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Federal Grand Jury Indicts
Anti-Semites in Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala (JTA) —
A number of leading anti-Sem
itic agitators, including officials
and ex-officials of such groups
as the National States Rights
Party, the American Nazi Party,
and the Christian Anti-Jewish
Party were this week indicted by
a federal grand jury on United
States Government charges of
conspiracy to Interfere with fed
eral desegregation court orders.
Seven agitators were indicted..
Among those were Edward R.
Fields, information director of the
National Slates Rights Party,
Jesse B. Stoner, known anti-Se
mitic leader and States Rights
Party attorney; James K. Warn
er, former national secretary of
the American Nazi Party; and
David A. Stanley, Barney Car
mack Jr., Jack Cash, Ralph Le-
wandowskl, and Gerald Q. Dut
ton.
Stoner Is a one-time Ku Klux
Klan organizer, who later form
ed the “Stoner Antl-Jewlsh
Party,” which became the “Chris
tian Anti-Jewish Party.” Fields
was secretary of this militant
anti-Semitic group. Dutton was
president of the "Knights of the
Confederacy.”
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly
Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Established 1925
Voi XXXV11J
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1963
NO. 39
Jews Throughout the World
Celebrates New Year of 5724
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jews
throughout the world ushered
in the Jewish New Year 5724
with prayers and hope that the
coming year may be marked by
intensified action among the
world powers for permanent
peace and total disarmament,
will bring salvation to the Jews
in the Soviet Union who are
suffering from persecution of
their culture and religion, and
will strengthen Israel to be able
to withstand Arab threats of
destruction.
Domestically, American Jews
rededicated themselves to the
perpetuation of values now com
monly accepted by the Jewish
community of the United States.
These included support of lo
cal, national and overseas re
lief agencies; expansion of Jew
ish education; and further
strengthening of Jewish culture,
including study of the Hebrew
tongue. These goals of American
Jewry were among others re
flected in statements issued by
the heads of all the leading Jew
ish organizations.
Some 100,000 Jewish members
of the American armed forces
and their dependents debrated
Rosh Hashonah at bases in more
than 50 oversees localities as
well as at military and naval
installations across the United
States. The GI services were
conducted by the 78 full-time
and 262 part-time Jwish chap
lains in the U.S. Europe, Africa,
Alaska, Asia and Latin America.
The Jewish Welfare Board field
staff in this country and over
seas, as well as thousands of
volunteers in JWB’s Armed
Services Commitee, worked
closely with Jewish chaplains in
organizing religious services,
home hospitality and various
celebrations.
Joseph Meyerhoff, general
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal, issued a Rosh Hashonah
message, hoping that for the
American Jewish community
and the people of Israel, the
new year “may again be a year
in which we can devote our
undivided energies to bring life
and hope to all the helpless and
downtrodden Jews.”
Edward M. M. Warburg, chair
man of the Joint Distribution
Committee, stressed in his mes
sage that today there are still
Jewish refugees — as there have
been every year since the end
of World War II. “Jewish com
munities," he said, “are dis
appearing from North Africa,
and other areas and are multi
plying elsewhere. The largest
number of refugees, the 100,000
Jews who fled from Algeria
last year, will celebrate Rosh
Hashonah 5724 in France. In Is
rael, this year, as in other years
since the war, thousands of new
faces will appear at services.”
Dewey D. Stone, chairman of
the Jewish Agency for Israel,
Inc., said: “It is now obvious
that tens of thousands of our
fellow Jews, who desperately
need and want a new home,
will have their wish fulfilled
this year. For most of them it
will mean the realization of their
prayers that their next year will
be in Jerusalem. For many
years, the Jewish Agency has
been the major instrument of
diaspora Jewry for the rescue
and rehabilitation of their bre
thren.
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, chair
man of the Jewish Agency-
American Section, declared: “let
us remember the thousands and
tens of thousands of our breth
ren seeking sanctuary in the
land of Israel and steaming to
its shores in reliance upon our
aid and generosity. Let us also
bear in mind the fate of Jewish
communities in lands of oppres
sion and consider our moral re
sponsibility toward them. Lei
us also give heed to the special
problem of 3,000,000 fellow Jews
in the Soviet Union who are
still denied the right and possi
bility to preserve their religious
and cultural identity and are
threatened with extinction as a
Jewish community.
Abraham Feinberg, president
of the Israel Bond Organiza
tion, noted in his New Year
message that, while the invest
ment capital mobilized through
Israel bonds since 1951 “has
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TEPs Choose
Former Durham
Mayor Consul
At the recently concluded In
ternational Convention of Tau
Epsilon Phi Fraternity, E. J.
Evans, former mayor of Dur
ham, N. C., was elected Consul
(International President).
Mendel Romm Jr., of Atlan
ta, was elected First Vice Con
sul of the fraternity. Harris
Jacobs of Atlanta and Laurence
Cohen of Savannah were elect
ed members-at-large on the
fraternity’s Grand Council.
As immediate past president
of the fraternity, Joe H. Ger-
son of Atlanta becomes ex-of
ficio a member of the govern
ing board of the organization.
US, Britain, Israel Publish
780 Jewish Books in 1963
NEW YORK (JTA)—More than
780 books of Jewish interest pub
lished in the United States, Is
rael and Great Britain during the
year ending May 1963, are listed
and briefly described in Volume
21 of the Jewish Book Annual, a
yearbook of Jewish literary cre
ativity, published by tha Jewish
Book Council of the National
Jewish Welfare Board.
The 243-page volume, unique
in that it has articles printed in
three languages — English, He
brew and Yiddish—is one of the
media through which JWB and its
Jewish Book Council promote an
Interest in and appreciation of
following areas: American Jew
ish non-fiction; American Jewish
fiction; American Jewish books
for children; American Hebrew
hfcooks; American Yiddish books;
Angl-Jewish books, and selected
books of Israel.
Kennedy Reproaches Moscow
On Closing of Synagogues
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) — President Kennedy, in
his address before the United
Nations General Assembly on
Friday, indirectly accused the
Soviet Union of violating the UN
Charter by closing down syna
gogues. Without mentioning the
Soviet Government by name spe
cifically, he stressed that member
states of the United Nations “are
committed by the Charter to pro
mote and respect human rights.”
He then added:
“Those rights are not respect
ed when a Buddhist priest is
driven from his pagoda, when a
synagogue is shut down, when a
Protestant church cannot open a
mission, when a Cardinal Amer
ica is opposed to discrimination
and persecution on grounds of
race and religion any-where in
the world, including our own na
tion,” he emphasized.
Through legislation and admin
istrative action, through moral
and legal commitmeunt, he point
ed out, the U. S. Gover nment
“has launched a determined effort
Cardinal Bea
Will Retire
LONDON, (JTA) — Augustin
Cardinal Bea, president of the
Vatican’s Secretariat for Chris
tian Unity, and one of the fore
most Catholic Church proponents
for closer Catholic Jewish rela
tions, is about to resign from his
post, the press here reported. Ac
cording to a Rome dispatch, Car
dinal Bea, who is 82, will quit
because of his health.
to rid our nation of discrimina
tion which has existed far too
long—in education, in housing, in
transportation, in employment, in
the Civil Service, in recreation
and in places of public accommo
dation. And, therefore, in this or
any other forum, we do not hes
itate to condemn racial or relig
ious injustice, whether committ
ed or permitted by friend or by
foe.”
(Widespread approval of Pres
ident Kennedy’s reference to the
religious discrimination against
Soviet Jewry in his United Na
tions address was expressed today
by the Israeli press which warn
ed, however, that Israelis will
have to undertake a more active
policy in this area to secure In
ternational support for a change
in the situation. The world will
not understand president Kenne
dy’s Intervention, “if the Israel
delegation does not express its
own feelings about the plight of
Soviet Jews,” Haboker, General
Zionist newspaper declared, re
flecting the prevailing opinion in
Israel.)
LONDON (JTA) — Richard
Crossman, Laborlte member of
the British Parliament, reporting
on a recent visit to the Soviet
Union, charged today that “the
sufferings of the Jews of Kiev”
during the Nazi occupation “have
been expunged from Russian his
tory as a topic which causes too
much discomfort and arouses too
much suppressed emotion.”
In a broadcast over the BBC,
the member of the House of Com
mons said that he had wanted to
visit Babi Yar, the gully outside
of Kiev where the Nazi slaughter
ed more than 75,000 Jewish men,
women and children in one of the
worst massacres of Russian Jews.
He said that when he talked to
his Russian hosts in Kiev, he had
asked whether the Jews of Kiev
had not suffered particularly at
the hands of the Nazis. He said
they replied with anger that the
Jews of Russia were no different
from anyone else.
His temper rising, Crossman re
ported, he asked “then why are
they the only people who have to
put their religion on their Identity
papers?” The replay was that
“this does not make any different.
They have their own republic in
Siberia and are represented on
the Soviet Council of Ministers,
so they are not different from the
Georgians or anyone else.”
Crossman said he retorted that
there was a difference, since the
Georgia province was “the home
land of the Georgians while the
Jews do not want to live in that
(
own
he realized
the Russian Jews bad
punged from Russian history.
NEW YORK (JTA)—In a spec
ial pastoral letter addressed to all
members of The Rabbinical As
sembly, the international associ
ation of Conservative rabbis, Rab
bi Theodore Friedman, president
of the organization, Sunday call
ed on his colleages to devote
their Yom Klppur sermons to the
situation and problems that con
front the Jewish community In
Russia. The members of The Rab
binical Assembly served hundreds
of congregations in the United
States, Canada, Latin America,
Germany and Israel.
Speaking of the threats to the
Jewish communities of Soviet
Russia today, Rabbi Friedman
said: “There is no more suitable
occasion for bringing this situa
tion to the attention of our peo
ple as effectively as we can, than
on the High Holy Days, when we
discuss the fate and future of our
people. Virtually every week
brings fresh evidence of the un
relenting policy of the Soviet
Government to effectuate the ex
tinction of Jewish religious prac
tices and cultural life.”
A sharp protest against die
death sentence imposed by a
Soviet court against Rabbi B.
Gavrilov, of Pyatigorsk, was sent
to the Soviet Ambassador in
Washington by Rabbi Abraham
N. AvRutick, president of the
Rabbinical Council of America,
an Orthodox group. The letter,
voicing the sentiments of the sev
eral hundred rabbis who are
members of the Council, request
ed the Soviet envoy, Anatoly F.
Dobrynin, to ask his Government
to remit the death sentence and
to stop persecuting the Jewish
people in the USSR.
An officer of the Council de
clared that, unless a positive ans
wers were received from Ambas
sador Dobrynin “in a few days,”
the U. S. Government will be Sak-
ed to intervene on the issue with
the Soviet delegation at die
United Nations.
Israel Readies for Sukkot
MARKET SCENES from Jerusalem and Haifa showing ac
tivities surrounding advance sales of “Ksrofim aad Lul-
ovim” for Sukkot ceremonies In Israel and synagogues
throughout the globe.