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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLIV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, February 21, 1969
No. 8
New Nazi Outfit
Registers in France
PARIS, (JTA) — A new organ-
zation which has paid homage to
an executed Nazi collaborator
and defined its purpose as “the
fight aeainst Jewish influences
and Zionist propaganda” in
France has registered with
authorities as a “legal associ
ation,” it was learned here.
The group held its founding
meeting on Feb. 6 to commemo
rate the 1945 execution of Robert
Brazillach, an Anti-Semitic prop
agandist who was Convicted of
war crimes by a French court.
Membership in the group in
cludes several right-wing person
alities and ^avowed anti-Semites.
Negro Veterans
Asking JWV Aid
Increases 100%
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
commander of the Jewish War
Veterans of the United States
has disclosed that the number of
Negro ex-servicemen seeking as
sistance from his organization in
veterans’ matters has increased
by more than 100 percent in the
past year.
According to Charles Feuerei-
sen. ‘This does not indicate a
national wave of anti-Semitism
among Negroes, especially
among the young men returning
from Vietnam.”
The commander said JWV ser
vice officers in New York, Wash
ington, D. C. Atlanta, Boston,
Pittsburgh and elsewhere have
“met hundreds of earnest young
Negroes seeking veterans rights
for education, housing, insur
ance ... as provided for under
the G. I. Bill.” He said that
Negroes lack veterans service
organizations and feel comfort
able in accepting Jewish assis
tance.
Israeli Rabbis
(let Invitations
For Moscow Fete
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Both
Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Isser
Untermann and Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim have re
ceived invitations to attend a
75th birthday celebration
planned at Moscow’s Central
Synagogue for Rabbi Yehuda
Leib Levin on Feb. 23.
Rabbi Untermann said he was
needed in Israel and would not
attend but would send Rabbi
Levin a congratulatory message.
Rabbi Nissim is considering ac
cepting the invitation, which
came from Menasha Michalowitz,
chairman of the Committee of 20
which administers the Moscow
synagogue.
Observers here said they could
not recall any invitation from
the Soviet Union for a visit by
Israeli religious leaders since
Israel was established. It waa~"
assumed that the invitations
could not have been sent without
authorization by Soviet officials.
Israel Buying Arms
from Britain?
LONDON (JTA) — A meeting
here between Israel’s Deputy
Defense Minister Gen. Zvi Tzur
and Britain’s Minister of De
fense Denis Healey has given rise
to speculation that Israel is seek
ing to buy new armaments in
Britain.
The military attache at the
Israel Embassy here confirmed
that Gen. Tzur had met with Mr.
Healey and with a number of
other British high officials. He
refused to comment on reported
arms purchases but said the con
versations covered “a number of
issues relating to the Middle East
in general and Anglo-Israeli re
lations in particular.”
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ZURICH, Switzerland — Four
Arab commandos, according to
the Associated Press, attacked an
Israeli El A1 airplane about to
take off here Tuesday, reopening
the sore spot of freedom of avi
ation for the world and endan
gering the mid-East imbalance.
The plane was riddled with
bullets. Swiss police said six per
sons on board the airliner were
wounded, included the pilot, two
of them seriously. El A1 officials
said only two persons were hurt,
both crewmen.
Israeli security agent slipped,
from the plane moments after the
hail of bullets and shot one of
the attackers dead.
Soon after the attack, the Pop
ular Front for .... _»ueialion of
Palestine, an Arab guerrilla
group based in Jordan, claimed
“full responsibility” for the at
tack.
Swiss police arrested the three
other attackers, including a wo
man.
The incident brought these re
actions in world capitals and di
plomatic circles:
—UN Secretary-Gene r a 1 U
Thant condemned the raid and
expressed hope there would be
no Israeli reprisals, such as oc
curred on Beirut’s International
Aiport after the Athens attack.
—Israeli Foreign Minister Ab
ba Eban said in Jerusalem that
the attack “demonstrated the
murderous characteristics” of the
Arab guerrilla organizations In
formed sources said Israel de
plores the senseless attack.”
Swiss police said the Arab
raiders struck from behind a
snowbank. Moments after the
first bursts raked the airliner's
cockpit, an Israeli security officer
left the plane and caught the
commandos by surprise, fatally
wounding one attacker, police
said. The Israeli officer was not
identified.
Find Marker Buoy
From Lost Dakar
TEL AVTV (JTA) — A marker
buoy washed up on a Gaza Strip
beach has been identified as be
longing to the missing Israeli
submarine Dakar which vanished
with all hands in the eastern
Mediterranean on or shortly
after Jan. 25. 1958. the date on
which the last radio contact was
made with the submarine
69 officers and crewmen.
Vice Admiral Abraham Botzer,
commander of Israel’s Navy, and
Commander Joseph Dror of its
submarine flotilla disclosed at a
press conference that the buoy
was found by aft - Arab on a
beach north of Khan Yunis. It
was stressed, however, that the
discovery was not a clue to the
whereabouts of the missing sub
sufficient to warrant a renewed
search.
... In Brief
Interfaith Brotherhood
Lutherans To Present Jewish Art
To Asheville Temple as Special Gift
LONDON (JTA)—British serv
icemen posted to the Mideast
have been instructed to remove
from their civilian clothing labels
from the Marks and Spencer de
partment store and other firms
with Jewish connections. The
Daily Mirror, reporting the De
fense Ministry order and terming
it “extraordinary,” said it was
^issued to troops heading to the
^ersian Gulf as a precaution
against confiscation of goods
made by Jewish-controlled firms.
Such goods, as well as those of
Israeli origin, are regularly con
fiscated at borders of some of
the Arab oil sheikdoms, especial
ly in Bahrein.
Soldiers who recently depart
ed for the Gulf^ area, the Daily
Mirror reported, were also told
not to carry books by Jewish
authors or which deal with Jew
ish affairs. An Army spokesman
said the action was taken “for
obvious political reasons. We
don’t want to inflame the tense
Mideast political situation.”
ASHEVILLE — It probably
won’t be a fait accompli until
several weeks yet—but it’s quite
official that members of St.
Mark’s Lutheran Church here
vant to reciprocate for members
o! Congregation Beth Ha Tephi-
k
The two congregations are
within walking distance and the
basis for the Christian gesture
was the use of the Jewish Hbuse '
of Vorship while St. Mark’s was
undergoing complete remodeling.
This took about six months.
Officials-of both groups had
decided there would be no inter
ference if members of St. Mark’s
worshipped at Beth Ha Tephila
on Sundays. A room at the Tem
ple was turned over for storage
of necessary church items. When
the church children finished
classes—their rooms were not in
volved in the remodelling they
simply walked down the street to
the Temple and attended Sunday
services.
The specific form of the recip
rocation is taking the form oif a
piece of Jewish sculpture which
the church members are acquir-
iig to present as a gift during a
proper ceremony to the Jewish
xingregntion.
* The artist is Jerold Frankel,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
frankel of Atlanta. He is now a
bird-year student in dentistry at
Tarvard University.
When the Lutherans made
mown their desire to show ap-
>rectation with a special gift, it
vas felt that a work of Jewish
irt would permanently enhance
he Temple.
How the Lutherans wound up
with an art piece from young
Frankel is a story in itself.
It seems the matter was being
discussed at a birthday party
here for Mrs. J. B. Breman, who
is in her nineties. Mrs. Breman
was being entertained by her
children Coleman and Helen
Zageir of Asheville and by Bill
and Sylvia Breman of Atlanta.
The Bremans happen to be in
terested in the sculpture of Jer
old Frankel and were quick to
recorrimend his work for the
special gift.
Rabbi Stanley Funsten, spiri
tual leader of Beth Ha Tgphila,
made a special trip to Atlanta
to inspect the sculpture. He liked
the “Exodus.”
So in short order, the “Exodus”
will be taken' to Asheville and
dedicated amid appropriate cere
monies.
Jerold who sold one of his
sculptures to the City of Atlan
ta in 1966 as a result of the
Piedmont Art Festival is cur
rent]}' exhibiting his work in
Boston. In his spare time—which
isn’t too frequently what with the
exacting standards of Harvard
and the requirements of dental
medicine—he continues to sculpt.
Jerold became involved in the
art world almost peripherally —
through his mother, Harriet
Frankel, a person versatile and
Skilled jp this arena' in her own
rights. Several years ago, when
Camp Coleman was being created
at Cleveland, Ga., she and her
son became jointly Interested in
providing the Jewish decor for
the outdoor chapel. Items they
created in stone and cement are
still, in use and furnish an in
spiring Jewish motif for the
campers at worship.
Subsequently, Jerold taught at
Mt. Holyoke and studied under
Leonard DeLonger, a former
noted sculpture-faculty member
of the University of Georgia Art
School.
He became interested particu
larly in the form of sculpture
which uses the welding ad cut
ting torch and staunch iron and
other metals as the fabric and
texture for artistic form. One of
his works, a huge shofar on which
a procession of figures seem to
march in continuity and perpe
tuity, each with a smaller shofar,
is a strong piece.
“Exodus” features robed fig
ures, one from each of the tribes,
bearing the Ark of the Covenant
on the arduous and long trek
through the wilderness. The time
must evidently have been after
the giving of the Law on Mount
Sinai, since the tablets of the
Decalogue are shown, a symbol
unlikely to have adorned the Ark
before this event. The feeling is
one of vigorous strength.
Young Frankel studied Biblical
symbolism of the event closely
in order to have a proper back
ground of validity for the crea
tion. It combines cast iron.jpar- ,
ble and bronze.
As one of his medical training
projects, Jerold is in charge of
the blood bank at Hospital Beth
Israel in Boston three nights a
week,
LONDON (JTA)—Foreign Sec
retary Michael Stewart told the
Honse of Commons that Britain,
France, the United States and
Russia were expected to oonfer
soon to discuss a Mideast settle
ment. Bi-lateral talks among
them are currently taking place
at the United Nations.
LONDON (JTA)—Aaron Ver-
gelis, editor in chief of the Mos
cow Yiddish publication, Soviet-
ish Heimland, said that “it is ex
pected that a Yiddish school will
be set up shortly” In Moscow.
Interviewed in a Soviet English-
language broadcast, Mr. Vergelis
said it was doubtful, however,
whether parents would send their
children to the school.
CRANSON, R. I. (JTA)—The
Rhode Island Board of Rabbis
has Joined its Massachusetts
counterpart in urging a boycott
of California table grapes as a
gesture of support for striking
grape pickers.
Rabbi Jerome Gurland of
Cranston, president of the Rhode
Island Organization, issued a
statement backing the boycott
organized by the Farm Workers
Organizing Committee (AFL-
CIO) because “the grape pickers
are a vestige of labor oppres
sion . and are being exploited
with sub-standard wages and de
humanizing living conditions.”
According to Rabbi Gurland, a
representative of the Massachu^
setts board visited California to
investigate the tensions between
the pickers on the one hand and
the,' growers and distributors on
the other. Rabbi Gurland in
voked the Talmudic injunction
against “Oshek”—“oppression of
a hired man”—as justification for
the boycott call.
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)— The
Philadelphia Superintendent of
Schools, Dr. Mark R. Shedd, has
confirmed that a history book
previously used in the public
schools has been dropped from
the "approved and recommended
list of textbooks” because of its
treatment of the Nazi ere. The
book, “Living World History,” by
Wall bank and Schrier, was re
viewed by associate superinten
dent for Instructional services,
Dr. I. Ezra Staples, who found
that the book’s “treatment of the
Nazi regime and Its persecution
of the Jews is unacceptable and
ignores the determined and sys
tematic efforts of tins Jlazts to
eliminate the Jewish—people to
Europe.”
Review of the textbook follow
ed complaints by Jacob Rlz,
principal of the Workmen’s Cir
cle School, that the book referr
ed to the Nazi boycott of German
Jews but ignored the Nazi mass
murder of Jews. Mr. Riz also
complained of the book’s treat
ment of Jesus and the Jews. On
this, Dr. Staples reported that
the book’s handling of the re
lationship of Christ to the Jews
during that period m history con
tains seeds of animosity toward
Jews.”
Lord Russell
Scores Polish
Anti-Semitism
LONDON (JTA) — Lord Rus
sell (Bertrand Russell, the Brit
ish philosopher, has accused the
Warsaw regime of continuing to
circulate among Polish workers
a "horrifying document of crude
anti-Semitism” which charges
that Jews control world financial
power and are all subversive
agents for Israel no matter in
what countries they live.
Lord Russell referred to the
document in reply to attacks on
him which appeared recently in
the Polish dailies, Tribunu Ludu
and Zycie Warzawy. The denun
ciations followed his recent let
ters to Polish Communist Party
chief Wladyslaw Gomulka decry
ing Poland’s official anti-Jewlsh
campaign.
According to Lord Russell, the
anti-Semitic document was titled,
“Zionism, Its Genesis, Political
Character and Anti Polish
Image.” It was written by
Wladyslaw Kmitowski and re
leased last year by the Lodz Cen
ter of Party Propaganda. It was
still being circulated among
members of the Polish United
Workers Party for instruction
purposes, Lord Russell said.