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Friday, June 5, 1964
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TH* SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Community to Honor
Consul Dover Wed.
A special community assembly
honoring Mr. Zeev Z. Dover, the
Consul of Israel, will be held on
Wednesday, June 10, at 8 p. m. at
the Atlanta Jewish Community Cen
ter.
The assembly is being sponsored
by the Atlanta Jewish Community
Council in cooperation with its af
filiated member organizations.
In inviting the entire Jewish com
munity to attend the affair Mag M.
Cuba, president of the Council
stated, "The community will have
the opportunity of paying its respect
to Mr. Dover who is returning to
Israel with his family after a three-
year tour of duty in Atlanta where
he was in charge of the Israel Con
sulate with jurisdiction over the
Southeastern United States. Mr.
Dover served the State of Israel
well and all the members of the
Jewish community will want to pay
tribute to him on this occasion.
After brief remarks by the leader
ship of the Jewish community a
social hour will follow when every
one will have the opportunity to
meet with Mr. and Mrs. Dover.
Atlanta ,
HORIZONS
Gen. Haim Laskov to Address
Massell Memorial Awards Dinner
Beth Jacob Afternoon
Talmud Torah Forms Staff
Rabbi David Warman of Charles
ton, South Carolina, has been en
gaged as principal and teacher in
the newly formed afternoon Hebrew
School of Congregation Beth Jacob
on LaVista Road, according to an
nouncement made by Lawrence
Nager, president of Beth Jacob.
Also employed together with Rabbi
Warman is his wife, Mrs. Freda
Warman, who will serve as an ad
ditional full time staff member of
the Hebrew School. They will as
sume their dirties during the month
of July.
Rabbi Warman is a graduate of
Ner Isrtiel Rabbinical College where
he majored in Jewish Education and
Administration in the Teachers’
Seminary of the College. He has also
attended Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore with a major in Edu
cation and has done graduate work
towards the M. A. degree at Loyola
College in the field of Educational
Psychology and Administration
Rabbi Warman has been head
teacher and supervisor of the Au
gusta Hebrew Day School, and has
served as senior teacher of the
Charleston Hebrew Academy. In ad
dition to his work in curricular de
velopment in the schools with which
he has been associated, he has been
instrumental in organizing and su
pervising several fine children’s and
youth groups. He and his wife both
hold licenses from the National So
ciety of Hebrew Day Schools.
Mrs. Warman is a graduate of the
Beth Jacob Teachers’ Seminary in
New York, from which she holds a
teacher’s certificate and license.
She has studied at Hunter College
with a major in Psychology and has
had a rich background in the teach
ing of children in Hebrew Schools.
Rabbi and Mrs. Warman have one
child and are expected to move to
Atlanta within the next several
weeks.
General Haim Laskov, Chief of
the Israel Port Authority, and one
of his country’s outstanding military
heroes, will be the principal speaker
at the Benjamin J. Massed Memo
rial Awards Dinner June 16, at the
Progressive Club.
The 1964 recipi
ent of the award
is J. B. Jacobs,
noted Atlanta civ
ic and business
leader.
G e n e ral Las
kov, who was
formerly Chief of*
the Israel Army,I
was only 39 yrs T
old when he as-i
sumed that post LASKOV
in 1957. Despite his youth, he had
already established himself as a
brilliant military planner and tacti
cian. When he was still a student
at the famed Reali Secondary
School in Haifa, General Laskov
had already absorbed enough com
bat experience to be placed in
charge of the training of leaders
for the Hagana—the defense force
created by the Jewish settlers in
pre-state Palestine to protect them
from lawless Arab attacks.
Duing World War II, he rose to
the command of a battalion in the
Jewish Brigarde in Italy. His great
est military exploits were achieved
in Israel’s War of liberation and the
Sinai Campaign.
In the former, he commanded a
battalion in Operation Nahshon
which cleared the road to Jerusa
lem in March, 1948, and thus en
abled food, water and supplies to
be brought to the defenders of that
l>esieged city. He also led an arm
ored column in the bitter battle
against the Arab stronghold at
Latrun.
Before Sinai, General Laskov
served as Chief of the Training
Command of the Israel Army, and
as Commander of the Israel Air
Force. Then, after two years of
study at St. Anthony’s College at
Oxford, he was appointed Deputy
Chief of Staff, and later was named
commander of the Armored Corps.
Commanding the Northern Arm.
ored attacking force during the
Sinai Campaign, General Laskov
broke through at Itafah and cap
tured El Arish to seal off the Gaza
Strip, a maneuver which helped con
siderably to bring that campaign to
its swift and final conclusion.
The entire community is invited
to participate in this tribute din
ner. Information and reservations
may be made by calling 875-8551.
Nathan Lipton to Head Welfare
Fund Cash Campaign
City of Hope
Awards Lunch
The Atlanta City of Hope Auxili
ary held its Awards Luncheon at
the homo of Mrs. Phillip Sunshine
on Wednesday, May 20.
Invitations to the affair are is
sued on the basis of points for
service or monies earned for the
Los Angeles medical center. This
year thirty-five women received in
vitations to the luncheon.
Mrs. Leon Levine was selected
Queen for having earned the most
points. The second and third place
mention went to Mrs. Philmore
Teper and Mrs. Saul Fox.
Mrs. Jay Weinstein and Mrs.
Harold Weinstein are the new co
presidents of tiie organizations.
Other officers are Mrs. Melvin
Davis, Mrs. Jack Hirsh, Mrs.
Jerome Mandel, Mrs. Henry Freed
man, Mrs. Edward Franco and
Mrs. Burton Gershon, vice presi
dents; Mrs. Joe Moret and Mrs.
George Robbins, treasurers.
The Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund,
Inc. will open an intensive drive
that will continue through June 30
for the collection of pledges that
have been made to its 1964 cam
paign, it was announced this week
by General Chairman, M. William
Breman, who also named Nathan
Li(>ton as chairman of the Cash
Campaign.
As chairman of the Cash Cam
paign, Mr. Lipton announced that
officers and other leading campaign
figures will meet soon to get the
drive under way.
The purpose of the drive is to
bring in “every dollar on every
pledge made this year so that we
can help the United Jewish Appeal
meet acutely pressing financial ob
ligations for the relief, rescue and re
habilitation of tens of thousands of
Jewish refugees, aid to Israel's new
comers and to distressed men, wom
en and children in 30 other coun
tries.”
Mr. Lipton pointed out that the
needs in those countries have been
out miming the availability of funds,
particularly in Israel, where Jewish
immigrants have been entering at a
record rate for the past three years.
Their entry has created a giant
backlog in bousing, social service
and absorptions far beyond the ca-
rael, and for them there is a bright
future. But on the darker side, we
must face the fact that out of the
thousands who have come to Israel
in recent years, one out of every
four is still unabsorbed. It is for
these tremndous absoiption tasks
that immediate and ample cash re
sources are urgently needed."
Mr. Lipton pointed out als> that
France today harbors nearly two-
thirds of all Jewish welfare cases
in Europe who must be aided by
the Joint Distribution Committee, the
UJA agency serving Jews in need
overseas. Each succeeding year has
seen the arrival of new Jewish ref
ugees to France—from Hungary and
Egypt in 1956 and 1957, then from
North Africa in more recent years.
Most of those from Moslem lands
arrived penniless, and must be help
ed far beyond the assistance resour
ces of the Jewish Welfare agencies
in France.
"What makes the situation parti
cularly urgent,” stated Mr. Lipton,
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Atlanta B’nai B’rith Proposes
Program to “Return” Dropouts
NATHAN UPTON
parity of Israel's people to meet
without extraordinary financial aid
from American Jews.
"On the more hopeful side of the
picture,” said Mr. Lipton, "is the
fact that out of every two new
comers we help, one is a child or
youth under eighteen. By our assis
tance we are building the new gen-
eralion of Jewish children in Is
A program to bring school drop
outs, former mental and tubercu
lar patients, released prisoners and
cured alcoholics and drug addicts
back into the mainstream of com
munity life was proposed here re
cently by the new President of the
Gate City Lodge of B’nai B’rith.
Dr. James A. Kaufmann, Atlanta
physician who was installed as the
Lodge's new head in ceremonies
held at the Standard Club, called
in his inaugural address for the
organization to undertake "B’nai
B’rith Project Return” which he
said would be a "program of hu
man reclamation to find these peo
ple and restore them to useful and
Gerson Bar Mitzvah
Mr. and Mrs. Max Gerson cor
dially invite their friends and rel
atives to attend the Bar Mitzvah of
their son, Erwin, on Saturday, June
6, 8:45 a. m., at the Shenrith Israel
Synagogue.
A Kiddush honoring Erwin will
follow' the Services.
Siegel—Weinberg
B’nai Mitzvah
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Siegel and
Mr. and Mrs Jerry J. Weinberg
cordially invite friends ami relatives
to the B’nai Mitzvah of their sons,
Richard Harley and Dan Ixnvis, at
9 a. m. Saturday, June 6, at the
Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
Richard Siegel is the grandson of
Mr, and Mrs M. L. Piassiek and
Mr. and Mrs Max Siegel.
Dan Weinberg is the grandson of
Mrs. Esther Schwartz of Brockton,
Mass.
A Kiddush honoring Richard and
Dan will follow the service. No
cards.
Ed Kalin Retires as Executive
Of Jewish Communal Agencies
After 36 years of service as Ex
ecutive Director for the Jewish
Communal Agencies of Atlanta, Ed
ward M. Kahn announced his re
tirement on May 15. He was Execu
tive Director of the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund, Inc., the Jewish So
cial Service Federation of Atlanta
and the Atlanta Jewish Community
Council.
During his 36 years he was asso
ciated intimately with the social
welfare developments in this area.
He is a past president of the At
lanta Social Workers Club, a former
board member of the Georgia Con
ference on Social Welfare, chair
man of the Atlanta Chapter of the
American Association of Social
Workers—now the National Associa
tion of Social Workers. He served
as a member of the Community
Chest Budget Committee and was
one of the founders of the Atlanta
Social Planning Council—predeces
sor of the present Community Coun
cil of the Atlanta area. During his
EDWARD M. KAHN
early years he served as chairman
of the Administrative Committee
which functioned on a voluntary
basis as the executive arm of the
Council at that time.
Mr. Kahn was a member of the
first boa ill of the Council of Jewish
Federations of Welfare Funds and
also served as first executive of the
Southern region of that council. He
is a past president of the National
Conference of Jewish Communal
service and was honored by his
adopted city when he was named
for the leadership award by the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Kahn is a past president of
Gate City Ixxige, B’nai B’rith and
also served as a member of the
general committee of District Grand
Ixxige No. 5 as well as on the Na
tional Hillel Commission of B’nai
B’rith. He was named for Atlanta’s
Citizen of the Year award by At
lanta Past 112 of the Jewish War
Veterans of the U S. and is a re
cipient of the Meritorious Service
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productive citizenship.”
Principal speaker for the occasion
was Eugene Patterson, editor ol
the "Atlanta Constitution.” A high
light of the program was the pre
sentation to Atlanta Contractor Max
Kuniansky. who was honored as
B’nai B’rith’s Man of the Year, of
the Lodge’s Distinguished Service
Award for Community Service.
Also installed with Dr. Kaufmann
were Sidney Parks as president
designate; Ben Hyman, first vice
president; Marvin Singerg, second
vice president; Dr. Paul Teplis,
secretary; Sidney Haskins, treas
urer; and immediate past president
Joseph Cuba, monitor.
Pointing out that Jews have
known "the sting of being lost from
community life by the effects of
discrimination,” Dr. Kaufmann em
phasized their obligation to under
take to help those who have been
last to their communities for other
reasons.
“I am referring to those who
have been unable to return and re
adjust to society because they have
had a mental illness, they have
been in prison, they have suffered
from alcoholism or drug addiction,
they have had tuberculosis or they
have dropped out from school.”
He noted there have been esti
mates as high as 100,000 of the
number in the Metropolitan Area
who “are redeemable to society”
in those categories.
The new President also announced
that the Lodge, under his Adminis
tration, will undertake the "most
intensive membership campaign in
its history” with the goal of in
creasing Lodge Membership form
TOO to 1,000 men during the coming
year.
"I call on this Ixxige to have a
new birth of benevolence to all
mankind, a new birth of brotherly
love to all of God’s creatures and
a new birth of harmony with all
peoples,” he decalred in presenting
his proposals.