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Advancement of Jewish
Studies at Emory University
The announcement by Emory of the proposed establish
ment of a chair in Jewish studies to advance the study of Jew
ish religious philosophy, Jewish thought and literature, and
the further exploration of the roots of Jewish culture is an ex
citing piece of news. The latter is relevant to an understand
ing of the foundations of modem civilization.
The Southern Israelite greets with enthusiasm the an
nouncement by Emory of plans for the establishment of such
a chair as a part of the regular curriculum of studies. It denotes
the progress of Emory toward the goal of becoming a great
university.
The munificent gift of $150,000 of Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Cohen
of Atlanta toward the endowment of such a professorship will
accelerate its consummation. This is part of the larger efforts
of Emory to raise funds for the further development of the
university. This special project is under the leadership of a
Committee headed by Dr. Irving H. Goldstein and Mr. Max
Rittenbaum, both of whom are alumni of Emory.
The initial contribution provides almost one third of the
half-million-dollar goal set for this purpose.
It is hoped that Atlanta citizens, of all faiths, and religious
denominations, will recognize the importance of this venture
and will come forward with substantial contributions that will
oversubscribe the goal set.
It is of special significance that our Jewish citizens par
ticipate in this movement with generous contributions. We
are known as the people of the Book. We have given the
bible—the old testament—to the world, which is the founda
tion of the religions of the western world, as well as of the
near east.
Reverence for learning has been part of our Jewish heri
tage and tradition. This will give us the opportunity to express
■that tradition in practical, concrete terms related to the needs
of our own times.
We are advised that Emory plans to appoint a distinguish
ed Jewish scholar and teacher as an added resource to Emory’s
department of religion. As Dr. Sanford S. Atwood, President
of Emory, has indicated, it will enable the university to broad
en the scope of its research in.the areas of religion and phi
losophy, and bring greater understanding to both faculty and
students, of the roots of Jewish learning, which are so vital
to our dealing with many of the great issues of contemporary
American Society.
The establishment by Emory of an endowed professorship
of Jewish studies will give added evidence of the growth of
Atlanta, as a metropolitan center where cultural progress and
a vision of the future go hand in hand with its material pros
perity and its structures of brick and mortar.
The initial gift, toward the establishment of the chair of
Jewish studies at Emory, made possible by Mr. and Mrs. I. T
Cohen, will honor the memory of Jay and Leslie Cohen, their
son and daughter-in-law, who lost their lives in the tragic
hotel fire in Jacksonville, Florida in 1963.
We commend this project to the generosity of all At
lantans and trust that its realization will not be far off.
Yom Kippur
GUEST EDITORIAL
Its theme is repentance for sins of commission and omis
sion.
On that day, we stand before the creator in humility, un
folding our weaknesses and sins and imploring the Almighty
to forgive our transgressions, our misdeeds, our distorting of
sacred purpose and our perverting of human values.
On this day the sinner comes before his master and pleads
for cleansing in the faith that He who is above all of us will
absolve us of our transgressions since forgiving is the highest
attribute of the divine.
But our rabbis of ancient wisdom saw in the day trans
cending significance. The Lord might forgive us. But what of
the sins we committed against man and which man alone can
forgive? Obviously no man can live in peace with himself if
he has not been forgiven by his fellow-man. We all have ex
perienced moments when we are haunted by a hurt or indig
nity we may have hurled deliberately or unconsciously and
there can be no redemption from that pit except in seeking
and obtaining forgiveness.
And so it is that on Yom Kippur we come before those
we may have insulted, humiliated, libeled and degraded and
ask them to forgive us even as we beseech understanding
from Him who alone can condone sinning against higher pur
pose.
We would be less than frank and human if we did not
admit committing sins either against God or man. We hope to
bring our case before the Almighty when we rise in supplica
tion this Yom Kippur. As for our sins against man and the
community, we are hopeful they too will be forgotten and for
given by the aggrieved and the injured.
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Oct. 13, 1967
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Add Communal Problems and Joys
This material comprises excerpts from an address by Judge
Irving L. Goldberg of the U. S. Court of Appeals, past presi
dent of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Dallas and former
member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds.
By JUDGE IRVING L. GOLDBERG
Our generation of American
Jews reflects our contemporary
affluent society, with all of its
pluses and minuses, and with
all of its problems and joys.
Though our parents and grand
parents were poor Jewish immi
grants who came to these shores
handicapped by a strange lan-
language and a strange environ
ment, we, as their descendants,
have attained high status in our
democratic society.
Today the American Jewish
community is the most affluent,
advantaged and secure commun
ity in the entire history of the
Jewish people. This imposes
great responsibilities and duties
upon our generation of American
Jewry if we are to interpret the
faith of our fathers and give it
vitality. . . .
We American Jews manifest
our interest in our fellow Jews
in a fashion unparallelled in all
our history. We spend one billion
dollars for Jewish communal ser
vices every 12 months. In the last
15 years, we have spent one thou
sand million dollars across the
seas. All things considered, this
is the greatest philanthropic feat
in all history. . . . Ours is a
brotherhood of religion. The
ethical impulses and imperatives
of our faith demands and com
mand us to be brothers, not to
our fellow Jews alone but to non"
Jews, regardless of geography,
pigmentation, or faith. We do
not hyphenate our concern for
our fellow man. We do not pray
for Jews alone; we do not work
co enhance and enrich the life
of Jews alone. To do these things
would be running counter to the
fundamentals of our history.
Basic to our faith is the be
lief in the perfectibility of man.
This comes about and arises not
through miracles, not through
through ritual incantations, not
even through spiritual redemp
tion alone, but through works,
public works, private works, all
related to our fellow man. Ours
is a partnership faith, a partner
ship with God to work his will
on earth, a partnership with our
fellow man, translated into a
partnership with our government
and our community. . . . The
“thou” is more important in
Judaism than the “I”. It is others
that we help, but through helping
others we enrich the “I”.
Jewish tradition distinguishes
between private and public res
ponsibility. It is highly desirable
to recognize one’s obligation to
fellow men without being com
pelled to do so by law. But pri
vate charity is always subject
to personal whim and fluctua
tions of economic interest and
capacity. Private charities, even
if dispensed impersonally with
utmost regard for human dignity,
is still charity. However, the as
sumption of responsibility by
society, sanctioned by legislation,
is not charity but justice. Legis
lation affecting all citizens en
ables a society to dispense its
benefits as a right.
Judaism perceives this insight
JEWISH
CALENDAR
•YOM KIPPUR
Oct. 14, Saturday
•SUKKOT
Oct.19-20, Thurs.-Fri.
•HOSHANA HABRA
Oct. 25, Wednesday
•SHEMINI ATZE&ET
Oct. 26, Thursday
•SDCHAT TORAH
Oct. 27, Friday
•HANUKA
Dec. 27—Jan. 3
Wednesday—Wednesday
•HOLIDAY BEGINS
RUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
more clearly than any other re
ligion. That is why Judaism is
a religion of law. That is why
the Torah is the most sacred
object and the fulfillment of
Torah the most sacred objective.
This is why the concept of com
munity is emphasized throughout
Jewish history. This is why Jew
ish tradition never makes a dic
hotomy between education and
legislation. There is no better
way to educate a society than
through the legislative process
which, in essence, is a continous
debate over society’s obligations
to its members. . . .
The components of the good
Jewish community or society in
volves today much more subtle
aspects of life, such as psycho
logy, education, medical services,
and community relations.
The annual giving for overseas
relief constitutes and will consti
tute a recurring obligation of our
generation, and we will not deny
it. It is as permanent for our
time as taxation and should be
accepted as such. . . .
In the early days of Jewish
philanthropy, there were few
trained professionals, and ama
teurs and leading citizens assum
ed the role. Each community in
different parts of the country
had its one or two Jews who
collected and disbursed the
funds. Today we are professio
nalized, but we find our entire
Jewish community, because of
education and training, of nec
essity, more professional, sophis
ticated, and knowledgeable. This
more acute awareness of the
community has improved the
social services of our Federation,
and has, in fact, revolutionized
those social services, fund rais
ing, and allocation activities.
One of the problems for the
Federation, as well as for the
United Fund and other private
charitable enterprises, is a ten
dency to let government agencies
assume the major role in pro
viding resources, services, and
funds in the amelioration <>f soc
ial maladjustments. It uied to
be that private charity led gov
ernment in the process called
progress. Today, I wonder if
many germinal ideas for social
work come from non-govern
mental organizations. I submit
that it is important that private
non-governmental institutions
tranfuse ideas into the blood
stream of social attitudes, thus
preventing governments from
becoming stagnant. . . .
The Federation as a money
saver, and as a reducer of the
number of drives and solicita
tions, as a minimizer of profes
sional manpower, is not to me
its most appealing aspect. The
Federation is important to me
because it has been the cohesive
force in our community. It tends
to harmonize our disharmony. It
forces us into not only collective
action, but collective thinking.
It enables us to reason together.
Yes, even today there is some
thing to be said for togetherness.
It should be remembered that
the Federation has had a vital
role in all phases of our commun-
Group Completes Tour
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A fif
teen-member delegation repres
enting the National Community
Relations Advisory Council has
completed a 12-day visit to Is
rael after having Interviewed the
country’s leadership and studied
the security situation at first
hand. Jordan Band, of Cleveland,
NCRAC chairman, headed the
delegation.
ity life since it was created many
years ago by our forebears and
forefathers. As the years have
gone by, the Federation has be
come more and more involved in
the general community life and
in all of its aspects, for neither
the general community nor the
Jewish community lives in a vac
uum—both abhor vacuums.
We of the Federation have not
conquered all of the problems,
have not answered all of the
needs, have not responded to all
of the questions. Indeed, we are
still in the process of asking the
questions, but we are alive and
attuned to the 20th Century.
Years of oppression of our peo
ple have come and gone. . . .
Federations, as they have ex
isted from generation to genera
tion, furnish the cohesion which
gave us the strength, gave us
the collaboration, and gave us
the wisdom as well as the fra
ternal organization to survive.
They enable us to be unto the
world a beacon of hope and a
symbol of compassion.
JFK's Last Book
Written for ADL
To Be Televised
NEW YORK (WUP)—President
John F. Kennedy’s last book, “A
Nation of Immigrants,” has been
made into a television special to be
broadcast on more than 100 in
dependent stations across the
country during the week of Oc
tober 19 through 25, it was an
nounced here by the ADL of
B’nai B’rith for whom the book
was written.
The book, which was being
completed by President Kennedy
at the time of the assassination
and published by Harper & Row
in 1964, traces the successive
waves of immigration to the U.S.,
changes in immigration policy,
and gives the late President’s
critique of the Immigration and
Nationality Act of 1952.
The hour-long TV film, produced
by Wolper Productions, is spon
sored by Xerox. Included in the
program is an introduction, film
ed on Ellis Island, by Senator
Robert F. Kennedy, and com
ments by such distinguished for
eign-born Americans as Symph
ony conductor Leopold Stokow
ski, photographer Edward Steich-
en and opera singer Salvator Bac-
caloni. Richard Basehart is the
narrator.
UAR Defeat
Laid to 'Panic'
Of Officers
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
The October 6 issue of Al Abram,
Cairo’s leading daily— copies of
which reach the UN newsrack
here—contains a leading article
by its editor, Mohammed H. Hey-
kal, in which he lays the blame
for the devastating UAR defeat
directly on the shoulders of the
Egyptian officers who, he charges,
panicked following the Israeli air
blitz. Some of them, he said, be
came hysterical, “losing all con
fidence in the possibility of vic
tory.”
Mr. Heykal, a close friend of
Nasser, noted further that the
UAR possessed a massive supply
of the most modem arms but that
the officer* never used them
properly in what he termed “the
six black days of June."
Israel, he stated, did receive
“unusual aid” which they “ex
ploited with unusual brilliance
while we also had considerable
potentialities but wasted them
with unusual dereliction.”
New Coin Issued
JERUSALEM (WUP)—A new
one-pound (33 cts.) coin has been,
issued by the Bank of Israel. It
is to be used concurrently with
the paper one-pound note. Mint
ed in Israel, the new coin is made
of copper-nickel alloy.