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The Southern Israelite
Vol. XLVI
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, December 24, 1971
Two Sections—12 Pages
No. 52
... in Brief
Israel Trading in US Dollars
"As Usual" After Devaluation
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Con
gress adopted Friday a continuing
resolution on foreign aid which
provides for expenditure in mili
tary credits to Israel at an an
nual rate of $300 million.
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)—The
Aranha family of Brazil an
nounced the establishment of an
all-expense scholarship for study
in Israel to honor the memory of
the late Brazilian statesman, Os-
valdo Aranha, who presided over
the United Nations Assembly
Nov. 29, 1947 which endorsed the
partition of Palestine and the es-
tablishhment of the State of Is
rael. The scholarship will be
awarded annually on Nov. 29 to
the best student of the eight
Jewish schools here.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — All of
the four surviving babies of the
quintuplets born to Mrs. Hadas-
sah Berman here in October
have been removed from the
incubators where they spent the
first two months of their lives.
The largest of the infants, a boy,
was taken out of the incubator
last week. His three sisters were
removed yesterday.
AMSTERDAM (JtTA) — A
ground-breaking ceremony for
a new Jewish school that will
house 400 pupils was held here
Friday.
WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) —
The trustees of Brandeis Uni
versity have announced the ap-
pointmnt of Dr. Marver H.
Bernstein, a political scientist
and Jewish communal leader, as
the fourth president of the 23-
year-old Jewish-sponsored uni
versity. Dr. Bernstein, who has
been since 1969 chairman of the
national commission of the B’nai
B’rith Hillel Foundations, is
professor at Princeton Univer
sity. He was the first dean of
the university’s Woodrow Wil
son School of Public and Inter
national Affairs from 1964 to
1969. He succeeds Charles
Schottland, 65, who has been
president on an interim basis
since the resignation of Morris
Abram in March, 1970.
LONDON (JTA) — Joseph
Lovinger, chairman of the Jew
ish community in Greece, told
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
today that the 5,000 Jews in
Greece constitute a stable com
munity. Lovinger, here attend
ing the meeting of the European
Executive of the World Jewish
Congress, said some Greek Jews
still emigrate to Israel occasion
ally, but that all who wanted to
live in Israel had gone there
many years ago.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Trad
ing in US dollars continued as
usual this week following the
announcement of an 8.57 per
cent dollar devaluation.
Trade in other foreign curren
cies was suspended pending
clarification of the monetary
situation and an announcement
of new rates of exchange expec
ted tomorrow.
Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir
told newsmen that there will
be no further devaluation of the
Israel pound which continues to
be pegged to the dollar. The IL
was reduced 20 percent last
Aug. —• from 3.50 to 4.20 to the
dollar. \
Sapir said the lifting of the
10 percent import surcharge,
announced by President Nixon,,
should spark greater efforts by
Israel to increase its exports to
the US. He said Israel’s goods
will also have a better chance of
competing in Europe because of
the more favorable rate of ex
change, though the aniount of
improvement will depend on the
new exchange rates to be an
nounced. Israeli businessmen
and industrialists predicted to
day that imports would be more
expensive and exports, in some
cases, increased.
ident of the Israel Manufactur
ers Association foresaw a gen-
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Abraham Shavit, deputy pres-
Larry Frank toms over a chock for $M0,M6 to Dr. Sidney Edoi-
stein at the recent national VIA conference la New York as a
part of the emergency cash campaign being instituted in At
lanta by the Atlanta Federation Jewish Wetfare Federation
(Story page 9).
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Alpha Omega Alumni Gather for Convention
By DR. ROBERT FRIEDMAN and DR. THEODORE C. LEVITAS
Atlanta Alumni of Alpha Ome
ga Dental Fraternity and their
wives are prepared to greet
more than 400 delegates and
their families to the 64th annual
convention of the Fraternity.
The meeting will be held in At
lanta from December 26 to De
cember 31 at the Regency Hyatt
House Hotel.
Dr. Herschell Isaacson, con
vention marshal, and Dr. Morris
Eenveniste, deputy mar s h a 1,
have worked for more than a
year with their committees to
make this convention the best in
the fraternity’s history.
A great deal of time and ef
fort has been expended to in
sure that outstanding scientific
sessions, fraternity business,
commercial displays, social and
cultural functions take place in
an atmosphere of intensified
fraternalism. It is hoped that
the convention will be a prime
setting for the indoctrination
of those beginning in Alpha
Omega, those capable and devo
ted to leadership and those
whose innate talent and interest
can assist as Alpha Omega con
Benveniste Isaacson
tinues forward in its quest to
better serve the needs of dentis
try and its members.
Sixty-four years ago eight
Jewish dental students felt a
Goldstein Caplan
need to band together. They felt
a need to unite their goals,
ambitions, and friendships, and,
in this Onion, achieve a strength
greater than any one man pos
sessed. As young men do, they
had noble visions of grandeur.
As older men they have tasted
the fruits of victory and have
seen many of their dreams come
true in the form of an interna
tional fraternity more than
10,000 strong.
In Atlanta, on December 26,
another, larger group will meet
They will gather to renew the
pledge of the first eight men.
They will cherish the dreams of
the eight founders, and dream
their own dreams of contribu-
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FOUNDED BY THE
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international president of Alpha Omega Alumni, the fesmal pFSsentauon.
At left at Dr. Goldstein’s left Is Zalman Shaw, State of Israel president
Alpha Omega was dedicated. At right, Dr. Marvin Goldstein, Atlanta, then