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Friday, July 9, 1965
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pace Nine
Summer Schedules
Atlanta (Congregations
AHA V AT H AC HIM
600 Peachtree Battle Ave., N.W.
Harry H. Epstein, Rabbi
Raphael Gold, Asst. Rabbi
Joseph Schwartzman, Cantor
Daily services 7:15 a.m., 6:30 p.m.
Friday evening 6:30 p.m.
Saturday
morning 9:00 a.m.
afternoon 6:45 p.m.
BETH JACOB
1855 LaVlsta Rd.,N.E.
Emanuel Feldman, Rabbi
Daily Minyan
services 7:00 a.m.; 7:30 p.m.
Friday services . . .6:45 p.m.
Saturday morning
services . 8:30 a.m.
Saturday evening 7:30 p.m.
Sunday morning 8:15a.m.
OR VeSHALOM
1362 N. Highland Ave., N.E.
Joseph Cohen, Rabbi
Friday night services . 7:00 p.m.
Saturday morning ... 9:00 a.m.
Sunday morning . . 8:00 a.m.
THE TEMPLE
1589 Peachtree Road
• Jacob M. Rothschild, Rabbi
F'riday evening services 8:00 p.m.
SHEARITH ISRAEL
1180 University Drive, N.E.
Sydney K. Mossman, Rabbt
Tobias Geffen, Rabbi Emeritus
Robert Ungar.Cantor
Daily morning services 7:00 a.m.
Daily evening service 7:45 p.m.
Friday night services 6:30 p.m.
Saturday morning
services 8:45 a.m.
Saturday evening
services 7:25 p.m.
Sunday morning services 7:45 p.m.
Talis & Tefilin services 8:30 a.m.
(followed by breakfast
and Bible study)
On Shabbas, July 10, the
following young men will con
duct the services: Jeff Kaufman,
Howard Ellison and Sandy Wein
stein. Kenneth Stoltz will read
the entire Torah and the Haftor-
ah.
Orlin Bar Mitz.vah
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Orlin of
Atlanta invite family and friends
to the Bar Mitzvah of their son
Michael Howard, on Saturday,
July 10 at 9:00 a. m. at the Ahav-
ath Achim Synagogue. A Kiddush
will follow the services. Michael
is the grandson of Mrs. Bessie
Orlin.
AN SHI S’FARD
I). Krasner, Pres.
H. Taratoot, Hon. Pres, and Treaa.
1324 N. Highland Ave., N. E.
Friday evening . . . 6:30 p.m.
Saturday morning
services . 8:45 aan.
Saturday evening . . 7:25 p.m.
Sunday morning 7:45 a.m.
BETH EL
1262 University I)r„ NLE.
Cantor Joseph A. Schroeder
Friday evening . . 8:30 p.m.
Murray Kundo I
Off For Leadership
Institute in Israel
Murray Kandel of Atlanta will
take part in the first Israel
Leadership Seminar, to be held
at the Berl Katznelson Institute,
Kfar Saba, Israel, from July 4,
to August 2.
Mr. Kandel, a founder and ex
ecutive board member of the At
lanta branch of the Labor Zion
ist Organization of America and
Farband Branch 611, will be
among more than 40 participants
from the United States and Can
ada in the seminar. The educa
tional program is being sponsored
by the League for Labor Israel.
Daniel Mann, executive direc
tor of the League, announced that
the seminar is being held so that
Jewish community leaders can
study and learn about Israel at
an academic institution such as
the Berl Katznelson Institute
and be exposed to the thinking
of top leadership of Israel.
The program is to include lec
tures bv Deputy Prime Minister
Abba Eban; Beba Idelson, dep
uty speaker of the Knesset: Louis
Pincus, treasurer of the Jewish
Agency: members of the cabinet,
officials of Histadrut and Mapai,
and Hebrew University profes
sors. The group will also meet
with Prime Minister Levi Esh-
kol and former prime ministers
David Ben-Gurion and Moshe
Sharett.
A member of the executive .
committee of the Zionist Coun
cil and a committee member of
the Community Council and the
Welfare Fund. Kandel is active
in many Jewish fund raising ac
tivities. He is also a member of
Beth Jacob Synagogue and the
Jewish War Veterans.
ATLANTA DIMENSION
AtlanlaMizrachi \V^6men Climax
Campaign for “Fresh Air Fund”
Mizrachi Women of Atlanta
wound up a week’s festivities ori
ented toward furthering Mizrachi
Fresh Air Fund with a Victory
Dinner Dance on Sunday, June
27, at the Beth Jacob Social Hall.
Mrs. Khalil Iny, in stating
Mizrachi aims, noted “that $1.00
will take an underprivileged Is
rael) child on a day long outing
to the seashore, $3.00 will give
an underprivileged child a Fresh
Air Weekend at a Mizrachi
Women’s Children’s Institution;
and $5.00 will take an immigrant
child from the summer heat for
a Fresh Air Fund Four Day Va
cation.”
Mrs. Iny also read a proclama
tion signed by Mayor Ivan Allen
Jr. marking the day.
Dr. Irving Greenberg, outstand
ing community leader and win
ner of this year’s Good Neighbor
Award, presented awards to ten
Mizrachi Women for their out
standing fund raising. Receiving
“Golden Wheel of Progress” pins
were Mesdames Ida Goncher, A.
J. Gruber, H. Iteld, Anne Hoff
man, Abe Levitt, Morton Paller,
Sidney Pazol, Louis Minsk, Har
ry Robkin and Khalil Iny.
Mizrachi president, Mrs. Harry
Robkin, dedicated a portion of
the program to the memory of
Bessie Gotsfeld, founder of the
Mizrachi Women’s Organization.
Recalling the founder’s vision and
determination, Mrs. Robkin
stated, “This is the living Hem-
sech, the continuity; this is the
re-birth, this is the march for
ward and onward, not living in
the past, but with the past as a
foundation on which to grow and
expand with faith, courage and
determination.”
The first Bronze Medallion
Award presented in Atlanta to an
Atlantan not of the Jewish faith,
who through his understanding
and deep appreciation of Israel
has been able to present public
ly an interpretation of Israel and
its aspirations and what it means
to the world and world Jewry,
was made to Ralph McGill.
Mrs. Harry Gershon, the form
er Rebecca Cathis of Chattanoo
MRS. ROBKIN AND MR. McGILL
(Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution)
ga, and a long-time friend of Mr.
McGill’s accepted the award in
his behalf. She read this mes
sage from Mr. McGill. “I great
ly regret that I cannot be pres
ent to accept this highly appreci
ated award in person, but I am
delighted that so charming a
proxy, who happens to one of
my oldest and dearest friends,
can accept this award for me.
“Israel is an exciting place to
me. On my visit in 1946, when
it was still Palestine, and when
it was preparing for the great
crisis which enabled it to emerge
as the restored nation of Israel,
I was thrilled by it. I still re
member the great inspiration and
spirit which pervaded the coun
try then and which still persists.
I recall, too, the many evidences
of Zionist support. The contribu
tion which Israel makes to free
dom and the democratic spirit is
a major one and one which prop
erly has the support of the Wes
tern world.
“I deeply appreciate the Award
given me, and I assure you that
I shall treasure it.”
■ r
Gershon Bar Mitzvah
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Gershon
of Atlanta cordially invite friends
and relatives to the Bar Mitzvah
of their son, Robert, at 9:00 a. m.
Saturday, July 10, at Ahavath
Achim Synagogue. A Kiddush
honoring Robert will follow the
services. Robert is the grandson
of Mrs. Oscar Gershon of Atlan
ta and Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Goldman of Miami.
Ahavath Achim’s 78th Annual Meeting
Atlanta’s Ahavath Achim Con
gregation members wound up
their seventy-eighth annual
meeting with selection of the of
ficers who if tradition holds ./ill
lead the group into its eightieth
year in 1967.
Heading the new officers is the
precedent breaking Mike Kraft,
who crashed through the Ahav
ath Achim hierarchy in a scant,
record dozen years to win the
synagogue's top post.
Ahavath Achim’s congregation
al politics almost require a life
time of membership and activity
to rise in the power structure
and with such a magnitude of
resource talent, the 1600 member
congregation can pretty much ad
here to this qualification.
The Mike Kraft-ed-type of
leadership, a combination of rare
gentleness, acumen and warmth
which shed a disarming confid
ence spiritual in quality and
hence most appropriate to a con
gregation, broke through the
long-time service restrictions.
If all goes well, it will be he
and his cohorts who will pare a
gala and gigantic eightieth anni
versary year two years hence.
It is not the first time, Mr
Kraft’s leadership has carried
him to a top congregational post.
When the former south Georgian
resided in Rome, Ga., his religi
ous affinity brought him into the
presidency of Rodelph Sholom
Congregation. He had to interrupt
his duties and resign when busi-
MI.KE KRAFT
ness requirements necessitated^ a
residential and factory change to
Atlanta.
Mr. Kraft however is not the
run-of-the-mill leader who lets
business or pleasure interfere
with religiosity. Even on a business
trip or vacation, he finds his way
to the nearest synagogue for Sab
bath worship.
Taking office with Mr. Kraft
are vice presidents Harry Lane
Siegel and Sylvan Makover;
treasurer Dave Alterman; finan
cial secretary Dr. Marvin Gold
stein and recording secretary
Gerald Cohen.
Usually a congregation’s an
nual meeting includes built-in
pyrotechnics over renewal of the
rabbi’s contract, a controversial
matter as often as possible shunt
ed to some other time such as
a board meeting.
Since Rabbi Harry H. Epstein
has life tenure, members are not
concerned with his contract re
newal. They are however con
cerned over the impending re
tirement of their cantor, a mat
ter which has brought forth pep
pery repartee and natural ten
sion over the delicate overtones
and obligatoes involved in the
case. The matter came up during
the annual meeting, proving that
a group with almost $400,000 an
nual budget has £ great variety
of operational problems, and will
be held in obeyance for final
resolution.
The congregation paid special
tribute during the program to
Hyman Jacobs for his decades
and decades of service to the
shule. Mr. Jacobs, who has not
lately been in top health, was
nevertheless present with his
wife for this part of the cere
mony He was given a gigantic
silver tray. Mr Jacobs who is in
his eighties has been identified
with the synagogue almost since
its inception and every phase of
his religious life since adulthood
was a part of the developing
Ahavath Achim Congregation. He
participated as a board member
and officer for many, many years
and for forty years has been al
most solely in charge of the
group’s cemetery administration.
Under the aegis of retiring
president Max Rittenbaum, who
presided at the meeting, special
honors were paid to a number of
persons, including
Mrs. Beryl Koplin, as presi
dent of the Sisterhood.
Sam Eplan, who retired from
a vice presidency and many years
as a board member.
Norman and Anne Diamond,
for the presidency of the Mr. and
Mrs. Club.
Jerrold Leeson, the congrega
tion’s youth director, for guidance
of the USY activities.
Irving Galanty, executive di-
arector, for the excellence of his
management.
Synagogue choir members for
the quality of their musical par
ticipation at services.
Educational department teach
ers and sponsors for the quality
and devotion of their activities.
Mr. Eplan placed the sum of
money collected as a gift for him
from fellow board members into
a fund for the purchase of Jew
ish art in memory of Rabbi Ju
lius Chashesman, scholarly fa
ther of Mrs. Harry H. Epstein.
Rabbi Chashesman, a noted Chi
cago scholar, lived out his final
years in Atlanta.
In his annual meeting message.
Rabbi Epstein directed forceful
attention to “restating the goals
which are ours.”
This is the intrinsic, overriding
determination to enable Juda
ism to continue in our midst, he
asserted. When we lose sight of
it, we are lost, he said. Every
generation has had to face dif
ficulty and change of its time,
drawing for courage upon its
own resources to remain Jews.
It has always been difficult to
swim against the tide, he add
ed.
We face a unique emergency,
Rabbi Epstein declared, present
ed so to speak by the “blessings
of freedom.”
“If we want to preserve Juda
ism in an integrated society, we
must face the ever-increasing
danger of losing our identity.
There is no guarantee of sur
vival, he continued.
It is only the Synagogue of all
other activities in the community
through which there is a chance
of survival.
He termed the Synagogue, “the
generating plant for the soul of
our people."
Here, he said, we “find the
nourishment of Jewish teaching,
the absorbing of our proud her
itage, our glamorous past, excit
ing present and Messianic fu
ture.
“We can strengthen our Juda
ism through Synagogue participa
tion . . . We owe it to ourselves
to strengthen the bastion of the
Synagogue, where we do not
count noses, we count commit
ment of heart.”