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Ambassador Comay Reaches
Thousands in Atlanta Stay
Biggest problem facing Israel
today is the conflict with the
Arab nations, the Jewish State's
UN Ambassador Michael Comay
told a recent luncheon meeting
of Atlanta Rotarians.
Addressing this top echelon of
community civic and business
leaders, the envoy evidenced im
patience with the cold war in the
Middle East which “forces us to
divert funds vitally needed in
other areas for arms.
Arab hostility, he said, is ag
gravated by a flow of Soviet aid,
setting up military arms “in
Egypt far more than there ever
was in Cuba.”
The problem is not that Israel
is afraid, but that essential
funds have to be diverted, he
continued. The problem is being
abetted by German scientists in
Egypt now building missiles.
Despite the many problems,
Israel is a confident nation and
“we rejoice with the many peo
ple who are emerging with free
nations on many continents, es-
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XXXV1I1
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1963
NO. 15
Sanders Proclaims April
As Georgia UJA Month
NAACI* Leader Says
Negro Anti-Semitism Limited
Governor Carl E. Sanders has
designated April as the United
Jewish Appeal 25’.h Anniversary
Month in Georgia.
Governor Sanders issued the
following proclamation from his
office in the presence of the At
lanta Jewish Welfare Fund
leaders:
“WHEREAS: Members of the
Jewish Community of Georgia
are participating in the nation
wide observance of the 25th An
niversary of the founding of the
United Jewish Appeal; and
“WHEREAS: This major
American voluntary fund-raising
organization, since its creation in
January 1939, has achieved ad
mirable success in accomplishing
its twin objectives of rescue and
resettlement; and
“WHEREAS: During the past
quarter century the UJA pro
vided direct aid to three million
persons; resettled more than one
and a half million men, women
and children in Israel, the United
States and other free lands, in
cluding one million two hundred
thousand in Israel alone.
“WHEREAS: These accomp-
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Polish
Gentile woman who headed a
group in Lvov engaged in the
rescue of Jew’s during the Nazi
occupation of Poland was hon
ored this week with the planting
of a tree in her name in the
Avenue of the Righteous Gen
tiles.
Invited to Israel by a group
of friends she had help to save
from the Nazi murder machine,
Mrs. Wladyslawa Choms attend
ed the ceremony and called it
“the first beacon light" in her
life since the end of the war.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Presi
dent Ben-Zvi entered Hadassah
Hospital this week for a series
of examinations expected to last
ten days. The President’s office
described it as a routine check
up.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Egyptian Government has ac
quired some of Russia's new
“komar” class naval rocket ships,
capable of firing a shlp-to-shore
missile bearing a conventional,
750-kilogram (1,650-pound) war
head, it was reported here this
week.
The vessels have been sent to
Egypt by the Soviet Union, in ad
dition to rocket and missile wea
pons, it was learned. The "Kom
ar” is the same class of naval
craft recently furnished by the
USSR to Cuba. The range of its
rockets is between 15 and 20
miles, and the weapons are es
pecially effective against coastal
cities.
Meanwhile, Shimon Peres, Is-
lishments exemplify the Ameri
can spirit at its best—a spirit fos
tered in this blessed land by our
Judeo-Christian teachings and
heritage; and
“WHEREAS: The UJA is con
tinuing in its campaign to raise
the financial means for the hun
dreds of thousands in 28 coun
tries who are still in need of as
sistance; and
“WHEREAS: The campaign and
Anniversary observance are des
erving of the whole-hearted sup
port of all men and women of
goodwill; now
“THEREFORE: I, Carl E. San
ders, Governor of Georgia do
hereby proclaim the month of
April as UNITED JEWISH AP
PEAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY
month in Georgia and call upon
my fellow citizens of all faiths
to join in the planned observ
ances.”
Atlanta’s 25th Anniversary
Committee is headed by A. J.
Weinberg as chairman and con
sists of all living past general
campaign chairmen. Photographs
will be presented in next week’s
issue of The Southern Israelite.
rael’s Deputy Minister of De
fense, arrived here this week for
the purpose of negotiating costs
and delivery dates of the Hawk
ground-to-air missiles which
President Kennedy promised Is
rael, last summer, it could buy
in this country. Mr. Peres con
ferred immediately with govern
ment officials.
BONN (JTA)—The West Ger
man Government, under steady
prodding from critics at home and
abroad, said this week it had
done all it could regarding the
scientists and technicians work
ing on advanced weapons in
Egypt.
After a second Cabinet meet
ing in two weeks on the issue, the
Government said, it was still con
sidering what steps to take to
get the scientists and technicians
to drop their work and return to
West Germany. Critics of the
Government said that a strong
declaration, preferably before the
Bundestag, and an assurance that
the Government would not mere
ly consider steps but would take
them, was needed
KARLSRUHE (JTA) The
West German Federal Supreme
Court ruled this week that a
Polish citizen who was an Aus
chwitz concentration camp inmate
cannot register a claim for com
pensation from West Germany
for forced labor as long as there
is no peace treaty between West
Germany and Poland
The court held that in the ab
sence of such a treaty with stip
ulations for reparations, there
was no basis for such claim.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The
anti-Semitism espoused by the
Black Muslims against the Jews
is not prevalent among the large
part of the American Negro
community. This observation
was made by Roy Wilkins, ex
ecutive secretary to the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, in an
article in the current issue of
American Judaism, the official
publication of the Union of
American Hebrew Congrega
tions.
Mr. Wilkins felt that mis
understanding and lack of ade
quate dialogue, rather than or-
ganzied anti-Semitism, exists to
day between Jew and Negro in
this country. “Both Negroes and
Jews could improve their under
standing of each other by em
ploying more than a casual or
surface approach,” he said.
Referring to recent anti-Semi
tic outbursts by the Black Mus
lims and their leaders, Mr. Wil
kins said: “If Black Muslims ap
pear to be anti-Semites in some
of their utterances this attitude
is not that of the broad Negro
MACON— The Macon Jewish
community will join with the Is
rael Bond Organization in hon
oring Rob B. Friedin of Vienna.
Ga., at a dinner in his honor
April 28 at the Dempsey Hotel
in Macon, Georgia.
Celebrating Israel’s 15th Anni
versary and the Year of Redemp
tion, the Israel Bond Organiza
tion will honor Mr. Friedin foi
his consistent support of the eco
nomic development of the State
of Israel.
Since the inception of Israel
Bonds, Mr. Friedin has been ..
member of the Guardians or
Builders of Israel Bonds. He has
championed the sale of Bonds
throughout South Georgia since
1951.
Mr. Friedin currently serves as
president of the Cordele Judicial
Circuit Bar Association.
Gus Kaufman and Ixiuis Chan-
in have accepted the 1963 co-
chairmanship of the Israel Bond
Starrels Talks for
Chautauqua April 22
Rabbi Solomon Starrels of
Temple Mickve Israel, Savannah,
will represent the Jewish Chau
tauqua Society as lecturer at
Brewton-Parker College at Mt
Vernon, Ga., on Monday and
Tuesday, April 22-23.
While on campus the rabbi will
present 40 volume 1 - of Judaira to
the library of Brewton-Parker
College on behalf of the Jewish
Chautauqua Society.
community. Lack of understand
ing, snap “group” judgments,
plain and ugly anti-Semitism,
and a defiant arrogance are un
happy markings of a part of the
Negro community. In their great
hurt and in their blinding frus
trations, Negroes are receptive
to scapegoatism. They listen to
and repeat the pat phases of the
anti-Semites among them and
among some non-Jews with
whom they come into contact.”
“Anti-Semitism is not wide
spread among Negroes nor is it
nourished and passed on as a
working creed. It is not virulent
and exists among relatively few
Negroes. If this were not so,
and if actual hatred of whites
were not similarly limited, the
Black Muslims would have mil
lions of followers instead of
thousands,” he continued.
Mr. Wilkins agreed with the
concern expressed by the Jew
ish community and others about
the extreme statements espoused
by the Black Muslim move
ment. He praised the efforts of
the organized Jewish communi
ty and many individual Jewish
Drive. Both have been long ac
tive in Israel Bond Drives. Dr.
Julius Morgenstem, president
emeritus of Hebrew Union Col
lege. will serve as toastmaster
and dinner chairman.
leaders for aiding the cause of
the Negro in his fight for civil
rights. "Certainly, since Negro
citizens began an organized ef
fort to secure their constitution
al rights as Americans and to
campaign for the elimination of
bigotry and prejudice, they have
had the sympathetic and very
active assistance of Jews."
Mr. Wilkins mentioned several
Jewish lay and rabbinic leaders
who helped organize the NAA-
CP, and many others who are
today active in the organization
and as its legal counselors. He
particularly cited the assistance
of the Jewish community in the
“very sensitive and difficult
field of housing,” where he said
the Jews themselves had suf
fered some disabilities, adding
that “Jews have helped the Ne
gro in his fight to escape tram
the ghetto.”
Negro-Jewish relations also
were involved in a charge by
Adam Clayton Powell, Nen
York Democrat who recently
demanded that white leadership
be eliminated from the NAACP,
that the New York Times was
opposed to his views. The Con
gressman, in an interview oh
WNEW, a New York radio stai
tion, said the Times opinion was
“a white man’s opinion” and
added that it was “unfortunate”
that the Tiimes was "biased when
it’s owned and operated by a
minority group.” He elaborated
on his statement later by saying
“I doubt whether the editors of
the Times even go to their syna
gogues.”
UJA Spotlight
North African Jewish Refugees Among 120,000
In Europe to Receive JDC Passover Supplies
North African Jewish refugees are shown receiving mat
zoth and other Passover supplies at a Jewish welfare ageney
in Paris. More than 257,000 pounds of matzoh meal, wine and
other Passover supplies were distributed this year by the Joint
Distribution Committee, with United Jewish Appeal lands, In
120,000 people in nine European countries. In addition, JDC
made special grants to 60,000 Jews on relief In North Aflloa
and the Middle East to enable them to purchase nntooth
locally. The UJA Ls the major beneficiary of campaign!
under way in Savannah, Atlanta, St. Petersburg, Tampa
other Southern communities.
LATE NEWS BRIEFS
Macon Jewry to Honor
Lawyer for Bond Support