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XXXIII
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Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Esta
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1958
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NO. 30
Calm Prevails in Israel; Tourists
Seek Extension of Their Visits
JERUSALEM, (JTA—Israel is
calm in the midst of the Mid
dle East crisis. While all here,
including tourists, are watching
the situation as it is reported in
the press and on the radio, there
is an absolute lack of excite
ment or concern, the population
apparently being certain that the
Government is handling the
situation competently.
Tourists are staying on and,
in fact, there were reports from
travel agencies here and in Tel
Aviv that some tourists have
ordered extensions of their
scheduled visits. Of 1,600 foreign
youths who are here as part of
a Jewish Agency youth study
tour, only one received a re
quest from his parents back
home to leave—and this youth
stated he has notified his par
ents that he prefers to remain
here for the duration of his
tour. Seven hundred of the
youths are from the United
States, the others having come
from Canada, England, France,
Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and
Scandinavia.
An indication of the calmness
of the atmosphere is the fact
that a capacity audience of 3,000
jammed the concert hall of the
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition
here. The crowd had come to
hear—and to applaud—the op
era Tosca, giving tremendous
ovations to the star, American
Richard Tucker, and to the con
ductor, Dimitri Mitropoulos.
Jewish Welfare Board Supplies U.S.
Marines in Lebanon With Kosher Food
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
naval task force of the U.S.
Sixth Fleet that landed Ameri
can marines in Lebanon carried
supplies of kosher food and reli
gious materials and literature
furnished by the National Jew
ish Welfare Board, it was an-
nonced today at JWB head
quarters here. The food supplies
and religious materials are part
of the stocks shipped by JWB
to all American naval vessels for
use on the high seas during
Rosh Hashonah, the anounce-
ment said. JWB is the govern
ment-authorized agency for
serving the religious and wel
fare needs of Jewish personnel in
the U.S. armed forces.
The Jewish Welfare Board also
reported that Chaplain Manfred
Rechtschaffen, the only Jewish
chaplain with American forces
in the Mediterranean, who is on
duty with the Air Force at An
kara, Turkey, has received an
emergency shipment of Jewish
religious materials and kosher
food supplies. Chaplain Allan
Blaine, on duty with the Army
Minneapolis Has 19,112 Jews
Survey Shows; Many in Surburbs
MINNEAPOLIS, (JTA) — A
suburban development which
hardly existed 22 years ago now
contains 28 percent of the 19,112
Jews of Minneapolis, it was dis
closed in the first comprehens
ive Jewish population survey
since that date.
The survey, conducted by the
Minneapolis Federation for Jew
ish Service, also showed a sub
stantial increase in the Jewish
population of the midwest City
from 16,280 Jews in 1936. Minne
apolis Jewry now constitutes
2.6 percent of the total popula
tion of Minneapolis.
The largest concentration of
Jewish people continues to live
in the northern part of the city,
a total of 7,312 Jews or 38 per
cent. The next largest concen
tration is in the new suburb, St.
Louis Park, where 5,389 Jews
now live. Six percent, or 1,125
live in all other Minneapolis
suburbs.
The survey indicated there
might be eight percent more
Jews, on the basis of new family
names given by the 434 Jewish
households sampled in the sur
vey, than were actually project
ed, officials said.
The study showed 12,112 Jew
ish adults 18 years or older, of
whom nearly 20 percent were 60
years of age or older. In this
category, 1,287 women and 249
men were retired or unemploy
ed. In the overall total, women
number 938 more than men and
there were 725 single men re
ported as compared to 463 single
women. These included 875 wi
dows and 38 widowers.
Nearly half of all Jewish
adult men and 35 percent of all
Israel Must Increase Its Strength To
Meet Danger, Ben Gurion Says
at Munich, from which point an
airborne battle group of the 24th
Infantry Division, was airlifted
to the Middle East, sent along
with the Jewish men in the
unit a large portion of his own
Jewish religious and kosher food
supplies.
Jewish personel among the
Marines who embarked from
bases in North and South Caro
lina and Virginia to reinforce
those already in Lebanon were
also supplied with religious ma
terials and kosher food supplies
by Jewish chaplains in those
areas. Navy Chaplain Charles D.
Mintz at Norfolk bade Godspeed
to men taking off from Norfolk
and auxiliary chaplain Jerome
Tolochko did the same for those
who left from Camp LeJeune
and Cherry Point. JWB Armed
Services Committies at Norfolk,
Jacksonville, N. C., New Bern,
N. C., and Greenville, S. C.,
mobilized quickly to aid the
families of men called to active
overseas duty on a few hours’
notice.
Jewish adult women in Minne-
aplis have had one or more years
of college education. The typi
cal concentration of American
Jewish adults in professional,
technical, manageral and sales
classifications was true in Minne
apolis as well. Suburban St.
Louis Park has the greatest
number of children in the pre
school age group—863 of all
2,227 Jewish children in that age
bracket.
Of all known Jewish house
holds, 76 percent were reported
as claiming synagogue member
ship. While 55 percent of the
5,263 children in the five to 17
year bracket receive some Jew
ish education, 79 percent do not
attend after-school Hebrew
classes. Of the 2,869 children
enrolled in Jewish schools, 59
percent attend one day a week.
39 percent attend more than one
day a week, and two percent at
tend the Torah Academy, an all
day school.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —Israel’s
duty is to strengthen its power
to counter the increasing Nasser-
ist danger, Prime Minister David
Ben Gurion told the Knesset
Monday. The Government is do
ing all it can along those lines,
the Premier added.
Mr. Ben Gurion made his state
ment in responding to two mo
tions for a full-scale parliament
ary debate on the Middle East
situation. The motions, by the
right-wing Herut Party and by
the Communists, were defeated
overwhelmingly.
The Prime Minister described
the events in Iraq as posing “un
doubtedly the gravest danger
since our War of Liberation (in
1948).” He warned: “The danger
of encirclement by Nasser is
growing, and it is our duty to do
all we can to obviate this dang
er. But this does not depend on
us alone.” The world situation,
he stated, is becomng more and
more complicated and the situa
tion in the Middle East is be
coming “more d a n g e r o us.”
“Therefore,” he said, “Israel
must concentrate its efforts to
increase its strength.”
The Prime Minister insisted
that, instead of an open parlia-
Nutting Terms Baghdad
Rebellion Nasser’s
Most Skillful Coup
NEW YORK, (AJP)—Writing
in the N.Y. Herald-Tribune from
Nicosia, Cyprus, former British
Minister of State, Antony Nut
ting, declared that “the Baghdad
rebellion is undoubtedly Presi
dent Nasser’s boldest and most
skillful coup to date. Not only
did he pull it off without a word
of warning leaking to Iraq’s king
Faisal or his Premier,” Nutting
added; “In the best traditions of
Byzantine conspiracy, he even
persuaded his victims that not
they, but their neighbors, were
next on his list for destruction
. . . President Nasser can thus
claim by the cleverest of all his
moves so far, to have got the
Iraqis and their friends all look
ing the wrong way and quelling
what was at most to be only a
subsidiary revolt . . .”
GLUBB SAYS ARABS
TORN BETWEEN
EAST AND WEST
L O N O N, (AJP) — Gen. Sir.
John Glubb, the ousted British
commander of the Arab Legion,
declared in a television inter
view here that the Arabs in gen
eral are torn between the East
and the West.
They dislike Communism and
do not want to be dominated by
the Russians, despite Nasser’s
flirtations, Glubb stressed. But
they also do not welcome West
ern intervention or control.
Meshumed Goldstein
BOSTON, (AJP) — Meshumed
David Goldstein, one of the most
active missionaries in behalf of
Catholicism, died here last week.
A member of the Socialist party
in 1895, he converted to Catho
licism in 1905.
Israel Crisis Spurs Atlanta
ZOA Membership Campaign
The Atlanta Zionist District
will wind up its annual mem
bership drive with a concerted
all-day effort this coming Sun
day, July 27.
Teams will assemble at the
Jewish Community Center at
9:30 a.m. for final instructions.
They will then go out to cover
every section of Atlanta to en
roll new members and re-enroll
old ones, according to Dr. Ed-
mentary debate, such a discus
sion be held in Pariament’s com
mittee on foreign and security
affairs. The Cabinet is expected
to meet, possibly tomorrow, to
discuss the entire Middle East
situation, including the British
overflights on the way to Jord
an.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
“friendly warning” against Is
rael’s involvement in “imperial
ist ventures" was given Prime
Minister David Ben Gurion here
by Yugoslavia’s Minister to Is
rael, Dragojec Djuric.
Mr. Djuric came to see Mr.
Ben Gurion at the latter’s re
quest. The Prime Minister sought
an explanation of Yugoslav Mar
shall Tito’s expressed concern
over Israel’s future moves, es
pecially in view of Israel’s per
mission to Great Britain to fly
troops into Jordan over Israel
air-space.
It is understood that, after
hearing Mr. Ben Gurion’s views
and intentions, Mr. Djuric re
ported to his government in
Belgrade that he obtained a
“satisfactory impression” in re
gard to Israel’s position in the
current crisis.
PARIS, (JTA)—Mrs. Golda
Meir, Israel Foreign Minister, is
coming here later this month to
confer with Prime Minister
Charles de Gaulle and Foreign
Minister Maurice Couve de Mur-
ville.
A spokesman for the Israel
Embassy here, announcing the
planned visit, stated: “The ob
ject of Mrs. Meir’s visit t9 Paris
is to establish contact with the
new Government of a friendly
country, and to exchange views
on the situation in the Middle
East.” Shimon Peress, director-
general of Israel’s Ministry of
Defense, arrived here yesterday-
ward D. Reisman, District presi
dent.
“ZOA membership is vitally
important in these critical days,
when the shadow of Nasserism
threatens new dangers for Is
rael,” Dr. Reisman said. “The
solidarity and unity of purpose
of American Jewry must be
demonstrated now as never be
fore. Only through enrolled Zion
ist membership can this be
achieved.”
Britain to Avoid Sending Troops Over Israel
LONDON, (JTA)—Britain’s Middle East command has been
ordered to route its airlift to Jordan in such a way as to avoid
flying over Israeli territory, it was learned here last night, after
a meeting between Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and members
of the Defense Ministry.
British Defense circles feared Israel might refuse overflights
to RAF planes bringing supplies and vital stores to the troops in
Jordan. Consequently, the new orders are for the planes from
Cyrpus to go first to El Adem, Libya, then across Sudan to Aden,
then up to the Red Sea to Jordan’s port of Akaba, then to Jordan’s
capital of Amman.
Word reached here today, however, that Air Marshal Sir Hubert
Patch, as well as the Foreign Office liason officer with the Middle
East command in Nicosia, Cyprus, said that “Israelis are not in any
way interfering with or hampering our plans.” They added that,
far from interfering, “the Israel Government has warmly welcomed
Britain’s intervention in Jordan, which is very much in their own
interest.” This statement was reported this week by Randolph
Churchill, in a dispatch to the Evening Standard.
Moscow Claims Israel Giving Arms to Lebanon
PARIS, (JTA)—The Soviet news agency Tass reported this week
in a broadcast over Radio Moscow that Israel is supplying the
Chamoun Government of Lebanon with Soviet arms captured by
Israeli forces from the Egyptian army in Sinai. The broadcast sought
to debunk reports that Lebanese rebels were found in possession
of Soviet-made arms.
Radio Moscow said: “As a result of the sudden Anglo-French
Israeli attack on Egypt, a part of the Egyptian armaments, among
which were Soviet weapons supplied to Egypt on the usual com
mercial basis, proved to be in the hands of the aggresors, including
Israel. And Israel is helping Lebanon with arms.”
There is every possibility Moscow will station Soviet troops in
Syria at the request of the United Arab Republic if a summit con
ference does not lead to a Middle Eastern arrangement, Soviet
sources in Paris warned today.
Frank Fierman Becomes New
Director of Atlanta Center
Atlanta Jewish Community
Center officials this week an
nounced the appointment of
Frank Fierman as the new Ex
ecutive director.
As administrative field secre
tary of the Southern Section of
the National Jewish Welfare
Board, Mr. Fierman has served
as consultant on all aspects of
Jewish Community Center op
eration to centers and Jewish
Community Councils in major
communities in eleven Southern
states.
He succeeds Maurice Gold,
whose letter of resignation was
accepted by the Board.
Fierman holds an honors de
gree in sociology from Western
Reserve University and a Mas
ter’s degree in social administra
tion from the graduate School of
Applied Social Sciences of that
University. He has served as a
field work supervisor on the
faculties of the Social Work of
Indiana University and the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Fierman was the editor of
“The Group,” official publication
of the American Association of
Group Workers. His sixteen
years of service in the Jewish
Community Center field have
included assignments in Phila
delphia and Indianapolis. He was
the director of Tri-City Camp, a
joint operation of Akron, Can
ton, and Youngstown (Ohio)
Jewish centers. For several years
FRANK FIERMAN
he was director of Big Eagle
Camp in Indiana, a project affili
ated with the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Indianapolis. He
has held various regional and
national offices in the National
Association of Social Work and
the National Association of Jew
ish Center Workers.
Fierman, his wife Frances, and
their three children, Martin, 14,
Dorothy, 12, and Robert, 9, have
lived in Atlanta since 1955.