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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XU
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1966
NO. 33
. ... in Brief
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Tel
Aviv Congregation for Progres
sive Judaism, the local group of
Reform worshipers, announced
this week it had leased the hall
of B’nai B’rith tlodge here for
High Holy Day services this year.
The congregation has been
holding Sabbath services in the
B’nai B’rith Club here for the
last three months. Last year, the
local B’nai B’rith hall had re
fused to lease its facilities to the
Reform group, and had been
criticized for that stand by B’nai
B’rith lodges abroad.
TRENTON, N. J. (JTA)—Mis
representing certain foods as
being kosher will now be a vio
lation of New Jersey State law
in accordance with a new bill
signed by Governor Richard J.
Hughes. The legislation is aimed
at deceptive or misleading state
ments and provides for stiff fines.
The law was introduced by State
Senator Maclyn S. Goldman, of
Essex County.
LOS ANGELES (JTA)— Jew
ish communities throughout Cal
ifornia are now being visited by
a mobile classroom for Jewish
education introduced by the
Lubavitcher Hassidic movement
in Los Angeles, to promote re
ligious teaching among Jewish
school children outside of their
public schools but within a rea
sonable distance from these
schools.
The children receive their in
struction in a large trailer which
has a seating capacity of 35
pupils. The trailer has been re
built into a classroom with seats,
blackboards and even a small li
brary. During a school day the
mobile classroom makes it pos
sible to accommodate 200 chil
dren daily. The program has
been in operation in the city of
Los Angeles for about a year and
its success has stimulated the
visiting of the “classmobile” dur
ing the summer months also in
other communities.
BOSTON (JTA)—A $1,000,000
contribution to Hadassah for the
construction of a facility to be
known as the “Siegfried and
Irma Ullman Building for Can
cer and Allied Diseases” was an
nounced at a press conference
here, held in connection with the
Hadassah national convention
now taking place in Boston.
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (JTA)
-Twenty-five Jewish. Protestant
and Catholic parents served a
complaint here against a local
school board which has assign
ed pupils to attend public school
classes, beginning in September,
to be held in a Catholic church
and a Reform temple.
The complaint by the parents
was backed by affidavits by two
parents—one an Orthodox rabbi,
the other a Catholic housewife—
who protested against assigning
their children to schools conduct
ed in the house of worship of a
faith other than their own. The
two are Rabbi Solomon Zeides,
who lives here and is a librarian
at Yeshiva University in New
York; and Mrs. Madeline Ret, a
member of St. Margaret’s Roman
Catholic Church in nearby Pearl
River.
The school board served with
the petition had decided two
months ago to hold some public
classes next September at St.
Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church
and at Temple Beth El, a Reform
house of worship. The American
Jewish Congress is aiding the
complaning parents with counsel.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — No
trace has been found of Hupei
Portogaz, an American who re
cently disappeared from the Red
Sea port of Eilat, in southern
Israel.
Police said Portogaz had lived
in Israel for two years and in
Eilat for one month. His car con
taining his suitcases was found
but no clue to his whereabouts
was uncovered.
HAIFA (JTA) — More than
100 immigrants from the United
States and Canada, ranging in
age from three years to 90, were
among the 900 passengers who
arrived here aboard the Shalom
liner. The newcomers are the
largest group of immigrants to
come from North America in
many years.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel Fri
day shot down two Syrian jet
fighters and blew up some forti
fications well inside Syrian ter
ritory after Syria started a min
iature war by shelling Israeli
Coast Guard vessels accompany
ing fishing boats on Lake Tib
erias, a body of water entirely
within Israeli jurisdiction.
In the exchange of firing,
which lasted from 5 o’clock in
the morning until Syria accepted
a United Nations cease-fire pro
posal at 1:30 p. m., Israel suffer
ed five wounded, none of them,
however, was very seriously in
jured. (A radio broadcast from
Damascus, capital of Syria,
claimed that three Israeli gun
boats were destroyed and eight
others set afire on Lake Tiber
ias. Israeli army spokesmen
shrugged off that report as a
fabrication.)
The action started at about 5
a. m. when a flotilla of Israeli
fishing boats started operating
on Lake Tiberias under the pro
tection of Coast Guard cutters
and speedboats. Syrian gun posts
located at Massaoudyie started
shelling one of the Coast Guard
vessels which had become stuck
on some reefs in the lake, not far
from the shore nearest Syria.
The Syrians used recoilless Lor
etta guns placed in their forti-
Syria To By-Pass UN
The Middle East political situation was thrown out of kilter this
week with Syria’s announcement it would by-pass the United Nations
and take action against Israel at will.
The threat, observers noted, could result in considerable blood-
shedding for both sides before the matter could be contained.
fied positions, and soon wound-
the wounded off the stranded
vessel, and immediately asked
the United Nations military ob
servers in the area to order a
cease-fire so that the wounded
could be evacuated. By 6 a. m.,
while the rescue operations were
still under way, and after a total
of five Israelis had been wound
ed by the shelling, Syria sent
four MIGs into the air to harass
the ships and the rescuers. Israel
then replied by sending its own
air force up to repel the Syrian
jets.
The first hit on a Syrian air
plane, a MIG-17, was scored by
anti-aircraft guns aboard the
stranded Israeli Coast Guard
cutter. The craft was seen fall
ing into Lake Tiberias, and the
pilot could not be seen swim
ming away from his downed
ship. Israel started immediate
operations to try to rescue the
pilot, but he was believed drown
Kibbutzim Endorse Israel’s
Planned Economic Changes
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A resolu
tion strongly endorsing the gov
ernment’s proposed economic
policy plans were adopted last
week by the national conven
tion of Kibbutz Hameuhad, the
organization of kibbutzim affil
iated with Achdut Avodah, one
of the partners in the coalition
government. The convention, held
at Kibbutz Yagur, near Haifa,
was attended by 400 delegates
representing 57 kibbutzim with
a total of 24,000 members
throughout Israel.
The government’s new econom
ic program, the convention voted,
deserves support as “a bold de
cision” needed to raise the coun
try’s creative productivity and,
thus, prevent unemployment. The
organization supported the gov
ernment’s call for aiding the
competitive nature of Israeli
products by increasing productiv
ity.
Argentine Jewish Leader
Says Anti-Semitism ‘Feared"
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) —
There is fear of anti-Semitism
in the Argentine Jewish com
munity but it cannot be attribut
ed to anything concrete, Dr. Isaac
Goldenberg, president of DAIA,
the Jewish community’s central
representative body, said here
this week.
Dr. Goldenberg was asked, in
an interview in the daily news
paper, Correo de la Tarde,
whether the DAIA had received
from its members any charges of
anti-Semitism since the new
Government was formed here.
Replying that no charges of that
Atlanta Area Seminar Sept. 4-6
On New Way to Teach Hebrew
Habet U’Shma—Hebrew by the Audio Visual Method,—will be
introduced in the Atlanta area at a three-day seminar sponsored by
the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education, ui conjunction with the
Center for Curriculum Development, a division of Chilton Books. Inc.
This seminar, to be held at the Atlanta Jewish t omm.m.tv Center
on September 4, 5 and 6, will be conducted by Jacob Amidi and will be
attended by Hebrew teachers and principals from Atlanta and other
This method, developed in Israel by Mrs. Judith Cais and Dr.
Paul Enoch, under the auspices of the Technion Research and De
velopment Foundation, utilizes tape recordings, filmstrips and assign -
ed homework records, picture books and reading texts to teach stu
dents to abstract meanings from situations. Just as they operate
within their own “first” or native language and to acquire fluency
In writing, reading and speaking Hebrew.
This program has been successfully Implemented in the 1-os An
geles area and will be utilized In selected classes of the Central He
brew High School, which fat sponsored and administered by the At
lanta Bureau of Jewish Education.
kind had been received, he was
asked whether there was fear in
the Jewish community. Dr. Gold
enberg answered: “Yes, indeed.
I perceive it but I cannot attri
bute it to anything concrete, only
to something environmental, sub
jective.”
The Buenos Aires Herald,
only Engl ish-language daily
newspaper in this country, de
clared that “smear campaigns
about the Government being in
filtrated by anti-semitic neo-
Fascists are sweeping and dubi
ous.”
Patricio Errecalte Pueyrredon,
the leader of the ultra-rightwing
Tacuara group banned by the
regime of former President Illia,
who was received recently by
Enrique Martinez, Interior Min
ister in the present regime of
President! Ongania, said here that
his organization was not anti-
Semitic.
Replying to questions in an in
terview published in the weekly,
Confirmado, the Tacuara leader
denied that his group was anti-
Semitic and said that “for us all
men are equal before God.” He
added, however, that “insofar as
the international situation makes
of Israel a base of imperialism
with Zionism one of its tentacles,
we are mortally and bloodily
anti-Zionist.” He claimed in the
interview that Tacuara had some
Jews among its membership.
Addressing the convention at
an earlier session. Finance Min
ister Pinhas Sapir warned that
the high cost of labor was
strangling Israel’s export drive
and indirectly leading to unem
ployment. Mr. Sapir said that
direct and indirect labor costs ac
counted for 80 percent of the
costs of production. Production
costs, he noted, were higher in
Israel than in Europe where out
put per man is 25 percent greater.
Mr. Sapir scored outdated
norms as the bases of pay rates
in Israel, which, he said, had to
be adjusted to modern technol
ogy. He castigated the low prof
itability of enterprises operated
by the Government and the His-
tadrut, Israel’s labor federation,
asserting that “it is easier for
such enterprises to run up def
icits because they can be covered
out of public funds. Public en
terprises just go bankrupt and
are turned over to the official
receivers.”
In another resolution, the con
vention welcomed the establish
ment of the alignment between
Achdut Avodah and Mapai, but
declared that the political im
provement is incomplete as long
as Mapam fails to join and, thus,
“complete labor unity.” The
convention warned Israel on the
problem of emigration from this
country, decrying especially the
emigration of Israelis wth ac
ademic degrees.
ed two Israelis.
Israel sent' speedboats to take
ed.
A second of the Syrian planes,
a MIG-12, was chased by an Is
raeli jet fighter well into Syrian
territory. The Israeli reported
that he sent the MIG-21 plunging
downward at a point about 25
miles inside Syria. The two re
maining Syria aircraft disappear
ed in the direction of their Syrian
bases.
Meanwhile, Gen. Itzhak Rabin,
chief of staff of Ilsrael’s fighting
forces, ordered the Israeli planes
to pursue the search for the
Syrian attackers as far as the
fortified position at or near Mas
saoudyie. The Israeli planes fired
at the Syrian posts, silencing the
Syrian batteries.
The air operation to silence the
gun posts inside Syria took about
xO minutes. Israel pointed out
that the posts were forts, far
from any civilian dwelling. The
United Nation’s Syrian-Israeli
Mixed Armistice Commission re
ceived Israel’s full acceptance of
a cease-fire offer by 10:30 a. m.
But it was not until three hours
later that Syria agreed to hah
all firing.
Israel considered the aggres
sion as the most serious in the
explosive Syrian border area in
many years. Gen. Rabin held a
press conference at Tel Aviv
within a few hours after the
complete cease-fire went into ef
fect, and told the press that he
had ordered the Israeli Air Force
to fight back against the Syrian
aggressions and to follow through
by attacking its “sanctuary” in
side Syrian territory. “Israel’s
air strike was necessary.” he
said, “to save personnel aboard
the vessels, which had been
shelled by Syrian batteries.”
Israelis were particularly re
sentful because the sea was calm
and the atmosphere clear when
the Syrians started their attacks.
Later, when rescue operations
were under way, the Israelis said,
the Syrians deliberately fired
upon small ships obviously being
used for rescue only or by Is
raeli newspaper men who had
come up from Tel Aviv to re
port the operations. In pursuing
rescuers, it was charged, the
Syrians used machine guns and
rockets.
Both Israel and Syria filed
complaints with the UN Mixed
Armistic Commission, each ac
cusing the other side of agres
sion.
Lt. Moog, Augustan,
Killed in Viet Nam
AUGUSTA—Lt. Phillip J. Moog, 24, of Augusta was killed In
action August 10 In Viet Nam.
A lifelong resident of Augusta, Lt. Moog was a graduate ol
Richmond Academy and received his BS in mathematics from The
Citadel, Charleston, in 1964. He was commissioned a lieutenant
upon graduation from Officers Candidate School at Ft. Bcnning In
June, 1965, and was serving with the 1st Cavalry Division, Co. A,
2-12 Cavalry.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jerry Ware Moog, Augusta,
and his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Moog,
Augusta.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.