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THE SOUTH REN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 8, 1967
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3TU3A8RI X * S n T 9' O 2 Li;
Georgians at Seminar on
Jewish Services in Israel
Mrs. Frank Fierman, above, watches her husband being greeted bby
Israel’s President Shaxar. At right, Rabbi Moesman shakes hands
with Shazar.
OBITUARIES
Atlanta was the only American
Jewish community represented by
a Rabbi and Center Director
“team” in the First World Sem
inar for Jewish Service conduct
ed at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem this summer.
Rabbi Sydney K. Mossman of
Congregation Sheerith Israel and
Frank Fierman of the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center par
ticipated together in this unique
five-week program sponsored by
the Institute of Contemporary
Jewry of the University and, in
the United States, by the Nation
al Jewish Welfare Board.
This Seminar was conceived ot
as a pilot project leading to the
establishment in Israel of an Ad
vanced Educational Center for
Jewish Communal Service Work
ers throughout the world.
A faculty of thirty-four lec
turers included Hebrew Univer
sity professors, Senior Officers of
the Israeli Army, Foreign Min
istry Officials, as well as Direc
tors of the Hadassah Hospital,
Rothschild Community Center
and veteran organizers of some
of the earliest kibbutzim in Is
rael.
A highlight of the Seminar was
the reception of its participants
by Zalman Shazar, third Presi
dent of the State of Israel. An ab
breviated translation of President
Shazar’s remarks to the Seminar
are as follows:
TRANSLATION OF
PRESIDENT SHAZAR’S
REMARKS
to Community Workers’
Seminar
Dear Friends,
I know Israelis politely talk
English to you, but I shall fol
low my custom of speaking only
Hebrew to groups who come to
meet with me here in the House
of Israel’s Presidents. After all,
you must not leave Israel with
out having heard a full address
in Hebrew.
It seems to me that this sem
inar of yours is an excellent
example of the novel and exper
imental approaches characteris
tic of the Institute of Contemp
orary Jewry. It has been devel
oping its study of the forces of
today in a manner different from
the conventional academic tech
nique. In this very House we
bold monthly meetings of the In
stitute’s Study Circle on World
Jewry where all points of views—
those of scholars and of workers
In movements and institutions —
are brought to bear upon Jewish
problems of today. The brochures
now being published by the Cir
cle contain not only the set ad
dresses but the illuminating and
very varied discussion in each
case.
The evolution through which
the Center movement seems to be
going, is infused with similar vi
tality, and I find it particularly
gratifying that you clearly do not
adhere to any of those denom
inational loyalties and distinc
tions in American life which are
usually so hard for the outsider
to grasp. Yours is an all-embrac
ing forum or platform. And the
word “platform” which is barnah
in Hebrew brings to my mind a
relevant phenomenon in ancient
days. You remember how the
prophets stormed against the
bamot, the high places, at which
our ancestors worshipped in Dan
and in Bethel and elsewhere. The
bamot must in their time have
been useful for the expression of
the religious sense, but they had
to be destroyed so that Jerusalem
might play its unifying spiritual
role.
Now as then, the emphasis on
differences is a negative thing.
It is particularly important for
American Jewry that there be a
confrontation, a dialogue, among
the various bamot. The seed of
this may lie within your Center
movement. Only time can tell
which religious emphasis will be
uppermost, but I venture to sug
gest that time is with the trend
to unification. In time of crisis
we actually see the separate
bamot disappearing. Even a mi
croscope could not detect whai
particular force or denomination
was most active in the great out
pouring of aid and volunteering
that accompanied Israel’s war
time crisis. You can only say that
Jewry, Judaism, all Jews, res
ponded.
I meet with representatives of
almost all the groups that make
up the spectrum of American
Jewish life, from Williamsburg
and Habad and Yeshiva Univer
sity to the Jewish Theological
Seminary and the Hebrew Union
College and the great fund-rais
ing campaigns. The differences,
it seems to me, are growing paler,
and a single color beginning to
emerge. In the development of
unity in America Jewry, essential
to the community there and to us
here, you may, whether you your
selves see it or not, be serving as
a sort of nucleus.
As for aliya, the great issue of
the moment, surely it should be
under general, not particular,
auspices. Jewish history demon
strates how in all the great con
troversies—between Hassidim and
Mitnagdim, between the Enlight
enment and Zionism, within
Zionism itself—no one factor has
ever been demolished by its rival:
rather a new force emerges, in
cluding the elements of both,
answering a new challenge, until
its own time to split comes. Aliya
may be such a new, unifying
force.
Even those who never saw the
need, see it now. It has been good
in recent days to hear a call for
aliya issued by the convention in
Israel of the Zionist Organization
of America. To be sure, this is
still verbal rather than practical
—and Jews are by nature scep
tics. But the Lord looks with
favor even upon fine words. The
circumstances are more striking
than they have ever been. Only
aliya can put the final crown of
achievement on military victory,
can make the conquest real by
settlement of waste lands and re
population of the now devastated
Jewish quarters of Old Jerusalem.
In the face of the challenge,
American Jewry, more than half
of the Jewish people, cannot con
fine its role to praying, agitating,
raising funds.
What can be done to help aliya
from America? If it is to come,
the framework for its economic
absorption must be prepared in
America. All of American Jewry
must recognize the need, must
help to create the means. And
you who are studying here this
summer, can help in the explora
tion of ways and means to realize
aliya for that relatively small but
inspired group who will wish to
come. Let yours be study infused
with purpose,
And in acting towards that pur
pose may you, in the Biblical
phrase, pave the way the re
deemed will travel . . .
Jerusalem, Beit Ha-Nassi,
July 8, 1967
Mrs. Katherine Funk
Mrs. Katherine Funk, 76, mo
ther of Savannah Police Lt. Rob
ert Funk, died August 30 in Bra
denton, Fla.
The widow of the late Chris
tian Funk, she was bom in Nin-
ekirchen, Germany, and had
lived in this country since 1927.
Also surviving are another son,
Carl Funk of Bradenton; two
grandsons, Charles and Johnny
Funk and five great-grandchil
dren.
Sol Kaminsky
Sol Kaminsky, 74, of Savannah
died August 30.
Funeral services were held
August 31 with Rabbi Hershel
Brooks and Cantor Leon Rad-
zik officiating. Interment was in
Bonaventure Cemetery.
Mr. Kaminsky, a native of Sa
vannah, was president of Cha
tham Motors Co. and had been
in the automobile business for
50 years. He had been distributor
for various manufacturers, in
cluding General Motors and
Chrysler.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Ruth Meyers Krminsky; a
son, Samuel; two daughters,
Carol Ann Kaminsky of Savan
nah and Mrs. Audrey Finkelstein
of Miami Beach; three brothers,
Jack, Pete and Bob Kaminsky, all
of Savannah; two sisters, Miss
Ethel Kaminsky of Savannah and
Mrs. Ida Ferst of New York City;
two grandchildren and a number
of nieces, nephews end cousins.
Mrs. Max Karnibad
Mrs. Rachel Dolgoff Karnibad,
70, of Savannah died Thursday,
Aug. 31.
Funeral services were held
Sept. 1 with Rabbi A. I. Rosen
berg and Cantor I. M. Aisen-
stark officiating.
A resident of Savannah for 50
years, she was a member of
B’nai B’rith Jacob Synagogue
and its sisterhood and of the He
brew Women’s Aid, the JEA and
Mizrachi.
Survivors include her husband,
Max Karnibad; a\ son, Nathan
Karnibad, and a grandson.
Morris Hirsch
Morris Hirsch, 60, of Atlanta,
the third-generation president of
Hirsch’s, Inc., died Wednesday,
Aug. 30.
Funeral services were held
September 1 with Rabbi Jacob
Rothschild officiating. Entomb
ment was in Westview Abbey.
A native Atlantan, Mr. Hirsch
was a graduate of the University
of Georgia and was a member of
the Temple and the Commerce
Club.
His firm was created in 1863
by Joseph and Henry Hirsch.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Julia Hirsch; daughter, Mrs.
B. B. Feiman, Atlanta, and Mrs.
Lawrence Fall, Houston; and a
sister, Mrs. Le on axd. Haas,
Atlanta.
Alfred D. Perlinski
Alfred David Perlinski, 16, of
Atlanta died Monday, Aug. 28.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Julius Perlinksi.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, Aug. 29, in Atlanta with
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman and
Cantor Pincus Aloof officiating.
Graveside services and inter
ment were held in Savannah on
August 30, at the Schaub-Perl-
inski Mausoleum in Bonaventure
Cemetery.
He was a student and mem
ber of Congregation Beth Jacob
and the great-grandson of the late
Julius and Emma Perlinski of
Savannah.
Besides his parents, survivors
are a sister. Miss Emily Perlin
ski, and his grandmother, Mrs.
Mary Davis of Atlanta.
Israel Prager
Israel M. Prager, 84, of Sunny
vale, Calif., died there Wednes
day, Aug. 30.
He was a native of Savannah
and a retired salesman.
Graveside services were held
September 1 in Laurel Grove
Cemetery, Savannah, with Rabbi
Joseph Buchler officiating.
Survivors include a son, Mor
ton A. Prager of Sunnyvale, and
two brothers, Bemie M. Prager,
Columbus, Ga., and Harold M.
Prager, New York City.
Bernard Shapiro
Bernard (Bemie) Shapiro of
Atlanta died Friday, Sept. 1.
Funeral services were held
September 3 with Rabbi Eman
uel Feldman and Cantor Pincus
Aloof officiating. Interment was
in Philadelphia on September 5.
Mr. Shapiro, former owner and
president of Southern Poster
Printing Co. for 26 years, re
tired in 1966. He and his wife
had underwritten the cost of the
social halls at the Beth Jacob
facilities on La Vista Drive. It was
named in their honor.
He was a member and former
treasurer of Beth Jacob Congre
gation, a member of the Elks,
the Variety Club, the Show Folks
of America and B’nai B’rith. Mr.
Shapiro had lived in Atlanta for
38 years.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Tillie Radiss, and five
brothers, Norman Shapiro, Balti
more; Morris and Jacob Shapiro,
both of Miami; and Mike and
Phil Shapiro, both of Chicago.
Miss Elssie Bentschner
Miss Essie Bentschner, 91, of
Savannah died Wednesday Aug.
30.
Funeral services were held
September 1 with Rabbi Joseph
Buchler officiating. Interment
was in Bonaventure Cemetery.
She was a native of Charles
ton.
Survivors include a niece, a
nephew and several cousins. ’
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