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Synagogue
Bombed
CHICAGO, (JTA)—An unex-
ploded bomb was found today in
the debris of an explosion of a
similar bomb which caused $10,-
000 worth of damage to an Or
thodox synagogue on Chicago’s
north side.
Detectives said that the bomb
ing, which occurred early Sun
day morning, was done by two
men who forced open the rear
door of the Chevra Kadisha
Macnjtikai Hadas synagogue Sat
urday night. The detectives, who
declined to give ftie source of
their information about the
bombers, also reported that each
bomb contained three sticks of
dynamite.
The blast followed the receipt
by Sexton Harry Yablon of sev
eral letters which threatened
that he and the synagogue would
be blown up. The sexton also
said that the synagogue had been
smeared with swastikas twice
during the past six weeks.
Eichmann's Prison
Garb Changes Color
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Adolf
Eichmann, the former Gestapo
colonel awaiting disposition of
his Supreme Court appeal from
the death sentence meted out to
him last month by the District
Court of Jerusalem, is now wear
ing a gray prisoner’s uniform,
instead of the red costume usual
ly worn by convicts awaiting
death, it was learned here.
Prison Commissioner Arye Nir
ordered the change when he de
cided that Eichmann might suf
fer a nervous breakdown, “as a
result of his low spirits,” it was
stated. Friday, Eichmann was
visited in his secret prison by
the chief of his defense counsel.
Dr Robert Servatius, of Cologne,
who discussed with the convict
ed man some details connected
with the preparation of the ap
peal to the high tribunal.
Eichmann’s costume was
changed from red to gray before
the prison authorities received
a request to this effect from Is
raelis who had been members of
a former underground move
ment that fought the British in
this country during the days of
the British mandate over Pales
tine. Members of the under
ground who had been sentenced
to death by the British had been
forced to wear the red costume.
The protests were based on the
ground that garbing Eichmann
in red constituted "a violation
of the memory of those fighters
for Israel freedom who had been
executed by the British.”
The Southern' Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1902
Israel Government
Sells Property for
Reform Temple Site
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Proper
ty containing land and buildings
to house a Liberal synagogue in
the State of Israel has been
purchased in Jerusaelm by the
World Union for Progressive
Judaism, it was announced here.
This represents the first perma
nent site for a Reform house of
worship in Israel.
The property will serve one
of. three Progressive congrega
tions in Israel. It will also serve
as offices for the World Union.
Others are located in Herzlia
and Nazareth. Unitl now all
three congregations had been
using rented facilities. The an
nouncement of the purchase was
made by World Union president,
Dr. Solomon B. Freehof of Pitts
burgh, who hailed this as an
other step in “the vitalization of
a new spiritual life in Israel.”
The new property was pur
chased from the Israeli Govern
ment at a cost of $70,000. The
land encompasses 1^000 square
meters and mcludesythree stone
buildings built 27 years ago. The
new synagogue site was made
possible through the donation of
a member of a Reform temple
in the greater New York City
area who wishes to remain an
onymous.
SE Reform Leaders
Opening for Georgia
Camp
Plans were finalized last week
end for the opening of a camp
this summer to serve the Re
form temples of the Southeast
Council of the Union of Ameri
can Hebrew Congregations.
Blueprints for the new camp
in north Georgia were unveiled
and discussed at a two-day
meeting of congregational lead
ers from the Southeast in At
lanta.
On Saturday morning, lay and
rabbinic representatives of the
congregations traveled to the
scene of the camp and partici
pated in a religious Sabbath
service and groundbreaking
ceremones.
The camp property includes
220 acres located in the Blue
Ridge Mountains in north Geor
gia. miles west of Cleve
land, 21 miles from Gainesville
and 81 miles from Atlanta.
The new property when com
pleted will accommodate 220
youngsters, with the facilities,
when completed, costing $250,-
000 Immediate building and
equipment will cost $185,000.
This amount is being under-
Architcct’s drawing of Reform camp in North Georgia,
showing lake and general layout of proposed facilities
written by the National UAHC.
Contributors to the camp pro
ject, many of whom have al
ready pledged, will donate di
rectly to the UAHC Develop
ment Fund with various of the
55 communities forming the
Visit to S.E. Reform Campsite
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
From atop a newly raised
earthen dam whose erection had
created an 11-acre lake, a hud
dled group of men, women and
youth stood reverently this past
Saturday amid the foothills of
North Georgia, joining in a spe
cial ground-breaking service.
The occasion marked the cli
max for about 75 leaders and
workers of the Southeast Coun
cil. Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, who had traveled
in a caravan of bus and auto
from Atlanta to ceremonialize
construction of th« Reform youth
camp scheduled for a summer
opening.
The group had been trans
ported a scant quarter mile from
the highway, on a tractor-drawn
hay-piled trailer over the almost
impassable muddy road to the
220-acre site of the new Reform
camp.
Amid the impressive grandeur
of surrounding mountains and
hills, they were engulfed in the
awesome beauty of the natural
surroundings where soon will
rise the cabins and other facil
ities for camp life.
At first, the more agile among
the adults and all of the repre
sentatives of the Southeast Fed
eration of Temple Youth had
scampered happily up and down
knolls and into wooded areas to
get varied perspectives of the
place where later will appear the
buildings and facilities to serve
Reform youth in a religious ori
ented camp.
Then Rabbi. William Sajowitz,
the Southeast UAHC field direc
tor, who had come from head
quarters in Miami, began con
ducting the special services he
had composed for the occasion.
The Sheheyonah, recited from
memory, and then responsive
readings climaxed by the solemn
“Shema,” never uttered in more
reverential surroundings than at
this beautiful natural location.
Mrs. Clifton Dreyfus, Birming
ham, president of Southeast
Temple Sisterhood, read a seg
ment of the service praying that
the camp would develop young
women to the highest spiritual
ideals.
Melvin T Goldberger. Knox
ville, read a portion seeking di
vine guidance for success in in
culcating the values of religion
in the youth who would come to
this camp. Mr. Goldberger is
president of the Southeast HUC
Council itself and has spearhead-,
ed the work in behalf of the
camp.
Burton Reifler, Macon, presi
dent of the Southeast Temple
Youth, participated in the serv
ice as a president of the South
east Temple Youth.
Rabbi Erwin L. Herman of
New York, national director of
the Reform camping movement,
then stepped up to speak to the
group whose lack of motion
during the services had served to
accentuate the chilling winter
weather.
Then suddenly, the cloud sod
den skies burst asunder and
the sun shone gloriously onto
the group, coverihg the red clay
colored lake with a sheath of
gold and filling the area with
enchanting warmth — a sample
of the gay summer wholesome
ness ahead
It was as though the heavens
had opened just at this dramat
ic moment to shed beneficence
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Southeast membership having
quotas in keeping with the total
membership.
Blueprints for the coming year
call for eight double size camp
er cabins, each to house fourteen
youngsters and two counselors,
four staff cabins, a dining hall,
recreation hall, administration
building, infirmary, outdoor
chapel and a caretaker’s lodge
and maintenance shop.
Already completed are a 15-
acre lake and a 28-foot dam,
built with the cooperation of the
State of Georgia Conservation
Department and Corps of Engi
neers. which also aided in laying
of the clearing of property along
the roadbed for the road into
the area.
Actual construction of the
cabins and other facilities will
start within the next few days,
weather permitting.
The new camp, the sixth
owned and operated by the UA
HC and sponsored by its re
gions throughout the country, is
the first to be constructed com
pletely from “scratch.” The
others were already established
campsites when acquired. Other
camps are located in Great Bar-
r i n g t o n, Mass.; Kresgeville,
Penna.; Zionsville, Ind.; Ocono-
mowoc, Wis., and Saratoga, Calif.
Rabbi Erwin Herbin, New
York, national director of the
UAHC camp movements, told
the Atlanta group:
“We have recognised for some
time that religious education
does not begin with the text
books and end with the class
room. The UAHC for years
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U.S.-ksrael Leaders to Speak at IJJA South-Southwest Institute
Meyerhoff
Seven internationally famed
Jewish leaders will address 400
Jewish community leaders from
Alabama. Arkansas, Fl^ida,
Georgia. Louisiana, Mississippi,
North and South Carolina, Ten
nessee and Texas at the United
Ji-ynsh Appeal’s South-South
west Conference, taking place
January 19-21 at the Hotel Buena
Vista Beach in Biloxi, Mississip
pi, under the Chairmanship of
Paul Kapelow of New Orleans.
They are:
Joseph Meyerhoof of Balti,
Herzog
more. General Chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal;
Avraham Harman, Israel’s Am
bassador to the United States;
William Rosen wald of New
York, a National United Jewish
Appeal Chairman;
Brig General Haim Herzog,
Chief of Military Intelligence,
Israel Army of Defense;
Rabbi Herbert A Friedman of
New York, Executive Vice Chair
man, United Jewish Appeal;
Abe Loskove of Memphis, Di-
Kapelow Rosen w ald
rector of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee's
welfare operations in Italy; and
Mrs. Israel D. Fink of Minne
apolis, Chairman, United Jewish
Appleal's National Women’s Di
vision
The leaders attending the Con
ference will devote their efforts
to completing plans for a power
ful 1962 campaign kickoff in all
the communities in this 11-state
area in support of the United
Jewish Appeal’s national cam-
Krirdmxn
paign goal of $95,000,000 — to
provide vital services for 600,000
Jews in 27 countries overseas,
including Israel and the United
States.
This goal includes a Special
Fund of $35,000,000, the mini
mum needed to meet the press
ing contingencies that are al
ready arising from this year’s
heavy immigration, in addition
to the regular budget of $60,000,-
000 The principal beneficiary
agencies of these funds are the
Fink Ixwkove
United Israel 1 Appeal, which pro
vides for the resettlement and
economic absorption of Jewish
immigrants in Israel; the Ameri
can Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, which provides wel
fare and other aid to needy
Jews in 27 countries overseas,
including Israel, where it con
ducts a special program on be
half of ill, aged and handicapped
immigrants, and the New York
Association for New Americana,
which assists immigrants enter
ing this country.
Harman