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Cordele Couple Elected to Lead
Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation
FITZGERALD, Ga—A Cordele
husband and wife team has been
elected to lead the Fitzgerald
Hebrew Congregation here for the
ensuing term.
I^amar Perils, Sunday School
superintendent for the past sev
eral years, has been named pres
ident of the Synagogue. His wife,
Mrs. Jackie Perlis, is serving as
the president of the Sisterhood.
Also elected as officers of the
congregation are Reuben Kruger,
first vice president; Ed Ember,
second vice president, Alvin Litt,
third vice president; l^arry Kam
insky, secretary; Philip Halperln,
treasurer; and Abe Kruger, pres
ident emeritus
Trustees re-appointed to serve
include Myer Miller, Isadore Per
lis, Cordele; Harold Cohen, Mrs
Irene KulberSh, Tifton; Sam
Aronson, Adel; Gerald Heller, Ooil-
la; Aaron Harris, Julius Levine,
Stuart Friend, Eastman; Jack
Robbins, Ben Silver, Hawkins-
ville; David Dunn, Dublin; Mor
ris Levine, Nashvile; William Is
rael, Edison; I-arry Kaminsky,
Samuel Eastman, Fitzgerald; Bert
Fielding, Alma; and Mrs. Dora
Kusnitz, Alamo.
Officers completing the Sister
hood slate comprise Mrs. Irene
Fielding, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Ben Chernoff, recording sec
retary; Mrs. Esther Harris, trea
surer.
Completing the organizational
set-up for the forthcoming year,
B’nai B’rith is being headed by
Mikie Wolfe of Tlfton. Rabbi Na
than Kohen, secretary, and Bert
Fielding, treasurer, complete the
slate.
Mrs. Dick Kaminsky, outgoing
Sisterhood president, was present
ed with an attractive “lazy susan"
by the group for her successful
administration. Abe Kruger was
given a silver tray by the out
going congregation president,
Morton Friedman, to mark the
many years of faithful service he
has rendered the synagogue.
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Jol XXXVIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1963
NO. 49
Rabbi Hillel Silver Dies;
Giant of American Zionism
Howard Klein, prominent member of the Atlanta Jaycees, is
shown at the recent international convention of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce held in Israel. The Jaycees had opportunities to
tour the Jewish State and see the economic and industrial progress
first hand. Doug Blankenship, of East Point, Ga„ a former Jaycee
president, reported in the Atlanta Journal about the spontaneous
and heartfelt grief felt by the man on the street in Israel when
the nation learned of President Kennedy’s passing.
CLEVELAND (JTA)— Thous
ands of mourners, including world
and national leaders of the Zion
ist movement and high Washing
ton, state and local officials, at
tended funeral services for Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver, outstanding
Zionist leader, who died last
weekend from a heart attack at
the age of 70.
Eulogies lauding Dr Silver as
a Jewish leader, great orator and
great American, were delivered
before a hushed assemblage of
2,500 in The Temple, the famous
synagogue in which he served as
rabbi for many years, and at the
graveside at Mayfield cemetery.
Many thousands, unable to get
into the overcrowded synagogue,
listened to the services outside
the building over loudspeakers.
The eulogies were delivered by
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, chairman
of the Jewish Agency for Israel-
American Section; U. S. Senator
Frank J. Lausche, of Ohio; Rabbi
Solomon Freehof, of Pittsburgh;
and Rabbi Milton M. Matz, associ
ate rabbi of The Temple. The
services were conducted by Rabbi
Leon Feuer, of Toledo; and Rabbi
Arthur J. Lelyveld, of Fairmount
Temple, Cleveland. El Moleh
Rachmin, the traditional prayer
for the departed, was chanted by
Richard Tucker, of the Metropol
itan Opera Company.
Messages of condolence were
received from President Zalman
Shazar, of Israel; Israel’s Prime
Minister, Levi Eshkol; members
of Israel’s Cabinet; and leaders
of the World Zionist Organiza
tion, hailed Dr. Silver as “an out
standing voice of American Jew
ry—a great American and a great
Jew.”
The honorary pallbearers in-
Ecumenical Council Fails
To Act on Decree on Jews
ROME (JTA;—The Eumenical
Council at the Vatican concluded
its final working day of the cur
rent session without a decision to
discuss Chapters Four and Five
of its proposed schema on ecu
menism. Those chapters deal with
the relations of the Catholic
Church toward the Jewish people,
and with religious liberty.
However, Augustin Cardinal
Bea, head of the Vatican’s Secre
tariat for the Promotion of Chris
tian Unity, the principal propon
ent of both chapters, told the as
sembled 2,200 prelates at the
Council that he expects written
comments on the chapters by
March, and will present both sub
jects again for discussion and
voting when the Council recon
venes, next September.
Questioning the failure of the
Council even to admit the two
disputed chapters as a basis for
discussion at the current session,
Cardinal Bea told the prelates:
"One could ask: Could not a
vote have been taken at least to
admit these chapters as a basis
for discussion? To this question,
one might perhaps answer in the
affirmative. Nevertheless, I think
we should be grateful to the mod
erators (the cardinals who ad
minister the Council's proceed
ings) because they wished to give
ample opportunity for speaking
on these fundamental chapters, to
prevent creating the danger that
someone might say that a hasty
vote was taken on two chapters
which treat of matters that are
sufficiently difficult, that present
something new and are of great
est Importance for the life and
activity of the Church in our
time.”
Cardinal Bea started his dis
cussion of the chapters—one of
which. Number Four, absolves
the Jewish people of responsibil
ity for the crucifixion of Jesus—
by telling the Council: “We all
regret that it is not permitted to
us to have at least a foretaste of
discussion concerning these chap
ters because of lack of time and
for no other reason.” He empha
sized that phrase, and continued:
"In this way, our Secretariat
would have received greater il
lumination toward making a def
initive edition of each chapter.
However, as things turned out,
I am sincerely persuaded that
even this offers several useful
things to us.”
After expressing regret about
the failure of the Council to de
cide even to discuss the two
chapters, Cardinal Bea said:
“It Ls fitting, therefore, to med
itate and ponder everything care
fully, over and over again, with
out haste and with tranquil spirit,
so that, at the next session of the
Council, they (the two chapters)
may be treated at once and
judged with mature consideration
The ancient saying applies here:
What is put off - is not put
away.’
“Therefore, the questions treat
ed in these two last chapters re
main entrusted to your study and
examination during the months to
come. Discussion which we could
not accomplish here will be held
in the next session of the Coun
cil, and will be properly prepared
during the next months. For this
reason, I earnestly ask attentive
consideration of these chapters
and indication of proposals and
corrections before March. For our
part, we shall diligently examine
both what has already been said
in this hall, and what we will
receive in writing, and will pro
pose them in the presentation of
these two chapters for discussions,
so that we may obtain what will
contribute to the greater service
of God and the more efficacious
good of our souls.”
Meanwhile, another Council
prelate, Cardinal Lercaro, of Bol
ogna, said in an address to a con
ference of Catholic journalists
here, that the two chapters pre
sented by Cardinal Bea will be
first on the agenda of the next
Ecumenical Council session, in
September. Tomorrow and Wed
nesday, the last two days of the
current session, will be given over
entirely to ceremonials. Pope
Paul VI will formally announce,
on Wednesday, the call for the
third session of the Council, to
open Sept. 14.
(“Regret and sorrow” that the
Ecumenical Council at Rome had
closed without any action having
been taken on the proposed dec
laration on the Catholic attitude
toward Jews was expressed by
A. M. Sonnabend, president of the
RABBI HILLEL SILVER
American Jewish Comm it t e e .
“This inaction on the part of the
Council, coming as it does at a
time of great hopefulness for in
creased understan ding among
Catholics and Jews, is a source
of deep disappointment,” Mr. Son-
nabend added.)
Ribicoff Eulogizes Kennedy
At Synagogue Council Dinner
NEW YORK (JTA)—The late
President Kennedy was eulogized
here recently at the annual Syn
agogue Statesman Awards dinner
of the Synagogue Council of the
United States -Orthodox, Conser
vative and Reform. The eulogy
was delivered by U. S. Senator
Abraham Ribicoff
The awards were given to
Irving Maidman, Henry R. Rem
and Walter W. Weissman, all of
New York. An announcement was
made that the Council’s annual
Peace Award, which was to have
been presented to President Ken
nedy next February, has been re
named the John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy Peace Award. Senator Rib
icoff will present that award to
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy.
In Washington, Rabbi Stanley
Rabinowitz, of Adas Israel Con
gregation, delivered the sermon
at an interdenominational service
for the late President Kennedy
at a Methodist Church here which
was attended by President John
son.
He was one of two rabbis
among the six clergymen partici
pating in the service. The other
was Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld
of the Washington Hebrew Con
gregation. Also represented were
the National City Chr i s t i a n
Church, the Unlversallst Meth
odist Church and the Calvary
Baptist Church.
Synagogue* throug hout the
country devoted special prayers
for the welihr* of President Lyn
don B. Johnson in response to
a call by the Rabbinical Council
of America to designate the day
as a special Sabbath of prayer
for the new Administration and
to*" “soul searching” by Americans
everywhere who “share the guilt”
for President Kennedy’s assassi
nation.
eluded a veritable Who's Who of
prominent civic and communal
leaders, non-Jewish and Jewish,
Zionist and non-Zkmist. Among
them were Anthony Celebrezze,
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare; Dr. T. Keith Glen-
nan, president of Case Institute
of Technology, here; Dr. Nelson
Glueck, president of the Hebrew
Union College-Jewiah Institute of
Religion; Ambassador Avraham
Harman, Israel’s envoy to Wash-
in ton; Cleveland Mayor Ralph J.
Locher; Dr. John S. mills, presi
dent of Western Reserve Univer
sity.
Also Rabbi Max Nussbaum, of
Hollywood, president of the Zion
ist Organization of America; Dr.
Joseph J Schwartz, executive
vice-president of the Israel Bond
Organization; Louis EL Seltzer,
editor of the Cleveland l*eas;
Thomas Vail, editor-publisher of
the Cleveland Press; Max Brassier,
president of the Jewish National
Fund of America; Harry L. Shap
iro, representing the United Jew
ish Appeal; Dr. J. Teichman, rep
resenting the Liberal Party of Is
rael as well as the executive
council of Kfar Silver, an Israel
youth settlement named after
Abba Hillel Silver; Dr. Sidney
Marks, executive director of the
Zionist Organization at America:
Harold Manson of New York; and
many prominent rabbis from va
rious cities.
Among the many tributes paid
to Dr. Silver’s memory were mes
sages of condolence and state
ments laudatory of has long ca
reer as rabbi, Zionist, Jew and
American; from Moshe Sharett,
chairman of the Jewish Agency
for Israel; Joseph Meyerhoff, gen
eral chairman of the United Jew
ish Appeal; Abraham A. Fein-
berg, president of the Israel Bond
Organization; Rabbi Irving Miller,
chairman of the American Zionist
Council; Dr. Israel Goldstein and
Mrs. Rose E. Halprin, co-chair
man of the World Federation of
General Zionists; the World Union
of General Zionists; the world
executive of the Herat-Hatzoar
movement in Israel; the execu
tive committee of the Zionlst-Re-
visionists in America. Label A
Katz, national president of B’nai
B’rith.
Also from Dewey D. Stone and
Gottlieb Hammer, national chair
man and secretary of the United
Israel Appeal; Mrs. Siegfried Kra-
maraky, national president of Ha-
dassah; Samuel H. Daroff, presi
dent of the American Jewish
League for Israel; the American
Technion Society; the American
Friends of the Hebrew University:
B’nai Zion, American fraternal
organization; the Council of Jew
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds; the New York Board of
Rabbis; the American Red Mogen
David for Israel; the Women’s
League for Israel; the Americnn-
Israel Seafaring Society: snd
many others.
Dr. Silver Was ,
Fifth Generation Rabbi: ,
His Sen Is Ala* A Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver was bom in 3
the Lithuanian town of Neistadt.
the son of Rabbi Moses Silver
He was of the fifth generation
of rabbis in his family—and one
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