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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
XXXVI " 'ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1961
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Arab-Jewish Tensions
Explode in Algerian Fight
By EDWIN EYTAN
JTA Correspondent
ORAN, Algeria, (JTA)—Arab- and French security police,
this
NCJW SCHOLARS ARRIVE FROM ISRAEL. Just arrived in New
York aboard the S.S. Atlantic, for graduate study in the United States
through the Overseas Scholarship Program of the National Council
of Jewish Women are (1. to r.): Joseph Ritter, Tel Aviv Welfare De
partment supervisor, who will study at Western Reserve U., School
of Applied Social Sciences, Cleveland; Rafael Lewy, English teacher
at Hebrew U. High School, Jerusalem, to University of Minnesota;.
Mrs. Ben-Ztn, sole teacher in a school for deaf children
in Beersheba, to Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis; Abraham
Zalkin, Secondary School Inspector in southern Israel, to Columbia
University Teachers College; Miss Rivca Kostrinsky, psychologist and
educational counselor for the Jerusalem child guidance clinic, to
University of Chicago; Mordecai Gonen, Assistant District Inspector
for the Israel Ministry of Education Haifa, to University of Michigan;
and Shraga Adiel, assistant Director General for elementary educa
tion for the Israel Ministry of Education, to Columbia University
Teachers College, New York.
Jewish tensions exploded
week in Oran in two days of
Wild attacks by Moslems on Jews
which were successfully beaten
off by Jewish commando units.
It was the first time in the his
tory of North Africa that Jews
were ready for such attacks and
trained to repulse them. Not a
single Jew was reported killed in
the fighting which took place
on the two days of Rosh Hash-
onah.
The fighting began on the
first day of the New Year in the
heart of the Jewish quarter, the
Mellah, when an Arab terrorist
sneaked up on a Jewish barber,
Menahem Schroun, who was
walking to the synagogue with
his children, and knifed him in
the back repeatedly.
Instantly a group of Jewish
young men sprang into action,
sealing off the Mellah and pur
suing the knife-wielder. Other
Jews attacked Arab passersby
and broke into Moslem shops on
the boulevard separating the
Jewish and Moslem sections.
The terrorist was found hiding
in an Arab shop and he and the
shopkeeper were lynched. A few
hours later, a reprisal unit tried
to storm the Jewish quarter,
screaming “death 1 to the Jews.”
After a short but bloody clash
with the waiting Jewish defense
units, the attackers retreated.
Services were resumed at the
synagogue in the afternoon un
der the protection of a strong
Jewish guard. Arabs trying to
penetrate the Mellah were again
beaten off and in the evening
more Arabs were chased from the
area by the Jewish commandos
Georgians Honored by TEP’s;
Gerson is National President
NEW YORK—At the 51st An
niversary International Conven
tion of Tau Epsilon Phi Frater-
ni ty. held last week at the Con
cord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake, New
York, several Atlanta men were
elected to leading positions. Also
receiving recognition was the
University of Georgia’s Nu Chap
ter winner of the Chapter of
Merit Trophy, symbolic of the
fraternity’s best all-around chap
ter during the past year, and the
Pllfme Trophy signifying excell
ence of stories and pictures sub
mitted to the national fraternity
magazine, “The Plume.”
Legal Sorority Chooses
Beulah Leiter for Top Post
Mrs. Beulah G. Leiter, promi
nent Atlanta attorney, has been
elected international supreme
dean of Iota Tau Tau, interna
tional legal sorority.
This distinction was accorded
her in absentia at the sorority’s
c o n v e ntion in
Oklahoma Cityi
on July 29, the!
first „t i m e the!
group has so|
selected its top|
officer.
She was in-
stalled in thel
new, office dur-|
ing the
can Bar Associa-I
tion Convention |ai| ||a
in St. Louis on August I and later
was guest of honor at a luncheon
tendered by the St. Louis Bar
Association.
Admitted to the bar in 1945,
Mrs. Leiter is in private practice
with her husband, Bobt P. Leiter.
A native df Chicago, she has
lived in Atlanta for approximate
ly 16 years and Is tM Btatbfcr of
two children, Darryl, who is cur
rently studying for his doctorate
in physics at Brandeis Univer
sity on a fellowship grant, and
Paula, a freshman at the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Widely known in legal circlea
in Atlanta and Georgia, she has
worked vigorously in behalf of
the Georgia Association of Wom
en Lawyers, of which she is 9
past vice president and secretary.
She has worked as well with a
national and international group
of women lawyers, serving on
numerous committees for both.
She has been active as well
with the American Bar Associa
tion, the American Judicature
Society, Georgia Bar Association,
Atlanta Bar Association, the
Equity Club, the Old War Hone
Lawyers Club, National Con
gress of Parents and Teachers,
National Womans Committee of
Brandeis University and many
other legal organisations,
She has served in several offi
ces Of Iota Tau Tau before her
recent eleCtfcM. *'
JOE H. GERSON
Joe H. Gerson of Atlanta was
elected president of the Tau Ep
silon Phi Ftaternity. Mr. Gerson,
an insurance executive, has been
a prominent figure in the frater
nity for several year*. During
the past two seasons, he served
as TUP'S first vice president
Chosen second vice president of
the fraternity was Mendel ROsnm
Early the next morning, the
Arabs tried again and again were
repulsed. Jewish younger child
ren, enraged by the repeated
Moslem actions and threats,
broke into Arab shops in the Mel
lah. In one of the attacks, an
Arab was killed by the Jewish
defenders.
The area between the two sec
tors was thereafter patrolled by
steelhelmeted French troops, with
the sectors completely isolated
from each other. Jews who had
either shops or homes in the
Arab sector moved into the Mel
lah. Arabs in the Mellah moved
into the Arab section. /
In an effort to keep the con
tinued tension from erupting in
to new fighting, the French Gov
ernment broadcast hourly warn
ings over Radio Algiers that_
curity forces had received
to fire on unruly mobs in any
new violence.
One effect of the furious Arab
attacks was to have finally per
suaded many of Oran’s Jews to
leave Algeria as soon as possible.
Some left for France to make ar
rangements there for emigration
to Israel. Some applied to Hiss
for resettlement in Latin Amer
ica.
Southern Israel Bond Workers Reported
Not Involved in Strike Now Settled
Southern Israel Bond office
personnel were not involved in
the recent strike of professional
staffers in the New York and
large-city Eastern areas.
Officials informed The Sou
thern Israelite that none of the
Atlanta staff of three participat
ed in the strike called in New
York by Local 1707 of the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Em
ployees.
Tha stsihans had' demanded fib
increase in the minimum salaries
now being paid to the profession
al employees.
The four-day walkout was
terminated in time continu
ance of the High Ho* Day ap
peals for the sale of Israel bonds,
with a new agreement.
It was also pointed out that
not a single Bond office manager
throughout the country was in
volved in the strike which con-
Jr., also of Atlanta. Mr. Romm
formerly served as honorary na
tional secretary. He, like Mr. Ger
son, is an insurance executive
and .a University of Georgia
graduate.
Sylvan Meyer, of Gainesville,
Ga., received the top alumni
award presented at the conven
tion by his selection as the out
standing “TEP Man of the Year.”
Meyer, editor of the Gainesville
newspaper, was chosen for his
outstanding achievement in com
munal, charitable, and profes
sional activities. He is a graduate
of the University of North Caro
lina.
Harris Jacobs, Atlanta, was
named as a member-at-large to
the Grand Chapter of the Fra
ternity.
By his election to National
President, Gerson will head the
Grand Council, the fraternities’
executive and judicial body. He
will work as president for two
years until the next national con
vention.
Another Atlantan, Isadore Hei-
man, previously acted as the na
tional president for Tau Epsilon
Phi, 1955-56. Heim an for the past
two years was president of the
trustees of the Tau Epsilon Phi
Scholarship and Student Aid
Fund. The purpose of this fund,
originally organized by the At
lanta Alumni Club Of the fra
ternity, is to aid needy college
students regardless of race, color,
creed, or membership in the fra
ternity to complete their educa
tions.
Other Atlantans acting as trus- .
cerned professionals.
None of the Bond office per-
sonhel throughout the Soqth
participated in the walkout,
The Southern Israelite learned.
Carla Refugees
Find Haven
FT. SAM HOUSTON, Tex.—A
group of 60 Jewish. ^ _
ing the fury of hurricane
in Texas towns, found a haven
here in the Jewiah chapel on this
base thanks to the efforts of the
National Jewish Welfare Board
(JWB.
The refugees, who were di
rected to the chapel by the mili
tary authorities, attended the
New Year services of Chaplain
Oscar Lifshutr. With the help
of the local JWB Armed Serv
ices Committee and USO-JWB
staffer Rabbi Emanuel Kumin,
the arrivals from Bee villa, Vic
toria, Galveston and Corpus
Christi were fed during Jboth
days of Rosh Hashonah by the
local JWB Armed Services Com
mittee. The committee also pro
vided extensive hospitality in
San Antonio.
Aging Jews Crowd
Central Red Shule
LONDON, (JTA) — Moscow’s
Central Synagogue, the principal
Jewish house of worship in the
entire Soviet Union, was jam
med with more than 1,000 per
sons for, the Rosh Hashonah serv
ices while hundreds of other
Jews crowded the street outside
the synagogue, according to dis
patches from Mb—aar. The ma
jority of the waraUpbars were
reported to be over the age of
50.
Seated in a special section
near the Ark, separated from the
rest of the congregation, was Is
rael’s Ambassador to the Soviet
Union, Arieh HareL With him
were his young son and several
other male members of Israel’s
mission here.
Ambassador Harel said he had
contemplated staying away from
the synagogue In protest agaiqst
being thus separated from tbs
rest tof the worshipers. However,
he changed his mind and did
came. Chief Rabbi Yehuda L.
Levina said the special section
allocated to the Israeli Ambassa
dor had been built to honor tor-
eign visitors, and not to Isolate
them. The lack of Ratal Hsshnnah
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