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Tlic Southern Israelite
Vol. XXXIX
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1°^o
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1964
NO. 47
CJFWF Evaluates Broad
Spectrum of Jewish Needs
ST. LOUIS, (JTA)—The four-
day General Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, attended by
more than 1,000 leaders from
Jewish communities all over the
United States and Canada, con
cluded its sessions here Sunday
with the adoption of a number
of important resolutions on
problems affecting Jewish life
in this country, Israel, and Jew
ish communities in other lands
overseas. Louis Stern, of New
ark, N.J., was re-elected presi
dent of the CJFWF for the com
ing year.
One of the major resolutions
dealt with American Jewish
philanthropic and to Israel and
to Jewish communities in other
countries. It pointed out that, de
spite the fact that there have
been notable gains during the
past year in the rescue and re
habilitation of Jews overseas,
Jewish needs and responsibili
ties overseas are nevertheless as
serious today as they were a
year ago.
The seriousness of the situa
tion, the resolution pointed out,
is due to various factors includ
ing the termination at the end
of this year of reparation pay
ments by Germany to Israel; to
the loss by the Joint Distribu
tion Committee of $7,000,000 in
German claims payments, and
of $425,000 by the United Hias
Service, at the end of 1964. Oth
er factors are the continued
large-scale immigration into Is
rael, now in its fourth success
ive year, which Ls expected to
remain at the same high level
in 1965; and the backlog of un
absorbed and still dependent
previous immigrants to Israel,
with 200,000 of them on relief
and work relief.
The resolution also recom
mended a re-examination of pri
orities, including studies of the
assisted welfare, health and re
lated programs, to determine
which activites should be in
creased, which held to current
levels, and which possibly di
minished or eliminated. The
resolution called for “an inter
agency perspective,” especially
as related to the role and poli
cies of the Jewish Agency in
Jerusalem, the Jewish Agency
for Israel, Inc., JDC and United
Hias Service.
The resolution recommended
also the sending of American
expert technical aid to Europe
and to Israel for consultation,
studies, sharing of experience,
and training of personnel.
The Assembly also recom
mended further development of
the structure of the major Ameri
can overseas agencies, to help
achieve more widespread in
volvement in formulation of
their policies and programs, and
greater understanding of their
needs and work. The Assembly
also urged that changes be made
in the names of several organ
izations called “Jewish Agency
for Israel” to avoid the mis
understanding caused by their
similarity. It also recommended
the merger of overlapping or
ganizations, especially the Jew
ish Agency for Israel, Inc. and
the United Israel Appeal.
The resolution expressed rec
ognition of the urgent needs
underlying the establishment of
the Israel Education Fund by
the United Jewish Appeal. How-
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U. N. Security C
On Syrian-Israel
oO
United Nations, N. Y. (JTA)—
Israel this week sharply accused
Syria at a meeting of the Securi
ty Council here of deliberately
planning an "act of provocation”
by attacking three Israeli villages
on the northern'frontier last Fri
day and alleged that Friday’s
“sinister” attacks “suggest that
there were forces in Syria bent
on stirring up trouble in the
broad context of Arab affairs.”
It requested that the Council
insist that Syria refrain “from all
further attacks upon or interfer
ence with Israel activities in the
border zone, and in particular,
all firing across the border” as
well as “from all further threats
against the political independ
ence and territorial integrity of
Israel.
The charges against Syria and
the request for stern action
against repetition of attacks like
those that occurred last Friday
and “hundreds" of others were
voiced by Israel Ambassador
Michael Comay before a crowd
ed emergency session of the
Council this afternoon when the
11-member body met to consider
charges and counter-charges of
in memoriam
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
May 29-1917—Nov. 22, 1963
Gone—but not forgotten! How can it be?
Only yesterday, it seems, he faced me
Or} television—smiling—waving—gay
When bullets felled him on that tragic day.
He was our friend, our trusted friend indeed,
Who perceived the bloom deep within the weed.
And now he has gone to yonder land,
Or shall we face him on that distant sphere
And shall we know him as we knew him here—
Personable—youngish—dynamic—brave!
Alas! So early in a martyr’s grave
Sleeps John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
■—Samuel McKinley Levine f
Chattanooga
aggression by Syria Israel.
Immediately after Adlai E.
Stevenson, chairman of the Unit
ed States delegation and this
month’s Council, convened the
meeting Secretary General U
Thant made the following state
ment:
“I wish to inform the Council
at the outset of this discussion
that, as a matter of course, I have
asked the Chief of Staff of the
United Nations Truce Supervis
ion Organization, Lt. General
Odd Bull, to submit to me a full
factual report on this recent and
unfortunate outbreak of fighting
between Israel and Syria, which
will be as thorough and accurate
as General Bull and his observ
ers can make it on the basis of
the investigation they are con
ducting.
"1 have received some informa
tion already but it is preliminary
and fragmentary, and I feel that
it should not be submitted until
the investigation is concluded
and the full report has been re
ceived. I will, naturally, submit
the report to the Security Coun
cil as quickly as possible, which
should be available shortly.”
Rafik Asha, Syria’s permanent
representative here, was the first
of the disputants on the speakers
list, accusing Israel in a lengthy,
emotion-packed speech of having
initiated the last weekend’s hos
tilities “by wanton aggression
against my country.” He charg
ed that Israel’s use of air power,
which Israel insists was purely a
defensive measure, had consti
tuted a “carefully planned and
premeditated, treacherous and
savage aerial bombardment.”
Contrary to Israel’s assertion
that Israel’s air strike did not
take place until Syria had re
fused to accept a cease fire ar
rangement made by UNTSO, Mr.
Asha claimed that Israeli planes
had attacked not gun emplace
ments but “three peaceful villag
es in addition to our defensive
positions.” As a result, he said,
the Syrian losses were seven
dead and 26 injured.
In his calm presentation of the
facts to the Security Council, Mr.
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,er Clashes
Comay told the body that Syria
has been violating the United Na
tion’s Charter and the 1949 Sy-
rian-Israeli armistice agreement
consistently and repeatedly for
the last 15 years. He told the
Council that only ten days prior
to last Friday’s fighting a party
of Israeli workmen repairing the
road on the Syrian border where
Friday’s attack had occurred
“were fired at from the Syrian
side and were rescued only after
a sharp exchange of fire in which
two Syrian tanks joined.”
Mr. Comay said that as a re
sult of that attack Israel had
complained to the Mixed Armis
tice Commission “and the inves
tigation showed that the Syrian
charge of encroachment across
the border was unsubstantiated.”
Asserting that the roadway
where an Israeli patrol was at
tacked by Syria last Friday “is
wholly on the Israel side of the
border,” Mr. Comay declared
"the Syrian story that the Israel
patrol launched a suicidal attack
against their position is too ab
surd for serious attention.”
The Israel ambassador told the
Council that he has learned that
three Israeli villages and not two
had been attacked by the Sy
rians. In addition to bombarding
Kibbutz Dan and Shear Yashuv
the Syrians had also attacked the
Kibbutz of Dafna. “Here too,” he
said, “extensive damage was in
flicted to the buildings, orchards
and crops.”
He expressed an assumption
that fuller particulars about the
Syrian bombardment will be con
tained in the forthcoming United
Nations investigation report. He
circulated to the members of the
Council a map showing the rela
tive positions of the Syrian gun
emplacements on the heights
overlooking the border and the
Israeli villages below those hills.
“What I wish to stress,” Mr.
Comay said, “is that these villag
es contain peaceful civilian com
munities, not involved in the
initial attack or the response to.
it. The heavy and accurate shell
fire poured onto the villages had
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SE UAHC, Sisterhoods Biennial Calls for Judaism Fulfillment
A clear call went out from
leaders of the Tenth Biennial
Convention of the Southeast
Council of the Union of Ameri
can Hebrew Congregations to
launch an intensified program to
strengthen Jewish life in the
Southeastern United States, and
to fulfill the moral and ethical
teachings of Judasim by individ
ual commitment to achieve full
equality for the Negro and other
minorities.
Addressing the joint Conven
tion of the Southeast Council
and the Southeast Federation of
Temple Sisterhoods, Rabbi Jacob
M. Rothschild of the Hebrew
Benevolent Congregation, Atlan
ta, in a Sabbath sermon told the
worshippers; “Let us at last
join legal right to moral law,
and thence to personal commit
ment. And by our lives give re
sounding affirmation to the pro
phet’s majestic challenge: 'Have
we not all one Father? Hath
not one God created us all?”
Rabbi Rothschild also said,
“Let our proffer of equality be
neither forced nor fearful nor
grudging. Let us seek to over
come prejudice, scorn and fear.”
He called upon the rabbinic
and congregational leaders to
also apply the teachings of Juda
ism in meeting the challenge
of such social concerns as “car
ing for the physical health and
spiritual well-being of an aging
leisure population," finding pro
grams and answers to give
greater direc
tion to youngl
!>eople, and!
eliminating the!
unethical prac-l
tices in business,!
government and!
daily living hab-|
its.
The Union
American He-
brew Congregations has a long
history of mandates in full sup
port towards the attainment of
equal rights for all individuals.
Rabbi Jay Kaufman, national
vice president of the UAIIC from
New York City, speaking at the
banquet session, scored Soviet
policy toward the 3,000,000 Jews
under their yoke. Calling upon
the new Soviet leadership to
prove to the world that it is
ready to eliminate the “legacy
of Khrushchev,” Rabbi Kauff
man said, "If the legacy of
Khruschev is to be eliminated,
let the Soviet rulers begin by
cleansing the stain of Soviet
persecution and harrassment of
its own Jewish citizens.”
"In spite of constitutional out
lawing of anti-Semitism, it
flourishes in Russia," he contin
ued. "When anti-Semitism ap
pears in a country, it marks the
beginning of impending tempest.
The treatment of minorities in Convention that “we in America
general, and Jews in particular,
is the barometer of a society’s
moral integrity and social sani
ty.”
Rabbi Kaufman reminded the
have much to do on the home-
front in eliminating all forms of
prejudice and discrimination.”
With further reference to
anti-Semitism, Robert O. Graetz,
Reform Groups Elect
New Officers for ’ 64 - ’ 66
Marion B. Ross of St. Peters
burg was elected president of
the Southeast Council of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations at the group’s
Tenth Biennial Convention in
Knoxville November 13-16.
, The four-day meeting was a
joint session with the Southeast
Federation of Temple Sister
hoods, who named Mrs. Cecil
Marks of Atlanta as its new
president.
Other officers elected by the
Council were: vice presidents—
Bernard J. Olasov, Charleston;
Alvin Hamburger, Atlanta; Jack
Coleman, Jacksonville; Dr. Paul
M. Goldfarb, Mobile, and Ira
Trivers, Chattanooga. Willie
Uhlfelder, West Palm Beach, was
elected secretary.
The Sisterhood vice presidents
are: Mrs. Harry A. Lipson, Tus
caloosa; Mrs. Fred Slavin, Jack
sonville; Mrs. Solomon E. Star-
rells, Savannah; Mrs. Howard
Gold, Greenville. Mrs. Alvin
Hamburger of Atlanta was
named secretary and Mrs. Willie
Uhlfelder, West Palm Beach, is
treasurer.
Those serving on the board of
directors are Mcsdames George
Mitnick, Jasper; Aaron Kanner,
Miami; M. B. Ross, St. Peters
burg; Gerald Kent, Columbus;
Stanley Levy, Knoxville; and
Mrs. Herbert Rosefield, Sumter.
National directors of the Na
tional Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods include Mrs. Stan
ley Friedman, Macon; Mrs. Joe
Engel, Jasper; Mrs. Fred Slavin,
Jacksonville; Mrs. Willie Uhl
felder, West Palm Beach, and
Mrs. Gerald Kent, Columbus.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, pre-
rabbinic student at the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, told a joint luncheon
assembly, “anti-Semitism will
for a long time be a problem
in my country. Activities of ex
tremist groups, and the large
number of neo-Nazis and neo-
Fascists from the last war makes
for the continual breeding of
such bigotry.”
Mr. Graetz added, "anti-Semi
tism is not the main concern of
Argentinian and South Ameri
can Jews . . .” He said, “our
real job is to rebuild the archaic
and decaying centers of Judaism
on the South American contin
ent. In the same way that Ortho
dox Judaism does not meet the
needs of the contemporary Jew
in Israel, this also applies to our
Jewish youth in Argentina and
other countries.”
The young student expressed
a deep need for native rabbis,
in tune with the language, cul
ture and people, to gain the re
spect and confidence of the
young people and receive the
full cooperation of the older
generation. In addition, he told
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