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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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SOUTHERN ISRAELITE Friday, December 16, 1966
COMMENT and OPINION
AN EMPEROR’S COURAGE
It is not more than thirty years since the
world first came to recognize the dignity, re
sponsibility and courage of the Ethiopian
Emperor, Haile Selassie, and over twenty
years since his triumphant return home. He
has since given more evidence of his wisdom
and statesmanship. These qualities were
shown to the full in his recent tour of the
Arab world, when once again the Emperor
proved that courage and honesty are the best
policy. Pressed by his Arab hosts to give them
at least verbal support in their denunciation of
Israel, with which Ethiopia has close ties, he
firmly refused, confining himself to the hope
that just solutions would be found speedily.
By doing so he helped to bring nearer the day
when the Arabs will recognize that they must
reconcile themselves to Israel’s existence and
find a human solution to the problems of the
Middle East on this basis. Once it became clear
that the Emperor’s stand was unshakeable, the
Arab Governments accepted the fact and put
the best face on it. The moral of this episode
deserves to be taken to heart by Western
Governments and institutions. The Emperor’s
good will has been invaluable to Jewish insti
tutions working to help the Falasha commun
ity, the Judaized Ethiopians. There is much to
be done for this far-flung outpost of Judaism.
Plans are afoot, with support from Anglo-
Jewish groups, to intensify aid and help the
advancement of the Falashas. This will fur
ther cement the friendship between the Em
peror and the Jewish people.
THE LONDON JEWISH CHRONICLE
WHITHER JUDAISM?
The American Jewish community is in
serious trouble. It has chosen to define itself
as one of the three major religious bodies of
the country, yet all polls indicate that it has
little regard for religion and regular attend
ance at religious services among Jews is negli
gible. A Gallup poll indicates that 15% of
Jews attend Sabbath Services regularly.
From my point of view, this is a high estimate.
In San Francisco, a ten per cent attendance
would crowd our synagogues. Recently, Catho
lics, Protestants and Jews were polled wheth
er religion is very important to them. 90% of
the Catholics answered in the affirmative.
Some 70% of the Protestants considered re
ligion very important. Only 30% of the Jews
could commit themselves, that religion was
very important. . . To be sure, we are living
in an age of the shaking of the foundations,
but for the Jewish community to set so rapid a
pace in its flight from religious commitment
and identification, spells danger to our sur
vival and what is almost as distressing to our
respected position as one of the three major
religious bodies of the country. How much
longer can we be taken seriously as a religious
community, when our intellectual, social and
philantropic elite make no commitment to the
synagogue or to their religious heritage, and
our masses are indifferent?
RABBI SAUL E. WHITE,
“VIEWPOINT,” THE JEWISH DIGEST
Savannah News
British Nazi Leader
Faces Trial For Hate
LONDON (JTA) — Colin Jor
dan, head of the Jiny British Na
tional Socialist party—which has
about 40 members — and Peter
Pollard, one of his youthful fol
lowers, have been ordered to
stand trial on charges of violat
ing the British Race Relations
Act.
Trial was ordered by a Ply
mouth court after a hearing on
charges of involvement in con
spiracy to stir up hatred against
a section of the public in Great
Britain distinguished by color or
race.’
The two British Nazis were
bound over for trial at the next
Devon Assizes opening in Exeter
on January 12. They were allow
ed to post bail of 50 pounds
($140) each. „
Javits May Seek
V. P. Nomination
NEW YORK (JTA)— Senator
Jacob K. Javits, the Republican
who is the senior U. S. Senator
representing New York State,
projected himself as entitled to
be nominated in 1968 as “at least”
the Republican canddiate for the
Vice-Presidency.
In several apperances on tel
evision, and in off-the-air inter
views, Mr. Javits, who has been
mentioned as the possible GOP
running mate to Michigan’s Gov
ernor George Romney, pointed
out that he has been the Repub
lican Party’s ideologist for 20
years, and that he has proved
himself as qualified by showing
he is “responsible and farsight
ed."
“I think,” he said, “I am en-
tiUed to national consideration. I
don’t want to minimize it all. I
think I am entitled to a national
position by what I have done.”
Yeshiva Announces
Building Plans
new YORK (JTA)—Plans for
$31,000,000 in construction of new
facilities by Yeshiva University
during the coming year were an
nounced here by Dr. Samuel Bel
kin, president, at the university’s
3th annual Hanuka dinner.
Among the expansion projects
to be undertaken this year by the
university. Dr. Belkin declared,
will be a $5,000,000 Mendel Got-
tesman Central University Li
brary; a $15,000,000. 15-story sci
ence center for the Belfer Grad
uate School of Science; a $4,500,-
000 new classroom building for
Stem College for Women; a $1 ,-
500,000 renovation of the existing
Stem College facility; and $5,-
000,000 in construction projects
for the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine.
Editor Explains Failure
To Publish ‘Babi Yar’
LONDON (JTA)—Aaron Ver-
gelis, editor of the Soviet Yiddish
monthly Sovietish Heimland,”
published in Moscow, has at
tempted to explain here why he
failed to publish the famous
poem “Babi Yar” by the Soviet
poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko de
voted to the tens of thousands of
Jews killed in the outskirts of
Kiev under Nazi occupation.
The Yiddish editor said that he
did not publish this epic poem—
which calls for eradication of
anti-Semitism and has been
translated in many languages —
because Yevtushenko failed to
blame the mass-massacre of Jews
in the Kiev ravine of Babi Yar
squarely on the Nazis.
Here on a visit, Mr. Vergelis
held a press conference at which
he also said that the Soviet auth
orities are doing their best “to
assure the survival of Yiddish”
among the Jews in the Soviet
Union.
Solon E. Tamor
Solon E. Tamor, 75, of Tampa
died December 3.
Funeral services were held De
cember 6 with Rabbi Stanley
Kazan officiting.
A native of New York City,
Mr. Tamor had lived in Tampa
seven years. He was a member
of Rodoph Sholom Synagogue
and Men’s Club and the USA
Ambulance Service Assn.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Ruth Tamor; a daughter, Mrs.
Gloria Tamor Nathanson, Tampa;
five sisters, Mrs. Ann Friedman
and Mrs. Dorothy Mintz, New
York City, Mrs. Frances Golding,
Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Mrs. Sally
Schulman, Scarsdale, N. Y., and
Mrs. May Belle Citron, Miami;
and three grandchildren.
Noted Rabbi Dies
CHICAGO (JTA)—Dr. Morris
Teller, rabbi emeritus of the
South Side Hebrew Congrega
tion, died of a heart attack here
at the age of 76. Bom in Gal
ician Poland, Rabbi Teller was
formerly president of the Allied
Jewish School Board of Chica
go of the Rabbinical Association
of Chicago, of the Chicago Region
of the Rabbinical Assembly of
America and of the South Shore
Ministerial Association.
Mizrachi Leader Dies
TEL AVIV (TJA)—Rabbi Mor-
dechai Moshe Magnes, 75, veteran
leader of American Mizrachi,
died at “Ismah Moshe” near here.
He emigrated to Israel last year.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold J. Levin
of Savannah announce the birth
of a daughter, Melissa Ann, on
November 29.
• • * •
The Jewish Youth Council, a
representative of all the Jewish
Mrs. Edward Gibian
Mrs. Edward Gibian, 93, of Sa
vannah died November 29.
Funeral services were held No
vember 30 at the graveside at
Bonaventure Cemetery. Rabbi
Joseph Buchler officiated.
A native of Atlanta, Mrs. Gib
ian had been a resident of Sa
vannah for 60 years. She was a
member of the Council of Jewish
Women, Congregation Mickve Is
rael and the Sisterhood.
Survivors are a brother, Aaron
Guthman of Savannah; a sister,
Mrs. Alfred Fox of Atlanta and
a number of nieces and nephews.
Miss Rosalie Haas
Miss Rosalie Haas, 86, of At
lanta died Friday, Dec. 9.
Private entombment services
were held in Crest Lawn Mem
orial Park mausoleum on Decem
ber 11. Rabbi Jacob M. Roths
child officiated.
Miss Haas was a member of
the Temple.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs.
Emil Rothschild of Atlanta; bro
ther, Henry Haas of Atlanta, and
niece, Mrs. Edmund Caine, also
of Atlanta.
Veteran Zionist Dead
JOHANNESBURG (JTA) —
Woolf Senior, veteran South
African Zionist and philanthrop
ist, who played a leading part in
the Zionist movement, died here
at the age of 85.
Born in Neustadt, Russia, he
settled here in 1896, became act
ive in Zionist work, first in Dur
ban and subsequently in Johan
nesburg, where he became a
member of the executive coun
cil and of the S. A. Zionist Fed
eration. Prospering in business,
he made many large-scale bene
factions to Zionist projects in
Palestine in the pre-State days.
Ambassador’s Mother Dies
NEW YORK (JTA)—Mrs. Dora
Tukachinsky, 65, mother of Am
bassador Yosef Tekoah, assistant
director-general of Israel’s Min
istry of Foreign Affairs, and now
a member of the Israel delega
tion to the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly died here recent
ly. She was 63, and lived in
Queens.
youth groups in Savannah, is
planning to conduct a New Year’s
Eve Breakfast-dance at the JEA
on December 31. Donation of
$1.50 per person will include
breakfast and cost of the music.
• • • »
Unveiling ceremonies in mem
ory of Mrs. Annie Hirsch took
place December 11 in Bonaven
ture Cemetery.
• * • *
The Savannah Chapter of Bran-
deis University National Women's
Committee honored new and life
members recently. New members
are Mesdames Norman Breen.
Joseph Buchler, Leo Center, Ju
lian Friedman, A. W. Harris,
Hyman Leitman, Marvin Levin,
Bernard Portman, Irwin Reed,
Karl Rosengart, David Wolf, Mar
tin Leffler and Miss Cecile Rich-
man. Arrangements for the party
were made by Mrs. Martin Karp,
Mrs. David Meddin, Mrs. A. H.
Center, Mrs. Henry Shonfield,
Mrs. Mose Blumenfeld, Mrs. Abe
Javettz and Mrs. W. A. Wexler.
* * * *
Paul Myron Horovitz, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Horovitz,
observed his Bar Mitzva on De
cember 10 at B’nai B’rith Jacob
Synagogue.
• * • *
Debra L. Cohen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Cohen, has
been installed as a charter mem
ber of Phi Sigma Sigma sorority
• • • *
at Ohio State University, Colum
bus, O. Debra also holds the of
fice of corresponding secretary in
the sorority.
* * * *
Arnold Tenenbaum has been
appointed by Gov. Carl Sanders
as one of 10 members of the State
Board of Registration for Dealers
in Used Motor Vehicle Parts.
JEWISH
CALENDAR
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June 14, Wednesday
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April IS, Tuesday
Oct 5-6, Thurs.-Fri
(Pint Day)
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May 2, Tuesday
October 14, Sat.
(Eighth Day)
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