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The End Came Sept. 5
Tribute to “Aunt Fret”
Fret
By PHYLLIS BOROCHOFF LEVINE
One of the nicest things about the D Phi E house was Aunt
That was the only name by which most of her “daughters”
ever knew Mrs. Ernest Michael,
house mother at Psi Chapter of
the Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority
in Athens for the past ten years.
Aunt Fret greeted each visitor
to the house with warmth and
hospitality. She felt the D Phi E
house was her home as well as
that of the girls who spent nine
months of each year there. She
was the gracious hostess, the
understanding mother, the stern,
tho’ soft-spoken supervisor, the
candid manager of a hundred
matters which never reached
most of the girls, and a lady,
dearly loved by friends and fam
ily. She was truly a most un
usual woman, and there wasn’t
a girl who came into contact with
“AUNT FRET”
her through the years who didn’t
realize it.
Seldom did Aunt Fret feel the
necessity of interfering In the
girls’ activities. She always knew
what was going on—indeed, she
often knew more than moat real
ized—but she sometimes pretend
ed not to be aware of certain sit
uations, waiting for the girls
themselves to make the right de
cisions. But the girls went to her
for advice. There were problems
of the house, of the heart, of the
curriculum; she was ready to
hear them all and guide with
kind and gentle words. She rep
rimanded when necessary, but
gave every encouragement to
help these young women through
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
VoL XXXVIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1963
No.
President Kennedy Extends
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—President Kennedy this
week issued Rosh Hashonah greetings to the American
Jewish community through the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, reading:
“Rosh Hashonah, the start of a new year and the
period of the Jewish High Holy Days, affords me a wel
come opportunity to extend my felicitations to all Ameri
cans of the Jewish faith.
"The heritage and religious traditions of Judaism call
for a solemn review, at this time, of your deeds and
the aspirations of your hearts, so that your lives may
be judged and the ennobling goals of your faith recon
firmed. It is also an appropriate time to resolve to take
whatever steps may advance the goal of a lasting and
universal peace among nations.
“We enter the New Year with both renewed hope
for a lessening of tensions between peoples and nations
and disappointment in the continuing fires of conflict
around the globe. We are committed to the continuing
pursuit of liberty and justice and neither illusion nor
disappointments will distract us from our objective. In
this basic effort we need the support and commitment
of every citizen.
“I am sure that all Americans, whatever their faith,
join me in extending to each person celebrating Rosh
Hashonah best wishes for a happy new year.”
To Correct Injustice
Funds Sought for Appeal of
Rabbi Shackney Conviction
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (JTA) —
A committee organized in New
Haven to seek an appeal of the
convict ion of Rabbi David
Shackney on charges of holding
a Mexican family in involuntary
servitude has raised more than a
third of the funds needed for the
appeal, the chairman of the com
mittee told the Jewish Telegraph
ic Agency this week.
Sherman Jacobson, a real es
tate investment broker of Orange,
Conn., said about $8,500 of the
required $20,000 fund had been
raised. He said, in a television
interview, that he believed that
attorneys for Rabbi Shackney
were In the process of filing the
appeal with the Federal Circuit
in New York.
Rabbi Shackney was convicted
in New Haven federal court last
spring and sentenced to six years
in prison. The judge suspended all
but two months of the term and
Alabama Segregationists
Employ AnU-SemiUc Slogans
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (JTA) —
Anti-Semitic aspects emerged
among white segregationists who
last week picketed public schools
being desegregated under Federal
court orders, according to press
acounts of demonstrations at the
schools.
The pickets carried signs in
cluding such slogans as “NAACP
is Jewish financed.” Noted among
the demonstrators were such ex
tremists as Robert Shelton, of
Tuscaloosa, imperial wizard of
the Ku Klux Klan; and Edward
Fields, head of the National
States Rights Party.
/ .S. State Dept Sees Strong
Rebuke to Syria In UN Vote
WASHINGTON (JTA)— State
Department sources said this
week that despite the Soviet veto
of the American-backed United
Nations Security Council resolu
tion condemning Syria’s murder
of two Israelis, the American
stand and the seven other fav
orable votes in the Council must
be noted In Syria, and should be
a source of gratification to Israel.
According to State Department
thinking, it was obvious that the
Soviet Union, through the veto
is attempting to exploit Arab
anti-Israel passions.
The general view of the United
States on the veto was described
as similar to that of Israel. Des
pite the veto, officials said, a
strong moral judgment has been
expressed. The American role,
particularly, cannot be ignored by
Syria, it was said. Note was taken
here of criticism of the American
stand by the Arab press and
radio. The State Department’s
reaction was that the Department
Eshkol, Meir Laud Council
Majority; Regret Soviet Vote
imposed a fine of $2,000. Rabbi
Shackney put up his dairy farm
in Middlefield, Conn., to provide
bail and Is now free pending the
appeal.
The conviction attracted little
attention in the Jewish commun
ity until Joseph Weisberg, pub
lisher of the Jewish Advocate of
Boston, learned about the case
and investigated its background.
He interviewed Rabbi Shackney’s
son, a student at Harvard Uni
versity and published the inter
view in its entirety in the Boston
Jewish weekly. The son raised a
number of points in the case
which moved Mr. Weisberg to ap
peal repeatedly in the weekly for
aid for the rabbi.
As a result, a Shackney De
fense Committee was organized.
Mr. Jacobson who became inter-
ested In the case because his
daughter had been a pupil of
Rabbi Shackney at B’nai Jacob
Synagogue In New Haven and be
cause he himself had been a stu
dent in one of the rabbi’s adult
education classes at the syna
gogue, agreed to serve as chair
man.
Mr. Jacobson said funds were
coming from two sources. One is
former pupils of Rabbi Shack
ney, who also taught for several
years at the Flatbush Yeshlva in
Brooklyn. Having learned of the
case from various sources, prin
cipally the repeated appeals in
the Jewish Advocate, they have
sent funds to the defense com
mittee and are continuing to do
so, he said.
The other source is persons re-
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol and Mrs.
Golds Meir, Israel’s Foreign Min
ister, expressed satisfaction this
week In separate statements over
the vote in the Security Council
on the United States-British res
olution on the Syrian murder of
two Israeli farmhands late Au
gust 19. Both also expressed re
gret that the Soviet Union had
blocked passage of the resolution
through a veto.
Mrs. Meir viewed the eight
votes for the resolutions as in
dicating the desire of those coun
tries to exercise the authority of
the Security Council to maintain
peace on Israel’s northern border.
She said the report of Gen. Odd
Bull, chief of staff of the United
Nations Truce Supervision Or
ganization, the utterances of
Council members, and the draft
resolution which received an
overwhelming majority of votes,
“have fixed Syrian responsibility
for the murders in Israeli terri
tory at Almagor."
‘Israel deeply regrets that the
its support to a step which opens
horizons of hope to mankind,”
the signing of the limited nuclear
test ban pact, “did not find it nec
essary at one and the same time
to give its support end make its
contribution to the relaxation of
tension in our region as well,”
she declared, adding that a “tech
nical veto cannot detract from the
moral and political significance
of the stand formulated In the
Security Council.
She declared also that the Se
curity Council stand represented
“a clear condemnation of the act
of murder of the two Israelis and
of the Syrian Government which
bears responsibility for it and for
the chain of incidents which pre
ceded it, including the kidnaping
of three Israelis on Israeli terri
tory and their continued deten
tion in Syria.” This was a refer
ence to the abduction by Syrians
of six persons in an excursion
boat on Lake Tiberias last July.
The Syrians released the three
Belgian passenger*, but not the
reaced properly, and pursued
only course it could coneden'
oualy follow.
The Conference of
of Major American Jewish Or-|
ganizatlons telegraphed to
ident Kennedy its “profound
precation” for the position
by the United States In the
curlty Council debate and
balloting. Rabbi Irving MlUarJ
president of the Conference,
Mr. Kennedy that the J
leaders were “greatly
by America’s call an the
through an address by the
delegation head, Adlai E.
son, urging the UN body “to
cept its responslbillUea and
with courage and wisdom. “It
our sincere hope,” the wire
the Preaidant stated, “that,‘
gardleas of the final outcome,
country's firm position will
further aggression in the
Bast, and promote stability
order.”
Associated with Rabbi Miller'S
wire to the President were the
presidents of the following or
ganizations: American Israel Pub
lic Affairs Committee, American
Jewish Congress, American Zion
ist Council, American Trade
Union Council for HLstadrut,
B’nai B’rith, Hadassah, Jewish
Agency for Israel, Jewish Labor
Committee, Jewish War Veterans
of the U.S.A., Labor Zionist
Movement, Religious Zionists of
America, National Community
Relations Advisory Council, Na
tional Council of Jewish Women,
National Council of Young Israel,
Union of Orthodox Jewish Con
gregations of America, Union of
American Hebrew Congregations,
United Synagogue of America,
and the Zionist Organization of
America.
Smash Windows
At Chicago
Synagogue
CHICAGO (JTA)—Police here
were investigating an attack on
Congregation Kehilath Israel in
which 12 windows in a set of
four doors, and a bulletin board
window, were broken early In die
morning before services. A resi
dent across the street from the
synagogue was awakened by the
breaking of glass at 4 a. m. and
saw an adult race for a car and
drive away. The witness said,
however, that it was too dark
to see the culprit or the car (dear
ly.
Rabbi Eliot Elnhoro, spiritual
leader of the congregation, intim
ated that the present Integration
problem “may be a reason for
this destruction of property." Big
is active in the South East Com
munity Organisation, which re
cently came out for open beep*
panev laws.