The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, December 30, 1966, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Southern Israelite A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Establ' cL ’ _, touV j VoL XU ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1968 NO. 52 Late News Briefs... United States o0 so** ” x °° . firms TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Former inmates of Nazi death camps marched with members of Israeli youth movements and with Euro pean ghetto survivors who fought the Nazis, parading in silence last weekend to protest the re surgence of neo-Nazism in West Germany. Thousands of onlookers observ ed, in silence, the march on Tel Aviv’s principal thioughfare, Dizengoff Street. The marchers carried placards which read: “We cannot Permit the Resurgence of Neo-Nazism,’’ “We Know Only Too Well what Nazism Means” and ‘They May Be Small in Numbers Now But Hitler Also Started With A Small Number of Followers.” The demonstration began with a rally in Dizengoff Square at which various leaders of the anti-Nazi groups spoke. Police granted permission for the Satur day night demonstration after turning down a first request be cause they considered the pro posed march route inappropriate. Members of Israel’s Parliament and party leaders headed the solemn procession. BONN, (JTA)—A group of 1,000 young German Socialists marched to the site of the Dachau concentration camp last weekend and placed wreaths on the mass grave of the Jews who were murdered at the camp. In an adddress at the gather ing, K. Senftaye, a German trade union leader, said that the vic tims of Dachau had been done to death because they belonged to a different race. It was incumbent upon the ( present generation of Germans, he said, to make sure that this would not happen again. DUESSELDORF, (JTA)—An album of Nazi speeches, songs and military marches as well as other material reminiscent of the days of the Third Reich has been issued by a Duesseldorf record company under the title “From the Fuehrer’s Headquarters.” Billed as documentary records, the long-playing discs also in clude victory announcements and special bulletins from the Nazi high command, and a speech de claring that the Nazis are fight ing for the German nation and the security of Europe “against the plot of the Jewish Anglo- Saxon warmongers” and against the “Jewish rulers of the Bolshe vik central in Moscow.’’ ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA)—Gov ernor Rockeller has announced the appointment of Judge Charles D. Breitel to serve on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest tribunal in the State. Judge Breitel, 58, has been in the first department of the Ap pellate Division in Manhattan since 1952. The appointment of the Jewish jurist is effective on January 1. He will serve on the Appeals Court by appointment until the end of 1067. To Bolster Hussein’s Reign WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States announced it was airlifting some $5,000,000 worth of weapons to Jordan to bolster King Hussein’s regime. The arms will include trucks and armored personnel carriers, to increase the mobility of Jor dan’s armed forces. The United States also will, at Hussein’s re quest, expedite delivery of 36 su personic F104 jet fighter planes which it agreed to sell Jordan last spring. The State Department said that “this additional equipment is being provided as a means of enabling Jordan to assure its se curity and thus to contribute fur ther to the stability of the area.” The announcement came a few hours after the Jordanian Cabinet resigned. King Hussein asked Premier Asfi el-Tall to form a new Cabinet and the Premier did so within a few hours. Since a November 13 Israeli reprisal raid on Jordan, King Hussein has been under severe attack from the “revolutionary” regimes of Syria and Iraq, and from Ahmed Shukairy, head of the Palestine Liberation Organ ization. There has also been vio lence within Jordan involving the Palestinian Arabs living on the Jordan West Bank. King Hussein has charged that the rioting among Palestinian Jordanians was fomented by Soviet agents in cooperation with the leftist Syr ian and Iraqi regimes. The State Department made it clear that the speedup of arms deliveries was designed to bolster Hussein’s regime in the face of the violent Arab pressures . Funeral Directors Hear Talk On American Jewry’s Future SAN JUAN (JTA)—The Amer ican Jewish community was re ported here as having a high rate of acculturation — acceptance of new culture traits—but a very low rate of assimilation. The re port was presented by Dr. Mar shall Sklare, professor of sociol ogy at Yeshiva University, in an address here at the recent annual convention of the Jewish Funeral Directors of America. “There is no expectation that Spanish Freedom of Religion Awaits Vatican Endorsement MADRID (JTA)—The legisla tion providing for freedom of re ligion in Spain for Jews and Prot- Rainstorms Cause Floods In Tel Aviv TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two days of rainstorms caused flooding in several areas of Israel and cut Tel Aviv off from the rest of Israel for several hours after bridges of the nearby Ayolon River were submerged. The floods forced evacation of some 60 families from lower areas of Tel Aviv and from two set tlements near Ashkelson, Shetu- lim and Beth Shikma. Nearby slum areas were hit by the flood waters and firemen and police evacuated residents to schools and community centers. The floodwaters subsided and the roads were reopened. Floods were caused in the Negev by waters from the Hebron Hills. A river w'hich is usually dry in the summer became a raging torrent which severed roads and some Negev settle ments. Heavy rain also fell in the Dead Sea area, causing some damage to the Sodom road. Farm ers and irrigation workers wel comed the rains. The first casualties of Israel’s current floods were recorded near Ashkelon where two soldiers were drowned when the army truck in which they were riding was inundated by the flood waters Rescue teams, using searchlights and aided by heli copters, searched through the night after the two soldiers were reported missing but the bodies were not found until the next morning. estants, endorsed by the Spanish College of Bishops and approved by a national referendum this month, will not be sent for pas sage to the Cortes, the Spanish Parliament, until it is endorsed by the Vatican, it was learned here. The legislation, which has been in preparation for 10 years, had been scheduled to be placed before the Cortes on January 20. Generalissimo Franco received the international president of the B’nai B’rith, Dr. William Wex- ler and told him that he consider ed the legislation as a “simple act of justice." Dr. Wexler was accompanied by Saul E. Joftes, director-general of the B’nai B’rith office of international af fairs. The new legislation will allow Jews and other non-Catholics to worship openly in clearly-marked houses of worship, to form relig ious associations, to celebrate civil marriages and to be buried in their own cemeteries. Members of the non-Catholic faiths also will be free from obligatory at tendance at Catholic services or teachings in Spanish schools, armed forces and prisons. Historical Group Get Papers of Red Cross Co-Founder NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish Historical So ciety announced it had acquired several hundred papers of Adol phus A. Solomons, the Jewish co founder of the American Red Cross. The collection was presented to the Society by its president, Dr. Leon J. Obermayer of Phil adelphia, to mark his birthday. The material consists of hand written letters from Clara Bar ton, who founded the Red Cross, to Solomons, who was Miss Bar ton’s vice-president. The letters deal with Miss Barton’s problems in the organization of the Red Cross and her efforts to raise funds for the organization. ‘Rescue’ Project To Preserve Literature Of ‘Enlightenment’ WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A literary rescue program to avoid the threatened extinction of historic Jewish literature is being started by B’nai B’rith. The project involves reproducing, through low-cost offset printing, limited editions in facsmile of great Jewish works of the 18th and 19th centuries that might otherwise be lost to poster ity. Over 1,000 volumes will be reproduced in the next 10 years, ac cording to Dr. Harold Weisberg, of Brandeis University, chairman of the B’nai B’rith Commission on Adult Jewish Education. Only scattered and decaying copies of many of these books exist. A preliminary list of 61 titles will be reproduced next spring. The works to be revived are Jewish classics of the Haskalah, the enlight enment movement that began in the 18th century. Mrs. Lily Edelman, B’nai B’rith director of adult Jewish educa tion, who is supervising the project, said that leading Jewish scholars, educators and librarians have expressed enthusiasm for the project widespread assimilation will take place in the present generation,” he said. However, he predicted that American Jewry may face its “survival crisis” within the next two generations. The next genera tion of American Jews, he said, would face greater difficulty in conveying the “increasingly dif fuse Jewish heritage” ' to their children. The form of the crisis, said Dr. Sklare, would not be the “vanishing” of most of American Jewry but a “shaking out pro cess” in which some Jews would remain Jews and the others would assimilate. A polarization could take place in Vhich the strongly committed Jews would coalesce into a solid core group and the less committed Jews— the “marginal” or “peripheral” group—would lose a certain per centage. The core group may then con sist of between 1,000,000 and 2,- 000,000 people, said Dr. Sklare. These people would be the Jews involved in the structures and in stitutions of Orthodox, Conserva tive and Reform life. The secular Jews, who are not involved in any of these religious movements, were most in danger of losing their Jewish identity, he said. This secularist group, he con tinued, has no “organized educa tional or institutional framework” for its people. This group, which had been active in the Socialist Catholic Defense ROME (JTA)—A Paris Cath olic Institute priest told a Greg orian University audience here that it was “absolutely untrue” that such Jewish religious works as the Talmud or the Shulchan Aruch condemn Christianity or express antagonism to it. He de clared that charges of Jewish hos tility against Christianity stemm ed mostly from the fact that the Christian censors of the Talmud changed and substituted words, either in ignorance or with the purpose of “proving” Jewish emn- ity against Christians. Father Hruby, the speaker, said that prior to the Crusades a ‘true dialogue” was beginning to develop between Christianity and Judism, but that the era of the Crusades destroyed all such ef forts. and Yiddish culture movements, shows the poorest prognosis for survival, he said. In spite of this, the "deep desire” on the part of Jews to retain their identity must not be underestimated, he de clared. Russian Necrology NEW YORK (JTA)—The death of Rabbi Nathan Nute Alevsky, oldest rabbi in Ruaaia, was an nounced here by Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the Amer ican Jewish Conference on So viet Jewry. “We have just re ceived information on the passing of Rabbi Alevsky, who was over 90 years of age, but active until shortly before his death, has served in Moscow for over thirty years as leader of Maryna- Roschtsa Synagogue, second lar gest congregation in Moscow. He was formerly rabbi of the Urk- utsk Congregation in Siberia.” Pointing out there are now only 65 synagogues in all of Russia, and less than 50 rabbis, Rabbi Miller said: “Rabbi Alevsky’s death dramatically highlights the tragic disintegration of the insti tutions and instrumentalities nec essary for the survival of the re ligious and cultural life of Rus sian Jewry. The loss of another link with Russian Jewry’s his toric past, and the additional void it leaves in Jewish spiritual lead ership in the Soviet Union, points up the need for the early re opening of Jewish theological seminaries and Yeshivot in the Soviet Union.” Alabama Elects 4 Jews to House BIRMINGHAM (JTA)— Four Jewish candidates were elected to the Alabama Legislature in the Democratic sweep in the Novem ber elections. The Democratic nominees easily defeated Repub lican foes. The new state representatives are David Fine, a World War I veteran and head of the only Jewish family in Sulligent; Ben nett L. Cherner, of Bessemer; Bert Banks of Tuscaloosa, a much-decorated World War II veteran; and Mayer Perioff of Mobile, another World War II veteran.