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Herbert Lehman Dies in New York;
President Johnson Attends Funeral
NEW YOltK, (JTA)- Herbert
H. Lehman, who combined ex
traordinary careers in Ameri
can general and Jewish leader
ship, died suddenly of a heart
attack last week at the age of
85.
He was twice elected to the
United States Senate, he served
New York as governor for ten
years, he was the first director
general of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Agen
cy and remained active in Dem
ocratic reform politics almost to
the day of his death. His Jewish
career was equally notable.
In Washington, President Lyn
don Johnson issued a statement
declared he was grieved to learn
of the death, terming the late
leader one who "ably and ef
fectively served his state and
nation.” The President said that
perhaps the "best epitaph” was
the citation on the Presidential
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
.ill XXXV Ill
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1963
NO. 50
Hanukah Greetings from The Southern Israelite Staff
Shazar Reports
On Assurances
From LBJ
JERUSALEM (JTA)—President
Zalman Shazar, upon his return
from Washington where he head
ed the Israeli delegation attend
ing the funeral of the late Presi
dent Kennedy, conveyed to the
Israeli people assurances he re
ceived from President Johnson
that the United States would con
tinue its policy of friendship to
Israel.
He also reported that while in
Washington, he spoke briefly with
Anastas Mikoyan, the First Dep
uty Premier of the Soviet Union.
The conversation, he added, was
not on political matters. In New
York, Israel’s Foreign Minister
Golda Meir said that President
Shazar’s conversation with Mr.
Mikovan had been held in Rus-
Hernstein Dedicates
His New Symphony
‘Kaddish’ to Kennedy
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Leonard
Bernstein, famed American-
Jewish composer and conductor,
announced here this week that
he has dedicated his new sym
phony, “Kaddish,” to “the be
loved memory of President John
F. Kennedy.” Mr. Bernstein said
that he will play the new sym
phony in its world premiere
this week in Jerusalem, where
he will conduct the Israeli Phil
harmonic in the new work.
The maestro told newsmen
that the Boston Symphony Or
chestra had ordered the work
eight years ago, and that it had
taken him seven years to com
plete the symphony. He said
that, while all rights to the work
had been reserved by the Boston
orchestra, he had obtained an
agreement that, because of the
Jewish character of the sym
phony, its premiere would take
place in Israel.
United Jewish Appeal Adopts
$105,000,000 Goal For 1964
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The 26th
annual national conference of
the United Jewish Appeal con
eluded here Sunday with the
adoption of a 1964 goal of $105,-
000,000 and the election of Jos
eph Meyerhoff of Baltimore to
his fourth successive term as
General Chairman.
The $105,000,000 campaign
goal—$9,000,000 higher than the
1963 goal—is made up in two
parts: $69,0000,000 to finance
the ongoing programs of the
UJA constituent and beneficiary
agencies, which are the United
Israel Appeal-Jewish Agency
for Israel, Inc.; the Joint Distri
bution Committee; and the New
York Association for New
Americans. Also included as a
beneficiary agency is the United
Hias Service.
The other part of the goal
Israel Cabinet Officially Welcomes
Pope Paul's Forthcoming Visit
JERUSALEM, l JTA)—Israel’s
Cabinet, meeting at its regular
weekly session here Monday, is
sued a statement officially wel
coming the forthcoming visit of
Pope Paul VI. The statement
said the visit will be a “memor
able event,” and assured that
everything will be done by the
Government to make all arrange
ments in consonant with the
Pontiff’s "unique status” in the
world.
A special Ministerial commit
tee to deal with all details sur
rounding the scheduled visit was
appointed by the Cabinet. The
committee is headed by Prime
Minister Levi Eshkohl and in
cludes the Ministers of Religious
Affairs, Foreign Affairs and
police—with the Premier’s office
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provides for the raising of a
Special Fund of $36,000,000 to
meet the extraordinary costs
rising out of the high rate of
the immigration to Israel, the
movement of Jews to other land,
and other emergencies.
In adopting the goal, the 2,000
delegates representing hundreds
of Jewish communities through
out the country, took particular
cognizance of reports that “in
the forthcoming year, immigra
tion to Israel may exceed even
the large migration of the past
12 months.” The reports also
emphasized the needs of the
Jews uprooted by political up
heavals in North Africa. In all,
751,500 distressed Jews in SI
countries, the largest number in
more than a decade, will require
i.id from the UJA-supported
agencies in 1964.
Moshe Sharett, speaking in
his capacity as the chairman of
the Jewish Agency for Israel,
told the delegates that a total
of $75,276,000 will be required
us American Jewry’s share in
1964 to cover the cost of bring
ing in and resettling another
record wave of immigrants, and
of absorbing the thousands of
immigrants who have poured in
to Israel in the last three years,
alone.
‘We are only a people of some
two million. One-half of this
number are immigrants who
came to Israel over the last 15
years. Many of them are not
yet fully absorbed and produc
tive, many are still steeped in
poverty. We in Israel must de
pend on you to help us give
these people and their children
the chance for a decent life
they so eminently deserve,” Mf
Sharett said.
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman,
executive vice-chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal, told the
delegates that, “freedom fpt
Jews in many parts of the world
today can only be achieved by
helping them to migrate from
places where they are physical
ly or spiritually oppressed to
places where they can live un
der complete liberty." He «M
forth a three-point program, a*
the “heart and D^ulogophy" at
the UTfTs tB aml
resettlement work.
Israel Ambassador to the
United States, Avraham Har
man, addressing the delegates
at a dinner Sunday night, called
upon the Jews in this country
to increase their efforts to speed
the process of Jewish rehabilita
tion throughout the world.
‘The 18 years since the end
of World War II have seen strik
ing progress towards Jewish re
habilitation following the Nazi
period,” he declared. “The UJA
has been a primary source of
this rehabilitation. Its member
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Atlanta’s Lovely May fair Club Destroyed by Fire
The friendly and beautiful Mayfair Club which for nearly a quarter of a
century served Atlanta Jewry's social life in a hundred different ways today
lies in ruins after the disastrous fire (above) which gutted the interior and took
the life of the head waiter on Wednesday, Dec. 4. See pages 12 and IS for fuller
details and more photographs. The pictures of the Mayfair Club fire in this issue
were made available through the courtesy of the Atlanta Journal.