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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1961
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Crowd Stones
Rockwell in Boston
BOSTON, (JTA) — George
Rockwell, leader of the Ameri
can Nazi party, was taken into
protective custody by Boston
police after he was stoned by a
crowd estimated at 1,500 persons,
when he and his “storm troopers”
sought to picket the recent pre
miere of the motion picture “Exo
dus” at Saxon Theater here.
Police Lieutenant John Slattery
said that despite the presence of
100 police, including mounted
officers, when Rockwell appeared
with swastikas and anti-Jewish
slogans, the crowd surged for
ward throwing rocks and eggs.
Police intervened to save Rock
well from the crowd and formed
a protective shield around him
in an alley adjacent to the thea
ter.
Witnesses reported that had
police not intervened, Rockwell
would have suffered serious in
juries at the hands of the irate
crowd. Rockwell told police that
he came to Boston and would
visit other cities to prove that
his Nazi movement was national
in scope.
Rise In Jewish
Divorces Is Reported
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The tra
ditionally low Jewish divorce
rate has been increasing to a
point where it has almost caught
up with the national average, it
was reported here by Rabbi Ber
nard Mandelbaum, director of
the Religio-Psychiatric Institute
of the Jewish Theological Semi
nary of America.
“From a relatively low rate of
divorce of one in 10 marriages
the rate is nearing the one out
of four national divorce statistic,”
Rabbi Mandelbaum declared.
Rabbi Mandelbaum, together
with Dr. Sydney Furst, psychia
trist of the Seminary’s Marriage
Counseling Bureau, reported on
the first 18 months of operation
of the bureau. The bureau, which
was conceived as a cooperative
effort drawing upon the profes
sional skills of rabbis, psychia
trists and marriage counselors,
began operations on June 1, 1959.
Rabbi Prinz
Want8 Zionist
Movement Dissolved
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA)—Rab
bi Joachim Prinz, president of
the American Jewish Congress,
called here for dissolution of the
Zionist movement and its merger
into a world body dedicated to
the unity of the Jewish people.
"Zionism is dead—long live the
Jewish people!” was the theme
of an address by Dr. Prinz to the
national governing council of the
Congress meeting here.
Dr. Prinz, a life-long Zionist,
said that creation of the State
of Israel had fulfilled the purpose
of Zionism. What is needed now,
he asserted, is ‘a new and dyna
mic movement to preserve Jewish
peoplehood and create an inde
pendent and positive link be
tween American Jewry and Is
rael.”
The blueprint for such a
movement was outlined by Is
rael’s Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion in his address to the
World Zionist Congress in Jeru
salem last month, Dr. Prinz de
clared. This calls for “doing away
with outmoded ideology and ac
cepting the real challenge of Jew
ish life under freedom,” Dr.
Prinz said. “Only in this way
can we hope to attract the young
generation of Jews in the United
States and other lands to seek a
means of expressing both their
Jewish identity and their feeling
for Israel
Southern Israelite Announces Merger
With Florida English - Jewish Weekly
Baltimore B'nai B'rith Quits
Readers of Roth Papers To
Receive Combined Edition
Interfaith Body; Protests Bias
Next Jfcek; Herman Lerner
of Suncoast Jewish News
Joins Southern Israelite Staff
Announcement was made this
week of the merger of the Sun-
coast Jewish News, published in
St. Petersburg, Fla., with The
Southern Israelite, of Atlanta.
Details were revealed simul
taneously by Herman Lerner,
Suncoast Jewish News editor
and publisher, and by Adolph
Rosenberg, Southern Israelite
editor and publisher.
First issue of the combined
papers will appear next week
with a joint edition going to sub
scribers of both publications.
Approval for the merger took
place at a meeting of the board
and stockholders of The Southern
Israelite, now in its thirty-sixth
year.
In his announcement, Mr.
Rosenberg said:
“Since the present manage
ment took over operation of The
Southern Israelite in 1951, we
have looked forward to the day
when we could broaden the
scope and horizon of our services
and thus bring a larger paper
regularly to our readership.
“We feel that the incorpora
tion of the Suncoast Jewish News
affects this dream and we pre
sent it as our Tenth Anniversary
management bonus to our grow
ing family of readers.
“For some years, spiralling pro-
no matter where they reside."
Meet Herman Lerner
BALTIMORE* (JTA) — The
B’nai B’rith lodges of Baltimore
announced last week they have
withdrawn from membership in
the Baltimore Interfaith Commit
tee, due to the fact that one of
the sponsors of that committee,
Bourn i Shrine Temple follows a
policy of anti-Jewish discrimina
tion: The announcement was
made by Dr. Samuel Friedman,
of the Presidents Council of Bal
timore B’nai B’rith lodges.
The Interfaith Committee was
organized over 14 years ago by
the Knights of Columbus, B’nai
B’rith, and Boumi Shrine Tem
ple. Cooperating with the man
agement of the Baltimore Ori
oles, the Committee inspired the
annual Interfaith Baseball Game
designed to promote better inter
faith understanding among the
citizens of the community. The
reason for B’nai B’rith’s with
drawal—voted by the executive
committee of all Baltimore B’nai
B’rith lodges—is the continued
discrimatory membership policy
of the Boumi Temple, a profes
sedly non-sectarian organization,
which nevertheless bars members
of the Jewish faith.
In announcing the withdrawal,
Dr. Friedman stated: “B’nai
B'rith believes that this exclus
ionary policy of Baltimore’s Bou
mi Temple which is also regret
ted by many among Boumi Tem
ple’s membership, is unique in
Shrinedom, and is inconsistent
with the non-sectarian admissions
policy of the Shrine nationally.
We have repeatedly discussed
and tried to resolve this matter
with William O Barnes, Illustri
ous Potentate of Boumi Temple,
The Regional Pedagogic Con
ference, to be held on February
5 and 6, is the first of its kind
to be held in Atlanta. A stimulat
ing program has been planned to
meet the needs of the full-time
Jewish educator, the Sunday
School teacher and the school
committee member. The educa
tional staffs of the Jewish schools
of the Southern region have been
extended an invitation to attend
the seven sessions of the confer
ence.
The conference is co-sponsored
by the National Federation of
Hebrew Teachers and Principals
and the Atlanta Bureau of Jew
ish Education in cooperation with
the Department of Education and
Culture of the American Zionist
Council.
Tile Sunday morning sessions,
luncheon and afternoon sessions
will take place at the Ahavath
Achim Congregation. Following
registration, from 9:30 to 10:00
a m., the opening assembly will
begin at 10:00 The speaker will
be Dr. Edward L. Krauser, pro
fessor of psychology at Emory
University. His subject is “Pit-
but his recent statements con
vince us that future discussions
and efforts to correct these prac
tices will prove unavailing. B’nai
B’rith, therefore, cannot in good
conscience continue its associa
tion as a member of the Inter-
faith Committee under these cir
cumstances. To do so would be
to mock the very purpose and
spirit of the Committee’s pro
gram as well as those of B’nai
B’rith.”
Rabbi Pronounces
Benediction at
Inauguration
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—John
Fitzgerald Kennedy invoked the
Hebrew prophets in his inaugural
address as 35th President of the
United States. In an appeal for
world peace, he said: “Let both
sides unite to heed in all corners
of the earth the command of Is
aiah ... to ‘undo the heavy burd
ens . . . (and) let the oppressed
go free’.”
One of the three clergymen
officiating at the inaugural cere
mony was Dr. Nelson Glueck,
president of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Reli
gion.
He asked the Lord’s blessing
“upon our President and all asso
ciated with him in our govern
ment, which we the people have
set in authority upon everyone
and everything dear and precious
to him and us.”
falls in Education.”
Workshop sessions will be held
from 11:15 to 12:30 Aharon Rosen,
distinguished Israeli educator,
will discuss “New Methods in
Teaching Hebrew” with the full
time Jewish education personnel.
Sunday School teachers of pri
mary grades will consider “Jew
ish Living — Home and Syna
gogue.” Teachers of the inter
mediate grades will examine
“The Teaching of Jewish His
tory;" Teachers of the senior and
high school grades will discusss
“Judaism—its Religion and Eth
ics.” Certified Sunday school
teachers will have two work
shops: “New Methods and Ex
periments in Sunday School Edu
cation” and “Constructing Sylla-
bii in Sunday School Subjects.”
At the luncheon session from
12:45 to 2:30, Rabbi Morris Sil-
berman of Columbus, Ga., will
speak on “Jewish Education in
the South.” This session is open
to members of school commit
tees, as well as all teachers.
During the afternoon session
from 3-4:30 pm. Shemeon Pol-
Newest addition to The South
ern Israelite staff as a result of
the merger of the Suncoast Jew
ish News with The Southern Is
raelite is Herman Lerner.
Born in Detroit, he received his
early education in that city be
fore his family removed to Tole
do, Ohio.
He got his first taste of news
paper work while in high school,
lack, president of the National
Federation of Hebrew Teachers
and Principals, will discuss
“Problems of the Full-time Jew
ish Educational Leader.”
There will be an evening com
munity-wide meeting at 8:00
p.m. at the Atlanta Jewish Com
munity Center, when Dr. Samuel
M. Blumenfield, Director of the
Department of Education and
Culture of the American Zionist
Council, i 11 be the guest'speak-
er.
On Monday, Feb. 6, participants
in the conference will meet at
the Hebrew Academy building
at 1140 University Dr., N.E. At
the morning session from 10 a m.
to 12 noon, teachers will have
the oppqrtumty to observe a
demonstration lesson on “The
Teaching of the Bible.”
The luncheon session, from 1-
3 p.m , the last meeting of the
conference, will concentrate on
“Suggested Areas for Experimen
tation in the Hebrew School ”
Additional information, can be
secured at the Atlanta Bureau of
Jewish Education, at JA. 5-4825.
duction costs have stymied oar
progress and we wondered how
we could broaden onr services.
This problem too has confronted
the Suncoast Jewish News. By
joining our resources and efforts,
Mr. Lerner and myself are con
vinced that we are bringing to
our readers a broader potential
for news coverage and service.
“Mr. Lerner, who has made an
outstanding communal record for
himself and his paper in St.
Petersburg, is joining The Sou
thern Israelite staff as our repre
sentative in the Tampa Bay,
Clearwater, Bradenton and Sara
sota area in Florida.
“The combined newspaper will
hereafter be printed in Atlanta
and mailed to new readers as
well as to our regular subscrib
ers. It will include communal ma
terial which should be of neigh
borly interest to our steady
readers north of the Georgia and
Alabama-Florida bounderies, as
well as to our growing family of
Florida subscribers. And in
addition the merging of our
news, circulation and advertis
ing resources should result in
more space for national and
feature items which holds gen
eral interest for all our readers
assisting in covering high school
sports events for the community’s
daily.
He was married in 1940, the
same year he entered the jewelry
business as salesman and adver
tising manager. He did free
lance public relations before
joining the Army in 1944. Follow
ing eleven months in Japan after
the war, he returned to Toledo
and later reentered the jewelry
business in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Mr. Lerner joined the supervi
sory staff of Willys Motors as
editor of a monthly publication,
"The Willys Foreman.” He left
Willys, during the resulting
change of management when the
company was purchased b y
Kaiser Motors.
In 1955, he and his family
moved to St. Petersburg where
he founded the Suncoast Jewish
News in 1957. He and his wife
have two daughters, aged 19 and
12.
He is a member of Congrega
tion B’nai Israel, the Jewish War
Veterans, St. Petersburg Jewish
Community Council and presi
dent of the Louis A Cohen
Lodge, B’nai B'rith.
Dynamite Synagogue
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) —
Terrorists last week dynamited
the main synagogue of Johannes
burg in the fourth incident of
bombings of religious buildings
in this city in three days. Police
said there were no injuries, but
stated that the office of the syna
gogue was thoroughly wrecked
and the house of worship itself
badly damaged. The blast was so
heavy it shattered windows in
homes and other buildings within
a three-block radius of the syna
gogue.
Teachersof Southern Jewish Schools
Invited to Conference Feb. 5, 6