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What Swimming Pool Does One Friend Recommend to Another? Our highly trained technicians are skillful in maki ig improvements to already existing pools. They ate specialists as ice'll in the construction of exposed aggregate terraces, walkways and patios. Post Office Box, 12241, Atlanta, Ga. 30305 PHONE 427-6515 Plant site & warehouse 1210 Industrial Park Dr, Marietta, Ga. 30060 to their faith in his description of their journey from Indiana to Atlanta in 1849: “We made this trip in two two-horse wag ons. . After we crossed the .Ohio River we did not sleep in a house but one time and that was because we feared a storm, and during the entire tr^p we rested only two days, the first because of a sick horse, the second. . . (because it was) Yom Kippur.” Even more significant than this was the elder Haas’ reason for temporarily leaving the South in 1858. to return to Philadelphia. “He was .making a comfortable living in New- nan”, the son explained, “but he was not satisfied to’ be cut off all his life from Jewish surroundings and the means of living as a Jew. While it was impossible to keep a kosher table, there was never a piece of hog in my father’s house, nor was milk or butter ever on the table with meat.” As early as 1852, Rabbi Jsaac Leeser had visited Atlanta and reported that, although “there is as yet no congregational un ion in this place. . a few ladi.es and gentlemen assembled. . . for prayers.” He advised thefn on this occasion to get together with their co-religionists of Griffin, Newnan, Athens, and Marietta, “to form a union, to have at least a Schochet in common, and meet, at all events, on the holy days for public' worship.” While they did not heed his advice for another fifteen years, they did see to it that their children received formal instruction in Judaism. During • the 1850’s, two women conduct-- ed religious school classes- in their homes. (One of them was •> Mrs. Aaron Alexander, great grandmother’ of Cecil A. Alex ander). During the-Civil War, a Mrs. Isaacs taught the child ren “in her humble home above the store”, and their pa rents gathered for Holyday worship in a hired hall. How did one go about be ginning a congregation in 1867? It was very much, of a do-it-yourself affair at first. After the Rosenfeld wedding the men held a meeting of or ganization, supposedly in the . home of Levi and Sarah Cohen. They elected a president, L. L. Levy, and a secretary, Louis Alexander They set dues at fifty cents per month to pay for “rent, fuel and incident als”, and stipulated that any surplus funds would go into a charity account. They began holding regular sendees in a rented hall, those members conducting them who remem bered enough Hebrew to do so. Occasionally the president would deliver a sermon. Two Sepher Torahs were provided, on loan, by the al ready well-established congre gations of.Savannah and Au- /2 eujnd (It KING HARDWARE COMPANY Atlanta's Largest Hardware Department Store Cutlery, Sporting Goods, Tools, Paints, Garden Supplies, Toys, Appliances,- Furniture, Hard ware, Gifts, Housewares and Expert Tool Re pair and Sharpening. SHOP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD KING HARDWARE STORE . I When You Shop at King's, Say “Charge •*” The Southern Israelite 9