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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, June 2, 1972
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THE SOUTHERN l>K\E!.HE
Published weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 390 Court-
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class postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia. Yearly subscription, $10.00.
The Southern Lsraelite 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 AA. Kahn, Kathy Wood
Gertrude Burnham, Alva Englehard
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Georgia Press Assn.
Seven Arts Features
World Union Press
Shalom! Moshe Gilhoa
Moshe Gilboa came to Atlanta as Consul General of
Israel three years ago. He will be leaving this month to
return to Israel to await further assignments.
He succeeded a line of able and distinguished represen
tatives of Israel in that office. In 1954 Israel chose Atlanta
as the center for establishing a consulate that would serve
the entire Southeast area. Each consul made a distinct con
tribution to the advancement of the cultural and trade in
terests of Israel and to building stronger ties and relation
ships between the Southeast area of the United States and
Israel.
Building on the foundations of goodwill established by
his predecessors, Gilboa was determined to intensify those
relations and to promote mutual cooperative action in a
variety of enterprises.
He became a vigorous participant in Jewish communal
endeavors that aimed to mobilize all resources of helping
meet the needs of Israel. In these efforts he became con
cerned also with building strength, greater understanding
and awareness in the community for Jewish values.
During his years of service in Atlanta and in the South
east area he was active in advancing good relations and
sympathetic understandinjTvpf the influence of Israel in the
general community.
He was alert to the possibilities of making Atlanta a
center for foreign trade. He exercised leadership and in
fluence with his colleagues in the foreign consulates through
organization and unified action on common interests.
Moshe Gilboa and his family were an asset and a positive
influence for good in the community. They leave behind
them a host of friends. We wish them well in all their
future endeavors.
Shalom!
The “Forward’s” 75th
On May 21, the Jewish Daily Forward observed its 75th
anniversary. With the demise of the Jewish Day and Morning
Journal, the Forward is the last remaining Yiddish daily in
the United States. From the very beginning the orientation
of the Forward has been that of the Jewish and general
trade union movement.
During the earlier decades of the mass migration of Yid
dish speaking immigrants from eastern Europe, the Forward,
as well as all the other Yiddish dailies and weeklies that
came into being, covered the totality of news. This is no
longer the case with the English Jewish Press.
Today the Jewish press concentrates on bringing to its
readers the news and information that bears specific Jew
ish interest and content.
The Forward has a proud history and record of leader
ship and influence in the organization of Jewish trade
unions, the abolition of the sweatshop in the garment in
dustry and the advancement of human relations between
labor and management.
There are those who, more than three decades ago, pre
dicted the extinction of Yiddish as an element of any con
sequence in the life of the Jewish people. In more recent
years there has been a revival of interest on the intellectual
and academic levels, in the study of the language and litera
ture of Yiddish.
Simon Weber the editor of the Forward pointed out
that the observance of the 75th anniversary was “not the
end of an era but a holiday of renewal.”
Jn the spirit of Jewish tradition we congratulate the
Forward on having reached this day in life and strength and
in the expectation of a vital future.
JEWISH CALENDAR
‘TISHA B'AV
July 20
Thursday
*ROSII HASHANA
Sept. 9, 10
Saturday, Sunday
*YOM KIPPUR
Sept. 18, Monday
'SUKKOT
Sept. 23, 24
Saturday, Sunday
•IIOSHANA RABBA
Sept. 29
Friday
•SIIEMINI ATZF.RET
Sept. 30
Saturday
•SIMHAT TORAH
Oct. 1,
Sunday
•HANUKA
Dec. 1 - 8
Friday - Friday
•HOLIDAY BEGINS SUNDOWN
PREVIOUS DAY
UN Ambassador Explains
Cancelled Show With Kahane
NEW YORK (JTA)— George
Bush, US ambassador to the
UN, apologized to Dick Cavett
for canceling out of his ABC-
TV talk show May 25 after
agreeing to appear with Rabbi
Meir Kahane, chairman of the
Jewish Defense League.
In a letter to Cavett, the
former Congressman conceded
that he had agreed to do the
show but subsequently “did an
in-depth check” with “certain
responsible, highly respected
leaders of national Jewish or
ganizations” who convinced him
that ‘‘any move by me that
would have even the slightest
appearance of giving recogni
tion or credence to Kahane
would damage the serious pro
ductive and legal efforts that
they and thousands of their fel
low Jews have been making to
alleviate the suffering of their
brothers (in the Soviet Union).
Bush explained that while it
had been his original intention
to “forcefully” repudiate JDL
policy in Rabbi Kahane’s pres
ence, he became convinced
after speaking with the Jewish
leaders that he did not'want to
“give any standing whatsoever
to Mr. Kahane.” This is a “mat
ter of deepest conscience,” Bush
wrote, adding in a postscript
that the arrests in Lido Beach,
Long Island, of four alleged
JDLers for reputedly planning
to blow up the Soviet estate at
Glen Cove indicated “the kinds
iOf activities that Kahane by his
conduct condones” but that
other Jewish leaders deem “out
rageously irresponsible.”
The envoy did not name the
Jewish organizations whose
leaders he consulted with, but
they were understood to include
Portland, Oregon
Elects Jewish Mayor
PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA) —
This city with a 4 percent Jew
ish population got its first Jew
ish mayor in more than half a
century when City Commis
sioner Neil Goldschmidt won
the non-partisan post with 57
percent of the vote.
Goldschmidt. a 31-year-old
lawyer, took a generally liberal
point of view in defeating a
sexagenarian. The incumbent
did not seek reelection.
The Middle East, Vietnam
and busing were not issues in
the campaign. Goldschmidt, who
was born in Eugene, was the
president of Aleph Zadek Aleph
there, and is a member of
Portland Lodge 65 of B’nai
B’rith.
the American Jewish Commit
tee, the American Jewish Con
gress and B’nai B’rith. As am
bassador to the UN, Bush is
considered a member of the
Prasident’s Cabinet, thus his
caution at according Rabbi Ka
hane “recognition or credence.”
Bush appeared on the Cavett
show several months ago after
the US lost its effort to seat
both mainland China and Tai
wan in the General Assembly.
During the segment Bush also
condemned the alleged firing
into the Soviet Mission by a
rifleman linked to the JDL by
the police. Peter H. Roussel,
public affairs officer for the US
Mission, added to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency: “We didn’t
feel the ambassador should give
credence to the things Kahane
does and says. He (Kahane) has
chosen to take the violent
route.” A1 Husted, Cavett’s
spokesman, told the JTA: “The
show was bumped because it
fell apart.”
. . . Forward
Continued from page 1
epigrams, ideologicals, debates,
poignant short stories about im
migrant life and serials about
Jewish history abounded in the
pages of the Forward. During
the early decades editorial ap
prentices were recruited from
factories, union offices and the
professions. The Forward’s feuil
letonists were the forerunners of
the columnists in today’s daily
press.
‘FIRSTS’ TO ITS CREDIT
The Forward, Weber recalled,
had many “firsts” to its credit.
In 1947 it launched a campaign
to make the world conscious of
the plight of Soviet Jewry with
the first signs of anti-Semitism
under Stalin in the post-war
period. It was the first news
paper in any language that re
ported the arrest of the Jewish
writers and the liquidation of
the Jewish Anti-Fascist Com
mittee headed by the renowned
actor, Solomon Mikhoels, and
the Rod Army Colonel and
Communist poet laureate, Itzik
Feffer. Weber recounted that it
was he who got the story from
a State Department source that
the Soviet government had liq
uidated the Jewish Anti-Fascist
Committee in Oct. 1948 as an
alleged center of Zionism. It
was the Forward, in the sum
mer of 1952, that alerted the
world to the fact that Feffer,
Peretz Markish and a group of
Yiddish writers were executed
by the Stalinist regime.
In 1937 the Forward scored
with a scoop in its publication
of an interview of Leon Trotsky
by M. Rubinshtein, a Yiddish
editor from Mexico, when the
exiled leader of the Bolshevik
revolution was living in Coya-
can. In that interview, Trotsky,
who was a bitter opponent of
Zionism, conceded that under
Socialism Jews must have their
own culture, develop their own
" way of life as a people and he
granted freedom to emigrate.
Trotsky, in that interview, also
conceded that the classical Marx
ist view that the Jewish peo
ple would assimilate into the
cultures and societies in which
they lived was not borne out
in view of fascism.
Weber, who before joining the
Forward 33 years ago was rity
editor of the Yiddishe Welt in
Philadelphia and earlier the city
editor of Freiheit, smiled as he
said, “You see, it wasn’t the
Jewish Defense League that
began the campaign to save So
viet Jewry hut the Forward.”
The campaign to aid Soviet
Jewry, he added, has been an
ongoing and fundamental one
for the past several decades.
With the demise of the Day-
Morning Journal, Weber noted
that the task of the Forward is
to .serve “the entire Jewish
community, not just a segment
of it. We are devoting more
space to that group which was
served by the Journal. Although
we considered ourselves* the
organ of the whole Jewish com
munity there was particular
stress on the secular sector. Now r
that there is no religious daily
to serve the Orthodox sector,
we are trying to serve them as
best as we can without sacri
ficing our own editorial policy.”
Weber noted that the Forward’s
75th anniversary edition, which
will include an English section
with “outstanding 'contributors,”
will reflect the expanded policy
of the paper.
Almost as an afterthought,
Weber said as the interview con
cluded: “I’m not known as an
optimist, more a realist. Some
how I have a feeling that the
Forward will survive its young
est contributors. Who says that
a Yiddish paper can only exist
when it has 65,-70,000 readers”
Who says it can’t exist with
25,000? No Yiddish newspaper
in the world outside the For
ward has more than 25,000 and
they are large and influential
newspapers in their communties.
We will continue and we will
go—forward.”
. . . Mayor
Continued from page I
ugees” from the Soviet Union
migrating to Israel.
Most of the emigres leaving
the Soviet Union stop over in a
refugee center near Vienna be
fore departing for other coun
tries. Despite the penalties of
job loss and classification as
“parasite,” the desire among
Jews to emigrate is spreading
and now includes intellectuals
and scientists, a knowledgeable
source well acquainted with
Moscow told JTA. Some wish to
leave, he said, because of Zion
ist convictions, others because
they underwent an anti-Semitic
experieneoe. But the much wider
belief is that anti-Jewish feeling
in the Soviet Union is prevent
ing cultural activities for Jews
like that encouraged for other
nationalities.
All this, JTA was told, has
a snowball effect not necessarily
involving anti-Semitism direct
ly. Jews aiming for higher jobs
are discouraged by employers
who fear that they wish to emi
grate and thereby aause a per
sonnel problem, JTA was told.
A HELPINq MND