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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry— t _..iS ted 1925
XXXIV
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1009
NO. II
Mexican Indian Youth Enters
Seminary To Become Rabbi
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A 13-
year-old son of a Mexican In
dian has ben enrolled at Torah
Vodaath of Brooklyn, a tradi
tional Jewish Seminary, as the
first Indian Jew to undertake
study for the rabbinate, officials
of the institution revealed this
week.
Shimon Ben Abraham De La
Carbajal of Mexico City is the
son of a convert to Judaism and
a mother who is a descendant
of the Mprranos. He was sent
to the seminary by his grand
father on his mother's side, Jose
Carbajal, who had dedicated his
life to bringing back to the Jew
ish faith Indian families inter
married with Marranos. Torah
Vodaath officials said that the
grandfather, who is now 75,
fears that his efforts will soon
come to an end and therefore
arranged for his grandson to
come to the Brooklyn Seminary.
The boy is attending a special
class to extend his background
in Talmudics. He is also study
ing English and Yiddish, as well
as Hebrew, the basic languages
at the Seminary.
Seminary officials said that
the youth, who was enrolled last
September, has been making
“encouraging progress” and is
expected to be enrolled in the
regular departments. Assuming
he continues to maintain scholar
ship standards, he will be grad
uated and ordained as a rabbi
in 10 years, officials said.
The boy’s father is a factory
worker whose income is too
Httleto pay- his son 1 * tuition vo
the pupil is attending on a full
scholarship the officials said.
There are at least tWo colon
ies of such intermarried families
in Mexico City, the official said,
adding that the grandfather has
brought back to Judaism 18
families. There are an estimated
100 such families in the two
colonies in Mexico City, the of
ficials added.
Israel Rationing
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Ration
ing of consumer commodities,
suspended in the last month,
may have to be resumed, Pinhas
Sapir, Minister of Trade and In
dustry, warned here. He issued
a statement calling on Israelis
not to throw away their old ra
tion books because "you might
be needing them again.”
Israel Embassy Announces
Abba Eban’s Resignation
The Embassy of Israel in
Washington has announced that
Abba Eban is leaving his post as
Ambassador to the United States
and permanent representative to
the United Nations, to return
to Israel.
Ambassador Eban presented
his letters of credence to Presi
dent Truman on September 5,
1950. He had pleaded Israel’s
cause before the United Nations
ever since establishment of the
Jewish State on May 15, 1948,
and had served in the UN since
May, 1949.
In accepting Mr. Eban’s resig
nation, Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion wrote: "You have
been able to intensify the links
between America and Israel by
emphasizing the spiritual values
and political interests common
to them both. For each of our
countries is attached to the di
vinely conceived values of hu-
Cuba Cites "Cost Analysis" For
Transferring, Settling New Israelis
A “cost analysis” of the life
building process of transferring
and resettling an individual im
migrant from an East European
country to Israel was given
Thursday by, Max M. Cuba,
chairman of the 1959 Campaign
of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fund, who said that at least
100,000 new persons are expect
ed in the young state in 1959.
“It takes $1,600 to see a single
person through this process —
from the day he leaves Eastern
Europe to the end of his first
year in Israel,” Mr. Cuba de-
Atlanta Fund Lists Leaders
Of 1959 Youth Division
Special to The Southern laraSllte
Cafhy Barnett, Ramon 1 Saul
Franco, Cary King and Mhrilyn
Makover have been named to
head the Youth Division of the
1959 campaign, it was announced,
by the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
RAMON SAUL FRANCO
CATrfY BARNETT
Fund this week.
Cathy is a junior at North
Fulton High School where she
is a member of the Girls’ Ath
letic Association, Tallulah Falls
Club and representative for the
Hl-Ways Yearbook from home
room. She also holds the office
of recording secretary for the
Temple Youth Group; is a mem
ber of Sigma Theta Pi Sorority
of which she is president and
received the “Best Pledge” cup
last year; and is a representative
to the Atlanta Jewish Youth
Council. Her hobbies are danc
ing, bowling, athletics and horse
back riding.
Ramon was formerly secretary
of the Devoted Sons of Israel,
holds the Best-All-Around Award
from DSI, and is currently Presi
dent of DSI. He is a junior at
Grajly High School where he is
a member of the Beta Club.
Several years ago, he served as
colonel for the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund from DSI and re
ceived an award from the Wel
fare Fund for 100 percent par
ticipation. Ramon was awarded
a Gold Medal at the City Wide
Science Fair for his exhibit on
the photo-electric effect. He is
one of three in the city, and the
only student from Grady to
achieve this distinction.
ary
School, where he is a past presi
dent of JAO-AZA No. 799. He
received the award for "Best-
All-Around” in JAO; is chair
man of the B’nai B’rith Youth
Organization, is “Beau” of BBG
No. 176; and is a member of the
“Dudes, a senior social club at
Grady. He holds the title of
Cadet Major in ROTC.
Marilyn is a senior at Grady
High School, and is president of
D.O.Z. She also is co-president
of A. A. Sunday School Student
Council; vice president of Beta
Club; member of School Var
sity Tennis Team; member of
Joe K’s; past president of K.J.’s;
a member of the G-Club, and a
member of the Senior National
Honor Society. She was a eandi-
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dared. He added. “What bettter
way could funds be used than
in this fashion—to give people
a chance to build new lives
among those who welcome
them. Mr. Cuba set forth the
transfer and resettlement items
as follows:
For initial papers, transit
visas, etc.—$23; for transporta
tion from Vienna to Naples,
medical service aboard ship,
board and lodging enroute—
$230; for initial absorption costs
in Israel, including a small loan
far living eapsana hail ding
canned food, minimal furniture
and medical aid—$209; for edu
cation, medical and social serv
ices—$44; for housing (one per
son’s share)—$1,100. Grand total
for a human being’s chance at
a new life: $1,600.
Presenting his analysis against
a background of the Atlanta
Jewish Welfare Fund’s 1959 all
out community effort to raise
the funds to meet the urgent
tasks confronting the United
Jewish Appeal and other over
seas agencies, he gave special
emphasis to the 1959 campaign
in which the contributor is ask
ed first to provide the maximum
support for the regular ongoing
program of the United Jewish
Appeal and other overseas agen
cies included in the Welfare
Fund as well as continued sup
port for national and local
agencies—and second, over and
above that, to meet Atlanta’s
share of the 100 million dollar
special rescue fund which is ear
marked to provide for the im
migration and resettlement in
Israel of the thousands of Jews
coming out from Eastern Europe.
The Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fund, to meet its total responsi
bilities in 1959, has set for itself
a quota of $705,000 toward the
regular needs of all of the agen
cies included in Welfare Fund
support—and a total of $750,000
as Atlanta’s share toward the
special rescue fund to be used
primarly for transferring to Is
rael thousands of Jews who are
leaving Eastern Europe—as well
as to aid in ther initial settle
ment.
The Atlanta Campaign official
ly opened Tuesday, March 10,
and is scheduled to be conclud
ed by May 10. Plans are now be
ing formulated to celebrate the
anticipated successful accomp
lishment of the goal with a
victory dinner on May 3 in hon
or of Abba S. Eban, Ambassador
of Israel to the United States
and Chief Delegate to the United
Nations upon the occasion of his
leaving this country permanent
ly to return to Israel. Barney
Medintz has been named chair
man of the dinner committee.
Additional details will be an
nounced at a later date.
man freedom and to the demo
cratic system based on the con
cept of ‘government of the peo
ple. by the people, for the peo
ple.’’
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Abba
Eban, retiring Ambassador to
the United States, is expected to
run in next November’s general
elections for membership on the
ticket of the dominant Mapal
Party. If elected to Parliament,
he will probably be appointed
as Foreign Minister.
These Indications were ad
vanced In well Informed circlet
here following the announce
ment of Mr. Eban’s resignation
from his twin posts as Ambassa
dor to Washington and this
country’s permanent representa
tive to the United Nations. The
present Foreign Minister, Mrs.
Golda Meir, has said several
times that she does not intend
to continue in her post after the
next elections.
After Mr. Eban’s return home,
the present Charge d’Affaires in
Washington, .Yaacov Herrog.
will continue in that position at
the Washington Embassy. At
United Nations headquarters, in
New York, the current deputy ‘
permanent representative, Jos
eph Tekoah. will become acting
chairman of the Israel delega
tion. No final decisions on Mr.
Eban’s successors to the perma
nent posu will bn made .te sev
eral months.
PHILADELPHIA, (JTAy—Ab
ba Eban, Israel’s Ambassador to
the United States, and perma
nent representative to the United
Nations, was named an honoranr
citizen of the City of Philadel
phia this week at a farewell
luncheon in his honor here.
First Bas Mitzvah
Ceremony in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (JTA)
—The first Bas Mitzvah cere
mony in Alaskan history took
place at the Elmendorf Air
Force Base, the Air Force has
disclosed. The Bas Mitzvah was
Sandra Fishlow, 12-year-old
daughter of Captain and Mrs.
Jesse Fishlow.
An Air Force family, the
Fishlows have had many homes
since their daughter's birth,
from California to Alaska. The
Bas Mitzvah received her first
religious education at the age
of three at Kessler Air Force
Base in Mississippi, and contin
ued her Jewish studies at Scott
Air Force Base in Illinois.
During 1956 and 1957, the
nearest religious schools were
more than 50 miles away and
the girl, with her parents, made
the twice weekly trip across the
Canadian border. Sandra learn
ed to speak Hebrew during this
time. At the Elmendorf base, the
child took part in classes con
ducted by Chaplain Joshua
Wachtfogel, Alaska’s only rabbi.
Bill Would Up Bomb
Penalty in N. Y.
ALBANY, N. Y„ (JTA) — A
proposed state law providing
penalties ranging from 20 to 50
years’ imprisonment for “malici
ous” damage by explosives to
churches, synagogues or ceme
teries was passed by the Senate
this Week and has been forward
ed to the State Assembly.
Under the draft measure, the
50-year prison sentence could be
given for such bombings that
endanger human life. In cases
where no human lives were en
dangered, the maximum penalty
would be 20 years’ imprison
ment.
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