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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, May 5, 1972
TIJK SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Published weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 390 Court
land St N E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303, 876-8249, 876-8240. Second
class postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia. Yearly subscription, $10.00.
■Elia Southern Israelite invites literary contributions and corres
pondence but is not considered as sharing the views expressed by
writers. Deadline is 5 p. m. Friday, but material received earlier
will have a much better chance of publication.
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Kathleen Nease, Vida Goldgar, Edward M. Kahn, Kathy Wood
Betty Meyer, Gertrude Burnham, Alva Englehard
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Georgia Press Assn.
Seven Arts Features
World Union Press
AJWF’s “Now” Campaign
The 1972 campaign of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fed
eration is drawing to a close. Those who have been reached
have done well. But there are still too many who have not
been reached. This year’s campaign is as crucial as ever.
The generous response of Atlanta Jewry to the urgent
needs of Israel and to the pressing needs of Jews overseas
have established an enviable record. Let us not slip into
a state of indifference and abandon our record of concern
and caring.
The miracle of the Seventies is the awakening of Soviet
Jewry. We believe it can be ascribed to the impact of the
Six Day War of Israel upon the consciousness and aware
ness of Soviet Jews and their realization that they are part
of the Jewish people. But unlike the end of the holocaust
this time the gates of Israel are open. And so we witness
a steady migration of Jews from Soviet Russia to Israel.
Doubtless the social and economic resources of Israel will
be taxed to the limit.
We feel certain that the Jews of Atlanta will continue
to show their solidarity with the Jews of Russia and the
brave people of Israel.
We must also bear in mind that the Jews overseas
still need our help especially where there remain pockets
of oppression.
And lastly but not least we dare not neglect the home
front in this country.
The Federation has always been aware of the impor
tance of building a strong community. The needs of our
communal institutions are part of the goals of every cam
paign.
We urge all those who have not yet been reached to come
forward and pledge their contributions.
We congratulate the workers in the campaign. We feel
certain that they will redouble their efforts to bring the 1972
campaign to the anticipated goal.
The time for action is NOW!
Southern States Number One
In Tourism To Israel for 1071
The largest percentage increase in tourism to
the State of Israel from the United States in 1971
evolved from the Southern part of the United
States.
Jacob Goren, director of the Israel Government
Tourist Office in the South, who revealed this to
the press recently, said “the total number of tour
ists who arrived in Israel from the South was 26,000
in 1971, an increase of 68% over last year (15,500).
This increase is due to the fact that more and more
people here see Israel as a wonderful destination
that offers a spiritual experience to Jewish and
non-Jewish people alike.”
Here are figures from the different Southern
states:
1970
1971
—
Alabama
572
1275
Arkansas
373
605
Florida
4,415
8,475
Georgia
1J316
2,715
Louisiana
953
1298
North Carolina
1,746
2,861
South Carolina
658
1,012
Tennessee
1,115
1,683
T eras
2,772
4222
Oklahoma
669
1,007
JEWISH
CALENDAR
•SHAVUOT
•YOM KIPPUR
May 19, 20
Friday, Saturday
Sept. 18, Monday
•SUKKOT
TISHA B’AV
July 20
Thursday
Sept. 23, 24
Saturday, Sunday
*ROSH 1IASHANA
•HOSHANA RABBA
Sept. 9, 10
Sept. 29
Saturday, Sunday
Friday
•HOLIDAY
BEGINS SUNDOWN
PREVIOUS DAY
Major Aron
To He May 9 finest
On Channel 30
Major Wellesley Aron, a re
cent guest of the Atlanta Jew
ish Welfare Federation, will ap
pear on the weekly television
program, “Other People, Other
Viewpoints,” at 7:30 p.m, Tues
day, May 9, on Channel 30. Host
for the program is Grady Ran
dolph.
Savannah
News
Barney Sadler was chosen
president of the Jewish Educa
tional Alliance at its 60th an
nual meeting. Vice presidents
will be Robert Gordon, Donald
Kole, Walter Lowe and Aron
Weiner. Morris Rosen, secretary
and treasurer since 1968, was
renominated. Named to the
board of directors for three-
year terms were M. J. Becker,
Louis Diamond, Michael Dobbs,
Ben Garfunkel, Mrs. Sylvan
Garfunkel, Irvin Konter, Mrs.
Stephen Krissman, Ronald Kron-
owitz, Miss Charlotte Lipsitz
and Paul Robinson.
Air Force Capt, Joseph A.
Price III, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph A. Price Jr., has re
ceived his sixth award of the
Air Medal. He was decorated
for his aerial achievement as a
KC-135 Stratotanker aerial re
fueling aircraft commander at
Seymour Johnson AFB, N. C.
Price, who received an AA de
gree in 1962 from Armstrong
Junior College, also holds a BS
degree in psychology from the
University of Georgia. His wife
Rena is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. D. Marcus of Savannah.
Augusta
News
BIENNIAL ECHOLS
Heard at the Jewish Welfare Board’s National Biennial
held April 12-16 in Atlanta:
“The civil rights struggle and the Vietnam war together
have encouraged a new habit of critical examination of all
those aspects of our societyr which fall short of our profes
sions of a democratic faith.”
—McGEORGE BUNDY, President, Ford Foundation
“Jews have the responsibility for bringing sanity to a
world gone mad . . . The century that worships science -
facts - proven data - is more obsessed with myths and
idols than many pagans were in the past . . . It is the
eternal mission of the eternal people to remind the world
that it is mad. We must communicate this leadership to our
youth that they shall not be deterred because of the small
ness of their number from articulating this stance.
RABBI EMANUEL RACKMAN,
“Israel is unable to exist without the Diaspora. Neither
can the Diaspora survive—spiritually—without Israel.
—MORDECAI BAR-ON, Chairman, Youth and
Ilechalutz Dept., World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem
“Vie are better off for all the new groups, young and
not so young, that have found their voices in the last decade
even if what some of them say falls short of the wisdom
of Solomon. There is much truth in the assertions of con
flict and much reality in the process called confrontation. ’
—McGEORGE BUNDY
“We have arrived at a point in history where Jewish
Community Centers, one of the few Jewish institutions native
to the American scene, are firmly established in many
lands . . . We have now reached a stage where it is no longer
a matter only of what we can do for the Center movement
in Europe, but also what we can learn from each other.”
HERBERT MIULMAN, Executive Vice President, JWB
“The future of Jewish culture may be brighter than
many of us think ... In the next decade, a Jewish culture
explosion seems likely ...” because of “increased ethnic
self-confidence in the Jewish community . . . and cultural
experience and know-how of the Jewish community is at an
all-time high.”
—RABBI EUGENE B. BOROWITZ,
Professor of Jewish Thought, UUC-JIR
On modern youth—“By no means is the counter-culture
reacting uniformly by escaping to drugs or to American
communes, in community after community, young people
have organized quietly to serve the community needs.”
—McGEORGE BUNDY
Dr. Manuel I. Weisman will
be heading the Eastern District
Dental Society when new terms
begin in the fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Moog and
Mr. and Mrs. Abe J. Fogel have
returned from a Caribbean
cruise w’hieh included visits to
San Juan, P.R., and St. Thomas
in the Virgin Islands.
Referring to Jewish military families, “The American
Jewish community has the choice. We can cut them adrift
and assure that they are lost to Jewish life, or we can try
to draw them close and keep them Jewish . . . We must do
whatever we can to quicken their Jewish ties, to increase
their Jewish knowledge so that, when they complete their
duty tours and return to civilian life, they will become full
and active members of the American Jewish community.”
—ROBERT L. ADLER, Chicago Communal Leader
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