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The Southern Israelite
Vol. XU
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Establish
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1966
NO. 39
Clearwater Congregation
To Install Gorod as Rabbi
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Rabbi
Louis Gorod assumed his r\ew
duties as rabbi
of Congregation Hj
Clearwater on ^
will be official-
ly installed on
Sunday, Oct 9, ,
with a dinner
given in his |BH
honor at Con- ■■
gregation Beth *jif
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Gorod jKpflG
has spent the , ‘t
past 15 years HBfgp ■
serving congrega-
tions in Georgia. Rabbi Gorod
For the past six years he was the
Rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Dal
ton. During his tenure there, he
was a member of the Dalton
Ministerial Association, chaplain
of the Hamilton Memorial Hos-
B’nai B’rith Lodge, treasurer of
pital, secretary of the Dalton
Dalton Jewish Welfare Fund, and
consultant-at-large to members
of all faiths.
Prior to coming to Dalton,
Rabbi Gorod served the congre
gation in Valdosta for nine years,
during which time he was a
chaplain at Pineview General
Hospital, president of the Val
dosta B’nai B’rith Lodge, auxil
iary chaplain at Moody Air Force
Base, and a member of the Board
of Directors of the Youth Cen
ter.
Before coming South, Rabbi
Gorod held pulpits in Sullivan
County, N. Y., for seven years,
where he was a charter member
and officer of the Ministerial Al
liance of Sullivan County. He was
also an officer of the Rabbinical
Association of Sullivan County.
Rabbi Gorod is a graduate of
the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Yeshiva
and Mesifta in New York and
the College of the City of New
York. He did graduate work in
Biblical Research at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Gorod is well known as
an outstanding educator and
author, having made contribu
tions to leading educational jour
nals and periodicals. His inspira
tional influence towards inter-
faith amity and understanding
has been felt in every community
he has served.
Mrs. Gorod is the former Hen
rietta Levine. She is a graduate
of Columbia University School of
Journalism. Many of her stories
and poems have been published.
Rabbi and Mrs. Gorod have
two children, Herbert 19, a stu
dent at Emory University, and a
daughter, Marcianne Joy, 7.
Former Georgian Wounded
By Viet Cong Mine
Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff
(above) speaks at Lafayette
Park rally.
(Right) Rabbi Israel Miller,
with Sen. Jacob Javits and
Aaron Goldman, NCRAC
chairman, kindles Eternal
Light for Soviet Jewry.
Dr. William Wexler (below),
president of B’nai B’rith,
read declaration urging equal
rights for Soviet Jewry at the
Philip Murray Building.
“WE MEET AGAIN . . . not in despair, bat in
the optimism of our faith.” With these words,
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the American
Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, reaffirm
ed the commitment of the troop's 85 constituent
Don Oberdorfer Jr., former At
lantan, was wounded recently in
Viet Nam where he is the cor
respondent for the Knight chain
of newspapers.
The 35-year-old journalist was
accompanying a province chief
on a pre-election tour of remote
areas when the jeep in which
they were riding touched off a
“claimore,” or home-made mine
used by the Viet Cong for ter
rorist purposes.
Shrapnel from the explosion
pierced the writer’s cheek and
struck the province chief’s arm.
Neither was seriously hurt or re
quired more than emergency
first-aid treatment.
Oberdorfer, a graduate of
Druid Hills High and Princeton
University, is currently reporting
the Viet Nam scene for the
Knight chain on his second tour
of duty in the war-tom country.
He begin his first two and a half
month stint in Viet Nam in April
and returned to his wife and two
children in Washington on the
eve of Father’s Day. He was
greeted with the news that the
Knight papers wanted to to re
turn in time to cover the elec
tion and subsequent develop
ments. He returned to Viet Nam
in mid-August.
Oberdorfer, who began his
newspaper interest as a young
boy, began his eventful career
with the Charlotte Observer,
later going to Washington to
head the Knight Newspapers Bu
reau as a national correspondent.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Oberdorfer, both former
ly prominent in Atlanta com
munal leadership.
by DR. SAMUEL SILVER
SUKKOT
(A Seven Arts Feature)
The holiday of Sukkot (Soo-
kot) is one of the ways that the
Jewish people say thank-you to
God. It is a holiday which comes
in the autumn when nature is
very pretty: with brown, yellow*,
reds, violets and purples on the
trees and in the fields. Thousands
of years ago the Jewish farmers
created this holiday because they
wanted to say thanks to the Lord
for the beauty around them and
because it was a time when they
rested up a bit before they got to
work on gathering in the autumn
harvest.
In your Bible you can read
IN THIS ISSUE
THE "BACKLASH"
AMD THE KLAN
PAGE 3
about Sukkot in the Book of Lev
iticus, Chapter 23, the Book of
Exodus, Chapter 23, and the Book
of Numbers, Chapter 29.
Sukkot is a Hebrew word
which means tents or huts. The
holiday is connected also with the
time when the Jews were in the
desert. For forty years they lived
in tents as they traveled to the
land of freedom, and during all
that time the Lord protected
them. So they declared a holiday,
which they called Sukkot, huts,
sometimes known as Tabernacles.
Sukkot stands for so many
things that it is celebrated a
whole week, or eight days by
more traditional Jews. An extra
day has been added too. It is
called Simchas Torah, the Joy of
Learning, and on that day the
last chapters of the Books of
Moses are read in the Synagogue,
and immediately the first chap
ters are read, to show that one
must never stop learning to do
the right thing.
On Sukkot it is the custom to
build a hut, outside one’s home
or in or near the synagogue, to
remind one that ancient Jews ac
tually lived in these skimpy
things as they marched towards
freedom. The hut, or sukka, is
open at the top, so one can see
the open sky, and it is decorated
with the fruits and foliage of the
autumn season. The little hut
also reminds us of the fact that
many people do not have decent
houses in which to live. Sukkot
is, therefore a time when people
are urged to make gifts to the
poor and help to find ways of
putting an end to poverty.
Our Thanksgiving Day in the
United States was modeled after
Sukkot by the Pilgrims who
loved the Bible. The Pilgrims
felt that they were like the Jews
of olden times because they, too,
left a land of bondage, wandered
over unknown territory towards
a land of promised freedom. So,
when they got over a very hard
time, they proclaimed a feast of
thanks to God, like Sukkot. They
were going to make Thanks
giving on Sunday, but they
wanted it to be separate from
their own Sabbath. They thought
of making it on Saturday, but
they remembered that was the
Jewish Sabbath. They decided
not to make it on Friday either,
for that is the Mohammedan
Sabbath. So they chose Thurs
day, a day when people of all
faiths could have an extra cele
bration. Sukkot and Thanksgiving
remind us that we prove how
mature we are by the speed with
which we says thanks and by the
ways we show our gratitude for
many blessings we enjoy.
Lafayette Puk
ham Riblooff and
on the Soviet government
measures against Ms
Igniting the Eternal Light that one year earlier
served as the focal point of a mammoth Wash
ington rally in the same park, they led a march
to the Philip Murray Building, opposite the
Soviet Embassy, to post a copy
of “A Declaration of Rights for
Soviet Jewry.” Similar observ
ances were held in New York,
where Mayor John Lindsay par
ticipated, and in 45 other Ameri
can cities.
Signs of protest
silent march.