Lipton, two of the younger
members of Atlanta’s Jewish
community, have been named to
head the 1958 campaign of the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, it
was announced by the Welfare
Fund this week.
Ben Massell, president, stated:
“Both of the new general
chairmen have had many years
of previous service in Welfare
Fund campaigns. Feldman has
worked on campaigns from the
early days of the Youth Division
to the present and has served as.
co-chairman of the Scrap Metal; t
General Solicitation; Special ’
Gifts and Advance Gifts II divi-''
sions. Lipton’s past experience
embraces service in General
Continued on Page 7 \
Brotherhood Week Started Sunday; 10,000
Communities To Participate
SIDNEY FELDMAN
NATHAN LIPTON
NEW YORK, (JTA — A call
for participation of all Americans
in the Brotherhood Week, which
started on Sunday, was issued
by President Eisenhower. Bro
therhood Week is sponsored by
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews. President
Eisenhower is honorary chairman
of the Week, which is being ob
served in more than 1,000 com
munities throughout the United
States.
“Brotherhood is one of the most
demanding—and most rewarding
—principles in our lives,’’ de
clared the President. “Its appli
cation is not limited to our homes
or to our homeland. The respon
sibilities of brotherhood stretch
around the world; tmd wherever
men dwell their needs and their
successes are for all to share.
The furtherance of such a prin
ciple demands the utmost in
justice and charity, but the re
wards of brotherhood are even
greater. These are the fruits of
a world at peace.”
The National Conference of
Christians and Jews, organized
in 1928, has been sponsoring the
observance of Brotherhood Week
since 1934. The first observance,
with 300 communities in the
United States participating, was
originally suggested by Monsig
nor Hugh McMenamin, a Catho
lic priest of Denver.
All through the week, in large
and small communities every
where, a variety of Brotherhood
Week programs are taking place.
These include school assemblies,
youth conferences, pageants, film
forums, plays, sermons, festivals
of religious music, civic club
meetings, displays and exhibits
in department stores and business
etablishments, and human rela
tions institutes. Chaplains with
the armed services have arranged
brotherhood programs at mili
tary installations in this country
and abroad. Radio and television
stations will carry brotherhood
messages in a variety of pro
grams.
Israel Diplomats Set Talks
On New Mid East Arab Patterns
JERUSALTM, (JTA) — An
nouncement of the federation of
the Hashemite kingdoms of Iraq
and Jordan as an apparent
Mrs. Epstein To Address Banquet
Of S. E. Hadassah Parley in Atlanta
An address by Mrs. Moses P.
Epstein of New York, former
national president of Hadassah,
will highlight the banquet next
Wednesday climaxing the annual
convention of the Southeastern
Region of Hadassah in Atlanta.
Mrs. Epstein’s talk will take
place following the dinner for
delegates, and visitors at 7 p.m.
at the Progressive Club.
Just returned from a Zionist
Actions Committee meeting in
Israel, Mrs. Epstein will present
a picture of the current scene in
the Mid East, according to Mrs
David Levin, Atlanta, regional
president.
The speaker is expected to dis
cuss the mergers of Egypt and
Syria and of Jordan and Iraq,
revealing their import on the
State of Israel, Mrs. Levin an
nounced.
Mrs. Epstein is a member of
the Zionist Actions Committee,
editor of the Hadassah News-
MRS. MOSES EPSTEIN
letter and former chairman of
t’ e American Affairs Program
of Hadassah.
Another feature of the ban
quet program will be a tribute
to all Southeastern Region life
members by Mrs. J. I. Kingloff
of Atlanta.
Installation of newly elected
officers wil be conducted by Mrs.
Israel Shapiro, formerly of Au
gusta and now of Atlanta, a
member of the National Board of
Hadassah.
Tickets to the banquet can be
obtained from Mrs. Dave Alter-
man, TR. 2-7426, Mrs. Joseph
Karlick, CE. 3-8084 and Mrs. I.
R. Cohen, TR. 4-6547.
On Wednesday morning, Feb.
26, at 9 a.m, Mrs Epstein will be
interviewd on “Today in Geor
gia” on Channel 2, NBC-TV.
The banquet will bring to a
close the conference which will
open Sunday evening and con-
inue for the next three days.
Convention headquarters will be
the Briarcliff Hotel.
counter to the United Arab Re
public of Egypt and Syria spark
ed plans of Israel this week to
discuss the first major Middle
East changes in 40 years with
the United States, British and
French Governments.
Official circles continued to
abstain from comment on either
merger, the Government appar
ently not yet having come to any
conclusions as to the meaning of
the swiftly changing develop
ments for Israel. It was known,
however, that the Government
viewed both mergers with con
siderable reserve.
Radio Cairo, in one of its prop-
ganda broadcasts, beamed at
Israel in Hebrew, “invited” Israel
to join the United Arab Repub
lic which is composed of Egypt
and Syria. The broadcast prom
ised that Israel, if it joined,
could “preserve its freedom of
action externally and internal
ly.” Such an act, the broadcast
declared, would put an end to
the Israel-Arab dispute and would
be the “ideal solution” for the
Palestine problems. In Israel, a
government spokesman described
the Cairo Hebrew broadcast as
“pure propaganda in the cate
gory of psychological warfare”
Saudi Arabia, which has re
mained aloof from both merg
ers, suddenly announced an ex
tension of its territorial waters
in the Gulf of Akaba from the
present three to 12 miles. This
was viewed in Jerusalem as lay
ing the groundwork for a new
legalistic attempt to interfere
with Israel’s freedom of naviga
tion through the Strait of Tiran.
Israel has been using the
Strait — the link between its
southern Negev port of Elath oi>
the Gulf and the Red Sea—for
sea commerce with nations of
Asia and Africa since the Sinai
campaign. Israel troops at that
time silenced Egyptian guns at
Sharm-el-Sheikh at the Strait,
and contingents of the United
Nations Emergency Force have
been on duty at that point since.
At the present time the three
miles of Saudi Arabian territori
al waters and the six miles of
Egyptian rights leave seven miles.
unchallenged international wa
ters. Israel experts said that the
Saudi unilateral extension was ap
parently based on the hope that
this would eliminate “interna
tional waters” and thus dimir>-
ish one of Israel’s arguments for
freedom of navigation in the
waterway.
Legal experts here, however,
attached little importance to the
Saudi declaration, noting that
since Israel is a littoral state on
the Gulf of Akaba, she is en
titled to passage in the Tiran
Strait. The experts noted also
that none of the Western mari
time powers, including the Unit
ed States and England, recognize
such unilateral extensions of
territorial water rights.