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TH« SOVTIWM ISRAKm
Friday, Aug. 14, W70
SL Pete
“a*. This Week in History
SENIOR FRIENDSHIP NEWS
By HARRY ROSE
“Howdy Everyone,” and i am
to bo back after
a pcnonal visit to **Ti1naaa Lane,”
due to a saver* attack of pneu
monia which m* in the
Barnert Memorial Hospital in
Paterson, N. J., the first kosher
hospital I ever actually knew
eviatad. It was an eight week
ordeal hut I am glad to be sing
ing that old song “Theee’i No
Place Like Home."
ed to go here, there and every?
where and Dave took them.
Grandpa says he is now going to
rest for the next fortnight.
Ben and Sally Kay will leave
California late this week and
return to Miami, will remain a
week and then motor to Pitts
field, Maas., for a month’s va
cation.
Mihna Sills was removed to
Palms of Pasadena Hospital last
week and is reported to be seri
ously ill.
It is whispered that cupid
played a trick on all of us a
few weeks ago whan it quietly
pierced Isidore Gerwitzman with
its arrow and*that be is now
honeymooning.
Manny and Sadie Ward are in
Long Island where they have
Joined relatives and friends to
celebrate their Golden Wedding
Anniversary.
Oscar Asher will undergo
surgery late in August.
Molly Brandt underwent surg
ery in the Harkness Pavilion in
New York City several weeks
ago and is reported to be doing
splendidly.
From down ‘Tllnaas Lane”
comes news that Moe Levy has
been transferred from his
daughter’s home in Tampa to the
Bay Pines Veteran's Hospital,
where he is doing well. Manny
Marks, confined to his home all
week, is reported to be melting
very good progress. Katherine
Smith is also doing well
Isidore Freed has fully re
covered from surgery and .is
back home .enjoying life again.
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Etta Kochman left for New
York City early this week where
she will remain for the next
month. Her husband M«r is
staying home, doing his family
dudes.
Leon and Meriam Katten re
turned last week from a month’s
visit to San Francisco where
they stayed with their daugh
ter and grandchildren.
Morris and Bessie Brown are
visiting their daughter and
grandchildren in TlUnnlii
and David Fisher have
just wound up a very happy
three week visit with their chil
dren and grandchildren from
California. The youngsters want-
Adele Las day has sold her
home in St Petersburg and will
reside in an apartment in Gulf
port
| OBITUARIES |
Levitt Unveiling'
Unveiling ceremonies in mem
ory of George. Levitt will be
held at 11:30 *a. m., Sunday,
Aug. 23, at the Workmen's Cir
cle section of Greenwood Ceme
tery. Irving Gordon will 1 offic
iate.
Mrs. Stella Gilbert.
ST. PETERSBURG — Mrs.
Stella Gilbert 79, of St. Peters
burg died Wednesday, Aug. 5.
Funeral services were held
August 7 with Rabbi Morris B.
Chapman officiating. Interment
was in Royal Palm Cemetery.
Mrs. Gilbert was bom in
Chicago and moved to St Peters
burg 40 years ago from there.
She was a member of Congre
gation B’nai Israel.
Survivors include two sons,
Jerome and Harold Gilbert, both
of St. Petersburg; one daughter,
Mrs. Fern Spoto of Clearwater;
one brother, Victor Poliak of
Chicago; three sisters, Mrs. Polly
Smith, Mrs. Bessie Ussy, both
of St. Petersburg, and Mrs.
Florence Orgenbau of New
York City; eight grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
Sidney Berkman v
ST. PETERSBURG — Sidney
Berkman, 71, died Thursday,
Aug, 6. „
Funeral services were held
Friday, August 7, with .Rabbi
Morris B. Chapman officiating.
Interment was in Royal Palm
Cemetery.
Mr. Berkman was a native of
Charleston, S. C., and had lived
in Si Petersburg for eight years.
He was a retired grocery store
owner in Charleston and had
been office manager for the past-
eight years for Dr. Samuel J.
Segal ill a: Petersburg. *
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Dora F. Berkman; son, Jay
Berkman of Washington; daugh
ter, Mrs. Samuel J Segal of
St PetHWfWir i'tw? brothers,
Herman R. and Nathan Berk-
man* both of Charleston; sis
ter, lux. Rosalia Hart of Charles-i
ton and seven grandchildren.
Nathan Adelman
Nathan Adelman, 51, of At
lanta died Tuesday, Aug 4.
Funeral services were held
August 5 with Rabbi David H.
Auerbach officiating Interment
was in Greenwood Cemetery.
..Mr. Adelman was a sales rep
resentative for Carla-Gay Dress
Manufacturers for 30 years. He
was bora in New York and was
a member of Ahavath Achim
Synagogue, the Progressive Club
and the Jewish War Veterans.
He was a charter member of the
NAWCAS Traveling Assn, and
was a veteran of World War
H.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Ruth Hosias; daughter,
Mrs. Arthur Holtz; son, Stanley
Adelman; sister, Mrs. Aaron El-
son, all of Atlanta, and three
granddaughters.
Abraham L. Cohen
Abraham Louis Cohen, 87, of
Macon, died Thursday, Aug 6.
Graveside services were held
Sunday, Aug 9, in Sherah Is
rael Cemetery. . 1
Mr. Cohen was bom in Po
land and had lived in Macon
for 13 years, coming there from
Elton, La, He was a retired
hardware store operator.
Survivors include one daughter,
Mrs. Emanuel Farber of Macon;
two grandchildren, Trudy qnd
Michael Farber, both of Macon,
and a brother, Dov Ben-Ishai of
Ramat Gan, Israel.
Max M. Karnibad
Max Mordecai Karnibad, 82,
of Savannah died Tuesday,
July 28.
Funeral services were held
July' 29 with interment in Bon-
aventure Cemetery. . ,
Mr. Karnibad was a native of
Russia and had lived in Sa
vannah for about 60 years. He
was a member of B’nai B*rith
Jacob Synagogue and the HH
Society. ’ *
Survivors include his son,
Jeshua Karnibad of Israeli; and
a grandson.
Haj New Rabbi
Rabbi William Fertig has ac
cepted appointment as rabbi of
Congregation Agudath Achim in
Savannah. Rabbi Fertig has been
serving as spiritual leader of
Congregation Shearith Israel in
Dallas, Tex.
He will succeed Rabbi Sidney
Solomon dn September 1, ac
cording to an announcement by
Erwin A. Friedman, president of
the congregation.
A native of San Francisco and
a graduate of Yeshhra Univer
sity and its Elchanan Theolog
ical Seminary, Rabbi Fertig had
served congregations in San
Francisco, Sacramento and Los
Angeles before going to Dellas
in 1963.
He has done graduate work at
the University of California at
Berkeley and the University of
Judaism in Los Angeles.
The rabbi's wife, Mrs. Bryna
Fertig, is the daughter of Rabbi
and Mrs. Uri Miller Of Baltimore.
The Fertigs have .a son and two
daughters.
AUGUSTA NEWS
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Robin
son and children David and
Scott are visiting with Mrs. Rob
inson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Max Bogo and family
• • •
Mrs. Betty Weiss of Bronx,
N. Y., and Mrs. Esther Ratner
of Brooklyn are visiting their
aunt, Mrs. Sara Greenberg and
family.
• • •
Dr. Morton Wittenberg attend
ed the American Podiatry Assn,
convention held recently in San
Francisco. Earlier he partici
pated in a surgery seminar given
at the California College of Po
dia trie Medicine, also in San
Francisco.
Brooklyn Shulei
Damaged by Fire
NEW YORK (JTA)—A Brook
lyn synagogue, Congregation
Kesser Torah, was nearly des
troyed by fire early Saturday.
A spokesman for the Fire De
partment said the blaze was not
of suspicious origin despite
earlier reports at the scene re
ferring to a “heavy smell of gas
oline.”
The two-alarm fire, which
began shortly after midnight,
was brought under control
some 45 minutes later. Damage
due to the fire included charring
of prayer books.
Officials of the congregation
could not be reached for im
mediate comment On July 20,
the Crown Heights Jewish Com
munity Council in Brooklyn, and
a nearby two-family residence,
was firebombed. The interior of
the Council — a storefront op
eration—was heavily damaged.
Essay Contest
For Miami BBYO
Registered BBYO members in
the Miami area . are invited to
submit entries to the second an
nual Jack Perlmutter BBYO Es
say Contest Deadline date for
the contest is August 31. A total
of $225 in cash prizes will be
awarded to three best original
essays completing the thought
“The Role of Jewish Youth To
day . . ”
. The contest which is funded
by members of Maccabee B’nai
B’rith Lodge of Miami and by
family and friends of Mrs.
Frances Perlmutter, is intended
to memorialize Mr. Perlmutter’s
interest in youth and Jewish ed
ucation.
Chairman of the essay contest
for Maccabee Lodge is Dr. Mor
ris Duitch. Mrs. Girt Bessak,
Florida Region BBYO director,
is supervising the contest com
mittee.
40 Tears Ago: 1930
From file files of file Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Nathan Razumovsky, an aged Russian Zionist who had crossed
into China intent on smuggling himself to Palestine, returned
after three years to (Main funds and was arrested as a spy.
Austria’s Catholic Church authorized marriages between Cath
olics and non-converting Jews. ^
Rumania’s largest synagogue was destrtoyed by fire, possibly
anon.
Furor greeted the acquittal in Bucharest of anti-Semitic agita
tor Zelea Codreanu.
JTA reported: ‘If the National Socialists get control of the
German government . . . and carry out to the letter their campaign
plan., no Jew will be permitted to be a German citizen. The
program ... led by Adolf Hitler, himself not a citizen of Germany,
calls for a national program to deprive file Jewa of citizenship or
to rid the country of them entirely.”
Marurice Schwartz, charging his Yiddish Art Theater of New
York closed “because of the high rentals and lack of adequate sup
port for the greet Jewish community," vowed not to return without
being guaranteed a fully financed theater.
The Jewish Agency said Palestine’s 172,000 Jewa were 20
percent of the population. . -
New York markets supervisor John R. Shea was suspended
on charges, of extorting money from Brooklyn end Queens kosher
butchers.
Morris Waldman of the American Jewish Committee said
the anti-Semitic outbursts that “seriously impair Rumania’s prestige
and credit” would not have oecured but for that government’s,
“reluctance to suppress illegal anti-Semitic propaganda out of a
emphasis upon liberty of the press and assembly.?
American-Jewish playwright-producer David'-Belaeco included
the Jewish actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Ada Isaacs Menken
pmnng the 50 best performers ever. Russian-English composer
Albert Coates included works by seven Jewish composers—Mendel
ssohn, Mahler, Schonberg, Bizet, Ravel, Saint-Saens and Gershwin
-^-among the 50 best musical works.
The Labor Department, responding to complaints by the Amer
ican Jewish Committee and the National Council of Jewish Women,
removed racial classifications from naturalization applications.
George Jessel, ‘“well-known American-Jewish actor,” arranged to
present the family of the late star Jacob P. Adler in a Broadway
play repertory.
Zionist Revisionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky, in a three-hour
speech in Prague, attacked the World Zionist Organisation for not
demanding enough British protection and not protesting the Pal
estine government’s policy toward Jews.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, commending a Catholic anti-pornography
drive in New York, pledged “earnest and even enthusiastic support
to any movement which will again make of the theater a place of
enchantment and beauty rather than a cesspool”
10 Years Ago: 1960
West Germany investigators expressed amazement at finding a
“complete file” on Adolf Eichmann’s wartime activities buried in
file Library of Congress and warehouses. The Knesset agreed to
permit Eirhimann to have a non-Israeli attorney, and cleared Dr.
Robert Servatius of Nazi affiliation.
Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democratic Presidential candidate,
urged the Arabs to recognize that “Israel is here to stay” and that
she could not take in all the refugees.
Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir told the Knesset that only
a few of the 9,236 applications for Soviet Jewish emigration had
been approved, although many were “compassionate cases.”,
The liberal Rome paper “Paese Sera” criticized the late Pope
Pius XII for not speaking out on the arrest and deportation of
Roman Jews in 1943.
The new curriculum for West Berlin elementary school chil
dren aged 10 and over included courses in the dangers of Nazism
and anti-Semitism.
Dr. Abe Silveratein, director of NASA’s space flights, was
lauded on the successful launch of Echo I.
Premier David Ben-Gurion urged increased Israeli aid to un
developed nations, “not as charity but as an obligation.”
Valentin Ivanov, first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in
Washington, was ordered to leave the country following FBI
charges he paid an American Nazi “substantial” money pending
the letter’s getting a government job. •
The American Jewish Congress opposed a “religious preference”
question on the New Jersey Boy Scouts application.
Ex-SS officer Herbert Cukurs, charged with 32,000 deaths in
Riga, said, *1 cannot deny that I killed several Jews.”
West Germany created a commission of scholars and educators
to aid schools’ teaching of Nazi history. The West Berlin Sedate
voted $4,694 for the Hebrew University library.
Washington diplomats questioned Secretary General Dag Ham-
mar sk] old’s sending of 500 Egyptian troops to the Congo.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson reported Israel had a
“remarkably high standard of living” 4nd was a “growing and
dynamic nation which must be visited to bis fully believed and
appreciated.”
Presidential candidate John Kennedy said “American diplomacy
must be directed to ending the (Arabs’) ‘state of war’ in the
Middle East, and this undertaking should have a very high priority
in a Democratic administration.”