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Georgian Vehicle in Ambulance
Gavalcade to Israel Red Cross
The first ambulance ever to be
donated by a Georgian to Red
Mogen Dovid, the Israel Red
C ross Service, will soon be roll
ing tiie Negev roads in southern
Israel.
The ambulance is one of 50
such vehicles to be shipped tills
year by American Red Mogen
Dovid, 50 West 57th Street, New
York, the supply and support
wing of Red Mogen Dovid.
Red Mogen Dovid is the equiv
alent of the American Red Cross.
Under authorization of the Israel
Government, it acts as Israel’s
Ambulance and First Aid Corps
and, in addition to undertaking a
massive domestic program aimed
at coping with Israel’s own
emergency health needs is ever
alert to aid victims of disaster
elsewhere. Relief supplies were
recently dispatched by Red Mogen
Dovid to the victims of the Skopje
earthquake in Yugoslavia and to
the Italian Red Cross whose ap
peal for help following the recent
massive northern flood, brought
a swift response from Red Mogen
Dovid.
Georgia’s ambulance, the
from the state, is the o 1 *'
ton Deutsch of 14 E. q-^^O
Savannah. It will beai
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol XXXVIII
Russian Group to Tour Georgia
Garment Manufacturing Plants
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 1963
NO. M
A delegation of seven official
representatives of the USSR
clothing industry will arrive in
Atlanta Sunday to begin a na-
tion-w i d e tou'
of the Unitec|
States.
Serving as of-|
ficial host during
the Amer icai
tour of the gar
ment industry oil
this nation wil.’J
be H. R. Kam-|
insky of Fitzger-I
aid, leading*
clothing manu- Kaminsky
facturer and B’nai Brith figure.
He was appointed to this assign
ment by the U. S. Commerce De
partment.
Mr. Kaminsky headed a dele
gation of American garment man
ufacturers which inspected the
clothing industry of Russia this
past summer.
The visiting Russians will visit
the Cluett-Peabody plant Mon
day morning and have lunch at
the Mayfair Club as the guests
of Simon Bressler, president of
Donna-Gay Dress Factory. Later
they will tour the Donna-Gay
Factory and afterwards be guests
at a dinner at the Progressive
Club.
Tuesday morning, the group
will travel by Georgia Highway
Patrol cars to Ashburn, Ga.,
where they will be luncheon
guests of Mr. Barber, president
of the Ashburn Bank. They will
visit the Manhattan Shirt Fac
tory in Ashburn Tuesday after
noon.
Late Tuesday, they will come
to Fitzgerald and be guests at a
friendship dinner given by all of
the civic groups of Fitzgerald.
Wednesday morning, they will
tour the H. R. Kaminsky & Sons,
Inc., trouser manufacturing plant.
At noon, Mr. Kaminsky will give
a barbecue for the delegation and
factory employeees.
After the barbecue, the Soviet
delegation will return to Atlanta
to make a flight to Minneapolis
and a continuation of the tour.
In the Russian group will be:
Galina Pavlovna Antonova,
Chief of Sewing Industry, Direc
torate of State Committee on
Light Industry.
Nikoley Vasilyevich Kisitsyn,
Engineer, Moscow Sovnarkhoz.
Evgeniy Evgenyevich Meinikov,
Chief of Directorate, Leningrad
Sovnarkhoz.
Tamara Vasilyovna Schulepni-
kova, Expert of State Committee
RSFRS Council of Ministers on
Coordination, Scientific Research
Work.
Evgeniy Sergeyevich Teresh-
chenkov, Engineer, Sewing Fac
tory Dieve Sovnarkhoz.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Ush
akov, Chief of Laboratories of
Central Scientific Research Insti
tute of Sewing Industry.
Lidiya Aleksandrovna Zykina,
Chief Engineer of Moscow City
Sovnarkhoz Sewing Factory.
T. A. Tinana Kudrijavcec will
accompany the group as interp
reter.
Representing the U. S. govern
ment with the delegation will be
Palma Aaronson, U. S. State De
partment, and John Shepard, U.S.
Commerce Department.
US Jewish Communities Hail
Proposed Vatican Statement
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., (JTA)
—A resolution hailing the state
ment on the Catholic attitude
toward Jews presented to the
Ecumenical Council at the Vati
can, as “tthe most important
development which will help
eliminate one of the major
sources of hostility and prejud
ice against the Jews throughout
the ages,” was adopted unani
mously here Monday at the
concluding session of the Gen
eral Assembly of the Council at
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds. More than 1,200 dele
gates from all Jewish communi
ties in the United States and
Canada attended the Assembly.
The Vatican statement was
introduced last weekend in
Rome by Augustin Cardinal
Bea, head of the Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity, for
discussion and vote by the Ecu
menical Council now in session
there. It ta not yet known
whether a vote will be taken at
this session of the Council, or at
the next session, which will
take place in 1984. The state
ment contains the following high
points:
(1) The Church has a deep
bond with the Chosen People of
the Old Testament; (2) The re
sponsibility for the death of
Jesus falls on all mankind; it
is unjust to call the ’ Jewish
people a deicide people or to
consider the Jews cursed by
God; (3) The Church can never
forget that it is from Abraham’s
stock that Christ’s Mother and
the apostles were born; (4) The
death of Jesus Christ cannot
give rise to disdain or hatred
or persecution of the Jews; (5)
Catholic priests and all Catho
lics are admonished never to
preach a contrary position and,
furthermore, are urged to pro
mote understanding and esteem
toward Jews. (For full text of
the Vatican communique, see
Page 3.)
The resolution by the General
Assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds, welcoming the Vatican
statement as an “historic docu
ment,” declared: “The CJFWF
hails this important develop
ment which will help eliminate
one of the major sources of
hostility and prejudice against
Jews throughout the ages. At
this time of mortal danger to
all mankind, this document
gives religious forces of the
world g
move I . t
cause of the bMtbsikood eg
recognizes the historic values
of Judaism as a living religion
and creed.” Viewing the state
ment as “a decree conceived out
of a sense of Catholic concern
for the elimination of centuries
old tensions," he said it may
well “augur a new era in Catho
lic-Jewish relations.” Predicting
that acceptance of the decree
will make it impossible “for
anyone to Instigate hatred for
Jews and claim sanction or sup
port in Church dogma or teach
ing,” Mr. Sonnabend declared;
“By castigating attitudes and
beliefs that have perpetrated
hostility against Jews, genera
tion after generation; by con
demning anti-Semitism in a
manner none can misunderstand;
by denouncing unequivocally
the myth that Jews are a deicide
people rejected by God—’Christ -
killers’ in the popular epithet—
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Major
American Jewish organizations
and community leaders Monday
hailed the decree on the Catho
lic Church attitude toward Jews,
presented to the Ecumeniccal
Council, as a far-reaching aug
ury of improved relations be
tween Christians and Jews.
A. M. Sonnabend, president of
the American Jewish Commit
tee, said the statement is “an
historic event" and had been
put forward “in spirit that
GOAL OF $300,000
Chattanooga Jewry Launches Completion
Campaign for Jewish Community Center
November 15 to December 31
Dates for Campaign
CHATTANOOGA—The Chatta
nooga Jewish Community Center
will begin its Building Fund Com
pletion Campaign seeking a goal
of $300,000 to pay for its fine
modern facility located on Lynn-
land Terrace. The Campaign will
begin November 15 according to
an announcement made by Dr.
Jack Tepper, President and Gen
eral Chairman of the Completion
Campaign. The drive will end
by December 31, 1963.
The Chattanooga Center con
structed at a cost of $750,000 and
completed in August of 1962 rep
resents a life-long dream on the
part of Chattanooga Jewry to
provide for the local Jewish Com
munity and for the city at large
one of the most modem and com
pletely equipped Centers in the
United States particularly for a
community the size of Chatta
nooga.
Located on a 13 acre tract the
Center contains 38,000 square feet
of air conditioned space include
Auditorium, Gymnasium, kitch
ens, lounges, meeting rooms,
gamesrooms, lockers, showers,
health clubs, patting and crafts
rooms and spacious lobby areas,
general offices and staff offices.
Out-of-door facilities include an
Olympic size swimming pool,
snack bar, patio, tennis courts,
picnic grounds, ball fields and
asphalt play areas for basketball.
At present the Center has 450
units Of membership representing
families and individauls with the
total membership of 1,565 individ
uals. The philosophy of the Cen
ter is geared to the “family” and
in meeting the needs of the fam
ily in recreational, educational,
social and cultural needs.
The Center works with and
plans for all age groups—pre
school children, grade school chil
dren, tweens, teens, young adults,
adults and older adults; and year-
round programs including pro
gramming for each age group
such as Girl and Boy Scouting,
four Day Camps, Teenage clubs
and councils, a complete athletic
program of classes and instruc-
iton in all sports, play groups,
special interest classes in paint
ing, theatre, ceramics, bridge, so
cial dancing, cooking, concerts,
lectures, forums, dis c u s s i o n
groups, etc.
In addition the Center has co
operated in co-sponsoring such
community wide programs as
“Music in the Round” - Mental
Health Career Conference - Or
ganizational Dinners - Wedding
and Bar Mitzvah Receptions and
intercity conferences. The use of
Center facilities are open to all
civic groups. The Center's Wom
en’s Auxiliary and organization of
400 women carry on an extensive
program for women and prvide
the Center with volunteer help
and financial assistance.
The original campign for Cen
ter building funds in 1959 raised
approximately $500,000 and the
new Building Fund Completion
Campaign is essential at this time
in order to raise additional funds
to complete payment for the total
Center project.
Serving as Co-chairmen to
Chairman Dr. Jack Tepper in the
Leadership Division of the Cam
paign which seeks contributions
nt 49 V)0 and over are Dr. Har
old Alper, George Berk, Mitchell,
Bush, Morris Ellman, Julius
Kushner, Stanley Leve n t h a 1,
Harry Levine, Mervin Pregulman,
M. B. Seretean, Ira Trivers, Saul
T. Mallen and William Raider.
The Leadership Gifts Division
will hold its orientation meeting
Sunday, November 10, at 3:00
p. m at the Center.
The Advanced Gifts Division
which seeks gifts of $500 to $2,500
is Co-chaired by Phillip Lampert,
Ted Robbins and Dr. A. Steven
Ulin. Serving as Vice-Chairmen
in the Advanced Gifts Division
are Alex Alper, Jack Baras, Har
ry Berke, Dr. Sam Binder, Ben
Block, Dr. R. Dubrow, Raymond
Effron, Louis Epstein, Paul Gold-
blatt, Alvin Hodes, N. Hoffer-
man, Paul Lefkoff, C. Levine, A.
Menuskin, M. Miller, S. Miller,
J. Norman, Dr. M. Porter, A.
Reingold, J. Reingold, A. Rich-
elson, I. Richelson, Bert Schul-
man, Alvin Shoenig, Meyer Sis
kin, Joe Wise and I. Wise. The
Advanced Gifts Division will hold
its orientation meeting Tuesday,
November 12, at 8:00 p. m. at the
Center.
The General Solicitations Di
vision which seeks gifts of under
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dal tribute to
having brought to his teak “the
insight, that contribution at
deep religiom feeling and hu
manism.”
The National Conference of
Christians and Jews called the
decree “a milestone In Jewish-
Christian relations.” Dr. Leads
Webster Jones, president of the
NCCJ, said “it is magnificently
within the spirit of greater in
terreligious understanding and
goodwill.”
Lewis H. Weinstein, chairman
of the National Community Re
lations Advisory Council, de
clared: "The statement has, we
believe, the most significant and
far-reaching potentialities for
removing an ages-old impedi
ment to Christian-Jewish amity
and understanding. Its accept
ance by the Council, it is to be
hoped, will result in profound
and extensive changes in teach
ing and preaching that will, in
time, work a beneficient revolu
tion in Catholic-Jewish rela
tionships and help to establish
mutual acceptance and coopera
tion among men of good will of
all faiths in the causes they
share in common.”
On behalf of the Anti-Defa
mation League of B’nai B’rith,
Dore Schary, ADL president,
hailed presentation of the docu
ment to the Ecumenical Council
as “a magnificent development,
presaging a major and positive
change in attitudes throughout
the world.” As an official Catho
lic Church statement, he pre
dicted, the decree’s influence
“will be world-wide, perhaps
the single, moat important and
decisive step in removing a root
cause of prejudice against Jews
in all of modern history.”
Rabbi Israel Mowshwitz, presi
dent of the New York Board of
Rabbis, said: “The declaration
is a positive step in the direction
of better relations among all re
ligions of the world. It demon
strates the new vitality and
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