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Dirksen Was
Zionists' Friend
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen.
E'.erell M D:rksen, the Republi
can ir,:r r.ty leader in the U. S.
Senate whn died here at the age
ol 73. fevered Zionist aspirations
and Israel's security during most
of his i->ng Congressional career
which began in 1933.
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As a member of the House of
Representatives in 1942, the Il
linois Republican joined in a
Congressional resolution endors
ing the 29th anniversary of the
Balfour Declaration. He visited
Palestine two years later and told
the press that there was room in
the country for hundreds of
thousands of additional refugees.
In 1945 he urged President Harry
S. Truman to support the estab
lishment of a Jewish common
wealth and a year later joined
the advisory council of the pro-
Zionist American Christian Pal
estine Committee.
An early supporter of U. S.
arms sales to Israel to maintain
a regional balance of power, Sen.
Atlantan Elected
To Top Echelon
Of AZA Officers
Irvin Itabinowitz, 17, of Atlanta
was elected international second
vice president of Aleph Zadik
Aleph at the organization’s 45th
convention held
recently at Star
light, Penna. He
is the son
Mr. and Mrs.!
Ben Itabinowitz.!
Patricia Ginigerl
daughter of Mr!
and Mrs. Morlf
Giniger of Deca-
catur, completed
her term ns in-i
ternational president of the B’nai
B’rith Girls. She was named
counselor for the coming year.
AZA, the boys’ component, and
BUG, its counterpart for girls,
along with B’nai B’rith Young
Adults, comprise the 50,000-mem-
! r B’nai B’rith Youth Organiza
tion.
Among the speakers were Dr.
V'illiam A. Wexler of Savannah,
international president of B’nai
B’rith, and David M. Blumberg,
Knoxville, vice president of the
Supreme Lodge of B’nai B’rith.
Augusta News
Cantor Leo Radin of Dallas
will assume the duties of Rev.
Herman Roth at Adas Yeshurun
Synagogue early in October.
The Daughters of Israel Bible
Class will meet every Wednes
day morning, beginning October
22 at 10:30 a.m., in the Adas
Yeshurun library.
Rae Weinstein, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hy Weinstein, left
recently for Gainesville, Fla.,
where she is a student at the
University of Florida.
Donald A. Loft, freshman, son
of Dr. and Mrs. Gerald H. Loft,
and Thomas J. Loftiss II, senior,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Loft
iss, have been named to the
spring quarter dean’s list at
Emory University.
Hadassah is seeking clothing,
household items, furnkure, etc.,
for its rummage sale planned for
early November. Hadassah’s
Quota Corps Workers Luncheon
will be held on Wednesday, Oct.
8.
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Dirksen in 1962 urged President
John F. Kennedy to supply Israel
with Hawk anti-aircraft missiles.
In 1968 he offered a Congression
al resolution honoring Israel’s
20th anniversary and calling for
direct. Arab-Israeli peace talks.
Later that year, he urged the
Johnson Administration to ap
prove the sale of Phantom jet
fighter-bombers to Israel.
Over the years, Sen. Dirksen
had advocated the resettlement
of Arab refugees in Iraq, and has
criticized American aid to Egypt.
He also joined in a Congressional
resolution protesting the treat
ment of Jews in Soviet Russia.
The acting Republican Senator
ial leader and possible successor
to Sen. Dirksen is Sen. Hugh
• Scott, cf Pennsylvania, who has
also been a leading supporter of
Israel’s cause. Sen. Scott was in
strumental in securing a pro 7 Is-
rael plank in the Republican plat
form at the party’s national con
vention in Miami Beach last year.
Sen. Scott, a liberal, also led the
Republican bloc which criticized
the Eisenhower administration’s
Mideast policy during the Suez-
Sinai crisis in 1956-57.
NEW YORK (JTA)— Jacques
Torczyner, president of the Zion
ist Organization of Arperica, said
that the late Sen. Dirksen ‘‘was
a close friend of the Jewish peo
ple and always stood behind Is
rael.” He recalled that the Sen
ator, at the 71st national conven
tion of the ZOA in Washington in
19C8, said that Israel should not
Savannah News
Edwin J. Feiler Jr. has been
elected president of the Harmonie
Club at the club’s 104th annual
meeting. Serving with him will
be Ronald H. Cohen, vice presi
dent: Barry D. Barr, secretary,
and Dr. Lamont Danzig, treas
urer. Aaron Levy and Dr. David
Robinson were elected for two-
year terms to the board of gov
ernors and Mark Hacken and
Robert Hacken and Robert Gor
don to one-year terms.
* * *
Raphael (Raffi) Rehfeld of Is
rael has been named program co
ordinator of the Jewish Educa
tional Alliance. His home in Is
rael was at Ramat Hashavim,
just north of Tel Aviv. Rehfeld
and his wife, Adina have an 11-
year-old daughter and an eight-
year-old son.
become “another Czechoslovakia.”
Mr. Torczyner said that the Illi
nois Senator followed events in
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seeing that Israel’s security be
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