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Friday, July 18, 1958
Page Five
Atlantan Pictured at UJA
Conference in Israel
Dr. Kertzer Charges
American Synagogue
Lacks Spirit
NEW YORK, (AJP)—Writing
in the current issue of “The Jew
ish Digest,” Rabbi Dr. Morris N.
Kertzer bitterly criticizes the
American synagogue for the lack
of spirit that could give the seek
er the true meaning of Judaism.
“The tragedy of our day,” says
Dr. Kertzer in his article entitled
“A Jewish Mission," “is that we
have brought the Jew back to
the synagogue, and he has found
nothing there to move him, to
compel his loyalty and his in
terest.”
Expressing the belief that “the
miracle of Israel’s rebirth” has
given American Jewry some
thing to live for, Dr. Kertzer
adds: “So many active or form
erly active synagogue people
have confided to me their feel
ings of guilt. One of them said:
‘I was the president of a large
congregation for years, and spent
seven nights a week in the tem
ple. Today I have a hard time
making myself go. And my chil
dren won’t come near the place.
Who’s at fault? Me, the rabbi,
the congregation, the times?’ ”
Declaring that “Judaism, in
its essential form has a vital
message for the world,” the
noted rabbi concludes: “ in
terms of practical idealism, I re
gard a missionary program, con
ceived in its broadest sense—in
the educational, medical, social
service, technical assistance—not
only as desirable, but indispens
able to the future spiritual health
of American Jewry. By directing
such a program to the world, we
are at the same time directing
it to our youth . . .”
Leaders of All Faiths
Hail Crusader
Against Bigots
NEW YORK, (AJP) —Promi
nent leaders of the major faiths,
including such figures as Norman
Thomas, UN’s Frank Graham
and ADL’s Benjamin R. Epstein,
assembled at the Plaza Hotel
last week to pay high tribute
to one of America’s most out
standing champions for liberty
and freedom, the Rev. Richard
“Dick” E. Evans of the renowned
Labor Temple Fellowship, and
to his foster mother, the cele
brated Dr. Sarah E. Dickson.
The occasion marked Dr.
Evan’s 30th anniversary of ac
tive service in the Ministry.
Benjamin R. Epstein, national
director of B’nai B’rith’s ADL,
in declaring that “Dick Evans
could always be counted on in
the old battles against the KKK,
the Bund and the Nazis,” com
pared the great inter-faith lead
er for peace to the 36 saintly
personages in Jewish lore, known
as “Lamed Vav Zadikim,” who,
though unkown to the world,
safeguard its existence in each
generation.
Others who joined in paying
tribute to Dr. Evans included
Norman Thomas; UN’s Dr. Frank
P. Graham; Benjamin Kaufman,
Jewish War veterans; Dr. Ibra
him Chowdry, President of the
Pakistan League of America;
Swami Akhilanda, Vedanta So
ciety; David Horowitz, American
Jewish Press; Dr. Benjamin Eck-
hardt, noted clergyman from
Canada; Rabbi Julius G. Neu
mann; Rabbi Maurice Bloom;
The Rev. Clarence E. Boyer;
Lewis N. Herriman; Dr. Sholom
Shakin; Jacob D. Fuchsburg; Dr.
Harry Cohen and Dr. Benjamin
Leavin served as co-chairman.
The Rev. Hozen Seki, Buddhist
Church of New York, and the
Rev. A. M. Patascil with Rabbi
Bloom offered the Benediction.
SWARTZ-COHEN
SALISBURY, N. C.—Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Swartz announce
the engagement of their daugh
ter, Sara Rosalind, to Leopold
Ira Cohen Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Leopold Ira Cohen, Sr. of
Augusta.
Miss Swartz will be a member
of the senior class at the Univer
sity of Georgia in the fall. She
was elected vice president of
Sigma Delta Tau sorority and
was also judged the best pledge
of the year. She is a member of
student council.
Mr. Cohen, who is majoring
in business at the University of
Georgia, will be a senior this
fall. He is a member of Tau
Epsilon Phi fraternity.
A late summer wedding is
planned.
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JERUSALEM—Meyer L. Balser, Atlanta cotnmunial leader, is
shown being welcomed to the stage of the Wise Auditorium of the
Hebrew University by Samuel II. Daroff, UJA National Cash Chair
man, who presided at the cash mobilization business session featur
ing the UJA anniversary conference here June 24-25 and^ 26.
Mr. Balser, representing the Atanta Jewish Welfare Fund, par
ticipated in the procession of communal leaders to the rostrum to
announce their community’s collection of cash so far in the UJA
campaigns. The sums, collected in hundreds of cities and towns,
brings the UJA’s nationwide mid-year cash total to 835,700,000.
More than 500 campaign leaders and volunteers who came from
the United States especially for the Conference, together with sev
eral hundred noted Israelis, heard Mr. Daroff make this announce
ment against the backdrop of a huge map of the United States on
the stage of the Hebrew University’s Wise Auditorium.
The Business Session was one highlight of a day crowded with
events climaxed by a Gala Session at 9:00 p.m. when 3,500 Ameri
cans and Israelis gathered at the Hebrew University Amphitheatre
to hear important addresses by Prime Minister Ben-Gurion; I)r.
Dov Joseph, Jewish Agency Treasurer; Edward M. M. Warburg,
Honorary Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal and Acting Mayor
Jacobi of Jerusalem. The program included folk songs, orchestral
selections and a presentation of festive dances. The preceding day,
guests were greeted at the opening session by President Yitzhak
Ben-Zvi and heard major addresses by Edward B. Lawson, Ameri
can Ambassador to Israel; Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, Executive
Vice-Chairman of the UJA; Zalman Shazar, Chairman of the Jew
ish Agency and former Prime Minister of Israel Moshe bharett.
On the morning of June 26 the Conference closed with the
laying of a wreath on the grave of Theodore Herzl by Adolph
Kiesler, chairman of the UJA’s National Campaign Committee, and
addresses by Colonel Matetyahu Peled, Military Commander of the
Jerusalem Area and Avram Harman member of the Executive of
the Jewish Agency for Israel. „ .
Participants in the UJA Anniversary Conference, first national
assemblage*^ the UJA ever to be held outside the United States,
also took part in an intensive tour of Israel which brought them
to the Negev and the Galilee, to immigrant villages and farms, old-
aged homes and jouth 'illage. conference included Edward
M Kah"exS?tiv“director of the Welfare Fund, who will extend
his stay n Israel to cover study workshops for communal worker;
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. Salmon A. Koff and
their son Alen. .
astonishing rate. It was altogeth
er an inspiring and astounding
transformation . . .
Eleanor Roosevelt,
N. Y. Post
ISRAEL—
Near Miracle
AJP
This is Israel’s 10th annivr-
sary and all of us who look back
over the past 10 years must reel
that what has come about in this
country is a near miracle. I visit
ed Israel for the first time six
years ago. There were still large
camps of refugees; the trees
could hardly be seen in many
places; a few factories were
turning out goods exclusive y
for export; the pipes that were
used to bring water to the Negev
were just being made, and the
Yankee foreman was still in
charge of the plant Three years
later the scene had c ^ aI }f e ”;
Many more factories had been
built with Bonds for Israel
money . . • Water was gradually
making its way into the Negev,
and settlements were springing
up and literally making soil
grow on rocks. Oil and minera
were being discovered, the city
of Beersheba was a modem city,
the camps had gone away a-
most entirely and refugees were
being placed directly on the land,
and the trees have grown at an
AUGUSTA NEWS
ter,
Mrs. Stanley Lane and daugh-
_r, Robin, of Oceanside, L. I.,
are visiting Mrs. M. S. Levy in
the Maxwell House Apartments.
Nelson Danish, who will be a
senior next year at the Henry
Grady School of Journalism at
the University of Georgia was
named to the Dean’s List for the
final quarter. Nelson, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Josef P. Danish, is
attending summer school at the
University. He will leave July
29 for Europe and return in
time to resume his studies this
fall.
Herbert A. Krumbein, son of
Mrs. Esther Krumbein, made the
Dean’s List in the School of
Business Administration for the
spring quarter at Georgia State
College, Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Goldberg
and daughter of Charleston spent
last Sunday with Mr. Goldberg’s
sister, Mrs. Sara Dolinsky.
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