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TII SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, June 12. 1864
Communal Workers Find Negro
Rights, Jewish Living Compatible
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A state- ed for creative Jewish life and full
meat affirming the proposition that participation in the civil rights strug-
it is possible to achieve the balance gle for all Americans was approved
of integration and separateness need- last week at the National Conference
ESHKOL S VISI T
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rael bond program was initiated (hir
ing the difficult period 13 years ago
when the three-year-old nation was
confronted with overwhelming eco
nomic and security problems. “We
have come a long way together since
the day in 1951 when David Ben-
Gurion Launched the Israel bond
drive,” he observed, adding, “It was
a daring and bold step, even for
Ben-Gurion.’’
The Premier stressed Israel’s ef
forts “bo harvest the positive fruits
of this atomic age.” He reported
that in 1963, industrial production
totaled about $1,500,000,000. He add
ed that irrigation of land in Sou
thern Israel would enable Israel to
double her current citrus exports in
the next decade. These exports, are
now approaching $100 million a
year.
Abraham Feinberg, president of
the Israel Bond Organization, paid
tribute to Prime Minister as the
“architect of Israel’s economic re
covery.” Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz,
vice-president of the organization,
reported that in the first five months
of this year proceeds from the sale
of Israel bonds were $29,724,500. If
this pace is kept up, he said, the
campaign will realize its goal of
$85,000,000 by the end of the year.
The Premier was the guest of the
executive of the American Section
of the Jewish Agency for Israel at
a private breakfast. Mrs. Rose L.
Halprin, chairman of the American
Section, presided. Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, president of the World Zionist
Organization, welcomed the Prem
ier.
Mr. Kshkol also met with a dele
gation of the American Jewish Com
mittee. He expressed to the delega
tion his appreciation of the organ
ization’s efforts “to foster closer
spiritual and cultural bonds’’ be
tween the Jews of Israel and those
of the United States. He reiterated
Israel's “desire to cooperate with
all Jewish groups and organizations
throughout the world seeking to
maintain and strengthen Jewish
life.”
Mr. Eshkol told a meeting of the
American Zionist Council Friday
morning that there was a growing
was being increasingly used by Jew
ish life in other countries and "an
increasing desire to ensure that the
links which unite this generation of
Jews throughout the world in affec
tion, joint effort and common spiri
tual destiny, should remain ctose
and intense in the future.’’
He said he was proud that Israel
was being increasingly used by Jew
ish communities abroad as a spiri
tual resource for their own educa
tional growth. “This”, he said, is
reflected in the growing number of
rabbis, teachers and students who
come to study in Israel for varying
periods.”
Saturday, Mr. Eshkol attended
Sabbath services at Shearith Israel,
the famed Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue and the oldest existing
Jewish house of worship in the
United States.
In order to be within walking dis
tance of the Orthodox synagogue,
Premier and Mrs. Eshkol stayed at
the home of Israel Consul General
Katriei Katz, which is two blocks
from the synagogue. Premier Esh
kol was called upon to recite the
traditional aliyah blessing over the
reading of the Torah while Mrs.
Eshkol sat in the ladies’ gallery
during the services.
In a brief address during a kid
dush reception following the serv
ices, Mr. Eshkol mourned the fact
that great numbers of the Jewish
people who perished in the Nazi
holocaust did not live to see the re
building of the Jewish state. Allud
ing to the situation of Soviet Jewry,
the Premier also noted that even
today there were millions of Jews
cut off from the mainstream of Jew
ish life.
The Israel Prime Minister was
also the guest of the Overseas Press
Club during his stay here. At a
luncheon given in his honor he told
the members of the Club that Egypt
is receiving immense quantities of
arms and military equipment, of
very high quality and on very easy
terms, from Communist countries.
This, he explained, compels Israel
to prepare for self-defense.
During the weekend, Mrs. Eshkol
was guest of honor at a tea at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel given by Mrs.
Katriei Katz, wife of Israel’s Con
sul General. She was also given a
luncheon at the United Nations by
Mrs. Michael S. Comay, wife of Is
rael’s Permanent Representative to
the United Nations. Mr. Eshkol was
presented by Mayor Robert Wagner
the city's highest award, the Gold
Medal of Honor, at a reception given
to him by the Mayor at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, attended by more
than i,500 invited guests.
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GEORGIA HERITAGE—Huge jet and propeller aircraft flying
in and out of Georgia airports today seem commonplace, but
when commercial, regularly scheduled passenger aviation be-
fan here in 1930, the planes were 6-passenger twin-engined
craft with a top speed of 120 miles an hour. The state’s earliest
connection with aviation consisted of stunt-flying and in
dividual commercial activity. An air-show at the Atlanta
Speedway in Hapeville on November 16, 1911 featured a race
between an auto, a motorcycle, and a Curtiss airplane. The
aato, a Stearns racing car, won. The Speedway later became
Candler Field, and in 1929 it was purchased by the City of
Atlanta; it is the site of the present Atlanta Airport, currently
serving about 2,000,000 passengers yearly, with seven trunk
and regional airlines. Pitcairn Aviation, Inc. began Atlanta a
first air-mail routes on May 1, 1928, using single-seater “Mail-
wing'* biplanes. (The City of Atlanta rented Candler Field
for the airmail use, graded two 1600-foot landing strips, and
•pent $6,000 to light the field—the first in the South.) Two
years later Pitcairn, whose name had been changed to Eastern
Air Transport, Inc. (today’s Eastern Airlines), Initiated pas
senger service, with the first flight—Atlanta to Now York-
taking place on December 10, 1930.
of Jewish Communal Service.
Hie Jewish commitment to social
justice and the value of preserving
a distinctive Jewish community were
cited as basic to defining an action
program. The statement considered
by the 1,000 workers in Jewish com
munal service stressed that a proper
understanding of Jewish tradition
and democracy indicated the com
patibility of these commitments,
with specific reference to the pro
grams of Jewish social and welfare
agencies.
Dr. Nathan Glazer, University of
California sociologist, bald the con
ference that Negro demands chal
lenged the right of maintenance of
sub-communities, such as the Jewish
one. It has always been assumed,
he said tiiat the group pattern of
American life was not under chal
lenge and that the advancement of
the disadvantaged could proceed
without such a challenge. If Amer
ican Jews were protected for a time
against such demands, he said, they
are not protected against demands
for entry on equal grounds “into in
stitutions which are the real seat of
Jewish exclusiveness.’’ He cited Jew-
ish-owned business, and Jewish, or
largely Jewish schools.
Sam Arkus, executive director of
the Julius Schepps Community Cen
ter of Dallas, said that “the more
Jewish image the center had in its
conimuniy the smaller the number
of non-Jews using its facilities."
Negroes, he said, therefore rarely
made use of Jewish Center facil
ities.
The 66th annual meeting was also
told that while there had been no
marked effect on Jewish communal
services ’resulting from the integra
tion crisis, there is a danger that in
the desire to help solve the problems
of integration, Jewish agencies may
be too ready to sacrifice their valid
sectarian character.” The warning
was made by Charles Miller, Special
planning director of the Federation
of Jewish Agencies of Philadelphia
He said such a sacrifice would be
contrary to the best principles of
cultural pluralism ” He said many
Jewish agencies trad non-sectarian
policies but that this did not prevent
than from having “a primary res
ponsibility to serve the Jewish com
munity.”
Jacob Kravitz, executive director
of the Jewish Welfare Federation of
Dallas, urged Jewish welfare agen
cies to “take the lead’’ in examining
the problem of the integration strug
gle “with agency staffs and boards,
in keeping with the Jewish tradi
tion of social justice” which he cited
as calling for an “open door” policy
of service which excluded no one
because of “race, color, or creed."
Victor D. Sanua, reporting on a
study of Jewish teenagers and Jew
ish Centers, said that 50 per cent
joined because of the Jewish auspices
of the Center. One-third indicated
they had no objection to dating non
Jews, one-third expressed doubts and
one third would not date non-Jews
at all. More boys than girls were
inclined to date non-Jews
A report on a national study oi
Jewish Young Adults showed that the
typical Jewish young adult was well
integrated in American society. Dr
Hassidi<* Palrols
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Brooklyn Jewish Center who was
chairman at the meeting, said that
the organization demonstrated that
the patrol “can in no way be called
a vigilante group nor may it be said
we sre directing our activity tow
ard any particular ethnic group ”
Negro groups had made such
charges.
DILLON TEMPLE
SISTERHOOD
LUNCHEON
DILLON, S. C.—The annual Dillon
Temple Sisterhoml luncheon was
held Wednesday, May 20.
Mrs. Moses Kornblut of Latta in
troduced the speaker, Mrs. B. Kattz
of Statesville, N. C.
Also participating in the program
were Mrs. Nathan Epstein, Mrs.
Philip Bernanke and Mrs. Reuben
Goldman.
Harry Specht of the Richmond,
iforaia Youth Project, also reported
that the ties of the young adults to
Jewishness and other Jews were
mainly on the level of social ac
tivity. Group activities, such as large
dances and parties which provide op
portunities to meet members of the
opposite sex are the chief basis of
most group formations for suet)
Jews.
Augusta News
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Elstein cor
dially invite their friends and rel
atives to attend the Bar Mitzvah
of their son, Morris Milton, on Sat
urday, June 20, at 9:00 a. m. at the
Adas Yeshuron Synagogue.
The closing meeting of the Augus
ta chapter of Hadassah was held
Tuesday, June 2, at Adas Yeshuron
Synagogue. A report on the regional
conference was given by delegates
Mrs. Terry Liebowitz, Mrs. Norma
Prefer, Mrs. Rita Rice, Mrs. Randy
Siegelson and Mrs. Myrna Silver.
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The Walton Way Temple Sister
hood held its closing meeting and in
stallation of officers recently. Mrs.
Herman Dessauer, incoming presi
dent, presented a check to Mrs.
David Veder, chairman of the com
mittee for Service to the Sightless.
In addition to Mrs. Dessauer, the
new officers include Mrs. Alfred
Weiss, Mrs. Abe Kom, and Mrs.
Jerome Cummins, vice presidents;
Mrs. Jack Shapiro and Mrs Manual
Weisman, secretaries; Mrs. Gerald
I/f, treasurer; and Mrs. Sidney
Rattner, auditor.
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