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Friday, June 12, 1964
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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VISTAS
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Congregation B’nai Israel
Installs Officers for ’64-’65
As We Were Saying
by ROBERT E. SEGAL
The installation ceremony for the
new officers and members of the
board of directors of Congregation
li'nai Israel for 1964-65 was held in
conjunction with the Family Sabbath
Hour Friday evening, June 5.
Recently elected were: Murray M
Jacobs, president; Ted P. Wittner,
first vice president, Dr. Leonard II
Morris, second vice president; Maur
ice K. Smith, secretary; and Jack
Massry, treasurer.
Elected members of the Board of
Directors were: Dr. Philip Benjamin,
Milton Berger, Milton Binkov, Leon
ard Lubin, Dr. David L. MendeMatt,
Allen Samuels, Mrs. Goldie Schuster,
and Dr. Samuel J. Segal.
Board members continuing in of
face are: Robert R. Bauman, Sam
Einstein, Jerome M. Gilbert, Maur
ice A. Goddblatt, Reuben E. ILalprin,
B’nai Israel
301 59th St. No.
St. Petersburg, Ha.
Phone 341-1471
Sat. June 13—Traditional Service
it 9 a. m. John Edward Binkov, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Binkov, will
liecome a Bar Mitzvah at the Youth
and Family Hour at 10:30 a. m.
Sun. June 14—Conservative Service
will be at 9 a. m. There will be a
USY meeting at 7:30 p. m.
Tue. June 16—Board of Directors
meeting at 8:30 p. m.
Fri. June 19 — Family Sabbath
Hour at 8 p. m.
Work got underway last week as
die Inner Committee of the Little
Theatre Movement, under the ca
pable leadership of Ada Marx, met
in the Jewish Community Center
and prepared for an active season,
starting in October. It is planned
to initiate this official opening with
an International Extravaganza, in
which every nation on the face of the
earth will be represented in native
costume and song by either a mern-
ber of the SF Club or other groups
of the Jewish Community identified
with the Jewish Community Center
and its activities.
Contact has already been made
with the United Nations for its prop
er representation in the form of flags
of all the nations, along with other
interesting material for a month
long exhibit. The plans not only call
for an international display for the
October opening, but also for a sin
cere tribute to the International Or
ganization that is doing so much to
perpetuate peace in our day through
out the world
Plans were concluded for the pro
duction of Broadway musical suc
cesses, and arrangements have been
made to secure the music and scores
iif various Broadway musical hits,
opening with “Kiss Me Kate" and
followed by "Show Boat."
Those making up the directing
cabinet were Ada Marx, Betty Mil
ler, Ruth Rose, Leon Katten, Harry
Rose, Manny Ward, Frances Monro
and Helen Hirkhaim An enlarged SF
Orchestra, with at least 10 instru
ments, took first place on the meet
ing's agenda.
Louis Shapiro is busily preparing
to lock up his home as he prepares
to head north for a month's visit
with his family in New York and
Providence. Louis looks forward with
a great deal of joy to this visit
He will return early in July.
Molly Brandt is off for Westches
ter, N.Y., to spend the summer with
her daughter. She plans avery active
Stanley Hunter, Ijouis Javits, Sy
Jay, Abe Katz, Joe Klein, Dr. Morris
J. LeVine, Reuben Sabin, and Julius
Silverman.
The outgoing President, Dr Har
old C. Rivkind, will also serve on
the Board during the coming fiscal
year which will begin July 1st
Temple
Beth-El
400 Pasadena Ave. South
St. Petersburg, Fla.
On Wednesday, June 10, the Beth
El Temple Youth Group held an
organizational get-to-gether to wel
come new pledges. A film on the
new SEFTY Camp was featured
Friday evening, June 12 at 8 p. m ,
Sabbath Eve Services will include
the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony of Jeffrey
Silverberg, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Silverlierg. The Worship will
be accompanied by the Temple
Choir. Jeffrey will be honored before
th Sacred Scroll of the Torah with
his parents and grandparents, and
will receive the blessings of the
Rabbi, and presented with a set of
Temple Prayer Books from the
leaders of the Congregation, Broth
erhood and Sisterhood Mr. and Mrs
Harvey Deutsch will kindle the Sab-
liath Lights and recite the Kiddush
ABar Mitzvah Reception will be
given in his honor following the
Worship Services by his parents.
northern vacation which will include
several visits to the New York
World's Fair before returning to St.
Petersburg Beach early in October
Nancy Rubin, who was reported
to have undergone minor surgery
in Mound Park last week, really had
major surgery, which w r as per
formed very successfully. Making
rapid progress Nancy was permitted
to leave the hospital last Friday
alternoon and is now resting at her
home in Maderia Beach, under the
able and capable hands of her bet
ter half—Nathan. Nancy can have
visitors so her many friends can
visit her when they wish.
Most of the members of SF Club,
who have been hospitalized the past
few weeks, have returned home,
where they are resting and taking
it easy as they gain strength on
their way to full recovery. Ida Bush
left Mound Park hospital late Jast
week and has now joined her hus
band at their home. Selig Bush was
dismissed earlier in the week and
so Ida and Selig are under the
watchful eyes of their daughter, who
came down from the north to lend
a helping hand in time of need.
Harry Bauman is doing well at
home and greeting his friends as
they call to see him. Joseph Bren
ner, smiling and with chin up, is also
doing very well. Beil Franklin is
remaining close to home, but is his
cheery self and doing every' well.
Harry and Jennie Goldberg making
wonderful strides toward full
strength and recovery and able to
visit and see their friends and fol
low-members. Joan Kochman rest
ing at her home and able to have
company.
Clarice Kraus also doing well and
can have visitors.
Bernie Miller is feeling like his
old self and able to visit about. He
visited the club at the last two
meetings and enjoyed the hours he
spent there. Ida and Morris Rosin
both doing very well but taking it
RUSSIA COURTS NASSER:
MAKES IT TOUGH FOR U.S.
Something lias been added in the
Middle East It Is something that
may at last bring devotees of the
American Council for Judaism
around to looking at possible disaster
there in the way that the other 99%
of American Jewry has been regard
ing it since 1947.
The extra something is the way
both Nikita Khrushchev and Gamel
Abdel Nasser licked their chops in
mid-May when they stood on a
granite bluff high over the site of
the Aswan Dam and pressed a but
ton to mark completion of the first
stage in the $1,000,000,000 irrigation
and power project
Some people may refer to Aswan
Dam as John Foster Dulles’ Folly
The' project might have had a Made-
in-America imprint on it had not
Mr. Dulles suddenly withdrawn his
offer to help Nasser.
In any event, Khrushchev is in the
Egyptian picture to a degree that
is just fine for Soviet plans to bur
row on through the Middle East and
arrive at the oil and mineral wealth
awaiting exploitation in many sec
tions of Africa. And Nasser has had
pinned on him by Khrushchev the
button that hails him as “Hero of
the Soviet Union" with promises of
oodles more of foreign aid to come
from Moscow
It is horribly simplistic thinking,
of course, to say that it pays to send
your fedayeen across Israel’s bor
A Scrricc of Year Doctor el Moitilfcr,
Yoar Local Medical Society and Ac
Florida Medical Association.
FINGERPRINTING:
A DELICATE ART
Of the two and three-quarter
billion people on earth, no two
look exactly alike. Similarly, no
two finger prints are exactly
alike. This fact, discovered by
Alphonse Bertillon, a French
criminologist who died in 1914,
led to recorded measurements
and description of criminals for
future identification.
There are delicate ridges of
the fingers, palms of the hands,
toes and soles of the feet. Each
person is unique in the con
structional complex of these
ridged surfaces. Were it not for
the variability of these patterns,
fingerprints for identification
would be useless.
While fingerprinting has usu
ally been associated only with
identification in connection with
criminals, it has other uses.
Many newborn infants arc foot-
printed or palm-printed in hos
pitals as a means of assuring
identification.
An important characteristic of
these carvings of the skin sur
face is that they remain un
changed throughout life, except
for growth. Because of their
major characteristics of whorls,
loops and arches, it is possible
to group individuals through
differences in fingerprints.
The skin of fingers, palms,
toes and soles is different from
the skin of other parts of the
body. Lacking hairs and sebace
ous glands, it possesses a con
tinuously corrugated surface
peculiar to these regions. The
delicate ridges make elaborate
patterns. And, as with faces of
individuals, no two in the whole
world are exactly alike.
very easy.
The first outdoor meeting of SF
Club was held at Maggoire Dike,
Monday, June 8. SF Club plans a
number of its outdoor summer ga
therings for Maggoire Lake, using
also the accommodations of Gulfport
Beach, St. Petersburg Municipal
Beach and Abercrombie Park. The
Club will resume its indoor meetings
on Monday, Oct 5.
Jessie & Elias Parks, of the Ban
joliers, are on a far west motor tour
and they write from California
"We're having a ball." They are
visting all the spots of Hollywood,
Disneyland and whatever Is worth
while seeing in that nock 'o the
woods. They plan to return to their
home here some time early in Oc
tober
ders to murder sleeping men, women
and children night after night until
you provoke Israel’s army into a
lightning counter-attack that speeds
Israeli troops dear to the Suez
Canal; that it pays to cry "Uncle!”
so hard that the United States lets
down not only Israel but England
and France also; that it pays to
fk>ut the Constantinople Convention
of 1888 guaranteeing freedom of pas
sage through the Suez and to go
l>ack on your promise for free pas
sage through the Suez ami to go
back on your own nuclear missile
experts who were ardent Nazis
under Hitler ami may be able to
give Nasser jus-t the right formula
for pulverizing Israel with no outcry
from the civilized world It may be
simplistic thinking; but before you
dismiss it as such, go back to a
hearing before the Senate Committee
on Foreign Affairs, June 21, 1963,
and listen to the testimony of Bush-
rod Howard Jr
“There are those within the (U.S. i
Government that, for various mo
tives, are determined to appease
Nasser at all costs. Some are putting
all blame for the problems of the
Middle East on Israel and Amer
ican Jews To counter these alleged
evils, they have, over the years,
put some $4,000,000,000 of Govern
ment Funds into an anti-Israel or
ganization."
The key point here is that Mr.
Howard ought to know what he is
talking about. He was attorney for
the Iraq Petroleum Company from
1948 to 1952 and worked in the Near
East for Socony Mobil Oil Company
from 1952 to 1957.
But if we now vocalize our worry
about appeasing Nasser, we are
quickly reminded that the United
States has given up its policy (valid
until recently' of trying to force the
a Council of Jewish Communities of
Spain, comprised of Jewish com
munal bodies in four cities, was
reported here this week from
Madrid. The Council represents
Spain's 5,000 Jews in Madrid, Bar
eelona, Ceuta and Melilla. The last
two cities are in the Spainish en
clave of Morocco.
The report said that Max Mazin,
leadei of the Madrid Jewish com
munity, would seek an interview
with Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co to secure official recognition
from the Spanish Government for
the Council and for Spanish Jewry
as a religious group. The Roman
Catholic Church is the only recog
nized religious group in Spain. Jews
and some 30,000 Protestants are per
mitted to worship in unmarked
buildings under a Statemen t of Tol
erance approved in 1945
Mr. Mazin disclosed his plans in
connection with a Sephardic sym-
Polestine Arab
Refugees Discuss
Commando Units
U)N1X)N (JTA'-Delegates to the
first Palestine National Congress
meeting in Jordan-held old Jerusa
lem have discussed organization of
commando units and military camps
in other Arab states for use against
Israel, it was reported here from
Jordan. The delegates took an oath
that "Palestine is our homeland;
repatriation is our goal; sacrifice is
our duty; death does not frighten
us; Palestine is ours."
An ambitious expansion program
also was discussed in the propagan
da field. Ahmad Shukairy, the head
of the "Palestine Liberation Organ
ization” which was organized previ
ously at the congress, said plans
were being made to open Palestine
missions and information offices
abroad and to sot up a Palestine
broadcasting station and news agen
cy. He said a fund had been estab
lished for such projects
Arabs to negotiate with Israel. The
American friends of the United Arab
Republic have helped to achieve that
policy abandonment. This is tragic.
And it may help to explain the
ease with which King Hussein of
Jordan got away with his castiga
tion of Jews before the Pro-Arab
Citizens Committee On American
Policy in the Near East when the
Jordanian monarch visited Washing
ton in April. It may help also to
explain the reluctance of the United
Suites to help get tlie Nazi rocket
experts out of Cairo It may help
to explain why Jordan has been able
to violate Article XVI of the Rules
of the World's Fair Corporation by
setting up a frankly propaganddstic
anti-Israel display at the Fair.
'Ibe switch in American policy is
tough indeed for the only democratic
bastion in the Middle East—Israel.
But a cardinal point of that policy
remains. This is the American de
termination to limit Soviet influence
in the Middle East. Dread of
offending Nasser by gestures friend
ly to Isreal; deafness to Nasser's
often-repeated vow to destroy Israel
cannot excise that key objective of
American policy in the Balkanrized
Middle East. Washington’s determi
nation to limit Soviet influence there
is written in ink defying eradica
tion.
And that brings us back to the
chilling picture of Khrushchev and
Nasser on that granite bluff above
the Aswan Dam. There a button
was pushed symbolizing a new day
for vast irrigation and the genera
tion of power for Egypt. But it was
more than the pushing of a ceremon
ial button. Khrushchev is currently
the No. 2 Pin-up Boy in Cairo. His
munificence and friendship warm
the hearts of Nasser’s millions, hun
gry for advance in the new era of
technological possibilities.
This is not good news for the
United States. We are obliged now
to roll Khrushchev back from the
Middle East. And we must accom
plish that, somehow, without the ca
lamity of a new kind of war cal
culated to destroy all mankind.
stitute o fSephardic Studies. Some
70 representatives from the United
States, Britain, South America,
France and Israel are attending.
One of the objectives of the sympos
ium is a world census of Sephardic
Jews, estimated by Mr. Mazin to
total between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000
with about half settled in Israel. Hie
symposium also hopes to find ways
to renew ties with the Spanish cul
ture and language and to begin prep
aration for a dictionary in Ladino,
the Spanish-Hebrew language spoken
by Sephardic Jews.
. . . in brief
DENVER, (JTA)—The board of
directors of the Jewish Community
Center here has voted to continue
the present policy of keeping the
Center closed on Saturdays.
The issue agitated the Denver
Jewish community for some time,
The Rabbinical Council of Denver
recently requested that the Sab
bath closure policy be maintained.
The vote by the Center board has
resolved that Issue.
ELIZABETH, N.J., (JTA)—Van
dals raided the unused synagogue
of Congregation Mishkan Israel
here, and scattered religious arti
cles about the pews and floor.
The intruders ripped prayer books
in the sanctuary. Residents of Eliza
beth complained to police after the
vandalism was discovered, and the
police department gave assurances
that it will attempt to trace the cul
prits and bring them to justice.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Some 100,000
Jewish displaced persons and refu
gees have been settled in New York
City since July 1949, when the New
York Association for New Ameri
cans was organized as an Immigrant
aid agency by the United Jewish
Appeal, it was reported at NY-
ANA’s 15th annual meeting here.
Senior Jriendiliip /Jews
by HARRY ROSE
Jewish Communities
In Spain Form Council
LONDON i JTA'—The formation of posium being conducted by the In-