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Friday, June 16, 1972
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pag* Eleven
Panorama .... Ry David Schwartz
Party Conventions
Soon the people of this coun
try will be tuning in to Miami
to the two party conventions to
see who will be nominated for
the Presidency of the United
States.
Jews have never had any
Presidential candidates except
in the case of Barry Goldwater
in whom we might claim a fifty
percent investment.
Jews do not seem to be the
Presidential type. There were
two rabbis in the past who had
the charisma and other qual
ifications for a presidential can
didate. We refer to Stephen
Wise of the Free Synagogue and
Abba Hillel Silver of Cleve
land. One can at least conceive
of them being considered, if •
they had not been rabbis and
were interested.
They had the necessary in
gredients. In the first place,
they had physical stature.
Americans like their Presidents
tall, dark and handsome or at
least tall and handsome. Wash
ington and Lincoln were over
six feet, Buchanan, Pierce,
Harding were handsome. Shor
ties have little chance. Stephen
Douglas was nominated to run
against Lincoln, but in order to
do that they had to give him the
name “the little giant,” so peo
ple would forget his short sta
ture. He had a very powerful
voice which gave the impres
sion of “giantness” and made
one overlook his lack of long
itude.
Wise had everything Wm.
Jennings Bryan had: appearance,
eloquence. John Haynes Holmes
said of Wise that he was the
best orator in the country. Wise
was popular almost as much
among Baptists and Presbyter
ians as he was among Jews.
Like Bryan, Wise, if he ran,
probably would not have been
elected.
Orators are usually applauded
but not elected. People think if
they are so smart, why do they
run? Daniel Webster, the great
est orator of the country, was
always running for President,
but could never get it. Rabbi
Silver, on the other hand, pos
sibly might have been elected.
He, too, had eloquence, but also
a kind of conservative streak
which tended to reassure the
great silent majority.
But, of course, being rabbis,
neither ever thought of running
for President. The only two
Jews who were ever seriously
mentioned in that connection
were Bernard Baruch and Louis
D. Brandeis. Both would prob
ably have made good Presidents,
yet they were not of the candi
date type. Rabbis, having to deal
with congregations, have more
of what it takes to deal with
conventions. Brandeis was a
man for the solitude of thought
and so in his own way was
Baruch. Both were content to
work behind the scenes as pres
idential advisers.
Jews have not excelled in
American politics. However, one
Jew did have some say in the
election of Truman. In his mem
oirs, Truman confesses that he
had no thought of being chosen
on the Roosevelt ticket for
Vice-President. He had been
asked to nominate Senator
Byrnes of South Carolina for
the post and he had agreed.
When he mentioned this to Sid
ney Hillman, the Jewish labor
leader responded that labor
would only agree to either of
two men for Vice President;
Truman himself or Justice
Douglas.
There was a lot of Jewish
activity in the Democratic con
vention which nominated A1
Smith for the Presidency. Gov
ernor Lehman of New York
was a leading Smith backer, and
the wife of the head of the
Educational Alliance of New
York was said to be one of
Smith’s most confidential poli
tical advisers. Of course, Hoover
and not Smith, was elected.
Victor Rosewalter, the Ne
braska editor, was chairman of
the Republican convention
which nominated Taft when he
ran for re-election. The Repub
lican convention in that year
split—Theodore Roosevelt lead
ing a faction under the name of
the Progressive Party and the
Democrats naming Wilson. Rose-
waiter backed Taft, Oscar
Straus backed Roosevelt and
Brandeis supported Wilson.
In 1860 an uncle of Brandeis,
Lewis N. Dembitz, was a dele
gate to the Republican conven
tion which named Lincoln. The
Democratic party in that elec
tion also split and the conven
tion which nominated Douglas
was presided over by August
Belmont, a Jew, who never, or
scarcely ever mentioned the
fact that he was a Jew. Bel
mont was the representative of
the Rothschild interests in
America. The name Belmont is
French for Schoenberg.
If Belmont’s candidate didn’t
win the political race, a lot of
the horses at the Belmont race
track named after him, have
won.
A he Goldsteins
Mark Golden
A n niversary
Mr. and Mrs. Aire Goldstein
of Atlanta shared the joy of
their Fiftieth Wedding Anniver
sary by inviting their children,
the Leon Goldsteins and the
Lee Shustermans, on a senti
mental journey to Israel.
The Goldsteins, who have
been an integral part of the
leadership of the Atlanta Jew
ish community, have long been
identified with Ahavath Achim
Synagogue. Mrs. Goldstein is a
past president of its Sisterhood
and Mr. Goldstein has twice
been congregational president.
When You Talk English
You Often Talk Hebrew
By RABBI SAMUEL
M. SILVER
Many names of people and
places in our society are He
brew words.
Thus many Americans are
talking Hebrew
without know
ing it..
For example,
you may have
a friend whose
first name is
Reu ben, or
whose last name
is Rubin.
When you say Reuben, you
are talking Hebrew.
Ben, as many know, is the
Hebrew word for “son.” The
first syllable, “R'oo” is the He
brew imperative of the verb,
to see.
So, as you may recall from
the Bible, Reuben means “Be
hold, a son!”—an exclamation
uttered by Leah, the wife of the
Biblical Jacob who was over
joyed over the arrival of he.
first child.
The family name Rubin may
or may not bo a variant of
Reuben. If it’s Rabinowitz, then
the Hebrew word is a different
one. It’s the well-known word,
rabbi, with a Russian ending
meaning “son of.”
But Reuben is a pair of He
brew words meaning, “See—a
son!” The particle, ben, for son,
is familiar to many people, and
even those who don’t know
Hebrew can discern the same
monosyllable in the name, Ben
jamin, another Hebraic two
some. What does Benjamin
mean? In the original it was
ben-yameen, and “yameen”
means right. So Benjamin trans
lates “son of my right hand.”
So as you see often when
you are talking English you
are at the same time talking
Hebrew!
TWIN DOCTORS
FETE PARENTS
ON ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Eidex
of Chattanooga were feted on
Saturday evening, June 10, on
the occasion of their fortieth
wedding anniversary. Hosts for
the cocktails-and-dinner-dance,
heki at the Marriott Motor
Hotel, were their twin sons,
Drs. Maxwell and Marshall
Eidex and their wives, who are
residents of Atlanta. Music was
(provided by the Ed Gregory
Trio.
An original skit, featuring
slides taken of pictures from
old scrapbooks and appropriate
songs, sung by all the guests,
was presented during the eve
ning. Mrs. William Goldsmith,
a long-time friend of the hon-
orees, was the accompanist and
Henry Greenberg, also of Chatt
anooga sang some solos. Sev
enty friends and relatives from
throughout the Southeast atten
ded.
Miss Kohen
Chosen For
Governor's Honors
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Rosalyn Kohen, daughter of
Rabbi and Mrs. Nathan L.
Kohen of Fitzgerald, has been
selected to participate in the
Governor’s Honorsc program
being held for eight weeks this
summer on the campus of Wes
leyan College in Macon.
Outstanding high school stu
dents from throughout Georgia
are nominated for this special
study after successfully com
peting in a series of tests and
interviews. Only 400 students in
the state have been designated
for thia honor.
Rosalyn, completing her soph
omore year, is a member of the
Beta Club, Pep Club, Geogra
phy Club, the Sub-Debs, and is
a varsity cheerleader. She re
ceived gold medals for out
standing achievement in biology,
world history and geometry
and has maintained an all “A”
average in her studies.
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