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by HARRY ROSE
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Our Community-wide activities
and at Bay Pines are functioning
in high gear along with our
membership drjve for 1962 How
ever, we need more participating
members to do the job effective
ly. We also urge members who
have not paid their ’62 dues to
do so. Please save us the incon
venience of calling at your home.
You may mail your check for
$7.00 to Quartermaster E. M.
Cohen, 6065 1st Ave. No., St. Pet
ersburg, Fla
Sr. Vice Commander Dr. M
Danziger rendered an interesting
report on the quarterly Council
of Administration meeting held
in Miami, Fla., Dec. 17. As a re
sult of his V.A.V.S. report on our
activities at Bay Pines the post
was recipient of a generous gift
to our hospital welfare fund. The
donor, an ardent JWV worker, is
National Executive Committee
man from the 4th Region in At
lanta, Ga., Harry Harrison. God
Bless Harry!!
The glow of Christmas and
Christmas Dinner was even
brighter Dec 25 at the dining
halls at Bay i’ines Hospital and
Domiciliary when some 1000 a£-
ter dinner cigars were distribu
ted to the patients by the Abe
Ader Post Hospital team. The
Post is grateful to Max. Samuels
and an anonymous donor for this
tremendous offering and to
brighten the Holiday season for
our less fortunate veterans,;. Mr
Samuels, for many years has
been a staunch supporter of the
Jewish War Veterans in St. Pet
ersburg. Several years ago he
was co-sponsor of our “Ride of
the month club” at Bay Pines
which has now become the week
ly Bus Ride for patients of Ward
“A.”
Dates and events to remember:
Annual Hospital and Welfare
Card Party on February 18, at
the Jewish Community Center.
On Friday, April 6, the Post will
observe the 100th Anniversary of
the appointment of the first Jew
ish Chaplain in the United States
by President Abraham Lincoln.
The observance will be held dur
ing 1 the services of Congregation
B’nai Israel. Rabbi Morris B.
Chapman, official Jewish Chap
lain at Bay Pines will be pre
sented with a citation for his
outstanding work with the vet
erans at the Hospital.
B'nai B’rith Finds
New Anti-Semitir
Action Against Jews
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Three
new incidents of official Soviet
pressures to discourage the prac
tice of Judaism and hamper
Jewish religious life and leader
ship in Russia were disclosed
this past week by B'nai B’rith
president, Label A. Katz. He
said his organization hRs now
learned that during the June-
July period last year, Russian
authorities had:
1. Quadrupled a special tax
assessed against clergymen and
made it retroactive for two years.
2. Dismissed Rabbi Judah
Lichterov as director of the Mos
cow Yeshiva—the only Jewish
seminary in the USSR—replac
ing him with a new director.
3. Placed the prerogatives of
the Vaad Yeshiva, governing
council of the seminary, under
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levine, Chief
Rabbi of Moscow, after disband
ing the council.
B’nai B’rith had reported the
disbanding of the council last
November, but this is the first
indication it took place during
the June-July period, coincident
with the arrest of six Jewish
lay religious leaders in Lenin
grad and Moscow and the re
moval from their posts of the
lay chairmen of synagogues in
Kiev, Riga, Minsk. Vilna, and
Tashkent—the capital cities of
Oscar Bilfeld, one of the noted
singers of Jewish Folk songs and
leader of Jewish Community
Singing has returned to the Sun
shine City and back into mem
bership in the SFC and, for the
good news that will thrill all of
the membership of Senior
Friendship, is the fact that Os
car reports to the Entertaining
Staff that he is ready and anxi
ous to swing into action on one
of the singing programs in the
very near future. It is being ar
ranged for an early appearance
in February.
The New Year’s Eve Party,
just a sudden notion when it
was voiced, has boomeranged
into a “red hot” idea, for 104
members attending had such a
wonderful New Year’s Eve gath
ering that the idea has now been
suggested for a permanent an
nual event. Plans will be dis
cussed during the coming months
and the odds are 100 to 1 that
the suggestion will be adopted
by the great majority.
Patrolman Bob Caffrey, who
heads the Police Department’s
Police Athletic League, and his
good wife Jean, have had their
long desired dream come true—
a home for unwanted children
The Caffreys have taken a seven-
acre plot in St. Petersburg which
they have named Joy Acres,
containing one building, but it
is the start of a home for un
wanted children. The Caffreys
have three children of their own
and have taken in four unwant
ed and this is the start of an
idea that should blossom into a
very beautiful undertaking. Sen
ior Friendship Club Players,
their theatrical guests and mem
bers of the Sho Biz Club have
offered to stage a 16 act vaude
ville show to be presented in the
large auditorium of Boca Ciega
High School. The Police Depart
ment to sell the tickets to the
citizens of St. Petersburg, all oE
the income to be presented to
Joy Acres for unwanted chil
dren.
Mollie Brandt, founder of Sen-
five Soviet republics.
Mr. Katz reported that while
the increased tax applies to
clergymen of all religious faiths,
it imposes a “special hardship”
on religious Soviet Jews since
Jews are not permitted to main
tain a centralized structure of
national federation. Such per
mission is granted other religi
ous groups in the USSR.
Effect of the order, Mr. Katz
said, will be that the Jewish re
ligious community "must now
seek additional sacrifices from
its individual members, many of
whom are old persons in retire
ment.” Another alternative is
for the rabbi, cantor and other
functionaires to pay the assess
ments out of their meager in
comes. "In either event, the as
sessment poses a further dis
couragement to the practice of
Judaism in the Soviet Union.”
Mr Katz declared.
The B’nai B’rith president said
that another heretofore undis
closed fact is that in 1958 the
Jews of Moscow contributed the
equivalent in rubles of $135,000
for the construction of a new
Yeshiva building. But the plan
to construct the new building
was never consummated, al
though at the time the funds
were collected it was understood
Soviet authorities had approved
the plan, Mr. Katz reported The
disposal of the funds is unknown.
"The willingness of the religi
ous Jews of Moscow to raise
what for them must have been
an extraordinary sum of money
is further evidence of the strong
Jewish consciousness that exists
in the Soviet Union,” Mr Katz
said
ior Friendship Club, returned to
St. Petersburg after a month’s
visit to Illinois where she visited
a son and daughter who - ’ per
manently reside in that State.
Mollie was glad to get back to
the warmth of St. Petersburg
and the Senior Friendship Club
and everyone was happy to see
her back in her old environ
ments.
Bertha Ascher, Nancy Rubin
and Bella Kaplow had the sing
er sewing machines humming at
the Club at the last meeting
working on garments for chil
dren and for maternity dresses
for the ship A Box, which is a
project of the National Council
of Jewish women of the St.
Petersburg Section. These gar
ments will be shipped to Israel
upon their completion.
Emanuel Price, 54 years of age,
a brother of Betty Miller, record
ing secretary of the Senior
Friendship Club, died in Ro
chester, N Y. last week. His pass
ing was sudden. He was interred
in the family plot in Rochester.
Our deep sympathy is extended
to Betty for this sudden sor
row.
The regular scheduled meet
ing of SFC, Thursday, Jan. 4,
found every room in the spaci
ous Jewish Community Center
filled with members and visitors,
in fact so full, that the scheduled
“regular dancing period” had to
be cancelled. Among the new
members registered were Morris
and Sadie Perlman, of New York
City; Isidore and Sarah Wiener,
from the State of Maine. Among
the visitors were Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Newman, of New Jersey;
Mr, and Mrs. Jack Hartz, of
Chicago: Mr. and Mrs. D, Oppen-
heim, of Chicago: Dr. and Mrs.
B. Schultz, of St. Petersburg
and Mr. and Mrs. H. Blidner, of
New York City.
St. Petersburg
Hadassah
St. Petersburg Chapter of Ha
dassah will sponsor a luncheon
and card party at 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 16, at the Gulf
Port Jewish Center, 1844 54th
Street South.
Proceeds will go to the Chap
ter’s Youth Aliyah and Vocation
al Education projects. Tickets
are $1.25 each. (Bus 14 leaves
Williams Park every hour and
half hour.)
B’nai Israel
Synagogue
Friday, Jan. 12, at 8 pm , in
conjunction with the Family
Sabbath Hour, the young men
affiliated with the AZA will
demonstrate their loyalty to the
Synagogue. AZA will be hosts
at an * Oneg Shabbat reception
immediately following the Serv
ice.
Saturday, Jan. 13, Sabbath
services will begin at 8:30 a.m.,
the Teen Service in the chapel
at 10:45 a.m., and the Youth and
Family Hour at 11 a m.
Sunday, Jan. 14, the Shachar
Minyan will begin at 9 a.m., and
the Teen Minyan Club will be
held at 10 a.m. At 7:30 p.m., the
USY’ers will meet in the Teen
Room.
Monday, January 15, Rabbi
Irving Lehrman, spiritual leader
of Temple Fmanu-El, Miami
Beach, will be guest speaker at
the Annual Torah Fund Lunch
eon sponsored by the Sisterhood
of Congregation B’nai Israel, at
the synagogue, beginning at
12:30 p.m. The theme of his mes
sage will be “A Vision of To
morrow.”
Tuesday, Jan. 16, the Youth
Activities Committee will hold
their meeting at the synagogue
at 8:30 p m.
Wednesday, Jan, 17, some of
the questions to be discussed at
the session of the Institute of
Jewish Studies, beginning at
8 pm., will be: “Why is there
no reference to death in the
kaddish prayer,” “Why is the
kadriish prayer in Aramaic and
not in Hebrew,” “What does
‘Amen’ mean?,” “Are Jews mys
tics?” Everyone is, invited.
On Friday, Jan. 19 at 8 p.m.,
U.S.Y. National Convention Sab
bath Service will be held. Par
ticipants will be Alan Bruns
wick, Harry Nadler and I/enore
Wolfson who attended the con-
Friday, January 12, 1M2
vention which was held at the
Statler Hotel In New York City,
December 22 through 25. They
will discuss the theme of the
convention: "Sanctify Us With
Thy Mitivos."
Rabbi Lehman
finest of B'nai Israel
Sisterhood Jan. 15
Rabbi Irving Lehrman, spirit
ual leader of Temple Emanu-El
of Miami Beach, will be the guest
speaker at the Annual Torah
Fund Luncheon sponsored by the
Sisterhood of Congregation B’nai
Israel at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Jan.
15
He received his degree of Doc
tor in Hebrew Literature from
the Jewish Theological Semin
ary. He is a member of the Ex
ecutive Board of the Rabbinical
Assembly of America and is on
the national and regional execu
tive boards of the United Syna
gogue.
Proceeds of the affair will go
to the Seminary to help: streng
then its program of training rab
bis, teachers, cantors, and syna
gogue administrators; maintain
the largest Jewish library in the
world and the Jewish museum;
promote the prize-winning TV
and radio program "Etemdl
Light”; support a host of other
activities too numerous to men
tion here.
Cost of the luncheon is $6 11
and reservations can be made by
culling Bette Halprin, 361-7482,
Norey Pearl 341-4884, Sylvia
Klein 345-1554, Jackie Jacobs
345-2118.
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