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BEHIND UN SCENES by David Horowitz
I8IAILITI
this session and its many Com
mittees have labored to advance
this narrow frontier into a wide
UN Shaken By Kennedy Death
global vision in an undramatic,
business-like manner. Despite the
perennial disputes over the Mid
dle Easters situation affecting Is-
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UNITED NATIONS (WUP)
The trifle news that exploded
the world with such shock and
grief an Friday, November 22—
the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy—hit this com-
mUaUy of diplomats with such
force that all the UN wheels
stoppe^ turning and delegates,
silently and’ slowly, shaking their
heeds in utter bewilderment,
OBITUARIES
Mr». IrTiMr Alpem
MP»r Aw. Aipern, 59, of Sa-
vrimeh November 8.
She was the daughter of Wil-
liam end Mollie Alpert.
She is survived by her husband,
Irving Alpem; a son, Dr. Wil
liam Alpem of Chicago, Ill.; two
daughters, Mrs. Meyer Fluke of
Savannah and Miss Joyce Alpern
of Germany; three brothers, Abe
Alpert, Ben Alpert and Morris
Alpert, all of Savannah; two sis
ters, Mrs.' Eva Morton of West
Palm Beach, Fla., Mrs. Jean Ben-
singer Jr, Louisville, Ky.; and
fotir grandchildren
SippleCj. Mortuary was In charge
of emngements.
i Rabbi David Raab conducted
the funeral November 11. Cantor
Eugene Holzer officiated. Inter-
taent waa In Bonaventure Cem
etery.
Israel Cohen
Israel Cohen, retired tailor, of
Atlanta died, Friday, Nov. 15,
at the age of 83.
! Rabbi Sydney K. Mossman
and Cirftor Robert Ungar con
ducted the funeral at Blanch
ard’s ChapeL Burial was in
Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Cohen is survived by his
wife; two sons, B. D. Cohen and
Dr. Harry L. Cohen, both of
Atlanta; a*ven grand-children
hnd two grtfat-grandithlTdreri.
Isadora Davidson
Isadora Davidson, 74, of Atlan
tic City, N. J., the father of Mrs.
Moee Blumenfeld of Savannah,
died recently in Atlantic City.
oom survivors include his
wife, Mira. Bessie Davidson; a
daughter, Mrs. Herbert Pasternak,
HaftfoM, Conn.; a sister, Mrs.
Ida Angel, Memphis; a brother,
Harry Davidson, Memphis, and
two grandchildren
Roth Funeral Home, Atlantic
fcitjr. was. to charge of arrange
ments.
iMrs. Israel Harkins
Mrs. Rose S. Harkins died
Noverriber 14. Rabbi Norman
Goldberg conducted funeral ser
vices- «t Westover Memorial
Park on November 17.
'A'~ native of Augusta, Mrs.
Harkins was a member of the
Walton Way Temple Congrega
tion Children of Israel. She is
■survived by her husband, Israel
Harkins; sister, Mrs. Anne Co-
bum of Augusta, and a num
ber of nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Sydney Victor
Mrs. Ray B. Victor, 74, of Sa
vannah died November 13.
A native of Savannah, she was
a member of Mickve Israel Tem
ple.
Surviving are her husband,
Sydney S. Victor; a daughter, Mrs.
R~ B. Myers; a brother, Harold
Ra*+i of Montgomery, Ala.; two
grandchildren and a number of
nephews and nieces.
Rabbi S. E. Starrels conducted
the funeral November 15.
Jake Wise
Jake Wise, 75, formerly of Sa
vannah, died November to .Sun
nyaria, N. Y.
He kras a tailor to Savanna!
fdr many years before he movec
to New York. He was a mem
ber of B. B. Jacob Congrega
tion. ’
Surviving are his wife anc
taro sons, Lippy Wise and Sol
Wise; flee daughters, Mrs. Meyer
Fetafcerf, "lire. Sophie Rose, Mrs
Betty Krowitx, Mrs. Bertha Ber-
maa, end Mn. Fannie Schwartz,
all of New York.
moved like phantoms out of the
building to their offices and
homes to take inventory of the
wreckage.
All attempts to supply answers
were overshadowed by the great
question mark: What will happen
to the peace?
Will Lyndon Johnson have the
strength and the skill which the
young man from Massachusetts
had manifested so brilliantly in
an hour of world crisis? Will
Johnson be able to hold up the
handful of men of goodwill in
the White House against the
counsellors of force? Will he have
the moral stature to influence
American public opinion, now
caught in midstream between
cold war and peace, in the direc
tion of peace? Or will the puny
inventory of peace-steps be over
whelmed by a revival of the mad
ness which is plunging mankind
into a confrontation with death,
leaving nothing but universal
emptiness as an aftermath.
These are anxious questions
being asked here.
Despite the continuation of the
cold war in many parts of the
world—to Cuba, Vietnam, Korea
and other danger spots—this 18th
General Assembly knew fully
well that the late President was
essentially a man of peace.
The men in Moscow certainly
believed it. That in itself, how
ever, would not have been re
markable, for they held a sim
ilar view with respect to Presi
dent Eisenhower when he was in
office. We all remember what
was termed “the spirit of Camp
David.”
But there was a difference. In
the case of Eisenhower, all that
the world expected was that he
would hold back the straining
seeds of war. In Kennedy, diplo
mats saw the architect who had
taken the first steps to lay the
foundation of a structure for
peace in our missile age of poten
tial race suicide.
The accord over Cuba, the in
auguration of the “hot-line,” the
signing of the Moscow Test Ban,
the negotiations on wheat, the
vast area of accord on Outer
Space, in brief, the storation of
the dried up channels of negoti
ation — all these constituted the
first concept steps taken in the
eighteen years of the dismal post
war period which turned the
corner from the dread of war to
hope for peace.
When the current Assembly
opened in September, it pinned
its hopes and its policies on these
efforts, on this detente, as di
plomats called it, on this path of
peaceful co-existence — a hope
which was confirmed by Ken
nedy’s own valiant and hopeful
words recited in his historic ad
dress before the Assembly the
opening week.
For almost two months now
Ruby Attended
Synagogue Memorial
DALLAS, (JTA)—Jack Rub-
enstein, known here as Jack
Ruby, the night club operator
who is being held by police here
for killing Lee Harvey Oswald,
the man accused of assassinat
ing President Kennedy, attended
special memorial services in
honor of Mr. Kennedy, last Fri
day night, at Temple Shearith
Israel here, a Conservative syna
gogue, according to Rabbi Hillel
Silverman, spiritual leader of
the congregation.
Rabbi Silver told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that Ruby,
a member of Shearith Israel,
usually attended services only
during the High Holy Days. Mrs.
Eva L. Grant, of this city, the
man’s sister, said that their
family, consisting of four boys
and four boys and four girls,
were "a big, Orthodox Jewish
family.”
Ruby was identified by per
sons who knew him here as
having stemmed from the fami
ly of a contractor named Joseph
Rubenstein, in Chicago. He was
born on Chicago’s West Side,
the so-called Chicago “ghetto,”
52 years ago. He is a bachelor.
rael and the Arab states, the Pak-
istan-Indian squabble, arpartheid,
etc., observers will have to agree
that the atmosphere of this 18th
Assembly has been one of re
laxation and eased tensions—so
much so that reporters, who
thrive on excitement, have found
little to report. This has been a
“dull” Assembly, they say. Yet, it
has made headways.
The world now awaits to see
if this General Assembly will find
the strength and the courage, as
we enter the closing weeks of
debate, to take an initiative which
will insure the continuation of
those of Kennedy’s historic pol
icies which gave the world a new
promise, a new hope.
If the UN slides back, the as
sassin will have won. If it moves
forward, it will have given Ken
nedy the only monument he him
self might have cho6en: a mon
ument to the things he died for
-—peace in our time.
AVGUSTA NEWS
Dr. Norman Goldburg, Reform
rabbi here, helped install his son,
Rabbi Jay Goldburg, officially as
spiritual leader of Temple Israel
in Minneapolis recently
Rabbi Goldburg was elected to
the Minneapolis pulpit following
his graduation from Hebrew
Union College to Cincinnati. He
and his wife and their son have
taken up residence in the com
munity of his new charge.
Mrs. Goldburg was present also
at the installation of her son.
Albert J. Rosenthal Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Rosenthal
of Augusta, has been appointed a
senator to the Freshman Senate
at Ohio State University where
he is a student.
Mrs. Sylvia R. Allen has sent
out invitations to relatives and
friends to the Bar MRzvah of her
son Charles Merrill on Saturday,
Nov. 30, at 9 a. m at Adas Yesh-
uron Synagogue.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Radefsky of
Savannah announce the birth of
a son Michael Howard on Novem
ber 6
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Bernstein
Pope Paul’s Historic Audience With American UJA Mission
ROME—Pope Paul is seen receiving a group
of Jewish communal leaders from throughout
America who visited the Vatican while in Eu
rope and Israel as members of the United Jew
ish Appeal’s Ninth Annual Overseas Study Mis
sion.
The leaders, abroad for an intensive 17-day
survey of aid requirements for hundreds of
thousands of Jews in Europe, North Africa, Is
rael and the Middle East, were the first Jewish
group to be received by Pope Paul since his
accession to the Papal throne. The audience took
place while the members of the mtarion were
attending a conference here sponsored by the
American Joint Distribution Committee, one of
the UJA’s beneficiary agencies, prior to proceed
ing to Israel.
Among the Americans present for the audi
ence were Joseph Meyerhoff of Baltimore, UJA
General Chairman and leader of the group,,
and Mrs. Meyerhoff; Jacob L. Rarowsky of
Holyoke, Mass., UJA National Campaign Cabi
net member; Mrs. Israel D. Fink of Minne
apolis, Minn., Chairman, UJA National Women's
Division; James L. Permutt of Birmingham, Ala.,
UJA National Campaign Cabinet member; Mrs.
Herbert A. Friedman and Rabbi Herbert A.
Friedman of New York. Rabbi Friedman is UJA
Executive Vice-Chairman.
The Mission’s report to the UJA’s annual
national conference which will be held Decem
ber 8-8 at the New York Hilton Hotel, will
provide the basis for the adoption of the UJA’s
1964 campaign objectives.
PRESIDENT—
—from p**e 1
with large numbers of southern
ers. In this section of our great
country, the ignorant are still the
most frequently heard. The bigots,
the loudmouths, the political op
portunist will most likely mark
November 22, 1963, as a red letter
day. The red letters are written
in the blood of a man who if
nothing else had the courage of
his convictions.
The President of the United
States is dead. How did you hear
the news? Did you cry? Were you
shocked? Was there a feeling of
disbelief? I shall never forget
For, you see, that man who told
me has to face one reality
Whether he cares to believe it
or not, John F. Kennedy, the
man he so bitterly hated, died to
preserve his rights and his worth
as a human being.
EDITOR’S NOTE: There are re
grettably a large pocket of
trashy Americans, one of whom
too* the life of the President and
the foregoing, spontaneous ma
terial is a report by a former At
lantan, now a member of the New
Orleans Jewish Community Cen
ter. Mr. Burnham is a journalism
graduate and he here demon
strates sensitive writing skill.
of Savannah announce the birth
of a daughter, Celeste Zelphia, on
November 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Steinberg
of Charleston announce the re
cent birth of a daughter Susan.
Mrs. Steinberg is the former
Sylvia Deich.
Israel Mourns—
—from page 1
States to protect the State of Is
rael and our people and Govern
ment. We always had feelings of
confidence in his faithful friend
ship for us and for all Jewry.”
Portraits of the late Mr. Ken
nedy, framed in black ribbons,
were displayed throughout Israel
and many special memorial
meetings were conducted. In the
main hall of the Weizmann In
stitute of Science, at Rehovoth,
all members of the Institute’s
scientific staff and others—total
ing about 400—attended a special
mourning assembly. The eulogy
was delivered by Israel’s Vice-
Premier Abba S. Eban, who is
also president of the Institute.
Mr. Eban recalled Mr. Kennedy
as a man of “restless and vivid
energy, constantly seeking new
areas of expression.” He said the
late U. S. President was “Israel’s
friend, and the champion of all
causes of which freedom was the
central theme. “We, the men of
his generation,” said Mr. Eban,
“have lost our proudest standard
bearer."
All flags on Government build
ings and in all cities and towns
in Israel flew at half-mast Mon
day. The Cabinet had declared a
three-day period of national
mourning, starting on the Sabbath
and ending after the funeral
services for Mr. Kennedy at
Washington.
Kol Israel, Israel’s radio, has
canceled all light programs,
schools throughout the country
were devoting special assemblies
and lessons to the life of Mr. Ken
nedy, and pupils in virtually
every school in the country drew
portraits of Mr. Kennedy to hang
in classrooms and school audi
toriums.
Four hundred Americans living
in Israel, members of the Far-
band Sirkin Club, held a mem
orial service at Hamlin House in
Tel Aviv. At Haifa, a United
States Naval vessel, the S. S.
Tallchie County, had scheduled to
admit visitors Sunday and Mon
day. Those “open deck” cere
monies were canceled.
At religious services conducted
by Chief Rabbi Nissim, Dr. War-
haftig, Israel Minister for Relig
ious Affairs, told the gathering
in the synagogue that "President
Kennedy’s sudden, violent death
Is felt in Israel with particular
grief. We knew him as a sincere
friend.”