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Friday, Kept. VI, INI
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By HARRY ROSE
. . St. Petersburg . .
Time is drawing close to the
first meeting of the new season,
of the SF Club, which is being
planned for October 17 to be
known as a "Welcome Back"
meeting, when most of the mem
bers and officers of the club will
have returned to St. Petersburg
and roiled up their sleeves for a
busy and a progressive season
ahead. The meetings will be held
on October 17, October 24 and
October 31, and it is hoped by
that time, that the new Jewish
Community Center Building will
be ready for occupancy, when SF
Club can again resume its regular
meetings on Mondays and Thurs
days each week.
As a reminder on the meeting
of Oct. 17, it will be good to
imbibe the following little poem:
PAY YOUR DUES
The sweetest words of tongue or
pen
That find response in the hearts
of men.
And stir them with a Joyous
thrill,
And make them, like the birdies
thrill,
Are those old words, with sweet
refrain
That light the eye, and soothe
the brain,
And faces grim, with smiles
infuse,
*Dear Seety: Herewith check for
does.
It has been arranged by the
Executive Board for the SF Club
to meet in Temple Beth El on
Oct 17, Oct. 24, and Oct. 31.
Every member will be given an
official notice by Mail.
Louis and Mary Shapiro are
back from Miami where they
went to spend the past ten days
with members of their family.
Mrs. Hermanla Goldstein, a
member of SF Club, is anxious to
meet with a lady that will share
living quarters with her as she
feels that companionship is the
greatest asset in life. Any lady
wishing to inquire of the plan
may call the office of the Jew
ish Community Council for infor
mation.
Beckie Yanchuck, who has been
going through a period of illness
the past few months, is now in a
rest home in St. Petersburg
Beach. Mrs. Hessie Perlman, who
was widowed a month ago, is at
a local hospital recuperating from
a recent illness. She is reported
to be making good progress. Mary
Shapiro is doing splendidly and
feels much better than in the past.
A1 Epstein is feeling much better
and still able to give you a “big
how’dy” when he runs across
you.
Harry and Mollie Bauman
doing very well and grateful for
the great Improvement In both
of their lives. The Bauman’s are
happy folks over the great im
provement.
Manny Ward and Nancy Rubin
represented SF Club at the Jew
ish Community Council meeting
last week.
Oscar and Carrie Ascher will
leave Sandstone, Minn., about
Oct. 10, arriving back in the Sun
shine City about October 15. Both
will be very active in the Enter
tainment angle of SF Club affairs
this coming year.
Minnie Levy plans to leave Old
Bridge, N. J., about the middle of
October for her home in St.
Petersburg. Minnie is a very ac
tive member of the Refreshments
Committee.
Harry Kaplow, liason to the
National Council of Senior Citi
zens, both of Washington and the
State of Florida, will have some
very interesting and important
data for members of the SF Club
In its efforts to make “Medicare”
an active organism for mankind
these days, especially for the
elderly and the retired “Medi-
car” has been kicked around in
Washington this past season, but
those in the "know” state that
it will be a very live Issue in the
years to come. Harry Kaplow has
kept in close touch with the sit
uation and in one of Ms reports
in the very near future, which
he shall make to the club mem
bership, we will be given an op
portunity to get the highllgts of
the questions before the coun
try.
A new Sick Committee is being
considered by the Board of Trus
tees for SF Club, one that will
be able to cover the sick in every
way possible without too much
falling on the shoulders of one
individual. This new Committee
will be announced at a later date.
J - W - V -1E W S
Ada Marx is busy on the Book
for the New Year’s Eve Show,
that SF Club will give in the new
Jewish Community Center Build
ing. The Book will cover a new
floor show that will sparkle with
real comedy, singing and dancing
and 3hould please each and every
member, who is fortunate to be
able to attend this celegration.
Be sure and get your reservations
in early for the New Year’s Eve
Special “get together.”
On behalf of Abe Ader Post
No. 246 Jewish War Veterans of
the United States of America,
Commander Edw. M. Cohen ex
tends to all its members and
friends sincerest good wishes for
A Very Happy New Year.
The next regular meeting of
the Post will be held on Wed
nesday, Sept. 25, at the Amer
ican Legion Hall, Beach Drive
and Central Ave., at 8 p. m.
Because of the Jewish Hol
idays the Post will not have
another meeting until October 23
at which time Commander Cohen
will announce plans for our an
nual Membership campaign. Sen
ior Vice Commander Abe Baker,
membership chairman, is charged
with carrying out the campaign.
Off The Record
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
Page from My Diary . . .
More than six decades are
now witness to the verity that
never in all the days of my life
have I trespassed the sanctity
that is Yom Kippur.
There were moments, I con
fess, when there was introspec
tion and balancing as if with
apothecary’s hand, but always
there was the guiding finger
and the remembrance of the
generations of the pious, the
dedicated and the consecrated
whose mystique has always held
for me irresistible lure.
Yom Kippur is a day of awe,
dedicated to penitence, forgive
ness and recantation of error,
sin and folly, the one day in
the year when man is alone with
his God and himself.
All humans strive for regen
eration, personal, spiritual and
religious. Its attainment lies in
aloneness, that rare moment
when man is with himself and
his creator in sanctified detach
ment from world and burden.
Our ancestors knew that
aloneness, as did the chosen of
the world over the ages. The
essence of Yom Kippur is recog
nition of the fallibility of man
and of his striving to return to
the path. But confession and
expiration is not in proclama
tion, only in whispering that is
inaudible even to one’s own
ear.
Scripture might well have
envisioned the ineffable moment
that overtakes every Jew the
awesome seconds before Kol
Nidre when it counselled man
that God was heard not in the
fury of wind or storm but in
still, small voice.
The leaves will be falling
when our holiday season ends.
May they bring balm to eye,
comfort to heart and peace to
soil in fulfillment of a purpose
whose treasures are as bounti
ful as they are mysterious.
II
The story of three centuries
of Jewish life on American soil
requires for recording an ever
increasing canvas, for in a way
it is the poignant tale and saga
not alone of men but of man.
We all have stories of our be
ginnings here. Mine is the tale
of escape from a miracle.
It was the miracle of the open
door and it happened in the
small Ukranian town of my
birth. A peasant and his family
of six had been slain by robbers
in the night. As the goyim
were gathering to vent wrath
on the Jewish community for a
crime later admitted by the
area’s most notorious cattle
thief, a Jewish coachman har
nessed his horses and sped for
help to an adjacent town. When
the cossaks arrived the mob was
going berserk in the market
square and, as happened almost
always in those czarist days, the
supposed defenders of the law
joined hands with the pogrom-
bent peasants.
As the surging mob swooped
down on the Jewish section of
the town, window shutters dark
ened homes and people barri
caded themselves behind locked
doors. Distraught mothers were
hiding their young in attics and
elderly pious were groping for
succor in prayer.
Our home was located diag
onally across the church in the
center of the town. Grandmother
a minature in stature but a
giant in courage and faith, sur
veyed the situation with pene
trating eyes from the open porch
and at once decreed the lifting
of shutters and the opening of
doors.
As the front door pivoted, a
Jewish lad who had been draw
ing water from the cistern in
the rear of the house came run
ning in. A peasant ,he wept, had
threatened to down him in the
well.
Through the open windows we
could hear the angry shouting
of the mob and the agonizing
pleas for mercy as homes went
up in flame and smoke. At de
struction’s end the mob’s fury
seemed to be rising in crescendo.
And then there was stillness,
the eerie quiet after the storm.
Our shelter survived the storm
Comrade Baker states that it is
the duty of every veteran of
Jewish faith to identify himself
or 'herself with the oldest active
Veterans organization in the his
tory of the United States—The
Jewish War Veterans.
Complacency has no place in a
changing world where chaotic
Communistic disruptions n in
rampant, and confuses the minds
of men. Our National Organiza
tion and its Commander are as
close to the Office of the Presi
dent of the United States as you
are to your family. Our voice is
heard and level headed veterans
in this high echelon of J.W.V.
give their all in support of our
great Country in peacetime, as
they did in during the War. This
kind of devotion to country and
Veterans affairs deserves our
fullest support. The word is out
—Join J.W.V. now! Four score
in '64.
Abe Ader Post extends heart
iest congratulations to Florida’s
favorite son in J. W. V., Daniel
Neil Heller on being elected to
the Office of Commander of our
National organization. Comman
der Heller is a dedicated Jew
ish War Veteran, and we are
proud to be a part of his team.
Quartermaster Leon Glassman
announces that “Early Bird Dues”
statements will be mailed out in
the near future. Members paying
dues now will be credited for
theri 164 Dues. The dues will not
be Increased, although additional
funds are needed to carry out our
Bay Pines Hospital Welfare work
for the ensuing year. Only 75
cents remain with the Post to
carry out its essential programs.
Our Hospital Volunteer Com
mittee have been active all sum
mer making their visitations and
attending religious services under
the direction of Rabbi Morris B.
Chapman and Rabbi J. Marshall
Taxay of Clearwater. The Com
mittee is under the direction of
V-AV.S Officer Dr. Mark Dan-
ziger.
Post Activities calendar will be
announced in October. Won’t you
please join us now!
Congregation
B’nai Israel
301 Fifty-Ninth St, North
St. Petersburg. Fla.
Phone 341—1471
Kabbi M. Chapman
SPIRITUAL LEADER
Sat. Sept. 28, 9:00 a. m. Tradi
tional Service; 11:00 a. m., Con
servative Service, sermon: “Life Is
Worth Living.” Youth Services:
11a. m., 4 to 8 year-olds; 12 noon,
9 to 13 year-olds.
Sunday, Sept. 29, 9:00 a. m.
Conservative Service.
Tue. Oct. 1, 8:15 p. m. Sister
hood meeting.
Wed. Oct. 2, the young men
and women who became Bor
Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah during
the course of last year will par
ticipate in a Service of Thanks
giving beginning at 7:30 p. m., in
connection with Sukkot Services
Sukkot is the Holiday of Thanks
giving. It is fitting that those
young people express their gra
titude for all their blessings.
Participants in the Service of
Thanksgiving will be Menu
Colen, Leonard Gilbert, Ellen
Glassman, Marilyn Goldman,
David Green, Marcia Halprin,
David Kelmachter, Michael Klein,
Martin Krupkin, Robert Pearl,
Jeffrey Pincus, Sidney Roth, and
Fred Silverman.
Fri. Oct. 4, the Family Sabbath
Hour will begin at 8 p. m.
hunger hurts!
and the wrath.
We were saved, said pious
Jews, by the miracle of the
open door.
Grandmother did not long
survive the shock, but long
enough to impart the wisdom
that our salvation rested in
esscape from the miracle of the
open door. Before many months
we knocked at the door of an
other miracle—America.
Send $1 per package to
feed the needy oversea*.
CARE Pood Crusade
New York 16, N. Y., or
your local CARE office
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NANCY and CHUCK’S
The Cake Box
6601 Central Avenue
(West Central Shopping: Center)
St Petersburg, Florida
342-8331