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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- Tum to page S' 1 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). i'\ 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- Tum to page 12 noini fi’iiyn no % v\2oinn hnidtV 13Dn T ' ® n -i i o ’ 3 nia.iN ndVn m i n n THi HFBRFW UNIVERSITY HADASSAH SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE FOUNDED BY THE OMEGA FRATERNITY 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