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XXXIII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1958 NO. 28
50,000 Sabbath Observers Receive
Employment Through Young Israel
Ga. Pharmacists Organize to Help
Create Pharmacy College in Israel
FALLSBURGH, N. Y., (JTA)
—More than 50,000 Sabbath ob
servers have been given employ
ment opportunities through
Young Israel’s employment guid
ance service, Rabbi Ephraim H.
Sturm, director of the Orthodox
organization, reported to the
closing session of the movement’s
46th annual convention. Rabbi
Sturm reported further that a
dozen new Young Israel syna-
Teen-age Haiders
Of Yeshiva Farm
Put on Probation
MOUNT KISCO, N. Y. (JTA)
—Nine teenagers from wealthy
Westchester families, who plead
ed guilty to charges they raided
the Yeshiva Farm settlement
shouting “Where are the dirty
Jews?” were placed on probation
this week and each ordered to
write a 1,000 word essay on the
guarantees of freedom in the
Constitution.
In sentencing the defendants,
Justice Morris E. Lasker of New
Castle Court, told the courtroom,
which was partly filled with
parents of the teenagers, that
“The community is outraged by
what happened. You and I and
the Yeshiva are all part of the
United States.”
Asserting that there was “no
need for revenge and harshness”
in punishing the youngsters, the
magistrate said “Justice will not
be served by this attitude.” He
noted that the settlement of
Orthodox farm trainees sought
last week to have the charges
dropped.
Robert Kurt and Robert Brug-
ger, both 19 were placed on pro
bation for six to 30 months. The
courtroom was then cleared be
cause the seven other defend
ants were under 19, requiring a
private trial under the Youthful
Offender Act. They all received
the same sentence. A tenth
youth, under 16, was under the
jurisdiction of juvenile authori
ties.
Speaking for all the defend
ants, Robert Brugger said “We
learned our lesson. J’ll tell you
that.”
Officials of the farm school
said the premises have been
raided 25 times in the last two
years by youth gangs.
gogues had been established in
suburban areas throughout the
country and over 400 youth clubs
were opened by the movement
in New York in the past several
years.
The 700 delegates called on
United States Attorney General
William P. Rogers to open an
immediate investigation into the
synagogue and school bombings
in the South. The convention
urged Moscow to grant com
plete freedom of religion to the
Soviet Union’s 3,000,000 Jews
and “to permit unfettered emi
gration to the State of Israel.”
Additional resolutions asked the
states to adopt anti-discrimina
tion legislation in the field of
housing and called on both the
states and the Federal Govern
ment to prevent encroachments
on the American tradition of
separation of church and state.
Elijah J. Stein, newly elected
president of the organization,
assailed the Arab boycott of
American firms with which Jews
are associated or which have
business relations with the State
of Israel. Mr. Stein criticized the
U.S. Government for “permitting
unfair and arbitrary treatment
of American citizens who are
entitled to full governmental
protection in the sphere of in
ternational trade and worldwide
commercial dealings.”
U J A Anni
JERUSALEM, Israel — Seven
Atlanta leaders were among the
500 American Jewish communal
figures who attended the United
Jewish Appeal Anniversary Con
ference in Israel.
The Atlantans, who toured the
country intensively prior to at
tending the three-day Confer
ence at the Hebrew University’s
Wise Auditorium, include: Mr.
and Mrs. Meyer L. Balser, Ed
ward M. Kahn, Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Taylor, Dr. and Mrs.
Salmon A. Koff, and their son,
Alon.
The first UJA national assem
blage ever to be held overseas
Georgia pharmacists and al
lied professions are being organ
ized to help share the cost of
constructing a $1,000,000 pharm
acy college at Hebrew Univer
sity in Israel.
The movement was initiated
during the recent visit to At
lanta by Dr. Joshua Kohlberg,
president of the Pharmaceutical
Association of Israel.
He announced selection of
Jessie Goldman of Atlanta as
chairman for the State of Geor
gia.
Mr. Goldman said the pre
liminary organization of the
Jewish pharmacists of the state
was being created with the co
operation of Max Wonder, Emil
Weiss, Sol Biumenthal. Others
will be added and announced
later, he said.
Dr. Kohlberg has spent the
last nine months in America
visiting different communities
and sections of the country to
create interest and organizations
in support of construction of the
pharmacy college, expected to
alleviate the shox-tage of trained
pharmacists in Israel.
It is expected that the new
college, when completed, will
contain facilities for a four-year
basic instruction for 200 students
as well as a unit for conducting
had a double significance since
it comes as Israel’s people cele
brate their first decade of free
dom and marks the 20th year
of UJA’s work on behalf of Jews
in need throughout the world
and of immigrants to Israel. The
Conference corresponds to the
annual mid-year gatherings
where cash proceeds from the
affiliated community drives
throughout the United States are
presented to the UJA and the
wind-up phase of the year’s
fund-raising effort is set in mo
tion.
A distinguished roster of
speakers addressed the UJA
gathering, including President
by ADOLPH ROSENBERG
and supervising research in the
field.
Dr. Kohlberg declared he has
JOSHUA KOHLBERG
found wide-spread support of the
idea in America from deans of
colleges, editors, hundreds of
community leaders, practicing
pharmacists. National chairman
of the American participation is
Dr. Ivor Griffith, president and
Itzhak Ben-Zvi; Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion; Minister of
Finance Levi Eshkol; Edward B.
Lawson, U.S. Ambassador to Is
rael; former Prime Minister
Moshe Sharett; Dr. Nahum Gold
man, Chairman of the Jewish
Agency for Israel; Dr. Dov Jos
eph, Jewish Agency Treasurer,
and Mr. Avraham Harman, mem
ber of Jewish Agency Executive.
UJA leaders who spoke at the
sessions included: Edward M. M.
Warburg of New York, Honorary
Chairman; Samuel H. Daroff of
Philadelphia, National Cash
Chairman; Melvin W. Dubinsky
of St. Louis, National Cabinet
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dean of the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy and Science, the
oldest such institution in the
United States.
Dr. Kohlberg has been a
pharmacist since 1927 when he
graduated from the University
of Vienna. He later secured a
Masters Degree in Pharmacy
and in 1939 went to Palestine
to make his home.
He owns a pharmacy in Tel
Aviv, which is currently being
operated by his assistants, two
of whom are women.
His staff can speak eleven
languages, he says, indicating
the multi-lingual population of
his country.
There are about 800 registered
pharmacists in the association he
heads and some 300 pharmaceuti
cal stores, serving the fast-grow
ing population of Israel. Many
of the pharmacists are women,
he said.
The average age of the phar
macist in Israel is 59 years, in
dicating the urgent need for
training replacements within the
next few years.
Dr. Kohlberg added: “This was
one of the main reasons why
the Pharmaceutical Association
decided to do everything in its
power to start a school of phar
macy in Israel so that young
pharmacists could be trained.
"A school of pharmacy was
established in 1953 as part of
the Hebrew University and
started to function in very in
adequate premises with facili
ties for only ten to fifteen stu
dents per year. The maintenance
of the school is covered mainly
by contributions from individ
ual pharmacists in Israel. All
pharmacy owners and many
owners pay sizeable monthly
contributions.
“The number of students be
ing trained at present is quite
insufficient for the needs of the
country. In order to increase
their number and to give them
the benefit of an up-to-date cur
riculum with first-class teachers
and adequate equipment, labora
tories, libraries, etc., the Hebrew
University agreed to create an
independent faculty of pharm
acy in a separate building at
the campus as soon as this could
be financed.”
Georgia’s share in the million-
dollar fund is $25,000. To date
about $250,000 has been pledged
in other sections by educators,
retailers, wholesalers and manu
facturers.
Atlanta Community Leaders Attend
Conference in Israel
Escorts Synagogue (on Wheels) Out of Town; Circuit Riding Rabbi in Atlanta
We’ve witnessed a synagogue
being torn down, several going
up and dedicated, sat in on the
birth of congregations, watched
old cornerstones being opened,
new ones filled and sealed, edit
ed news of synagogue bombings,
inspected a synagogue devastat
ed by a tornado.
And on July 3, late one eve
ning, we had the experience of
guiding a synagogue out of
town.
The mobile experience came
after a fascinating evening spent
in the company of Rabbi Eli
Gottesman, the circuit-riding rab
bi, in Atlanta with the Syna
gogue-on-wheels.
This unique vehicle has be
come a popular and familiar
sight in some eleven communi
ties of Virginia, North and South
Carolina where Rabbi Gottesman
tends to the spiritual needs of
Jewish families too scattered to
have a rabbi of their own.
The well-fitted bus is a mina-
ture chapel with a built-in Ark
containing three small Torahs, an
eternal light which burns bright
ly whether the bus is in use or
parked. And much equipment,
including a projector, to teach
religious school and Hebrew
wherever wanted.
Along the bus walls are two
rows of comfortable seats and
besides the ark bookshelves of
prayer books and books of Jew
ish interest including a set of
the Jewish Encyclopedia.
The prayer books are of three
varieties for Rabbi Gottesman,
though Orthodox himself, stands
ready to conduct services for
whatever branch of the faith his
congregants may prefer. Though
these are sometimes held in the
bus, mostly they are held in
private homes.
A strict observer of Kashruth,
he has run into some interesting
problems concerning diet, but his
needs are now widely known
and his scattered flock have pro
vided facilities along the way
for seeing that their spiritual
leader does not go hungry.
In several of the communities,
he has evoked new interest in
dietary laws among the younger
generation, many of whom had
never come face to face with a
person who followed the rules
of Kashruth.
His visit to Atlanta was for
the purpose of exploring needs
of Jewish persons in small towns
and possibly setting up another
circuit.
After conferring with com
munal leaders in Atlanta, he in
tended to visit Griffin, Thomas-
ton and Aiken, among other
places. If the plans go through,
he will be unable to serve these
areas himself, for his itinerary
keeps him busy enough visiting
the eleven communities already
in his baliwick. It will be neces
sary to find another circuit-rid
ing rabbi and find the financial
support to construct a duplicate
bus and stand the other ex-
pences of circuit-riding.
The Synagogue-on-wheels was
parked in rear of the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center where
several groups of visitors came
in for inspection.
One very interested young
man was Don Brown, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mel Brown of Atlanta,
and a nephew of I. D. Blumen-
thai, the Charlotte leader who
was largely responsible for
mobilizing the North Carolina
Men’s Association in support of
the circuit-riding-rabbi.
Don watched Rabbi Gottesman
explain the religious objects to
several visitors. Then Don took
over and conducted several
groups himself, each time in
sisting that the visitors don
yalmalkes, before the Ark was
opened. Rabbi Gottesman was a
bit more liberal.
To the Atlanta Constitution
reporter, whom we’d helped sum
mon for a feature about the
circuit-riding rabbi’s visit, Dr.
Gottesman related an incident
involving a state patrol officer
in South Carolina.
“I heard a sireen screaming
and noticed I was being follow
ed by a motorcycle officer,” Rab
bi Gottesman related.
“My bus has a governor pre
venting my going faster than 55
miles an hour and I knew I
wasn’t exceeding the speed limit.”
When the bus had stopped,
the officer explained, “You know
rabbi, I’ve had the privilege of
escorting high dignitaries of the
state and nation in and out of
town, but I’ve never escorted a
synagogue before. Can I escort
you where you’re going?”
He could and he did, sireen
wailing . . .
Rabbi Gottesman thought he
might as well drive on to Grif
fin—though it was past eleven—
and get some sleep so he’d be
bright and alert when he saw
the Jewish* people of that Geor
gia town.
Would I tell him how to get
out of Atlanta?
Why not do a bit of escorting
myself?
I offered. He accepted. Soon
he was following my faithful
jalopy across town and onto tb$
south-bound expressway.
—ADOLPH ROSENBERG