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The Southern Israelite
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land St, N.E., AtlanU S, Georgia, TR. 6-8t49, TR 6 8240. Entered
as second class matter at the post office, Atlanta, Georgia under the
Act of March 8, 1878. Yearly subscription five dollars. The Southern
Israelite Invitee literary contributions and correspondence but Is not
to be considered as sharing the views expaeased by writers. DEAD
LINK Is 12:80 PAL, TUESDAY, but material received earlier will
have a much better chance of publication.
SOME NOTABLE
KNOW THE BOOK!
Hebrew Scriptures
ANNIVERSARIES IN MARCH in The Making
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HATLONAL JDIIOtlM America^ Association
Of English-Jewish
Newspapers
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
'Turtau Oppenheimer, Margaret Merryman, Sylvia Kletzky
Karen Hurtig, Kathleen Nease, Jennie Loeb
What The Press Is Saying
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An AJP Digest of Contemporary Opinion
Exodus Rumania—New Zionist “Plot”
Though everyone involved, each for bis own reasons, tried to
play it down, the steady, almost stealthy, exodus of 17,000 Jews
from Communist Rumania to Israel in the past six months was
bound to attract the notice of he Arab world. This week the largely
ineffectual Arab League is scheduling a protest meeting; Nasser’s
Cairo and Damascus radios agonized day and night over the “new
Zionist plot aided by the imperialists to bring in 3,000,000 Eastern
European Jews," to “occupied Palestine.” To quiet the Arabs, Rus
sia’s IxvesUa declared that the Soviet Union would never think of
alienating, its Arab friends by permitting the emigration of Rus
sia’s 3,000,000 Jews to Israel. The Rumanian Communist, govern
ment . . . last week admitted for the firpb time that it was per
mitting Jews to leave for Israel and would continue “on humani
tarian grounds” to allow Jews to “reunite with their relatives in
Israel . .
TIME MAGAZINE
Challenge to World Jewry
The inexorable process of Yetxlath Europa, checked in recent
years by Iron Curtain barriers, has entered a further stage with the
abrupt release of Rumanian Jewry . . . The sudden transferral, in
itself a great challenge to Jewish brotherhood, is the greater chal
lenge when seen in relation to the situation of Soviet Jewry . . .
We must arm ourselves for a moral battle not less crucial. We
dare not permit it to go unchallenged that a government may hold
its Jewish populace as prisoners, with neither rights not security,
forbidden or permitted to maintain a vestige of religious and com
munal life as the ruling powers may decree, obliged to remain or
to be dispatched elsewhere, to exist or to be obliterated, as the
rulers, in accordance with their political policies, may dictate . .
ORTHODOX JEWISH LIFE, from an editorial
Israel-West Military Potential
There are three effective elements of military power which are
actually present in the Middle East area. These are: (1) The armed
forces of Israel. (2) The armed forces of Turkey. (3) The U.S. Sixth
Fleet. Since the disturbances in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon this
Summer, no new factor has appeared within the area which seems
capable of offering serious challenge to any of these three military
elements in the respective spheres of activity and interest of the
governments controlling them . . .
GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT, The American Zicfelst
Rise of Anti-Semitism in South
An anti-Semitic campaign, constantly increasing in intensity, is
today being fought in the South. It is submerged in the broad can
vass of the war over desegregation. But it is, nevertheless, a furious
battle, making use of all the tensions of the day. The professional
anti-Semite is at work in the South as never before. The issues of
desegregation give hinj his sanction for operating. But they are not
his real concern. His movements and materials are more anti-
Semitic than anti-Negro . . . Southern Jews can no longer main
tain that the South is less tainted by organized anti-Semitism than
any other section of the country. On the contrary, in the atmosphere
of the troubled South today there is more potential for danger than
anywhere else in the U.S. The findings of the Anti-Defamation
League that organized anti-Semitism is at a low ebb, announced
ten years ago and repeated annually, must now be changed because
of the situation in the South . . .
ARNOLD FORSTER, the ADL Bulletin
Atlanta ORT Group
Seeks Rummage for
Fund-Raising Sale
A desperate call for rummage
to sell in their fund-raising ef
fort to raise funds for overseas
rehabilitation training was iss
ued this week by the Atlanta
Chapter of Women’s American
ORT
The group is sponsoring a
rummage sale at 89,-91 Broad
St., S.W. and items Can be de- ■
livered there between the hours
of 10 a m. and 6 p.m. Pick-up
can be arranged with Mrs. Don
ald Goldman, TR. 4-6548 or Mrs.
Victor Kramer, CE. 3-9578.
Sought for sale are articles
the family no longer wants or
needs—outgrown and old cloth
ing, household articles, toys,
books, china, furniture jewelry
—anything saleable.
The merchandise itself is tax
deductible, the sponsors point
out.
The Chapter is sponsoring a
tea for Tuesday, March 17.
JEWISH CALENDAR
•PURIM
Tuesday, March 24
•PASSOVER
Thursday, April 23
•SHAVOUS
Friday, June 12
•ROSH HASHONAH
Saturday, Oct 3
•Holiday begins preceding
evening.
By RABBI HARRIS SWIFT
B’nai Zion Synagogue, Chattanooga
MARCH 1 Martyrdom at Worms 1349
The City Council condemned the community to be burned in
consequence of the atrocious libel that Jews had introduced the
Black Death by poisoning the wells. Anticipating the fate in store
for them, the Jews set fire to their houses, perished in the flames
almost to a man, to the number of over four hundred souls.
MARCH 3 Confiscation of Hebrew Books, France 1240
In consequence of the slanders of the apostate Nicholas Donin,
Pope Gregory IX issued instructions for all copies of the Talmud
to be sequestered and an investigation made into its contents which
were reported to comprise blasphemies against the Christian reli
gion. On Saturday, March 3, 1240, all copies of the proscribed work
were seized while the Jews were at worship in their synagogues.
Two years later, in 1242, cartloads of priceless manuscripts were
burned in Paris. Meir of Rothenburg, who witnessed the outrage,
commemorated it in his heart-broken elegy: ‘Ask, is it well, O thou
consumed in fire.’ Jews mourned the burning of the manuscripts
even more than the attempts against their bodies.
MARCH 4 Deliverance of Jews in Egypt 1524
Ahmed Pasha disappointed in his ambition of becoming Grand
Vizier to the Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in Constantinople,
determined to avenge himself upon the Jews of Egypt. Prominent
Jews were summoned to the palace and informed that unless they
paid him the exhorbitant sum of 200 latents of silver, he would
order the massacre of the whole community. The community did
not possess this sum. In desperation, the rabbis proclaimed a day
of fasting and contrition. An offer of a large sum of money amount
ing to a part of the whole amount demanded was rejected with
scorn and the leaders of the community who brought it were thrown
into irons. It then being announced that they and the rest of the
Jews would be put to death as soon as the Viceroy had left his
bath. Before that could take place, conspirators headed by one of
Ahmed Pasha’s viziers took advantage of his helpless condition to
attack him. He was beheaded and his government overthrown. In
gratitude for this miraculous escape, Jews of Cairo instituted a
special feast, ever afterwards celebrated each year on Adar 27th.
MARCH 13 Death of Mordecal Melsel 1601
Born in Prague, 1528, great Jewish philanthropist, called the
Rothschild of the sixteenth century. Expended lavishly without re
gard for distinctions of creed. Built the Jewish Communal Hall at
Prague, the famous Meisel Synagogue, the Cemetery, paved the
streets, dowered brides, lent to needy, merchants without interest,
helped widows, orphans and the poor, made generous contributions
to foreign communities, Christian charities, and assisted in comple
tion of the Church of the Redeemer. His services were sought out
by the Emperor, to whom he repeatedly gave large sums of money.
In recognition of this, immediately the breath was out of his body
the whole of his estate was confiscated by the Treasury, his testa
mentary dispositions being entirely neglected and one of his heirs
being put to torture in order to encourage him to reveal the hid
ing place of what had been concealed.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TUESDAY—12:30 PM.—is the deadline for Items in next week’s
calendar conducted for the convenience of the community. THE
SOUTHERN ISRAELITE prefers to have these Items in writing at
390 Courtland St., N.E., but will accept them over TR. 6-8249. This
Calendar is not compiled weeks in advance and should not be con
fused with the reservation and consultative calendar offered for date
clearance by the Atlanta Jewish Community Council.
MARCH 15, Sunday:
6:30 P.M.—Annual Man of Year Award and President’s Dinner,
honoring Ralph McGill and Sam Shaikewitz, National
JWV Commander. Progressive Club. *3
MARCH 16, Monday:
12:00 M.—Shearith Israel Sisterhood Box Lunch and Card Party.
Synagogue Social Hall.
1:15 P.M.—Meeting, Atlanta Section, Council of Jewish Women.
AJCC
MARCH 17, Tuesday:
1:15 P.M.—-ORT Day Membership Tea. Progressive Club.
4:00 P.M.—Jr. Hadassah Review and Fashion Show. Rich’s.
MARCH 18. Wednesday:
8 A.M. - 6 P.M.—ORT Rummage Sale, 89-91 Broad Street, S.W.
MARCH 20, Friday:
8:15 P.M.—Ahavath Achim Mr. and Mrs. Club Oneg Shabbat. Max
Robkin, Speaking on “Jewish Wit and Humor.” Syna
gogue.
MARCH 22, Snnday:
7:00 P.M.—Beth Jacob Congregation Cabaret Supper and "Persian
Bazaar.” Synagogue Bldg.
APRIL 17, Friday:
8:15 P.M.—Mr. and Mrs. Club Oneg Shabbat. Dr. Immanuel Ben-
Dor Speaker. Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
by MAX L. MARGOLIS
System of Threefold Division
By Non-Jews
If we turn to the Church
translations of the Hebrew Scrip
tures, the Anglican, for exam
ple, the threefold division would
seem at the first glance no
where to be apparent.
The whole of what Christians
denominate the Old Testament
is one undivided part. Moreover,
Ruth occupies a place between
Judges and Samuel; Lamenta
tions follows Jeremiah, and Dan
iel comes after Ezekiel. Chron
icles, Ezra-Nehemiah and Esther
are attached to the Book of
Kings; the Latter Prophets of
the Hebrew editions are found
at the end of the collection, and
the remaining books of the third
section are placed in the mid
dle. Nevertheless, on closer in
spection, there is revealed a
principle of threefold division.
The parts are:
Historical Books— Genesis-
Esther.
Poetical Books—Job, Psalms
and the Solomonic writings.
Prophetical Books
This arrangement meets us in
the oldest manuscripts of the
Greek translation.
It is worth noting that the
placing of the Prophets third in
order has a parallel in the Addi
tional Prayer on New Year’s
Day where the ten scriptural
citations are made up of three
each from Torah, Ketubim and
Prophets, with the tenth once
more from the Torah.
The division of the Scriptures
into three sections was known in
the second century B.C.E. The
Greek translator of the Book of
Sirach speaks of the great and
many things that were delivered
to Israel “by the law and the
prophets and the others that fol
lowed upon them.”
Next Week: Postition of the
Rabbis
(From “The Hebrew Scriptures
In the Making” — The Jewish
Publication Society of America,
222 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia
2. Pa.)
CBS Explains Omission
Of Israel in Review
NEW YORK, (AJP) — Sig
Mickelson, Vice president in
charge of news and public af
fairs of the Columbia Broad
casting System has replied to a
protest lodged with the Presi
dent of the Company by the AJP
reporter here against CBS’ “com
plete omission of Israel as a Mid
dle East entity” during its re
cent year-end review of corres
pondents moderated by Ed Mur-
row.
Winston Burdett had been ask
ed by Murrow to point out what
he thought to be the most im
portant developments in the Mid
east during the past ten years.
“Arab nationalism” was the re
ply and again “Arab national
ism.” Not a word about the Mir
acle Israel.
In his reply, Mickelson justi
fied Burdett by saying that there
“was no attempt on the part of
the management of CBS to dic
tate to correspondents . . .
“On several other occasions,"
he added, however, Burdett did
indicate Israel’s position vis-a-vis
Arab nationalism and that he be
lieves the Arabs recognize that
Israel is a permanent nation and
not one to push back into the
sea.
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