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Atlanta Jewish Schools Open Next Week With Record Enrollment
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With classes literally bursting
at the seame, Atlanta’s Jewish
schools get underway next week.
Afternoon Hebrew schools
will begin sessions on Wednes
day, Sept. 9, with the Sunday
schools opening on August 28.
More than 3000 boys and girls
will attend the Sunday schools,
it was reported by the Atlanta
Bureau of Jewish Education.
Another 900 registration is anti
cipated by the Hebrew Schools,
including the Hebrew Academy,
which began operation August
28.
Most of the schools will hold
sessions in their own buildings.
Exception is the Temple, whose
education facilities have been
closed since damaged in the
bombing last fall. Children en
rolled in the Temple classes re
port to classes in the E. Rivers
School.
A special School Calendar has
been set up by the Professional
Council of the Bureau, composed
of the various school directors
and the School Council of edu
cation committee chairmen. This
schedule for the 1959-60 term
includes provisions for testing
programs, inter-school assem
blies, dates for the Hebrew and
Sunday Schools and other acti
vities, Josiah Benator is chair
man of the School Council Com
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mittee of the Bureau.
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
XXXIV
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1959
NO. 35
Anti-Jewish Propaganda High in Areas
Acquired by Moscow Since War
Mr. Goldberg Fights for Right To
Stand on London Sidewalks
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — So
viet newspapers from territories
acquired by the Soviet Union
after the war—especially Galicia
and the Baltic states—are in
dulging in unprecedented anti-
Jewish propaganda under the
pretext of fighting religion, it
was established here this week
following a study of a number
of Soviet publications from these
areas.
The Latvian newspaper “So-
vietskaya Daugava,” published
in Riga, carries an article attack
ing the local rabbi, Baruch
Eliashberg, for selling hand
written Jewish calendars. The
article avoids indicating that
the Soviet authorities do not
permit the printing of Jewish
religious calendars, but accuses
the rabbi of “amassing” money
by selling the hand-written
calendars to “many visitors to
the synagogue.”
Calling this income “illegal,”
the article carefully avoids say
ing -what happened to the rabbi,
but implies that the practice or
disseminating hand-copied Jew
ish calendars has been stopped
by the Latvian Soviet authori
ties.
The rabbi, according to the
Soviet newspaper, was checked
after he had purchased “several
dozens of ordinary copy books
at 15 kopecks apiece, split them
into two, and produced .so-called
religious calendars wnich he
sola at 5-10 rubles each.” Ad
mitting, thus, that it was only
a question of “several dozens”
calendars, the paper neverthe
less charges the rabbi with
pocketing the “amassed” income.
A more inciting article against
Jewish religious leaders appears
in the Ukrainian Soviet news
paper “Prikarpatska Pravda,”
published in Stanislav, which
was a Polish city until World.
War II. “Rabbis, tzadiks and
their like” the Commuist paper
writes, “on the other side of our
frontiers, try to now send special
agents into our country for anti-
Soviet activities. Their letters
and radio broadcasts direct the
clergy living in the Soviet Union
to sabotage the Communist
Party ana the Soviet regime.”
The paper, fn its inciting anti-
Jewish article, claims that the
rabbis m the Soviet Union “op
pose the Communist system of
education of children.” As ex
ample, it cites a Jewish preacher
in Mogilev who “not so long
ago” allegedly told mothers in
the synagogue to “better lead
your children to the slaughter
house, rather than to let them
rot in Communist Pioneer units.”
Declaring that “the Jewish re
ligion teaches Jews who live
among other nations never to
wish these nations peace and
happiness,” the Ukrainian news
paper says that the Jewish reli
gion "is now, and always has
been, the enemy of science, cul
ture and progress,” and that “it
emphasizes the things which di
vert the mind of people from
active participation in the build
ing of Communism.”
Asserting that “the leaders of
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LONDON, (JTA)—Fifty-three
year-old Louis Goldberg, an
East End boiler maintenance
man, intends to fight for the
right to breathe fresh air wher
ever he wants, even if this means
jail.
Mr. Goldberg was arrested last
week for obstructing a police
officer when he refused to heed
an order to “move on” as he in
haled the London air from the
vantage point of the sidewalk
near his home. He told the
magistrate that “I have a right
to stand there near my home
and get fresh air.” But the
magistrate replied that “curious
ly enough, you have not. Many
people thing that, but the law
states you only have the right
to walk up and down, not to
stand there.”
He offered, Mr. Goldberg Hie
option of a two pound fine
($5.60) or 14 days in jail and
gave him two weeks to decide
which to take. But Mr. Goldberg
was adamant. Further, he was
determined to fight for the right
regardless of the outcome.
“Although I have the money,
I will not pay a penny of the
fine,” he affirmed. “When the
fourteen days are up, they can
come and take me away. We
fought two world wars for free
dom and yet a man who gets
up for work at five and doesn’t
return home until seven is pre
vented from standing on the
pavement a few yards from hds
home for a breath of fresh air.”
Mr. Goldberg had a sympathe
tic press. But in England, the
law is the law.
Nine Southern Women Named
On UJAs Overseas Study Mission
Mrs. Rauzin, Mrs. Rosenfeld Represent Atlanta
Mrs. Milton Rauzin and Mrs.
J. N. Rosenfeld have been named
as Atlanta’s representatives to
Writer Finds Sad Misconceptions Exist
About Americans Among Russian People
By JOSEPH LOEWINSOHN
Atlantan Concludes Report of His Trip;
Initial Installment in Last Week’s Issue
“How come your financier Mr.
Morgan has 600 billion dollars
while workers are starving in
America?” a young woman de
manded to know.
“Why does your president
Eisenhower want war with the
Soviet Union?” asked a little
short man in the group.
“What about Little Rock that
we read in our papers?” almost
angrily shouted a young fellow
whom I suspected to be slightly
tipsy.
“Did you say you were from
Georgia?” another young wom
an asked. I said yes, from Geor
gia.
“Why do you lynch Negroes
in your state?” continued the
young Russian her questioning.
Again I had to refute their
persistent and belligerent state
ments based on totally absurd
information and sad misconcep
tion they had about America and
the state of Georgia.
“Where did you get the idea
that Mr. Morgan had 600 billion
dollars? Did you count his
money?” I asked my interroga
tor. The rest of the group smiled
at this exchange of banter and,
when the young man began to
grow a little too loud, pressing
closer to me, his friends pushed
him back. I could see that they
were beginning to get embar-
assed by the man’s impolite be
havior m the presence of a for
eigner.
It was getting real late and
since all of us were tired, our
meeting broke up and we parted
company. I should,add that our
parting was very amiable with
everyone wishing me “Spokoinoi
noclu”—good night.
Leningrad is a magnificent
city and I was surprised to find
it without any traces of the war
wounds inflicted on it during
the terrible siege that lasted al
most three years. The city was
completely surrounded by the
Nazis and cut off from the rest
of the country. It was constant
ly shelled by the Germans,
bombarded from the air with
block busters and showered with
incendiary bombs that played
havoc with the besieged popula
tion.
The first winter of the block
ade had been unusually severe
even for Leningrad. The temp
erature often dropped to 40 be
low zero and there was no wa
ter with which to put out in
numerable fires caused by the
merciless shelling and the in
cendiary bombs.
The food supplies had given
out and the population was
literally starving. To add to this
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MRS. RAUZIN
Mr. Loewinaohn and sister-in-law in Leningrad
MRS. ROSENFELD
ioin a group of 27 community
leaders leaving New York Sept.
9 to study settlement and wel
fare programs of UJA-supported
programs in Europe and Israel,
it was announced by the Welfare
Fund office this week.
In Atlanta, the United Jewish
Other Southerners
On Survey Mission
Other Southerners making
the Overseas Survey Mission
include: Mrs. S. Pearson
Auerbach, Louisville; Mrs.
Meyer Eggnatz, Miami Beach-
Mrs. Harding Frankel and
Mrs. Morris Glesby, Houston,
Texas; Mrs. H. F. Shipper,
Florence, Ala; Mrs. Robert
M. Unger and Mrs. Leon E
Weinstein of Birmingham.
Appeal is supported through the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund’s
annual campaign.
The Women’s UJA Study Mis
sion, in which Mrs. Rauzin and
Mrs. Rosenfeld will participate,
is sponsored by the National
Women’s Division of the UJA,
headed by Mrs. J. A. Goodman
of Indianapolis, who is National
Women’s Division chairman of
UJA for the third successive
year.
Mrs. Rauzin is co-chairman of
Advance Gifts of the Women’s
Division; co-chairman of chil
dren’s activities of the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center: and
member of the Center Board.
She has been active in cam
paigns of Community Chest and
various health drives; is a
member of the Atlanta Chapter
of Brandeis University National
Women’s Committee; member of
the Board of Atlanta Chapter
of ORT as well as Hadassah.
This will represent Mrs. Rauzin’s
first trip to Israel.
Mrs. Rosenfeld has been close-
S ’ identified with the Women’s
ivision since its inception. She
served as co-chairman of the
Division in 1955 and has filled
practically every other leading
post lp the campaign. She is
now active in the Women’s Di
vision Advisory Cabinet and
has received citation^ for her
work in the American Red
Cross; U.S. Bond drives; from
B’nai B’rith for Welfare Fund
activities; from Hadassah for
work with the Atlanta Chapter.
She is also the recipient of a
merit citation for service to the
Jewish Home in Atlanta. Mrs.
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