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Five Communities Join
Nov. 15 in Tele - Lecture
The medium of telephone will
be put to an admirab e new use
next week.
A special hookup will connect
five cities in four states with a
h cture being held in Savannah.
Audiences in Fayetteville and
Goldsboro, N. C., Charleston,
Columbus, and Huntsville, Ala.,
will thus be enabled to hear the
Savannah Adult Jew sh Educa
tion Council’s first program, a
lecture at 7:45 p. m. Sunday,
Nov. 15.
Delivering the tele-lecture will
be Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, pro
fessor of educatu n at the Jewish
Institute of Religion. His sub
ject will be “Why Bother With
Judaism—The Concept That Dis
tinguishes Judaism.”
Following Dr. B rowitz’s lec
ture those listening to the tele
phone hookup, as well as ihe
audience in Savannah, will be
able to ask que ti ins.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 19C4
NO. 46
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news in briel Six New Jewish Representatives
Elected; Nine Renamed
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Fif
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Presi
dent Shazar and Premier Eshkol
sent messages of congratulations
to President Johnson on his land
slide election victory. “From
Jerusalem, the City of Peace, our
blessings and hopes go out to
you,” President Shazar said. Pre
mier Eshkol said in his message
that President Johnson’s “con
structive leadership on behalf of
peace, freedom and international
fraternity has already given the
world renewed hope for a better
future.” Mr. Eshkol also cabled
congratulations to Vice Presi
dent-elect Hubert Humphrey.
REHOVOT, (JTA) — Meyer
Weisgal, chairman of the execu
tive committee of the Weizmann
Institute, was awarded an honor
ary degree of Doctor of Philo
sophy this week in recognition
of his efforts for the Institute.
The award was presented at a
ceremony at the Institute formal
ly marking the opening of the
academic year. The presentation
was made by Dr. Dewey Stone,
chairman of the Institute Board
of Governors, and Prof. M. Feld
man, chairman of the Institute
Scientific Council. Twelve aca
demic degrees were awarded to
graduates.
HAMBURG (JTA) — A gas
bomb was thrown into a Ham
burg movie theater Sunday night
during a screening of the Polish
film, “Requiem for Half a Mil
lion,” which depicts the tragedy
of the Warshaw Ghetto in the
Second World War.
During the commotion which
followed the bombing, unknown
persons shouted anti-Jewish slo
gans. The showing of the film
was discontinued for the rest of
the evening.
NEW YORK (JTA) —Samuel
L. Haber has been named assis
tant executive vice-chairman of
the Joint Distribution Commit
tee, it was announced recently
by Moses A. Leavitt, JDC execu
tive vice-chairman. Mr. Haber,
was formerly assistant director-
general, served JDC in various
posts overseas for 17 years be
fore coming to the agency’s in
ternational headquarters in New
York.
Mr. Haber first joined the
JDC staff in 1947, supervising
the agency's welfare and rehab
ilitation operations in the Amer
ican Zone in Germany. Following
the establishment of the State of
Israel in 1948, he helped empty
DP camps, speeding tens of thou
sands of Jewish survivors to Is
rael, the United States and
other friendly lands.
In 1954 Mr. Haber was sent to
Morocco to organize a welfare
program providing assistance to
more than 50,000 needy Jews
there. He remained until the
end of 1956 when he was assign
ed to Poland, the first JDC rep
resentative allowed to function in
that country since 1950. He set
up a special emergency relief
program for Jewish repatriates
returning to Poland from the So
viet Union. Mr. Haber served in
the United States Army from
1943 through 1946, rising to the
rank of major. For a brief period
after his demobilization, he was
economic consultant to the U. S.
Department of State.
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The Six
teenth World Chess Olympics
were officially opened here this
week with the participation of
players from 50 countries. Pre
mier Levi Eshkol, Deputy Pre
mier Abba Eban and Mayor
Mordechai Namir greeted the
participants. The guest at the
opening ceremony was Iceland's
Premier Bjerni Bernediktsson
who is in Israel on a visit.
There are many Jews among
the entries and hardly a delega
tion which does not include some
Jewish players. Samuel Reshev-
sky, former United States cham
pion, said at the airport that he
was planning to settle in Israel
and appear under the Israeli ban
ner at the next chess competi
tions.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (JTA)
-—Cornerstone-laying ceremonies
were held here for Beth Sholom
Congregation, the first synagogue
in Alaska.
Burton H. Goldberg, president
of the congregation, said at the
ceremonies for the new Reform
temple, that the goal is to hold
religious school classes and serv
ices in the new house of worship
in 1965.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jeru
salem Mayor Mordechai Ish-Sha-
lom paid a courtesy call on New
York’s Mayor Robert F. Wagner
last week-end when he passed
through en route to a speaking
tour in Mexico. Also present at
the meeting were Israel’s Consul
General Katriel Katz and Deputy
Mayor Paul Screvane.
NCRAC Clarifies
Jewish Stand on
School Desegregation
NEW YORK (JTA)—The issue
of busing children to schools
scheduled for racial integration,
and the cry for preservation of
“neighborhood schoo Is,’’ are
“spurious issues,’’ the National
Community Relations Advisory
Council declared here recently.
In a statement representing
the views of six major national
Jewish organizations and 74
local Jewish community coun
cils, the NCRAC called for “high
priority” to the elimination of
"do facto racial segregation from
our public schools” saying this
must be done “as a matter of
public policy and educational
purpose.” “Racial integration in
public schools,” the NCRAC de
clared, “is an essential compon
ent of good education in our so
ciety. It is not a substitute for
quality. Neither is it an alterna
tive to quality. Racial integra
tion and quality education are
mutually complementary and in-
terdependent.”
Criticizing “diversionary argu
ments over spurious issues,” the
statement held that neither the
argument about neighborhood
schools nor the procedure of
busing has “supreme value.”
“School districts are not neigh
borhoods.” the NCRAC declared.
“Busing is not a policy. Of itself,
it has no educational value,
positive or negative. According
positive or negative. According
ly, we neither favor nor oppose
busing per se.”
teen candidates elected last week
to the United States House of
Representatives are of the Jew
ish faith, representing a consid
erable increase in the number
of Jews in Congress. Six new
Jewish Congressmen were add
ed to the nine already serving,
who were re-elected.
With three senators of Jewish
faith continuing their terms, the
total of 18 Jews simultaneously
in Congress may represent a
record in the history of the na
tion. The senators, who were not
up for election this year, include
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York
Republican; Sen. Abraham Ribi-
coff, Connecticut Democrat; and
Sen. Ernest Gruening, Alaska
Democrat.
Five of the six new Congress
men of Jewish faith were elect
ed in the state of New York.
They included Lester L. Wolff,
Democrat-Liberal, who upset the
Republican incumbent, Rep.
Steven Derounian; Joseph Res
nick, Democrat, who unexpect
edly won over the Republican in
cumbent, Rep. J. Ernest Whar
ton; Herbert Tenzer, Democrat-
Liberal, who defeated Republi
can Rep. Ralph J. Endsell; Rich
ard Ottinger, Democrat-Liberal,
who wrested a seat from veteran
Republican Rep. Robert R. Bar
ry, and James H. Scheuer, Dem
ocrat-Liberal, who defeated Re
publican contender Henry Rose.
Mr. Scheuer, a leading builder,
once served as a new correspon
dent of the Overseas News Agen
cy, and has been active in ex
posing and fighting religious
and racial prejudice.
Re-elected in New York were
Reps. Emanuel Celler, chairman
of the House Judiciary Commit
tee; Leonard Farbstein, only
Jewish member of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee; Jac
ob H. Gilbert, Benjamin S.
Rosenthal, Abraham J. Multer—
all Democrats—and Seymour
Halpern, the only Jewish House
member who is a Republican.
Former Congressman Sydney R.
Citations of Merit for “vigor
ous effort devoted to intergroup
understanding ... in recognition
of distinguished achievements in
the cause of Democracy” will be
presented by the Southeastern
Regional Advisory Board of the
Anti-Defamation League at its
Eleventh Annual Meeting on
Saturday Nov. 21 in Atlanta.
Announcement was made this
week by Edward Elson, Awards
Committee Chairman, that the
special service award will be
presented to Sam Massell, Jr.,
Vice Mayor of Atlanta; Sylvan
Meyer, Editor of the Gainesville
Daily Times and chairman of the
Georgia Advisory Committee to
the United States Civil Rights
Commission; and Rabbi Jacob
Rothschild of the Temple.
Yates, Illinois Democrat, regain
ed a House seat he lost in 1962
when he unsuccessfully ran for
the Senate. Mr. Yates saw in
terim service at the United Na
tions. Rep. Samuel N. Friedel,
Maryland Democrat, Rep. Her
man Toll, Pennsylvania Demo
crat, and Rep. Charles S. Joei-
son New Jersey Democrat, were
all re-elected.
Press forecasts foresaw a pos
sibility that President Johnson
may soon appoint a prominent
Washington attorney of Jewish
faith, Abe Fortas, to the posi
tion of the United States Attor
ney General vacated by Robert
F. Kennedy who was elected to
the Senate from New York.
The overwhelming national
election victory of President
Johnson indicated to Washing
ton observers a mandate to the
Administration to continue the
known attitudes and commit
ments involving American-Israel
relations and against religious
prejudice. President Johnson
made clear during the campaign
that this nation stood firmly com
mitted to preserving the security
and territorial integrity of Is
rael. He indicated that Israel’s
economic and technical needs
would be considered. It was clear
that assistance would also include
continued sales of American mili-
NEW YORK, (WUP) — “Yes,
I am the widow of Adolf Eich-
mann who sent 6,000,000 men,
women and children to their
deaths.”
Thus Mrs. Veronika Eichmann,
wife of the mass murderer, con
fessed in an exclusive article ap
pearing in a recent issue of the
National Inquirer.
"I knew what Adolf’s work
was,” she states in the article
given to an Inquirer reporter be
fore she left Germany for her
home in Buenos Aires. "Various
newspaper reports have made
Alexander F. Miller, ADI/s
national director of Community
Services will address the group
on "Supreme Court Aftermath:
A Decade of Decision.”
Opie L. Shelton executive vice-
president of the Atlanta Cham
ber of Commerce; Eugene Pat
terson editor of the Atlanta Con
stitution and vice-chairman of
the United States Civil Rights
Commission; and Dr. Robert E.
Lee Pastor of the Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer and
president of the Atlanta Council
of Churches will participate in
the awards presentation.
Mr Elson stated that the pub
lic is invited to the banquet at
7:30 at the Dinkier-Plaza Hotel.
Reservations can be made by
calling 523-1618.
tary equipment, like the “Hawk”
anti-aircraft missile soon to be
come operational.
President Johnson’s election al
so assured continuation of the so-
called “LBJ Plan” for a joint
American-Israel nuclear desalt
ing plant, of massive proportions
in Israel. This venture would pro
vide Israel with facilities to de
velop the Negev through desa
linated sea water and inexpens
ive electrical power.
President Johnson’s special
counsel on the White House staff
and personal adviser on Jewish
and Israeli matters, Myer Feld
man, will continue to serve. Mr.
Feldman came to the White
House with President John F.
Kennedy and was asked to re
main by President Johnson after
the assassination last November.
Vice President-elect Humph
rey, long an advocate of Jewish
statehood and Israeli survival,
served as a champion of the Is
raeli cause during the many
years he served as a member of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. He has visited both
Israel and Egypt. He is known
also as an advocate of economic
development assistance to Israel.
Both President Johnson and the
Vice President-elect stand for
liberalization of American immi
gration laws and anti-bias meas
ures.
out that I thought all the time
he was some sort of little clerk
working in an unimportant little
filing office,” she notes. “They
are wrong. Adolf did not keep
his work a secret from me. He
told me of the gas chambers and
the incinerators. And he told me
how he saw the very ground
spurt with the blood of his vic
tims as the great pits of machine-
gunned bodies were covered over
the earth. I can’t forget that . . .”
Mrs. Eichmann further testifies
that “my Adolf was the boss of
the scores of men who are stand
ing trial in Germany and Austria
right now for doing terrible,
sadistic things in the Nazi death
camps.”
A Igerian Presiden t
‘Offers' His Army
To Fight Israel
PARIS (JTA)—-Algerian Pres
ident Ahmed Ben Bella again of
fered recently to put his army
at the service of his Arab “bro
thers” in war against Israel.
Addressing a rally in Algiers,
celebrating the 10th anniversary
of the beginning of the revolt
against the French, Ben Bella
told his audience that, “if nec
essary,” the Algerian army would
fight against Israel "to liberate
Palestine.”
He also pledged to use his mil
itary establishment to fight
against the rule of Moise Tshom-
be in the Congo. He reiterated
an old canard, repeatedly dis
credited, to the effect that 1,500
Israelis were “fighting for
Tshombe.”
Southeast ADL Board
Dinner, November 21
Wife of Mass Murderer Says She Knew
Her Husband Butchered Millions