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ffll ItVIH1IN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 15, 1967
St. Petersburg
SENIOR FRIENDSHIP NEWS
A Unique Individual
By HARRY ROSE
As Senior Friendship Club
starts its new season on Monday,
Oct. 2, in the Jewish Commun
ity Center, it has arranged for
a wider recreational program to
cover the needs of Its entire mem
bership. The approved program
is as follows: Monday, Oct. 2,
Membership Meeting with all
types oi recreation to fol
low. Thursday Oct. 5, No
Meeting—Bosh llashana— Center
closed. Monday, Oct. 9, Bingo,
with recreation of member’s
choice in the Mein Auditorium.
Thursday, Oct. 12, “Sing Along”
and musical hour with guest en
tertainers, followed by all types
of recreation and refreshments.
Monday, Oct. 16, Special Read
ing Group conducted by Sarah
Freed in the Teen Room at 1:30
sharp. Every type of recreation
in the Main Auditorium. Refresh
ments will follow Thursday, Oct.
19, No meeting, Sukkot, Center
closed. Monday, Oct. 23, Bingo
in the Main Auditorium with rec
reations of all types to follow.
Thursday, Oct. 26, No meeting—
Shemini Atzeret—Center closed.
Monday, Oct 30, Special Monthly
Membership Birthday Party with
select entertainment and refresh
ments.
Members of the Entertainment
Staff will be busy during the
month of October and the remain
der of September, as they re
hearse for a special stage produc
tion written by Ada Marx, for
the Abe Adda Post of The Jew
ish War Veteran. It will be pre
sented to the public on Armistice
Day, Nov. 11, in the Jewish Com
munity Center. It will cover the
war periods of the Civil War,
World War I and World War II.
Molly Bauman, who has been
in St. Anthony’s Hospital the past
two weeks, returned to her home
Monday, improved in health and
appearance. Harry Bauman, who
has been in the Swanholm dur
ing his wife’s stay in the hos
pital will return to his home late
this week. Both have improved
greatly, but will stay dose to
home for the next several months.
Many members of the SF Club
who are visiting in the north are
reported to be preparing to re
turn to their homes here earlier
than anticipated due to the in
clement weather they have been
experiencing in northern local
ities. Up in New England Anne
J. Livingston is planning an
earlier return. Ira and Alta Cut
ler up in Old Town, Me., will ar
rive early in October to 3535
Gulf Boulevard. Jennie Tinkle,
up in Albany, N. Y., also writes
that she will hurry back. Dave
and Alma Gertner in Brooklyn,
N. Y., will pack up three weeks
earlier. Molly Brandt is expect
ed back the first week in October.
Arthur and Ida Kahn, from over
Philadelphia way, are planning
an earlier return here and look
forward to remaining in Florida
permanently. Augusta and Max
well Erlich are comfortably set
tled in their home in St. Pete.
Samuel Epstein writes he’11 be
back October 1.
Harry and Ruth Rose will jet
to Pittsburgh on Oct. 4 where
they will remain several weeks
with their son Michael and his
family and then on Oct. 15, will
go on to Fair Lawn, N. J., to
attend the Bar Mitzva of their
grandson, Richard Alan Schlacher
They will return to St. Peters
burg on Nov. 3.
Francis McDonald, who has led
the “Sing Along” on the Muni
cipal Pier for many years, will
join with the SF Club Entertain
ment Staff and will make sev
eral appearances throughout the
earning season.
From down Illness Lane reports
are of a happier trend. Charles
Alpert, who was confined in a
hospital in Miami, has returned
to his home here. Kate Cohen
doing very well and her husband
Sol Cohen has fully recovered
from his recent illness. Sol Eisen-
berg reported to be doing very
well at Bayside Manor Rest
Home. Gussie Ganz, going on to
her 95th birthday, is doing very
well at the Fair View Rest Home.
She is SF Club’s oldest member
in good standing.
Eli Gel man is still confined to
the Swanholm Rest Home. Abe
Gerson, who has been on the ail
ing side, is reported to be doing
very well in New York. Rose Lib-
man has been under the weather
of late but is said to be doing
very well.
Belle Mazear is also doing very
well, enjoying her visits to the
Gulf meetings and watching her
step very carefully. Bernard Mil
ler is also reported on the mend.
Jennie Shapiro is fully recovered
and getting about. Minnie Tiger
writes from Chicago, where she
is visiting, that she is feeling bet
ter and will return to her home
in St. Petersburg late this month.
Beckie Yen chuck attended the
last beach gathering.
Jessie Zinaman has returned
to her home in St. Pete after a
very wonderful summer with her
family in the north. Toba Roth
man and Nettine Benjamin have
returned from a European trip,
which took them to Israel, and
both tell of how wonderful the
trip was and the great joy they
got from their visit to Israel,
where they met many of the
VIPS.
UFla. TEP’s
Fops Second
l ime Running
GAINESVILLE— For the sec
ond consecutive year, the Uni
versity of Florida’s chapter of
Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity has
been acclaimed “the most out
standing chapter in the interna
tional fraterity.”
When the University’s TEP
chapter received the Irving R.
Golembe “Chapter of Merit” tro
phy for 1966-67, it marked the
first time any chapter had won
the top award two years in a
row.
Presentation of the award was
made to chapter chancellor (pres
ident) Steve Uhlfelder of West
Palm Beach by Sidney Suntag of
New York, executive secretary of
Tau Epsilon Phi, at the organ
ization’s annual convention held
recently at Grossinger’s in the
New York Catskills.
The University’s TEP chapter
was cited for “its unequalled rec
ord during the past year” in earn
ing first place in every major
area of competition on campus.
Accomplishments included win
ning the Interfraternity Scholar
ship Trophy, Dan McCarty Out
standing Service Trophy, Dollars
for Scholars Trophy and the
President’s Trophy for Intramu
ral Athletics.
Individual honors went to Sid
ney V. Sack of Jacksonville, a
recent honors graduate and last
year’s chancellor, who was nam
ed “the best chancellor in the in
ternational fraternity.”
Tau Alpha chapter was found
ed at the Universty in 1926 and
has grown to be one of the largest
fraternities in the state with al
most 150 active undergraduate
members and more than 700
alumni ^ living in Florida.
Among its more prominent
alumni are Henry Kramer, Jack
sonville member of the Board of
Regents; State Reps. Murray
Dubbin and Kenneth Myers of
Miami, and Dr. Samuel Proctor,
well-known University historian.
The chapter expects to initiate
its 1,000th member during the
coming fall quarter, according to
Dr. Irving Goff man, associate
professor of economics and facul
ty advisor.
New Program
Director For
Savannah JEA
Phillip Seidenfeld of New
Brunswick, N. J., has been ap
pointed program director of the
Savannah Educational Alliance.
He will succeed Herbert Rosen
blatt who resigned to accept the
directorship of the Jewish Com
munity Center and Jewish Fed
eration of Troy N. Y.
Mr. Seidenfeld a native of Des
Moines Iowa is the former pro
gram director of the Jewish Com
munity in Highland Park N. J.
He has a bachelor’s degree in
sociology from Drake University
and a master’s degree in social
work with a specialization in
group work from Rutgers Uni
versity. He is a member of the
National Assn, of Social Workers,
the National Assn, of Jewish
Center Workers and the Acad
emy of Certified Social Workers.
He and his wife, the former
Carol Lee Kessen of Cincinnati,
have three children.
Arab Refugees Get
$9,900,000 From U.S.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—
American aid to Arab refugees
since the end of the Arab-Israeli
war in June amounted to $9,900,-
000 it was reported by the U.S.
mission to the United Nations.
A note detailing the contribu
tions, sent to Secretary-General
U Thant, listed the following
contributions: 10,000 tents air
lifted to Jordan; a donation of
$2,000,000 to the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees; 24,000 metric
tons of wheat flour and 1,200
tons of vegetable oils given to
the same agency; $140,000 in cash
donated to the American Red
Cross; and $1,800,000 worth of
food donated to various Ameri
can voluntary agencies in the
Middle East.
‘Old City’ Streets
Bear Hebrew Names
After 20 Years
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Hebrew
street-signs are up again in the
Old City, now East Jerusalem.
Municipal officials in the re
united city have restored the tri
lingual street-signs—in Hebrew,
Arabic and English—which were
used in Jerusalem prior to 1948,
when the city and all of Pale
stine were under the British
Mandate.
After the War of Independence
in 1948, when Jerusalem was di
vided between Israel and Jordan,
the Jordanians tore down the
Hebrew name-plates in their
portion of the city. These have
now been restored.
An order vesting ownership of
the Old City’s Jewish quarter in
the State of Israel is due to ap
pear in the Government’s official
gazette and to be signed by Fi
nance Minister Pinhas Sapir. The
acquisition will facilitate a plan
ning survey of the quarter, so
that it can be reconstructed as a
major national site of religious
and historical interest.
Nathan H. Lesowitz
Nathan H. Lesowitz, 71, of
Augusta died Monday, Sept. 4.
Graveside services were con
ducted by Rabbi Norman Gold
berg at Westover Memorial Park.
Mr. Lesowitz was born in New
York City and had lived in
Augusta for 14 years.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Jean Abelson Lesowitz; a
son, Seymour Lesowitz, Okla
homa City; a daughter, Mrs.
Charles Blank, Augusta; a bro
ther, Michael Lesowitz, and a
sister, Mrs. I. Press, both of
Brooklyn. He had six grand
children and four great-grand
children.
Schacter Unveiling
Unveiling ceremonies in mem
ory of Sidney Schacter will be
held at 1:00 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 1,
at Greenwood Cemetery.
There passed from the Atlanta
scene on September 7 a unique
individual. For six decades L. J.
Levitas was a familiar figure in
all of our Jewish communal ac
tivities in Atlanta. All through
his life his interests centered on
the -transmission of the Jewish
heritage through the study of
Torah and assuring the survival
of the Jewish people through ac
tive particiaption in the organ
ized, institutional life of the
Jewish community. He initiated
and led a variety of Jewish pro
grams especially as they con
cerned the youth of our commun
ity.
In the early years of the Jew
ish Educational Alliance he was
in the Renter of youth activities.
He organized a Sunday School
for the religious education of chil
dren and became its superinten
dent. He continued in this capac
ity whe the Sunday School was
transferred to the building of
Congregation Ahavath Achim on
Washington Street and Woodward
Avenue. In fact, he added to his
responsibilities the supervision of
a Bible School, which was in
tended for high school students
and adults. He was also active in
the United Hebrew School.
When the B’nai B’rith branch
ed out its interests to encompass
the organization of young people
he helped organize the first chap
ter of AZA and for more than
30 years he served as the senior
advisor ol Chapter 134.
He organized the first Zionist
branch in Atlanta. It may startle
the present generation of Atlanta
Jews to learn that, after the first
meeting of Zionists, held at the
Alliance, the then president and
board of the Alliance told Mr.
Levitas that the Zionist organi-
z»tion could not continue to meet
at the Alliance; that the organ
ization was controversial and
subject to question as to its loy
ally to America. It was not until
90me time later, when there was
a change in the administration of
the Alliance that the Zionist or
ganization resumed its meetings
at the Alliance. Mr. Levitas re
mained a life long active Zion
ist.
He was active in the United
Palestine Appeal, when it open
ed its regional office in Atlanta,
and started fund raising on be
half of Palestine throughout the
South.
He served on the board of the
Alliance until it was merged with
the Federation and then continu
ed, throughout his life, to be ac
tive as a member of the board
of the Federation. He was active
in the work of the Montefiore Re
lief Association which was trans
formed in later years into the
Jewish Family and Children’s Bu
reau of the Federation.
When the Community Chest
was organized in 1924 he became
an active supporter and cam
paign solicitor.
His interest in the welfare of
children remained constant
throughout his life. At the time
of his death he was a member
of the board of the Jewish Child
ren’s Service, which is the suc
cessor to the Hebrew Orphans
Home.
He was noted for his devotion
and deep loyalty to his religious
affiliation with the AA Congre
gation, as was evidenced by his
continuous service in the life of
the congregation in a variety of
Mrs. Sol Rubin
Mrs. Rebecca Brown Rubin, 90,
of Atlanta, grandmother of At
lanta Vice Mayor Sam Massell
Jr., died Sunday, Sept. 3.
Graveside services were held
September 4 at Crest Lawn
Cemetery with Rabbi Jacob
Rothschild officiating.
Mrs. Rubin, the widow of Sol
Rubin, a former director of
Rich’s, Inc. was bom in Russia
and came to the United States as
a small child. She was a member
of the Temple.
Also surviving are two sons,
Ernest and Monte Rubin, and a
daughter, Mrs. Sam Massell Sr.,
all of Atlanta, and a sister, Mrs.
Carrie Sanders of St. Louis.
capacities. \ i ?
He displayed an unusual nos
talgia and pride for the country
where he spent his yoqth—Ire
land. When any one referred to
him as an Irish Jew he regarded
it as a compliment. Some years
ago, when Briscoe was Lord
Mayor of Dublin, and visited
this country, Mr. Levitas was in
a state of excitment. He recall
ed the Lord Mayor’s family, his
parents and related many ihei-
dents of life in Ireland at that
time.
Mr. Levitas was a proud Jew
and a good American. He lived
to witness the realization of
Herzl’s dream—the establish
ment of the State of Israel.
In all of his Jewish and gene
ral community activities he al
ways remained uniquely himself.
During the last years of his
life he continued to pursue acti
vely the interests which domi
nated his life professionally, reli
giously, culturally and commun
ally.
In his conversations with his
friends he always reminisced
about the past and when he came
to discuss the present he invari
ably would turn to the pride and
joy which his family brought to
him. He would recount the ac
complishments of his sons, their
professional attainments and the
recognition which they received.
He was a good friend of The
Southern Israelite and was al
ways interested in its progress.
And so a heritage is passed
from generation to generation. If
it is to become a living reality
of the present and an assurance
of the future, the life and work
of L. J. Levitas can serve a3 a
visible example of Jewish loyal
ty and pride and as a commit
ment to the perpetuation of Jew
ish values.
Louis J. Levitas
Louis J. Levitas, 83, of Atlanta
died Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Funeral services were held
September 7 with Rabbi Harry
H. Epstein and Cantor Isaac
Goodfriend officiating. Inter
ment was in Greenwood Ceme
tery.
Born in Riga, Latvia, Mr. Levi
tas had lived in Atlanta since
1912. He had been in the insur
ance field for over 40 years and
was a charter member of the
Underwriters Round Table of
Georgia.
Mr. Levitas was a moving force
in the Jewish community of At
lanta, and active throughout his
life in Jewish organizations.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Ida Goldstein; and two
sons, Dr. Theodore C. Levitas and
Elliott H Levitas, both of At
lanta.
Jennie Hyman
Jennie Hyman, 98, of St.
Petersburg died September 4.
Funeral services were held
September 6 with Rabbi David
Susskind officiating. Interment
was in Ligonier, Ind.
Mrs. Hyman came to St.
Petersburg from Lima, O., 40
years ago.
Survivors include one daugh
ter, Mrs. Dudley Bernstein, St.
Petersburg; two grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Eva Landesberg
Mrs. Eva Landesberg 73, of At
lanta died Sunday, Sept. 10.
Funeral service and interment
were held in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Survivors include a son, Kieve
Landesberg, Atlanta; brothers,
Joe Herzog, Long Beach, N.Y.,
and Harry Herzog, Brooklyn;
sister, Mrs. John Simon, Brook
lyn; several grandchildren,
nieces and nephews.
Office: JA. 3-4656
Morris H. Manheim, Jr.
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