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Friday, Feb. 7, 1969
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pag* Mtat
Federation Names Four to Top Campaign Leadership
To Guide Women 5 s Division
MRS. HANNAH WEINSTEIN
The Women’s Division of the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federa
tion announced the selection of
Mrs. Herman Heyman and Mrs.
A. A. Weinstein to head the 1909
Women’s Division campaign.
Both chairmen have been active
in prior campaigns and are well
known in Atlanta^for their out
standing communal work.
Mrs. Heyman, a veteran cam
paigner, served as general chair
man in 1937 and 1942. In the
campaigns of 1945 and 1950 She
served as general co-chairman to
gether with Mrs. Jake Abelson.
During the campaign of 1953 Mrs.
Heyman was again called upon
to co-chair the campaign with
Mrs. Harold Marcus. During the
intervening years Mrs. Heyman
has served as a campaign con
sultant.
Mrs. Heyman is an active par
ticipant in the programs of the
Council of Jewish Women and
is a past president of the organ
ization. She is a past president of
the League of Women Voters,'
DeKalb County branch, and the
United Nations Association. For
many years she served as a board
member of the/former Jewish So
cial Service Federation. She cur
rently is a member of the Board
of Directors of Family Counsel
ing Services of Metropolitan At
lanta. Mrs. Herman is a graduate
of Smith College, where she re-
MRS. HERMAN HEYMAN
ceived her A.B. degree. Her late
husband, Herman Heyman, was a
prominent Atlanta attorney and
a leader of the Atlanta Jewish
community. She has two chil
dren, a son and a daughter and
five grandchildren.
Mrs. A. A. Weinstein iqf a
member of the Board of Directors
of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Federation. She has been active
in Jewish communal circles since
her arrival in Atlanta in 1946.
She served as one of the over
all co-chairmen for the Women’s
Division in 1957 and has played
an active role in the various cam
paign divisions. She served as
Paoe Setters co-chairmen in 1964
and was the Advance Gifts co-
chairman during the 1967 and
1968 campaigns. She also played
an active role in the Emergency
Campaign during June of 1967.
Mrs. Weinstein serves as chair
man of the Service to New
Americans Committee which is
sponsored by the National Coun-
ci/Vf Jewish Women. She has
worked closely with the Jewish
Family and Children’s Bureau in
the assistance provided immi
grants arriving in Atlanta. Mrs.
Weinstein is a former vice presi
dent of B’nai B’rith Women and
Brandeis, National Women’s Com
mittee. Mrs. Weinstein’s late
husband, Dr. A. A. Weinstein,
was a noted Atlanta surgeon. She
has three children, two. sons and
a daughter.
Sidney Feldman and Nathan I.
Lipson, prominent Atlanta com
munal leaders, have been ap
pointed chairmen of the Pace
Setters Division, 1969 Jewish
Welfare Federation oampaign.
This was announced by David
Goldwasser and Meyer L. Balsor,
general chairmen of. the 1969
Drive.
Mr. Feldman has long been ac
tive in communal work and has
held important positions in vari
ous communal organizations. He
has served as President of the
Progressive Club and Vice Pres
ident of the Jewish Community
Center. For several years he suc
cessfully headed the Bonds for
Israel drive in Atlanta. He has
served on the Board of Directors
of the Atlanta Boys Club and on
the National Board of Scrap
Metal Industries. He is current
ly Vice President of the Atlanta
Jewish Welfare Federation in
charge of the Department of
Community Services and Plann
ing. Mr. Feldman served as Co-
Chairman in both the 1967 and
1968 Israel Emergency Fund
drives. He is Vice President of
the London Iron and Metal Com
pany.
Mr. Lipson has been promin-
Pinchas Sapir, Cabinet Mini
ster and Secretary General of the
Israel Labor Party, visited At
lanta last Friday as part of a
nation-wide trip through 10
major communities. The purpose
of these visits is to explain to
top Jewish leadership Israel’s
economic problems resulting from
their need for military prepared
ness.
His visit to Atlanta became ra
ther involved as a result of a
press conference he had held the
night flPftre in St. Louis when
he was questioned regarding the
hangings in Iraq. He informed the
press that these were not Israeli
spies and they were not spies for
the Central Intelligence Agency
as reported in Iraq. They were
hung because they were Jews.
The Associated Press which
carried this account reported Mr.
Pace Setters’’
SIDNEY FELDMAN
ent in communal activities since
his arrival in Atlanta. He is a
member of the Board of the Jew
ish Welfare Federation and
served as Co-Chairman of the
1968 Israel Emergency Fund
SapTr'~as^ saying that they were
not Israeli spies but they may
have been Central Intelligence
spies.
Apparently Radio Cairo picked
this up early Friday morning and
the telephones began to ring be
tween St. Louis, Washington and
Atlanta. The AP reporter was
found and expressed his own
great surprise at this misquota
tion which apparently had taken
place somewhere between the
filing of the story and the press
room.
AP, therefore, issued another
release correcting the report
which may or may not have been
corrected in subsequent newspa
per stories. At any rate, the At
lanta Journal carried the origin
al erroneous report and did not
make an correction. And Cairo
Radio remained silent.
Co-Chairmen
NATHAN LIPSON
Campaign. He is a recipient of
the 1968 Abe Schwartz Young
Leadership Award. Mr. LLpeon is
currently serving on the Nation
al Campaign Cabinet of the
United Jewish Appeal and is a
member of the UJA’s National
Speakers Bureau. He participated
in Israel’s Economic Conference,
attended by leading Jewish busi
nessmen and economists from
throughout the world, which was
held in Jerusalem, April 1968.
Mr. Lipson is president of Trend
Industries, Inc., rug and carpet
manufacturers.
The Pace Setters Division of
the Jewish Welfare Federation
consists of contributors of $1,000
and over. In past campaigns this
division has raised over 2/3 of
the total campaign results. The
new chairmen announced that
the annual Pace Setters function
has been scheduled for Sunday,
March 16, at the Standard Town
and Country Club.
Mr. Lipson, in accepting the
chairmanship, stated, “after re
cently returning from ‘Operation
Israel’ with 22 other Atlantans,
I am’more firmly convinced than
ever that American Jewry must
continue to support Israel and
the untold thousands of Jews
throughout the world who bear-
efit from the proceeds of our
campaign. The needs in Israel
today are greater than ever be
fore.”
Controversy Follows
Sapir to Atlanta
Women’s Division Delegation Inspect People on “Operation Israel”
The courage and faith of
aged and the immigrant made a
deep impression on Mrs. Burton
Epstein and Mrs. Ben Rabin-
owitz during their recent tour of
Lsrael as members of the wom
en’s mini-mission on behalf of
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fed
eration.
Above left, Mrs. Rabinowitz
admires the handicraft of resi
dents at the tree-shrouded
RLshon L’Zion Malben Home for
the Aged. She reported, “Malben
to hear, the stories of immigra
tion and absorbtion. But to ac
tually see the courage and de
termination of these people,
young and old, as they face life
in a new land—their joy and
gratitude at being here—made
nie feel pride and dignity in
being a Jew more than ever
before.”
While the men of Operation
Israel concentrated more on the
security problems and overall
needs of Lsrael, the women’s
is a lOUCning examine ui now me
Israeli people combine the most
advanced social work techniques
with a person-to-person touch.
These grandmothers and grand
fathers, many of whom have lost
their kin in the Nazi destruction
of European Jewry, and would
face the world alone, unloved
and uncared for, had it not been
for UJA and Malben, are given
tender, loving care here.
\ “Instead,” she added, “they are
encouraged to occupy their time
in constructive handicraft and
arts work that gives meaning
and purpose to their golden
years and adds years to their
life.”
Mrs. Epstein was one of the
tour members who joined a bus
load of new immigrants (above
right) as they were transported
from the plane which brought
them to Israel on to the immi
gration center. She said, “It Ls
one thing to read, it is another
group explored the needs of the
people themselves at the per
sonal level.
On their return last week,
Mrs. Rabinowitz and Mrs. Ep
stein agreed: “Israel’s survival
depends upon Jewish efforts and
resources. Recognizing this, we
have made our personal com
mitments to the 1969 campaign.
We look forward to a campaign
this year, in which we may
share the responsibilities we
have incurred as Jews.”