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THE iIODTHIIN I8BAELITE
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65th Anniversary for Atlanta
Council of Jewish Women
In these days, when so often we are apt
to date communal vigor as beginning either
just prior, during or immediately afterwards
World War II, it is highly rewarding to be
able to take note of the sixty-fifth anniver
sary of the Atlanta Section, Council of Jew
ish Women.
Six and a half decades are a long time
for any group, especially as far as communal
continuity is concerned, and the members
of this unit have amassed a most creditable
record of achievement in meeting the ever-
changing challenge of the times.
Aside from the year-round programming
of study, self-improvement ana general
service, the Atlanta Section made a signifi
cant impact in the field of public education.
It was Council that pioneered the creation of
kindergartens for the public school system
of Atlanta.
Through the years, the Section has per
formed outstandingly in the field which for
some time was programmed, rather formally
we thought, “as service for the foreign
bom.” The name suggested an element of
condescension—but the services themselves
were not even faintly forbidding nor formid
able in any way. Quite the contrary. Mem
bers undertook graciously, warmly and un-
derstandingly to assist newcomers through
sincere friendship and help towards finding
a permanent and independent place for
themselves. At times this meant preparing
and outfitting apartments to receive new
families temporarily. At others, it meant
helping them across language barriers and
prepare for the all important citizenship
process.
There have been wonderful projects too
for men and women in service and many
another area which seemed through the
years to challenge the energies and imagina
tion of Council members.
Currently, the emphasis is in the area of
the aged, with sponsorship of activities
around a Golden Age Clubhouse. A house
for this special purpose has been purchased
to provide a permanent home for the Golden
Age programs. These not only include
recreation and ^rts and crafts classes but
now a referral service for persons who can
or need to work.
We’ve watched these dedicated women
at their Section projects through the years
and odr hats are off to their purpose and
sincerity. They could just as well spend
their time negatively instead of giving it
such positive direction. Their strength and
resourcefulness stand at the ready for the
years ahead. No wonder they have time and
time again won deserved communal admira
tion.
Wanted: Spiritual Leadership
During the last High Holy Days, I traveled
among the synagogues and temples in mid and
upper Manhattan, listening to sermons and dis
cussions. In the ten days between Rosh Hasho-
nah and Yom Kippur I tried to catch up with my
reading by perusing some three score American
periodicals, weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies.
In the same general period, I also read the re
ports of Friday night and Saturday and Sunday
morning sermons in the N.Y. newspapers. I was
appalled by the low intellectual quality of some
of the thinking and writing that is going on in
American Jewry today. I heard one "spiritual
leader” discuss “the meaning of life” in so shal
low a manner that I was embarrassed for him,
and I wondered what his congregants were think
ing . . I began to wonder whether there was some
thing wrong with me. Here were magazines of
high repute, here were “spiritual leaders” who
commanded the respect of many men and wom
en. Some taught at seminaries and had written
books. Was I in a sour mood? Then I realized I
wasn’t alone. I came upon a vibrant, sizzling art
icle in “The Jewish Exponent by no less a person
than Edwin Wolf 2nd, president of the National
Foundation of Jewish Culture and president of
the Federation of Jewish Agencies . . . The most
depressing fact of all is that our leaders are so
deficient in genuine Jewish spirit So much of
their thinking, so much of their writing is ersatz.
Their scholarship is second-rate and worse, their
piety is tenuous, their chief concern is very often
with money and with status. . .
CHARLES ANGOIT, At Jewish Ixpsaaat
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Gentlemen: 1
At present I am in Israel un
der “The Year-in-Israel Course”
of the American Zionist Youth
Commission and Young Judea
and will be here until the first
week of August or so. Possibly I
shall be staying longer to con
tinue at the University.
I would like to know if a copy
of The Southern Israelite can be
sent to me by air mail on Friday
or as soon as it is published.
There are two Southerners on
this course and both of us, Fre-
dele Moyer from Charleston and
myself from Chattanooga, get
great pleasure out of reading
about the events taking place in
the South.
MARTIN KRAAR
It costs 90 cents to airmail a
copy of TSI to Israel, more than
we imagine the young students
are willing to pay.
If any reader wishes to under
write the cost of this six months’
subscription to these two young
men, it would be welcome, we
are sure. —EDITOR.
DEAR EDITOR:
Please include this announce
ment of our daughter’s engage
ment in your paper so that our
many friends through the south
will know at our happiness.
Sincerely,
SAM SIEGEL
Box 148, Walterboro, S.C.
Our readers, including numer
ous friends and acquaintances of
Mr. Siegel and his family, In
some 400 Southern communities
will read the announcement from
this proud father. We too feel de
lighted that we can .spread this
happy news.—EDITOR
PARABLES
THE ULTIMATE GUARANTEE
Long, long ago there lived a man who wanted a guaran
tee^ life. He demanded a guaranteed job, and then a guaran
teed Income, and a guaranteed retirement. Then came the
other additions he wanted: guaranteed insurance/guaranteed
home, guaranteed vacations, and a guaranteed standard of
living, plus guarantees that he would be provided with every-
ing he wished. The more guarantees he had, the more dis
satisfied he became as he desperately sought guarantees that
he would live forever and enjoy all the guarantees that he
already had. His was a constant preoccupation of seeking
guarantees to guarantee the guarantees. But success was tri
umphantly his! He had finally succeeded in guaranteeing him
self a full life of: insecurity.
Moral: Guarantees, however numerous, can never pro-
provide
The security we must find within us, inside.
By Rabbi Solomon Jacobson
TOPIC OF THE DAY
—WUP—
By DAVID BENARONE
“Hitler”. Lives In UAR
Hitler may be dead, but his black spirit resides today in an
Egyptian who is making his country a second Nazi hell.
Gamal Abdel Nasser has opened the doors to the Nile
Valley to thousands of former Hitler butchers who are train
ing hordes of Egyptian fanatics with one avowed purpose in
mind—the annihilation of the Jews in Israel.
What Hitler failed to finish, these Nazi monsters in Arab
garb now plan to undertake by way of Egypt.
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht’s son-in-law, the former Nazi SS
Colonel Otto Skorzeny, is today Nasser’s master-mind heading
a Gestapo-like force of 70,000 men in the UAR. Main objective
is annihilation of Israel.
The question arises: Does Washington know that numerous
Nazi war criminals are directing Nasser’s military machine
aimed at Israel? Again, do the Russians know of. the existence
of these war-criminals living under the protection of the Cairo
dictator?
Let both Washington and Moscow inquire of their respec
tive embassies. The revelations will be nothing more shock
ing than those brought out in the Sedar-Greenberg book, “Be
hind the Egyptian Sphinx.”
“Hitler” is very much alive in Egypt so very dose to Israel.
Must the story of Haman and the ancient Pharaohs be re
peated in our time?
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
A Digest of Contemporary Opinion
Cairo — New Nazi Hotbed
Colonel Nasser’s chief military and geo-politi
cal advisor, intimate foreign collaborator, and con
fidant, is none other than the full-blooded Nazi
SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, who was dispatched
to Cairo in 1953 upon the advise of his father-
in-law, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s former fi
nancial wizard, now president of the Dusseldorf
bank specializing in German-Arab trade ... In
Egypt, Skorzeny’s primary responsibility is the
equipping, organizing, and training of thousands
of zealous commandos, who are being rigorously
prepared in the Emerald Hills for guerrilla and
desert warfare to serve as an “Amy of Libera
tion” against Israel ... As a double insurance
against another defeat by the Israeli Army, the
Nasser regime has formed an Arab Foreign Le
gion to fight against the Jewish State. Its nucleus
consists of 400 former Nazis and Gestapo vet
erans, who were recruited by Arab League agents
in Germany . . Skorzeny has taken an active
though clandistine role in most of the controver
sial political events in the Middle East . . . To
day, Nasser’s State Security Cadre, formed along
the lines of Hitler’s ‘Schutz Staffen (SS), is an in
ternal Gestapo-like force of 70,000 men, whose
officers are mostly Arabized Nazis with head
quarters in Cairo’s Liberation Square. They are
under the direction of Lt. Col. Al-Nasher, whose
real identity is Leopold Gleim, chief of Hitler's
personal guard and Gestapo Chief of German-
occupied Poland, who was sentenced to death for
war atrocities ....
IRVING SEDAR-HAROLD GREENBERG,
Magazine “Men”
Looking For A Moses
They cannot count on miracles. Who can?
They do not expect another ten plagues to
force Pharaoh to let them go free. Who does?
Their only hope is that the press of the world
will play Moses for them and tell Morocco,
“Let My people go.” But so far it has been
looking in four other directions—towards
Laos and Cuba, Alegria and, above all, the
Congo. It may be too much to ask for space
for what is no longer deemed news—perse
cution of the Jews by the Arab League mem
bers—even though the persecution in Mo
rocco is new and may soon reach the di
mensions of a pogrom. Previously the Mo
roccan Arabs were checked by the police;
now the police must be checked by the Mo
roccan government or another case of Geno
cide will be added to the grisly file of Jew
ish history. It began, as so much has, with
the visit of Nasser last month. The police
were told to protect him from the Jews and
they proceeded to overprotect him . . The
week after Nasser left, “Mein Kampf” was
shown in a Casablanca movie house, and
though anti-Hitler in intent, scenes of the
gassing of Jews were cheered by the Arab
audiences, some of them shouting, “Hitler
should have killed them all!” . . . The Sultan
finds himself facing the dilemma of a Pha
raoh. He seems no longer to want the Jews
in his country, but he will not let them
leave it. At this point he must be made to
by the only plague at our command—pub
licity . . .
Joseph Barry, New York Post,
from Paris
Will Rusk Clean His
StarJj^^partments?
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The uL'Bfc reports carried in the general
press alleging that Kennedy’s Administra
tion was “deferring” efforts to seek peace in
the Middle East, had the sour smell of fail
ure about it . . The reason for the odor is
apparent: the story was a fraud, connived in
by Arab propagandists and a certain faction
in our State Department that faithfully wor
ships the shrine of Allah. The plea of Sena
tor Keating, therefore, to initiate efforts to
mediate peace in the Middle East, has the
force of cogency, decency, and justice, and
the extra compulsion of timeliness. We un
derscore the New York York Senator’s hope
that “early and effective action can be taken
by our new President to bring about a ne
gotiated settlement of Arab-Israel differ
ences.” . . It would be just as important,
however, in view of its ability to do sabo
tage-damage to such a needed enterprise,
to ferret out the White House “faction”
which was able to plant the fraudulent
story of “deferrment” in the press. This is
a faction that has no more place in the
sensitive areas of the State Department than
Comrade Khrushchev would have in an
American nuclear physics lab . . .
Arthur Weyne, American-Examiner