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Savannah Council
Director Resigns
SAVANNAH — Joseph M.
Moseson, executive director of
the Savannah Jewish Council
tor three years, has resigned to
accept an appointment as the
executive director of the Lynn
(Mass.) Jewish Community Cen
ter, it was announced this week
by Dr. William A. Wexler, presi
dent of the Council.
The resignation, effective at
the end of January, was accepted
“with profound regret” at the
meeting of the Board of Gover
nors of the Council. A special
committee will be formed to con
sult with the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds
about a successor to Mr. Mose
son.
In announcing the resignation,
Dr. Wexler stated, “We are in
deed sorry to lose the valuable
services of Mr. Moseson. He will
be missed not only by the Sa
vannah Jewish Council, but by
the many civic organizations in
whose programs he took an ac
tive part. We are pleased to
know, however, that he will be
doing work in the field of his
choice, and we trust we shall be
able to find a suitable replace
ment to carry on his work in
Savannah.”
During his three years in Sa
vannah, Mr. Moseson was re
sponsible for the communal ser
vices sponsored by the Savan
nah Jewish Council, which in
clude family counseling, child
care, care of the aged, migra
tion services, service to the Arm
ed Forces, transient care, relief
and rehabilitation, community
relations and public information
in addition to the social planning
services of the Council. He also
directed the annual UJA-Federa-
tion Campaign which provided
funds for more than 45 local,
national and overseas agencies
in addition to UJA.
During his tenure in Savan
nah, Mr. Moseson directed the
self-study which led to the com
plete reorganization of the Sa
vannah Jewish Council forming
the General Assembly and Board
of Governors pattern which has
since become a model for other
JOSEPH MOSESON
communities the size of Savan
nah. He expanded the family
services of the Council, and in
the area of community relations
was recognized by a number of
national agencies for his contri
butions to the field.
In his post in Lynn, Mr. Mose
son will be “returning" to the
Group Field work where he has
done most of his professional
work during the past 18 years.
Prior to his coming to Savannah,
he served as the executive di
rector of the Binghamton, N.Y.,
Jewish Center and Federation;
the Haverhill, Mass., Jewish Cen
ter where he was president
of the Council of Social Agencies
and a member of the City Rec
reation Commission. He also
served on the staffs of the Com
munity Centers in New Haven,
Conn.; Port Chester, N.Y. and
Sunnyside, L.I.; and on the staff
of the Yeshiva University High
School.
Mr. Moseson is married to the
former Harriet Feinstein of
Philadelphia. Mrs. Moseson her
self has been active in a number
of organizations having most re
cently chaired the ADL Work
shop for the Savannah Chapter
of B’nai B’rith.
We are pleased to announce the election of
Mr. Edward A. Erbesfield
as Asst. Vice President
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South African Premier Clarifies
Position On Jewish Citizens
JOHANNESBURG (JTA) —
Premier Hendrik Verwoerd de
clared this week that his stand
on Israel’s United Nations posi
tion on South Africa’s Apartheid
policy, as it related to the status
of South African Jewry, had
been distorted.
Speaking at the Witwatersrand
annual conference of his Na
tional party, he strongly deplored
what he called “exploitation” by
political foes of the contents of
a private letter he had written
to a Cape Town Jew, in reply to
a similarly private letter. He said
his letter was being used to mis
represent his attitude on the
question of Israel and South Afri
can Jews.
The Premier said it had never
been his position that Jewish
citizens of South Africa did not
have the right to choose what
ever political party they wished
to support. This statement ap
parently referred to a remark in
his letter to A. S. East, a former
Cape Town city councillor. The
Premier was reported stating in
that letter that, in the recent
Parliamentary elections, many
South African Jews had favored
the Progressive Party, while few
Jews voted for his National
Party, a fact which “did not go
unnoticed.” Dr. Verwoerd in
sisted in his speech he would be
the last person to deprive Jewish
voters of that right.
He said he strongly deplored
the action of newspapers like the
Daily Mail and the Cape Times
which, he declared, sought to in
fer that he wanted to threaten
that Jewish citizens did not have
the right of political free choice.
The Premier also told the con
ference that there were times
when anti-Semitism could have
been “talked about” but that,
throughout the 13 years of office
of the Nationalist Governments,
there has not been a single action
against South African Jews. He
said he regretted that Jewish
journals had been “misled by the
malicious propaganda of political
opponents into sharp comment
on a private letter whose pub
lication was a breach of confi
dence.” He urged that no one
should be led by such reactions
into stirring up “race hatred,”
and he warned people not to let
attitudes of Israel or “actions of
some people here” to “conduce”
to the emergence of anti-Semit
ism.
Discussing his criticism of Is
rael for its anti-South African
stand at the UN, the Premier in
sisted this had nothing to do with
his attitude toward the Jewish
citizens of South Africa. He ex
plained that his position was
that, if Israel thought “separate
development" was wrong for
South Africa, then Israel had no
justification of existing as a Jew
ish State because its existence
was predicated on a similar poli
cy of the right of the Jewish peo
ple to a “separate development”
He said South Africa had sup-
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ported and helped Israel because
it believed in Israel’s right to
existence and because it believed
that the emergence of Israel was
the fulfillment of a national ideal
for the Jewish people. Israel’s
UN vote against South Africa, he
declared, was contrary to that
context. He said Israel should
have supported South Africa,
particularly on the General As
sembly motion, on grounds of the
right of free speech. Israel’s at
titude at the UN has increased
South Africa’s difficulties, he
said, but South Africa would con
tinue to follow its principles
nevertheless.
The Jewish newspapers in
South Africa, responding to dis
closure of some of the content of
the Premier’s letter to Mr. East,
had affirmed South African Jew
ry’s position as a community of
citizens who could not be held
responsible for Israel’s policies.
The Zionist Record, organ of the
South African Zionist Federa
tion, had declared that the Jew
in South Africa was a South
African citizen with the full
right to join any lawful party.
The Record said that Jews had
joined all parties including the
Nationalist party. It added, “How
many Jews voted for the Pro
gressive party is neither known
nor material."
The Revisionist Jewish Herald
declared that while it had criti
cized Israel’s UN vote, it was
wrong for the Premier to link
with any Israel policy or to seek
South African Jews as a group
to make them responsible for
that policy. The Herald also said
it was wrong for the Premier to
criticize Jews who voted for the
opposition.
The independent South African
Jewish Times said that Jews
would not be intimidated and
that they would stand on their
rights as citizens of a democratic
country and also for their ties
with Israel and world Jewry.
The paper said those ties had
nothing to do with Israel’s UN
voting which it said was a mat
ter to be discussed at govern
ment levels. South African Jews,
the Times added, could not be
hostage to force Israel's hand at
the UN.
Two Fires Set
In Brooklyn Shule
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A Brook
lyn synagogue was forced to can
cel services recently after van
dals set two fires in a storeroom
and vestibule of the building.
The fires, which were discovered
at Temple Sholom of FLatbush,
were quickly put out by fire
fighting appartus but water and
smoke damaged the entire build
ing.
A synagogue spokesman said
that a year ago a police patrol
was assigned to the synagogue
after vandals had painted swa
stikas and obscene words on the
walls of the building. Three
months ago, 19 windows were
smashed in the synagogue.
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