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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 23. IK«
The Southern Israelite
Published weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 390 Court
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Soothera Israelite invites literary contributions and correspond
■ence bat Is not to be considered as sharing the views expressed by
writers. DEADLINE Is 5 PAL, FRIDAY, bat material received earlier
will have s much better chance of publication.
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Sylvia Kletzky,
Kathleen Nease, Jennie Loeb
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A FRIEND OF MANKIND
Death this week clauned Kendall Weissiger, a remark
able prince of this earth, an Atlantan who loved his fellow
man and who worked diligently to improve their lot.
/I non-Jew. Mr Weissiger was to be found where good
will was needed, helping to plough the furrows, laboring
through his many contacts to promote understanding and
amity.
~~ Before WW II. he began independently to promote what
the socio-writer Louis Adamio aptly called a philosophy of
“Two-Way Passage” assistance to countries which in the
holocaust then impending would be ravished and left impot
ent by the struggle.
Men with the same vision and in the position to imple
ment this idea carried on in this field during the post-war
era and Mr. Weissiger dedicated himself largely to the speci
fics of bringing young people from many lands and climes to
Georgia institutions of higher learning for training and under
standing whch they could, later take to their home countries.
He enlisted financial assistance so that scores of young
people could benefit from study at American universities and
colleges through the Rotary Foundation. Many of these stu
dents were Israelis and many have since returned to help the
developmertt of this mid-East country. But he understood well
that it would have great meaning in the long haul for Arab
students too to study here and, he hoped, return and spread
a better understanding of American democracy. The presence
of Israelis, Arabs, Indians and students from other countries
had meaning too for the campuses at large where they were
enrolled.
One of the pioneer members of the American Christian
Palestine Committee, he long evidenced a special regard for
the drama taking place in Israel and not only helped in build
ing up a favorable climate^of public opinion but participated
frequently in Atlanta campaigns of the Welfare Fund and
Bonds for Israel.
He devoted nearly two decades of his retirement years
to these and other worth-while movements and grew in sta
ture and influence as the horizons of his ideals materialized
and broadened.
His passing saddens thousands who will miss the preci
ous contacts with this stalwart personality.
Rabbi Epstein Speaker Sept. 28
At Fulton Lodge Dediration Rite
Rabbi Harry H. Epstein will
be the principal speaker at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, when
members of Fulton Lodge F. &
A M. gather to dedicate the new
Masonic Temple at 1690 Peach-
tree St., N. E.
Rabbi Epstein’s subject will be
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“The Temple of Solomon.”
Sol Beton is Worshipful Mas
ter of Fulton Lodge.
Another feature of the pro
gram will be a talk by Thomas
S. Perry, a 32nd degree Mason,
who will speak on “Our New
Masonic Temple
The Shrine Chanters will also
participate on the program, of
which Sidney Parks is chairman
Lodge members and friends
belonging to other Masonic
lodges are invited.
Fulton Lodge, one of the old
est Masonic groups in Atlanta
and Georgia, met for several
decades in the Masonic Temple
on Peachtree at Cain which was
destroyed by fire in 1950. Meet
ings were held during the last
decade at several neighborhood
lodge halls, including the Capitol
View Lodge Hall and the Morn-
ingside Lodge home at Piedmont
and Monroe Drive.
At one time consideration was
given to construction of a home
of their own. but members de
cided in view of the high cost
to participate instead in erec
tion of a larger edifice with a
dozen other lodges and the Scot
tish Rite Consistory.
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By EMILY R. JERGER
THOMASVILLE — A Thomas-
ville woman who never ate fried
foods, never touched anything
that came out of a can, celebrat
ed her 105th birthday on Thurs
day, Sept. 15.
She is Mrs. Wolf Feinberg,
born Rachel Garber in Covna,
Russia on September 15, 1855.
Her memory is remarkable.
She recalls an uncle who lived
to be 110 and looked “like an
angel with his great white
beard.” She knew him in Russia,
where she lived until she became
a bride of 18 and set off for the
city of New York. Old-time
Thomasville residents are amaz
ed, particularly at her ability to
keep four generations of a fam
ily straight in her mind and talk
of a great-grandfather with as
much vividness as she does of a
great-grandson.
When she came to Thomasville
in 1882 she almost turned around
and went back to New York—“It
was nothing but a wilderness,”
she says, with no paved streets
and only a few gas lights on
Broad Street. She and her hus
band lived for a time over the
drygoods store that he ran, then
moved into another home where
their four children were born.
Mrs. Feinberg moved into the
house she now occupies in about
1898.
The bride, who learned Eng
lish from friends in New York
City, became a celebrated hos
tess whose dinner table on Sun
days used to attract friends from
miles around to share the roast
goose and. five or six chickens
that were the regular Sunday
fare at the Feinberg home. She
had a reputation for being a
spotless housekeeper — “You
could eat off her floors, they
were so clean,” old-timers recall.
Nor was her attention directed
solely to the interior of the home
—on more than one occasion
she climbed ladders and scrubb
ed the outside of the house as
well. This she was doing when
a regular schedule that folks
used to set their watches when
they heard her pass.
She is deeply religious, con
tinues to light candles on Friduy
night to commemorate the Sab
bath, says her prayers and is a
romantic at heart, believing In
home and family and still willing
to try her hand at match-making
when the occasion arises. She and
a Birthday
in 1936 and Herman (Hymie)
Feinberg of Thomasville in 1938
One daughter, Mrs. Joe 1
Harris of Thomasville remains
and it is with Mr. and Mrs. Har
ris that the elderly lady makes
her home.
Her grandchildren are Joseph
Feinberg of Thomasville, Mrs.
Maxwell D. Berman of Jackson,
Miss., Mrs Herbert Rand of
Miami, Fla., Maurice J. Feinberg
of Baltimore, Md., and Miss
well into her 70’s.
She believed in plenty of sleep
and rest—she says. On the other
hand, she was always up by
6 or 7 a.m., busying herself with
the regular chores, raking the
yard, gathering pecans and pears,
making blackberry wine or peach
brandy, visiting the sick and
making her daily drive to town
in her horse and buggy, on such
JEWISH CALENDAR
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Sat., Oct. 1
♦SUKKOT
Thurs., Oct. 6
♦HANUKAH
Wed., Dec. 14
(First Day)
Wed., Dec. 21
(Last Day)
♦PURIM
Thurs., March 2
♦PASSOVER
Sat., April 1
(1st Day)
Sat., April 8
(Last Day)
♦Holiday begins
preceding evenings
MRS. W. FEINBERG of Thomasville on the eve of her 105th birthday
her husband were instrumental
in the building of the B’nai
Israel Synagogue here and help
ed establish a Jewish cemetery
in Thomasville in 1913.
Up until two years ago, Mrs.
Feinberg was a busy, active little
woman, her slight frame belieing
the strength and drive within.
That August, when she was over
100 years old, she slipped and
fell in her kitchen. Alone in the
house with a broken leg, she
crawled through the dining room,
bedroom and into the hall, drag
ged the phone from the table
and dialed the operator to whom
she confided her plea for help)—
along with specific directions to
notify hep doctor, her next-door
neighbor, her daughter and her
grandson.
No one thought she would ever
walk again, but she does—with a
little help from her companions
and family. She wore a cast on
her leg for ten months and then
stepped out on her own.
Tragedy has taken its toll and
eyes, dimmed by cataracts, grow
misty when she speaks of her
husband, who died in 1926 and
of the three children of their
marriage who have died—Harry
Feinberg of Thomasville in 1956,
Mrs. Harry Garber of Fitzgerald
Vivian M. Harris of Atlanta and
Thomasville.
Her great-grandchildren are
Stephen and Rosalind Feinberg
of Thomasville, Susan Lana and
Walter Ira Berman of Jackson,
Miss., Harlene Lois Davidson of
Miami, Howard Ralph and Enid
Sue Feinberg of Baltimore.
Mrs. Harris and her daughter
planned the birthday party
Thursday and old friends, rela
tives, forrrier neighbors and the
great-grandchildren of some of
Mrs. Feinberg’s first friends in
Thomasville came to join the
celebrants and extend their best
wishes to the charming woman
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