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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Oct. 4, 1968
OBITUARIES Pete
CARL ALPERT
WANT ADS
Ben Arkin
Ben Arkin of Savannah died
September 15.
Funeral services were held
September 17 with Rabbi A. I.
Rosenberg officiating. Inter
ment was in Bonaventure Cem
etery.
Mr. Arkin was a retired
merchant and a member of Con
gregation B’nai B’rith Jacob and
its Brotherhood and the Jewish
Educational Alliance.
Surfvivors include two sons,
Dr. Murray Arkin and Marvin
Arkin; two daughters, Mrs. Ben
Kantziper and Mrs. Harold See-
man, and several grandchildren,
all of Savannah.
Joe G. Kronstadt
Joe G. Kronstadt, 63, of Sa
vannah died Tuesday, Sept. 24.
Funeral services were held
September 26 with Rabbi Sid
ney Solomon and Cantor Leon
R a d z i k officiating. Interment
was in Bonaventure Cemetery.
A native of Savannah, M r.
Kronstadt was a member of
Congregation Agudath A c h i m
and its Brotherhood, and of
Clinton Lodge No. 54 F&AM,
the Scottish Rite and the Alee
Temple.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Rose Rosenthal Kronstadt;
two sons, Alex Kronstadt of
Gainesville, Fla., and Jack
Kronstadt of Washington; a
brother, Emanuel Kronstadt of
Savannah and a sister, Mrs. Jack
Galin of Savannah.
Mrs. Freeda Abelkop
Mrs. Freeda Abelkop, 67, of
Atlanta died Monday, Sept. 30.
Funeral services were held
October 1 in Atlanta with Rabbi
Jacob M. Rothschild officiating.
Graveside services were to be
held October 3 at Beth Israel
Cemetery in Greenville, S.C.
Rabbi David Korb was to offi
ciate.
Mrs. Abelkop, formerly of
Greenville, moved to Atlanta a
year ago. She was a native of
Buford, Ga., and a member of
Beth Israel Synagogue, Green
ville. She was the widow of A1
B. Abelkop, who died last year.
Survivors include her mother,
Mrs. Hannah Gavron; sisters,
Mrs. Edith Lipshutz, Mrs- Essie
Barris and Mrs. Leo J. Bloch,
all of Atlanta; brothers, Herbert
and Edwin Gavron, both of At
lanta, and Joseph P. Gavron of
New York City.
Mrs. Sam Blair
Mrs. Mae Morris Blair, 74, of
Savannah died Monday, Sept. 23.
Funeral services were held
September 25 at the graveside in
Bonaventure Cemetery with
Rabbi A. I. Rosenberg officiat
ing.
Mrs. Blair was a native of
Savannah and a member of
Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob,
its Sisterhood and the Jewish
Educational Alliance.
Survivors include her hus
band, Sam Blair; a son, Dr. Mel
vin Blair, and a daughter, Mrs.
Michael Adilman, all of Savan
nah; a brother, Dr. M- R. Morris,
and a sister, Mrs. Adia Cohen,
both of Miami, and six grand
children.
Senior
Friendship
News
By HARRY ROSE
At the September 26 birthday
party, 19 members of the club
were honored: Louis Shapiro,
Herman Taylor, Jessie Zinaman,
Erna Heyman, Helen Simonson,
Gertrude Levitt, Maxwell Er
lich, Dora Kaiser, Rose Korn,
Bessie Brown, Henry Levine,
Alta Cutler, Ida Dropkin, Kate
Meyers, Gertrude Lichton, Earl
Birkhammer, Anna Lashof, Ruth
Munroe and Mildred Cohen.
Belle Mazear has fully re
covered from a recent serious
illness which befell her while
visiting her son in Miami and
has returned to her home in St-
Pete.
Helen Birkhahn was hospital
ized again last week, but it
turned out to be a kidney ail
ment and Helen is being treated
at home.
Max Yanchuck returned to
the Club last week with a big
smile and a new wife.
Carrie Ascher’s arm is out of
the sling and she is back in full
action.
Oscar Ascher has been placed
in full charge of the bingo
operations for the SF Club and
he will be assisted by Manny
Ward and Irwin Levitt.
Alma and Dave Gertner ar
rived back in St. Petersburg last
week. Expected back within the
next 10 days are Molly Brandt,
Morris and Bessie Brown, Etta
Goldstein, Bessie Grossman,
David and Minna Sills, Jennie
Tinkle, and Minnie Levey. Those
who arrived back in their homes
this week are Samuel Epstein,
Clara Gollobin, Rose Libman,
Max and Florence Neuman, An
na M. Sanel, Arthur Sofsky, and
Jessie Zinaman.
Mrs. Rachel Greenberg
Mrs. Rachel Friedman Green
berg, 78, of Savannah died Sep
tember 13.
Funeral services were held
September 16 with Rabbi Sid
ney Solomon and Cantor Leon
Radizik officiating. Interment
was in Bonaventure Cemetery.
Mrs. Greenberg was a native
and lifelong resident of Savan
nah.
Survivors include three
daughters, Mrs. Jacob Dunn and
Mrs. Edward Waldman, both of
Savannah, and Mrs. Arnold
Soskins of Los Angeles; 11
grandchildren, one great-grand
child and a number of nieces
and nephews.
Isadore White’s broken nose is
healing rapidly and he has been
able to visit his friends and at
tend club meetings without in
terference.
Rabbi Denies
Posthumas
Wedding
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., (JTA)
— A Schenectady rabbi de
scribed this week as “totally
false and erroneous” widespread
newspaper and radio reports
that he had intended to perform
a posthumous wedding ceremony
for an engaged couple killed
last week in an auto crash. Rab
bi Howard Joseph of Congrega
tion Beth Israel told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that he of
ficiated this week at funeral
services in nearby Catskill for
Martha Levine, 21, and her fi
ance, Robert P. Karnes, 21, who
were buried together in the
synagogue’s cemetery.
He explained that, during the
funeral service, he mentioned
the fact that the two, who had
planned to wed next January,
were now forever united in
common tragedy. He said the
bereaved parents — Mr. and
Mrs. Isaac Levine of New York
City and Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Kanes of Catskill — had asked
him if a posthumous wedding
was possible and that he had
told them that it was “impos
sible religiously and legally.”
A local newspaper picked up
the idea from an obituary notice
sent in by an Albany funeral
director and the story reached
Israel’s
Pressing
HAIFA — For individual Jews
Yom Kippur marks the season
for personal stocktaking. For Is
raelis collectively it also pro
vides occasion to peer ahead into
the coming,
year. It is ourf
annual custo
at this time of|
year to review
the dozen ma
jor problem!
which face thei
country in theg§
twelve months;
ahead.
Some prob-[_
lems are con- Alpert
stantly at the head of the list;
some increase in importance and
some recede as they approach
solution. Basically the list has
not changed considerably over
the years in which we have
kept it.
For the coming year, then,
these are the challenges which
Israel and its leaders must face:
1. Pursuit of Peace. There
seems little likelihood that the
goal will be achieved this year,
but Israel must strike out on a
peace offensive to bring closer
the day when it may be possible
to sit down with the Arabs and
discuss, face to face, all out
standing problems and issues.
2. Reaction to Terrorism. A
new and immediate problem ap
pears high on the list this year.
How to react to Arab terror:
With a strong hand? With re
pressive measures? With massive
retaliation? With patience? Or
how? It is not easy to be an
occupying power, as Israel is
discovering with pain.
3. Determination of Borders.
In the meantime Israel will have
to crystallize a policy with re
spect to the occupied areas- Pub
lic opinion expresses itself freely
on whether to annex or not to
annex these areas, but the Gov
ernment has not yet given any
indication of the official stand.
4. Pressure from Friends. The
feeling is growing in Israel that
once the American elections are
out of the way increased pres
sure will be put on Israel to “be
reasonable” and to offer compro
mises to help the Arabs save
face.
5. Absorption of Arab Citizens.
Economic and social integration
into Israel life of the hundreds
of thousands of Arabs who, come
what may, will remain under
the Israel flag, presents Israel
with a challenge which, on the
whole, is being met with wis
dom, patience and growing suc
cess.
6. Economic Problems. How
quickly these change in nature.
Recession and unemployment of
two years ago have quickly been
replaced by new threat of in
flation and shortage of working
hands. The fear is that on the
eve of national elections the
Government will be unable to
take necessary but unpopular
steps to meet the situation prop
erly.
7. Relations with the East. The
simmering in Eastern Europe re
minds Israel that there are
several million Jews in that part
of the world, and somehow, some
time, Israel must re-establish its
lines of communication both with
the Jews and with the Govern
ments concerned.
8. Immigration- Rising higher
on the list this year is Israel’s
need for immigration from the
the wire services and was
broadcast radio and TV, in ad
dition to widespread newspaper
publication. Rabbi Joseph said
he had been deluged by tele
phone calls from newspapers as
far away as London and Stock
holm. Miss Levine, a Brooklyn
Jewish hospital nurse, and Mr.
Karnes, a New York University
journalism student, were killed
in a collision in Grant, New
Mexico.
Twelve
Problems
free countries, of those who have
been bred in democracy and can
bring Israel skills and talents
urgently required. No less im
portant is our ability to absorb
and integrate these newcomers
successfully.
9. Internal Politics. The eve of
the 1969 elections brings to the
fore the internal party strains
and the political fragmentation
which is a constant menace to
government stability. In the heat
of elections the raw nerve of
political frictions will undoubt
edly be exposed.
10. Secular-Religious Conflict.
External threats and pressures
serve to blunt the sharpness of
these differences, but they still
exist and are liable to erupt in
intensity at a time when Israel
can ill afford internal dissension.
11. Ashkenazi versus Sephardi.
Time, education and good will
are gradually accelerating a solu
tion to this problem which, while
it still exists, drops lower and
lower on our annual enumera
tion of national problems.
12. Water. Wise and proper
use of the nation’s water re
sources must continue to com
mand close attention. Encourag
ing developments in desalination
point the way to long-range,
permanent solutions-
Each country has its problems.
These are Israel’s. How much
closer will they be to solution
when we review the list again
next year?
SAVANNAH NEWS
Mrs. Gerald Meddin is joining
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pomerance
of Columbus for a month’s tour
of the Orient. After a stop at
San Francisco, they plan to visit
Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Taipei,
Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong
and Hawaii- In Bangkok, Mrs.
Meddin plans to see Dr. and
Mrs. Gene Wolchok. Mrs. Wol-
chok, the former Brenda Robin
son, is teaching school there
while her husband is serving
with the U.S. Air Force. Mrs.
Meddin’s daughter Shelley has
entered the University of Geor
gia as a freshman.
Larry A. Garvis, formerly of
Savannah, has been named area
manager for the Dale Carnegie
courses in Glade, Hendry,
Broward and Palm Beach coun
ties in Florida.
Mrs. Ruth F. Byck, president
of the Chatham-Savannah Men
tal Health Assn., was honored«
recently by the Georgia Assn-
on Aging. She was the recipient
of an award given to a non-paid
worker who has made a special
or unique contribution in the
field of aging in Georgia. Mrs.
Byck was one of the organizers
of the Golden Age Clubs of Sa
vannah and is a member of the
board of Senior Citizens, Inc.
She aLso organized the “Meals
on Wheels” program which pro
vides meals for bedridden or
shut-in older persons.
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