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Friday, May 6, 1966
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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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Pinhas Sapir, Israel’s Minister of Finance (left) greets Israel Rogosin, 78-year-old American textile
tycoon and philanthropist, at Feb. 17 groundbreaking for National nautical school at Ashdod. School
in new port is made possible by part of Rogosin contribution of $2,500,000 to the Israel Education
Fund, program of the United Jewish Appeal.
COMMENTS
Jewish Education, You All
The Brandeis Institute annual dinner this
past Tuesday evening was a memorable event
in more ways than one. There was the tribute
to the amazing Dr. Shlomo Bardin, who
directs this inspirational and vital Institute-
retreat. There was the Humanitarian Award
to Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, a man deeply com
mitted to his Judaism.
But there was, too, a rather remarkable
address by former Governor Terry Sanford*
of North Carolina. This lawyer and former
FBI agent quoted liberally from Maimonides
and the Talmud in discussing the Jewish role
in education.
Said the governor: “The Jewish people
were the first to commit themselves to edu
cation. Each Jew was commanded to study
some each day . . . This commitment to edu
cation which is the cornerstone of your re
ligion is also the cornerstone of our kind of
government. As Jefferson put it, ‘Education
is the keystone of the arch of democracy.’
Brandeis Institute has added, “And the key
to each men’s search for his own destiny.”
. . . Your efforts in Jewish education serve
humanity . . .”
Gov. Sanford, a Christian, looks at Jewish
life in America unencumbered by its politics
and stresses and strains. And from his un
hampered view he has indeed successfully
placed his finger on the first priority of
Jewish life—education.
—B’nai B’rith Messenger, Los Angeles
•Governor Sanford’s speech was reprinted in its
entirety in tn the PASSOVER Magazine of The
Southern Israelite.
The Case For Ihud
An editorial in the American Examiner of
Brooklyn excoriates in the severest way Dr.
Simon Shereshevsky, chairman of the Ihud
Association of Israel, for his willingness to
listen to the views of the American Council
for Judaism in the same way he met with and
consulted with leaders of Zionism and of the
United Nations and even of the Arab nations.
The Ihud movement seeks peace with the
Arabs. It is fairly-well recognized as an ideal
istic but ineffective group, mostly because of
its unrealistic approach. It was organized by
the late Judah L. Magnes, the rabbi of Temple
Emanu El in New York who moved to Israel
and became president of the Hebrew Univer
sity. The Brooklyn Jewish weekly, resorting
to guilt by association, asserted that “Dr.
Shereshevsky must be extremely naive if he
thinks the Council for Judaism is seeking
friendship between Israel and the Arabs. What
H is seeking is the destruction of the State of
Israel and the total assimilation of the Jews.
Is this what Ihud wants? Until Dr. Shereshev-
aky convinces us to the contrary, he cannot ex
pect American Jewry to take him seriously.”
The writer of that editorial lives in Metropoli
tan New York. We are sure that he would be
welcomed to Israel as a new settler, as was Dr.
Shereshevsky, who heads the radiological de
partment of Jerusalem’s Bikur Holim Hos
pital. . . We are with Dr. Shereshevsky. We
believe that the aims of the Ihud movement
should be espoused by the American and the
World Jewish community. Even The Examiner
cannot oppose these aims that would bring
peace to the Middle East and the fructifying
of all the nations of these areas in the world.
The difference lies in the approach. If the
Ihud is too visionary, then it should be opposed
on that score, although we are inclined to the
view that the Ihud’s position will eventually
be adopted, perhaps not through the procedure
it presently proposes. But the Ihud should not
be silenced, and most certainly not by guilt
by association . . .
NATIONAL JEWISH POST &
OPINION, INDIANAPOLIS
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Extrocts from "The Grophic History of ffio Jewish
Heritage." Edited by P. Wol Imon-T somir. F^blished by
Shengold Publishers and Foundation for A Graphic
History of Jewish Literature. 27 William Street,
New York, N. Y., 10005.
A Seven Arts Feature.
PI3'K
A woman mourns as Jeru
salem bums and the Jews
go into exile.
"She weepeth sort in the
night, And her tears are
on her cheeks; She hath
none to comfort her”
(Lam. 1.2).
LAMENTATIONS
Lamentations — The scroll of Lamentations
contains five chapters of elegy over the destruc
tion of the First Temple—hence the title. Chap
ters 1,2, and 4 arc written in alphabetical acrostic
form, chapter 3 in a triple acrostic. Chapter 5
consists of 22 verses, corresponding to the num
ber of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. The senti
ment running through all of Lamentations is one
of deep anguish.
The sages attributed the composition of La
mentations to the prophet Jeremiah. The author,
who personally suffered from the destruction of
Jerusalem and the ruin of the Temple, links his
individual tragedy with that of the nation. “I am
the man that hath seen aflliction/By the rod of
His wrath” (Lamentations 3.1). The elegy is
chanted in the synagogue on Tisha B’Ab; this has
influenced the recital of other liturgical composi
tions (Kinnot) after services on that day.
Former Savannah Man
Killed in Viet Nam
LAKELAND, Fla. — Marine
First Lt. Morris Kraft, a native of
Savannah, has been killed in ac
tion in Viet Nam on March 21.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Morton Kraft, who are now
living in Lakeland, Fla.
Memorial services were held on
April 3 at Temple Emmanuel of
lakeland.
Lt. Kraft was killed during
Operation Texas in the Quang
Ngai area.
Lt. Col. James D. McGough,
USMC, wrote a letter which des
cribed in detail how the young
man had been killed.
Lt. Kraft, a member of the
3G3rd United States Marine
dorps Air Helicopter Squadron,
was on a troop landing operation
on the first day of the manuever.
“His helicopter was hit severely
by enemy fire and crashed to the
ground,”, the officer said.
The letter continued . . . “other
helicopters landed immediately in
the area,” and Kraft was rush
ed, unconscious, back to the hos
pital where doctors “fought to
save his life, but to no avail.”
Col. McGough said that Kraft
did not recover consciousness and
“was not in agony during his
ordeal.”
The colonel praised Kraft and
said that his “cheerful disposi
tion won the respect of the men
in his squadron.”
Lt. Kraft was buried with full
military honors in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
His father reported that just
one month prior to his son’s
death, February 21, Kraft’s hel
icopter was hit by fire and was
just able to limp back to an air
craft carrier.
Lt. Kraft would have returned
here from Viet Nam late in May
after having spent nine months
in combat.
After graduating from the Uni
versity of Florida, Kraft went
into the service and became a
helicopter pilot.
“He always wanted to be some
one,” the father said, “and I take
great comfort in the fact that he
died in the service of his coun
try and for what he knew was
right.”
Besides his parents, Lt. Kraft
is survived by a brother, Sam;
two sisters, Karen Kraft of Sa
vannah and Mrs. Dianne Causby
of Greenville, N. C.; and his pa
ternal grandmother, Mrs. Sam
Kraft of Charlotte.
Convalescent ("enter Dedicated
Atlanta’s $1.4 million Hillhaven Convalescent Center opened April
3 across from the Georgia Baptist Hospital at 265 Boulevard. Rabbi
Raphael Gold of Ahavath Achim Synagogue participated in the
dedication ceremonies. The 4-story, 150-bed convalescent hospital is
designed to accomodate patients who need extended nursing care,
but do not require the concentration of medical services provided
by hospitals. Pictured above with Rabbi Gold in front of Hillhaven
Convalescent Center are Mrs. Leanore Stewart, R. N. (right), local
administrator of the facility, and Fred C. Diamond (center), presi
dent and chairman of the Board, Hillhaven, Inc., a nationally
recognized convalescent hospital management firm which will man
age the facility. The convalescent hospital is a development of
Atlanta-based Cousins Properties Incorporated subsidiary, First
American Investment Corporation.
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