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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1965
Needs of Small Jewish Communities
Discussed at Parley in New York
NEW YORK (JTA)—The needs
of small Jewish communities
throughout the country were dis
cussed here at a three-day con
ference of a selected group of
executives of Jewish Federations
in communities with 300 to 1,000
Jewish families. The conference
was co-sponsored by the Council
of Jewish Federations and Wel
fare Funds and the National Jew
ish Welfare Board.
The purpose of the conference
was to examine ways of making
small Jewish communities more
viable, less isolated and to fulfill
their potential role in American
Jewish life. The best experience
in such communities was pooled
on campaigning, administration,
welfare services, women’s divis
ions, leadership development, re
lationships with United Funds,
and community relations. Devices
for improving campaigning in
small communities to maintain
services at a high level and to
meet responsibilities for national
and overseas needs were stress
ed. All of the factors that lead
Rioting Arabs
Bum Aden Shule
LONDON (JTA)—A synagogue
was burned down in the British
Protectorate of Aden, the Red
Sea port of southwestern Arabia,
according to authentic reports
reaching here.
The dispatches stated that
rioting Arabs, protesting against
the British Government’s plans
to establish a new constitution
for the protectorate, ran wild in
one of the city’s quarters. The
rioters threw flaming wooden
torches at the synagogue, aiming
some of the torches at stacks of
Jewish holy books piled In one
comer of the house of worship.
Several Jewish bakeries were
also attacked.
BONN (JTA)—The repeatedly
postponed first meeting between
Asher Ben-Nathan, Israel’s Am
bassador to West Germany, and
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard was
finally held on a special request
by the Chancellor.
to effective campaigning — early
and sound planning, a top leader
ship that is properly motivated
and informed on needs that must
be met, a good program of year-
round interpretation—are equal
ly applicable to small commun
ities and large ones the execu
tives agreed.
Small Jewish communities lo
cated near larger cities with well
developed Jewish communal
agencies frequently obtain their
use, it was reported at the par
ley. A widely used form of co
operation is the community sup
port agreement between small
communities and regional Jew
ish homes for the aged. On a
purchase basis, caseworkers from
a family and children’s service
agency in a larger city are used
part-time; Jewish education fa
cilities and the Jewish center,
when a small city doesn’t have
one, are utilized in nearby larger
communities.
Most small communities have
not yet developed formal youth
leadership training programs that
have proven so successful in
many larger cities across the
country. Recommendations were
made at the conference for the
development of such leadership
as well as for attracting more
women to the women’s divisions
of the local fund-raising com
munity campaign.
Nazi Jailed
For Defiling
U. S. House
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Robert
Felton Bruce, 20, a member of
the American Nazi Party who
threw a swastika - emblazoned
flag onto the floor of the House
of Representative here, and shout
ed Fascist slogans after chain
ing himself to a rail in the House
visitors’ gallery, was arraigned
on serious charges and held in
$2,500 bail for a hearing October
15.
He was charged with assaulting
an officer and with three counts
of disorderly conduct.
AN ARMY EXP
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NO. 41
By Rabbi Dov Peretx Elkins
(A Seven Arts Feature)
The Festival of Sukkot recalls
the ancient historical period of
our ancestors’ living in booths—
frail huts—during their long trek
from Egypt to the Promised Land.
The writer had an experience
about a year ago which helped
him to empathize with our anci
ent ancestors in the wilderness of
Sinai. But he was in the wilder-
jesses of Fort Dix, New Jersey.
As part of the training a chap
lain receives before being sent
to his permanent assignment, he
must spend nine weeks at the
U. S. Army’s Chaplain School at
Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, where
he learns the rudiments of mil
itary conduct and living. The
eighth week of this training con
sists of special field maneuvers at
a designated site at Fort Dix,
N. J.
We were over hundred chap
lains, of all faiths, all of us nov
ices in the Army. With our boots
at a high gloss, our belt buckles
reflecting the sun’s rays in an
almost blinding fashion, and our
chaplains insignia smiling with
pride on our collar, we grabbed
our duffles and hopped on the
bus from Brooklyn to Dix.
Naturally apprehension filled
the air. We had heard about
living in a tent for five days in
the field from our predecessors.
It was to be no easy experience.
But after all, how were we
to advise our young recruits who
would shortly be beckoning at
our door if we did not undergo
some of the training that they
were having? How could we
sympathize with them, and how
could we understand their prob
lems; And since according to the
Geneva Convention chaplains
don’t carry weapons, our physi
cal ordeal, no matter how diffi
cult, would be all that much
easier and lighter for not having
to tote a heavy M-14 rifle on
our backs.
The fundamentalist theologian
might have confirmed his strong
47 Jewish Leaders Join
At Meeting With Pope
NEW YORK (JTA) — Forty-
even leading Jews, representing
11 groups and denomination! In
American Jewry, joined Protes-
ans, Orthodox Christians and
Catholics meeting with Pope Paul
G Monday, it was announced
lere by the Papal Visit News
Center. The meeting was des-
ribed in the official announce-
nent as one of ‘representatives
if religious groups workng in re-
ation to the United Nations” who
hus "dramatically symbolized
he mutual concerns of religion
or world peace,"
Spokesmen for the three groups
vere Philip M. Klutznick, form-
x United States Ambassador to
he United Nations Economic and
locial Council who is a member
if the cabinet of the Jewish Cen-
er for the United Nations; An-
Irew E. Cordier, for many years
he executive assistant to the late
J. N Secretary-General Dag
lammarskjold, speaking for the
^rotestant-Orthodox^ group; and
he Rt. Rev Msgr. Timothy J.
Hynn, representative of the
toman Catholic Center.
The list of Jewish representa-
ives invited to meet the pontiff,
as issued by the Papal Visit News
Center, consisted of the follow
ing:
Jack N. Berkman, national
chairman, Jewish Center for the
United Nations; Milton Freund,
president of the Jewish Center;
Rabbi David B. Kahane, of the
Jewish Center; Rabbi Philip Hiat,
director of the Center; Rabbi
Max Nussbaum, president of the
American Zionist Council; Ed
ward M. M. "Warburg, national
chairman, Joint Distribu t i o n
Committee; Dr. Wiliam Wexler,
president, B’nai B’rith Interna
tional; Rabbi Seymour J. Cohen,
president. Synagogue Council of
America; Rabbi Max Schenk,
president, New York Board of
Rabbis; Mrs. Joseph Willen,
president. National Council of
Jewish Women.
Rabbi David DeSola Pool,
Orthodox advisor, Jewish Center
for the United Nations; Rabbi
Harry Halpem, Conservative ad
visor, and Rabbi Solomon Free-
hof. Reform advisor; Alexander
Hassen, Joseph Mailman, and
Ralph Friedman, all members of
the cabinet. Jewish Center for the
United Nations; Rabbi Nelson
Glueck, president, Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re
ligion; Rabbi Maurice N. Eisen-
drath, president, Union of Amer
ican Hebrew Congregat ions;
George Maislen, president, United
Synagogue of America; Moses Is
rael Miller, president. Rabbinical
Council of America; Rabbi Max
J. Routtenberg, president, Rab
binical Assembly; Rabbi Jacob
J. Weinstein, president, Central
Conference of American Rabbis.
Rabbi Joachim Prinz, chairman,
Conference of Presidents of Jew
ish Organizations; Samuel Bronf
man, chairman, Western Hemis
phere executive. World Jewish
Congress; Aaron Goldman, na
tional chairman, National Com
munity Relations Advisory Coun
cil; Rabbi Isaac Lewin, chairman,
American section, Agudath Israel
World Organization; Abraham
Goodman, chairman of the board.
Jewish Center for the United
Nations; Herman Fiedelbaum,
Albert Kanter, Arthur Belfer, all
vice-presidents, Jewish Center
for the United Nations; Moses
Kooperstein, treasurer, Jewish
Center for the United Nations;
David H. Ullman, Charles Fer-
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faith in Divine Providence after
this week, because if one hundred
men of the cloth pray to hold
back the rains and they refrain
from pouring down, there must
be something to it. I, in my lib
eralism, merely attributed it to
good luck, but have had linger
ing theological doubts ever since.
Arriving at Dix, we laid out our
gear, set up our tents, dusted off
the bits of sand that spitefully
crawled up on our shiny boots,
and were ready for the worst.
I even thought of hanging a
Jewish flag over my tent, as the
Israelites splashed blood on their
doorposts in Egypt to keep God’s
wrath away from them. But my
better judgment forbade this
rash act just in time. Here again
modem theology served me well.
I would not exactly call the
pot helmets which we used to
wash ourselves, filling it with
soapy water, anywhere compar
able to a modern porcelain sink
like the one at home, but at least
it served the purpose.
On the more serious side, the
week living in tents was an ex
perience I would not want to
exchange for anything. It afford
ed me many opportunities for
spiritual experiences unlike any
I had had ever before. In the
morning three separate worship
services were held for the dif
ferent faiths, and I felt a kind of
exhilaration wrapping my tefillin
around an arm washed with
water from a helmet-liner. And
placing my fatigue cap over the
tefillin ahel rosh (head) gave It
a twist that in its own way made
me feel closer to God.
I would be quite remlsa were
I to omit the two highlights of
the week—crawing the infiltra
tion course and the eight mile
forced march. Under simulated
conditions of warfare, with ex
plosives blasting in our ears,
barbed wire ubiquitous, and live
bullets zooming a few feet over
head, we crawled through muck
and mire using only our elbows
and feet for locomotion. Had any
one dared get up on his knees,
he might have raised his body
high enough to block the path
of a bullet. Needless to say the
crawl was done at black of
night, with no lighting to speak
of besides a small crescent of a
moon, and the fire of fear bum- i
ing inside of us.
The march would not have
been bad at all, except for the
ambush perpetrated upon us by
the frequent explosion of gas
bombs, at which moment we
were to secure our masks In ten
seconds time or suffer the con
sequences.
It wasn’t exactly like the trip
the Israelites took with Moses,
but if this week had lasted any
where near the length of time
that it took to get from Egypt to
the Jordan, our generation of
chaplains would have died out
too.
Sukkot Observance
THE SIDNEY PAZOLS of Atlanta have practically a built-in 8«k-
kah. with the charming brick-work serving as permanent sides
on which the family every year erects the traditional booth for
the observance of the Jewish Festival of Harvest and Thanks
giving. These four youngsters have finished decorating the
booth (1964) and are shown practicing the Klddaah—with grape
Juice of oourae. They are Richard Jay, EUse Diane and Rshy
Debra Pasol and top right Janice Meteei. daughter of the dory