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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Establish'*' 1 S
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1959
NO. 8
Integration Issue Debated
At A. D. L. Parley In Florida
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MIAMI, (JTA) — An intense
debate on the role of the Anti-
Defamation League in relation
to integration was one of the
chief features of a Florida-wide
meeting of ADL leaders in West
Palm Beach. After the debate,
in which a number of Florida
Jews called for the ADL to drop
the integration issue and others
asked backing of the national
ADL policy, a resolution was
adopted by the 125 delegates
urging that the ADL cooperate
with “patriotic organizations in
support of the continued opera
tions of free schools in the State
of Florida.”
At a session devoted to the
“role of a Jewish defense agency
in the South today,” Paul Jef
fery, of Ft. Pierce, demanded
that the League “get out of the
field of civil rights.” Insisting
that “we must safeguard the
well-being of Jews,” Mr. Jeffe
ry said that while the ADL is
committed to battling against
both racial and religious dis
crimination, it must not remain
so “if such battles endanger
the position of Jews.”
Similar views were expressed
by Barney Cohen, of Orlando,
Louis Ossinsky, Sr., of Daytona
Beach, and Frank Kleinfeld of
St. Petersburg. In g e n e r al,
these speakers felt that if Jew
ish agencies actively supported
integration in the South, they
would disturb local Jewish
Christian relations.
Supporters of the ADL na
tional policy backing included
Paul Seidman of Miami Beach,
Wayne University
Revises Statute; Stresses
Opposition to Bias
DETROIT, (JTA)—The board
of governors of Wayne Univer
sity has adopted a revised sta
tute which states that there
shall be no discrimination in
the institution’s relationship
with its students, faculty or
other employes on grounds of
race, religion, color and country
of origin or ancestry.
Birobidjan Resumes
“Jewish Autonomous
Region” Cancellation
PARIS, (JTA) — For the first
time since Stalin’s death, letter
received here from Birobidjan
carry a postal cancellation of
mark of JAO the equivalent of
the Russian phrase “Jewish
Autonomous Region.” In the in
tervening five years the can
cellation read “District of Biro
bidjan.”
Postal cancellations, clues to
the political fate of the Siberi
area assigned Jews as a state of
their own in the late 1920s, have
changed five times in the 30-
year history of the region. The
first cancellation bore Hebrew
characters.
chairman of the Florida board,
Al Schneider, chairman of the
Jacksonville Community Rela
tions Council, and George Tal-
ianoff, national ADL commis
sioner and former chairman of
the Florida board. Mr. Schneider
hit out at the “fear of boycott”
which he held explained Sou
thern Jewry’s “inclination to be
silent. If we do not speak up
for freedom for all peoples be
cause, as Jews, we believe it
may hurt our economc status,
then we are giving up the basic
American rignt of freedom of
speech and expression,” he said.
Israelis Push f-
Flood of European Immigrants
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—As Ru
manian Jews continued to pour
into Israel, the task of energiz
ing the Jews of the free world
for the staggering rescue and re
habilitation task was pushed on
a dozen fronts this week under
the leadership of the Jews of
Israel.
The Israel leadership dis
patched to the United States
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign
Minister, as the first of a series
of key speakers to tour the
United States for the emergency
and regular goals of the United
Jewish Appeal and for the Is-
real Bond campaign.
Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion, a fountain of energy,
made a half dozen speeches as
he exhorted and pleaded with
both the citizens of Israel and
Jews in the free countries to
help Israel shoulder the tre
mendous burdens of taking in
and absorbing the 100,000 refu
gees expected this year from
Eastern Europe, principally Ru-
Atlanta Welfare Fund Announces
Top Leadership For 1959 Drive
Answering the challenge to
life and freedom, the 1959 cam
paign of the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund moved briskly
forward with its organization
plans when the top leadership
for all divisions was named this
week.
The result, officals announced,
is a well-rounded organization
which is a combination of vet
eran campaigners with extended
experience and more recent
workers with a record of ac
complishment and enthusiasm
who have displayed qualities of
leadership.
Following is the total cam
paign organization list as re
leased by the Welfare Fund
office this week:
MEN’S DIVISION
General Chairman: Max Cuba.
Co-Chairman— Advance Gifts
I: Sidney Feldman, Nathan Lip-
ton, Milton Weinstein.
Co-ordinators— Advance Gifts
II: Elliott Goldstein, Max L.
Kuniansky. Co-Chairman: A. De
Jongh Franklin, Sidney Gulden,
Mendel Segal, Aaron Thai, Jer
ome Zimmerman.
Co-ordinators — Special Gifts:
Harvey Jacobson, Mendel Romm,
Jr. Co-Chairmen: Aaron Feld
man, David Gold, Milton Romm,
David Saul, Charles Shainker,
Alan Srochi.
Co-ordinator— General Solici
tation: Hyman B. Meltz. Co-
Chairmen: Jack Balser, Ralph
Benator, Irvng Galanty, Harry
Glassman, Bernard Gordon,
Alvin Halpern, Sam Hirsh,
Perry Morris, Alfred Schwartz,
Irving II. Shaw, Arnold Shul-
man, Jerry Siegel.
Physicians and Dentists: Dr.
Marvin Goldstein, Dr. Irving L.
Greenberg.
Scrap Metal: M. William Bre-
man, Bernard Cohen, Pincus
Koplin, Max Londqn.
WOMEN’S DIVISION
General Chairmen: Mrs. Meyer
Balser, Mrs. Henry Caplan, Mrs.
I. F. Sterne.
Co-Chairmen— Advance Gifts:
Atlanta Jewish War Veterans
Select Ralph McGill For Award
Selection of Ralph McGill,
editor and columnist of the At
lanta Constitution, to receive its
"outstanding citizen’s award”
was announced
this week by
Atlanta Post
112, Jewish War]
Veterans.
Mr. McGilll
will receive the
award the eve-1
ning of March j
15, at the an-[
nual Command
er’s B a n q u e 11
and Dance set
Ralph McGill
for the Progressive Club.
Guest Speaker will be Sam
Shaikewitz, national commander
of the Jewish War Veterans.
Coleman Medintz, past com
mander of Post 112 and of the
Georgia-South Carolina J W V
Department, will be banquet
chairman. His co-chairman is
Paul Ginsberg. Irving Kaler
and Harold Bauman; co-chm. of
publicity, Irving Shaw and Sid
ney Pazol co-chm. for ticket
sales.
Cost for the banquet and
dance is $4 per person. Besides
the post, members of the Atlan
ta Jewish Community are invit
ed to join in this honor to the
distinguished Georgia editor. >
Reservations and checks can
be mailed to Irving Shaw, 326
Fulton Federal Building, Atlan
ta 3, Ga.
Mrs. Sidney Cavalier, Mrs. Les
lie Jacobs, Jr., Mrs. Milton
Rauxin.
Co-Chairmen — Special Gifts:
Mrs. Sidney Janus, Mrs. Hyman
Morris, Mrs. J. Morton Nathan,
Mrs. Herman Popkin, Mrs. Har
ley Ross.
Co-Chairmen—General Solici
tation: Mrs. David Eisenberg,
Mrs. Paul Landis, Mrs. Si Rosen-
blum, Mrs. Martin Shaw, Mrs.
Seymour Weinberg, Mrs. Arthur
WhitehiH.
Co-Chairmen — B & P: Mrs.
Muriel Berger, Mrs. Kurt Horn-
burger, Mrs. Adalbert Freed
man, Mrs. Joseph Sommers.
Co-Chairmen—Cover-all: Mrs.
Jerome Berman, Mrs. Sidney
Farber, Mrs. Julian Freedman,
Mrs. Morris Glaser, Mrs. Charles
Joel, Jr., Mrs. Abbott Orent-
licher, Mrs. Ben Rabinowits,
Mrs. Arthur Streve.
Co-Chairmen—Education and
Institutions: Mrs. Joseph Cuba,
Mrs. Herman Heyman, Mrs.
Philip Shulhafer.
Speakers Bureau Chairmen:
Mrs. Edward Krick.
Co-Chairman— Review and
Assignment: Mrs. Jake A be Ison,
Mrs. J. M. Rosenfeld, Mrs. A. A.
Weinstein.
Co-Chairman — Special Serv
ices: Mrs. Jack Berman.
Campaign Cabinet: Mrs. Frank
Garson, Mrs. Jake Abelson, Mrs.
Sam Alterman, Mrs. Wm. fire
man, Mrs., Jake Friedman, Mrs.
Harry M. Gershon, Mrs. Abe
Goldstein, Mrs. Herman Hey
man, Mrs. J. Kurt Holland, Mrs.
Bernard Howard, Mrs, Harold
Marcus, Mrs. Barney Medintz,
Mrs. J. M. Rosenfeld, Mrs. Philip
Schwartz, Mrs. Louis Smith,
Mrs. A. A. Weinstein.
YOUTH DIVISION
Chairmen: Cathy Barnett, Ra
mon Franco, Cary King, Marilyn
Makover.
General Chairman Max Cuba
declared: "Historically, the an-
Woman Is Justice
of Massachusetts
Superior Court
BOSTON, (JTA) —Judge Jen
nie L. Barron of Brookline, Mass.,
who in 1937 became the first
woman to be named a full-time
municipal judge in Massachu
setts, has been named an Asso
ciate Justice of the Massachu
setts Superior Court. Judge Bar
ron thus became the first woman
to sit on the state’s Superior
Court bench.
Long active in Jewish com
munal affairs, Judge Barron has
distinguished herself in public
service on the state, national and
international levels. A former
assistant attorney general of
Massachusetts, she was named by
the State Department in 1955 to
serve on the U.S. delegation to
the first United Nations Congress
on the Prevention of Crime
whch was held in Geneva.
nual Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fuild campaign is a total com
munity activity whose purpose
is to coordinate in one campaign
and through one contribution to
a single organization the total
appeals of Jewish agencies and
institutions throughout the
world. These include overseas
agencies, community relations
agencies, national service health
and cultural agencies, semin
aries and religious education
agencies, Yeshivoth, and religi
ous and charitable institutions
and local community services
and regional agencies.
“The Welfare Fund also co
ordinates the raising and distri
bution of funds for vital emerg
encies and situations such as tne
one now being faced in Eastern
Europe where Jews in large
numbers are being permitted to
leave Rumania in what has been
described as ‘Exodus under
pressure, stress, fear and ang
uish.’ To assist these people in
leaving the country and to re-
establsh them in a new home,
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fund seeks to raise a special
Fund of $750,000 in addition to
its regular campaign goal of
$705,000 for continued vital ser
vices at home and overseas.”
mania. ... .
Ben Gurion told the Histadrut
council that some 5,700 Jews
have arrived in Israel from the
Soviet Union, among an overall
total of 360,000 from the com
munist states of Eastern Eu
rope. Mrs. Meir also addressed
the meeting.
Giving an impetus to the im
pression already widely held
here that the current immigra
tion wave from Rumania would
soon widen into a floor aug
mented by Soviet Jewry. Mrs.
Meir said that “in spite of all
logic and arguments, we are
convinced in the hope that im
migration (from the USSR)
would come as well. We may not
even find an explanation for
such a move from official au
thorities, but still it may come
tomorrow.”
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Prime Ministers Advisory Eco
nomic Council moved this week,
as the Government studied plans
for both increased and new
taxation, to assure a “more
equitable” distribution of the in
come tax burden and the finan
cial obligations imposed by the
emigration of Jews from Ru
mania. _
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Pre
mier David Ben Gurion toured
the Negev settlements this week
where new immigrants from
Rumania have been absorbed
and spoke with them about their
past life and how they were
finding the adjustment in Israel
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
druze pstrolmaa, a member
the Israel border police, this
week returned a 50-pound prize
for meritorious service with a
request that the money be used
for the immigration loan fund
in the name of his unit!
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
United States Appeal of (Greater
New York completed arrange
ments this week for a credit of
$30,000,000 from seven local
banks. Samuel D. Leidesdorf,
Neyv York UJA treasurer, made
the announcement following for
mal signing of the loan agree
ment by officers of the UJA
and participating banks.
Southeast ZOA Board Meeting
Set For Charleston February 22
CHARLESTON—The Adminis
trative Committee of the South
east Region of the Zionist Or
ganization of America will hold
its winter meeting in Charleston,
on Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Fran
cis Marion Hotel, according to
Michael Adilman of Savannah,
This is the first time that the
Administrative Committee, which
is the governing body of the
Regional ZOA in between the
annual conferences, has met in
Charleston in eight years.
On Friday evening, Feb. 20,
all the congregations in Charles
ton will hold a “Zionist Sabbath”
in honor of the members of the
ZOA committeemen who will be
in their city. Harry Jaffe, of
Birmingham, Ala., president of
the eight state region, will be
the guest speaker at Temple
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim. Fol
lowing the services a reception
in Mr. Jaffe’s honor will take
place in the Temple Social Hall.:
Mr. Jaffe will also be the guest
speaker at the Saturday morn
ing Services at Brith Sholom
Beth Israel Congregation. An
Oneg Shabat honoring Mr. Jaffe
will follow.
Mr. Adilman of Savannah,
will be the guest speaker on
Friday evening at Congregation
Emanuel-E). The Charleston
Zionist District has arranged an
Oneg Shabat to follow the serv
ices.
On Saturday evening Mr. and
HARRY JAFFE
Mrs. William Ackerman will be
hosts to a reception at their
home in honor of the visitors.
Mr. Ackerman, noted Charleston
attorney, is regional vice presi
dent in charge of South Caro
lina.
Highlight of the meeting will
be the luncheon on Sunday af
ternoon at the Francis Marion
Hotel. The speaker will be a
national figure. Charleston ZOA
members and community lead
ers have been invited to attend.