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* ISRAELITE
A Weekly Newmpaper for Southern Jewry. WJ
Established 1925
Vol XI VIII
Atlanta, Georgia, June 15, 1973
ONE SECTION - 12 PAGES
NO 24
CCAR YESTERYEAR — 1928 Rabbi David Marx, veteran
Atlanta Temple spiritual leader, gave the invocation at the 1928
convention opener in Chicago of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis. Another Georgian, Rabbi Isaac Marcusson of
Macon was the perennial secretary of the convention. In this photo
Rabbi Marx, left, is seen with Rabbi Jonah Wise, New York City,
son of the founder of Reform Judaism; I)r. H. G. Enelow, New
York, C'CAR president; Rabbi David EefkoWitz, Dallas, vice presi
dent, and Rabbi Abram Simon, board member. The published con
vention report, indicated the delegates spent deliberative time con
sidering such subjects as Social Justice, Tracts, Religious Educa
tion, Religious Work in Cniversities, Church and State, and Pen
sions.
Brandt: Differences With
Israel Less Than Expected
JERUSALEM (J T A) —
Chancellor Willy Brandt said here
following talks with Premier
Golda Meir that differences of opi
nion between West Germany and
Israel were less than some had ex
pected prior to his four-day visit to
Israel
He announced that Mrs. Meir
has accepted his invitation to visit
West Germany at a date yet to
be set
Rabbis to Honor Morgenstem
During CCAR Parley
Macon’s Dr. Julian Morgen-
stern, president emeritus of He
brew Union College and honorary
president of the Central Con
ference of American rabbis, will
be the honor guest at a luncheon
of the Hebrew Union College —
Jewish Institute of Religion Alum
ni Assn, being held June 20 as part
of the K4th annual convention of
the CCAR meeting June 18-21 at
the Sheraton-Bilmore, Atlanta.
A distinguished alumnus cita
tion will be presented to Dr
Maurice N. Eisendrath.
Registration will begin Sunday,
June 17, and a meeting of the ex
ecutive board also takes place Sun
day afternoon, continuing at 9:30
Monday morning.
Open committee meetings are
planned for Monday afternoon,
with professionals seminars 4 to 6
p.m. and Wednesday from 3 to 5
p.m.
Official opening of the conven
tion takes place at 8:00 p.m. Mon
day evening, June 18 with a
BRIEFS
BUCHAREST, (JTA) — A
new kosher restaurant was opened
in the town of Bacau, in Rumania,
which has a Jewish community of
1600. It is the tenth kosher
restaurant in Rumania. The others
operate in Bucharest, Yassi,
Timisoara, Cluj, Arad, Oradea,
Galati, Botosani, and Dorohoi.
BUENOS AIRES; (JTA) —
Jose Bar Gelbard, a Polish-born
Jew, has been appointed Finance
Minister in Argentina's new
government. The appointment was
announced May 25 at the in
auguration of President Hector J.
Campora. Gelbard, 56, who came
to this country with his parents as
a child, is also acting Minister of
Commerce and Agriculture until
permanent appointments are
made.
worship service. Mayor Sam
Massed Jr. will welcome the
delegates and CCAR president
Rabbi David Polish of Evanston,
III. and vice president Rabbi
Robert I. Kahn of Houston, TEx.,
will address the group.
Atlanta hostesses from the Tem
ple and Temple Sinai have arrang
ed a “tour and tea" for wives of the
rabbinical delegates, for Tuesday
afternoon.
"Guiding Principles, of Reform
Judaism" is the overall theme for
Tuesday afternoon separate
sessions, which will include "God
and Convenant," "Halacha,"
"Who is a Jew," “Ethics,"
“Prayer," Modalities of Jewish
History," and "Jewish
Education."
An evening business session on
Tuesday will feature a report from
the mixed marriage committee on
that controversial subject.
Wednesday afternoon has been
designated for a visit to the grave
of Dr Martin Luther King. That
evening, Israel’s Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz will speak at a ses
sion planned to pay tribute to the
25th Anniversary of Israel. A
reception honoring Ambassador
Dinitz is being given by State of
Israel Bonds, with entertainment
provided by Atlanta's Miller
Family — Israeli Dance Group,
with Michael Greenspan, accor
dionist and singer.
Final business sessions and
reports will wind up the convention
on Thursday afternoon.
Atlanta Rabbis
Name Frieman
Rabbi Donald Frieman of
Congregation's Shearith Israel has
been elected chairman of the
Atlanta Rabbinical Assn, for
1973-74. Rabbi Herbert Cohen of
Congregation Beth Jacob will
serve as secretary.
The Atlanta Rabbinical Assn, is
comprised of Atlanta area rabbis
who meet regularly for discussion
of communal issues and exchange
of ideas. Religion in the public
schools and the establishment of
study sessions at the Jewish Home
are two of the areas recently con
sidered by the group.
In This Issue . . .
A glimpse of history filled with nostalgia for those who remember —
and a delightful perspective of Atlanta's Jewish community "back then"
for those who don't Beginning this week. The Southern Israelite reprints
its 1916 counterpart — the "American Jewish Review" a monthly
publication in Atlanta
Readers can save each four-page folio, compiling them, after full
publiction. into a treasured keepsake of yesteryear
Though the "new" building of the Progressive Club was the main story
almost sixty years ago, readers will feet the continuity offamiliar names
in the social notes, advertisers and organization news. An editorial is en
titled "The Jewish Christmas TRee," a theme just as familiar today
Automobile owners, according to an ad on page 16, can have a punc
ture repaired for 5 cents ... a blow-out costs more . 10 cents and up
"The best cakes it is possible to make" are available for 10 cents. Cable
Piano Co. was selling viclrolas at prices ranging from S15 to $350. We
caution against expecting those prices today
The first reproduction of this fascinating publication begins on page 5.
But the West German leader
also made it clear that he regards
the “special relationship" which
once characterized Bonn Israel
relations to be superceded by "nor
mal relations" of a “special
character" stemming from what
Brandt described as "the sombre
background of the National
Socialist reign of terror."
Brandi stressed repeatedly al a
State dinner in his honor Thursday
night, al a press conference Triday,
at a banquet he gave for Premier
Meir and on other public occasions
that the past can be neither undone
JERUSALEM — Chancellor
Willy Brandt escaped possible in
jury atop Masada this week when
heavy wind buffeted a helicopter
in which he was sitting and swept
it to within a hundred feet of the
mountain's difT.
Brandt was pushed out of the
aircraft, but was unhurt. Three
others however suffered slight in-
jury.
nor forgotten. But he stressed
equally IVest Germany's intention
to maintain strict "even-
handedness" in the Middle Last
dispute, and that while his country
was prepared to help bring the two
sides together it offered neither
mediation nor advice.
At the State dinner, however,
Brandi appeared to be asking both
Israel and the Arab states to lake
example from his "Ostpolitik
I rapprochement with the Com
munist bloc I which he said "has
been no easy path" and has "re
quired us to give up illusions and
indeed to abandon hopes which had
been right on their side because
"without a secure peace, all hope
would be in vain" Brandt assured
his Israeli audience that "Ost
politik" was not intended to pul
anyone al a disadvantage Mrs.
Meir responded by saying that
Israel's neighbors must learn the
lesson of ' * 1 Ostpolitik.''
At his press conference, Brandt
again expressed the hope that West
Germany's success at detent "can
be infectious." He said the
stabilization of peaceful conditions
in Europe “is an element of securi
ty for the Mediterranean region,
too."
He stated that his policy since
taking office has been to maintain
normal diplomatic relations with
all countries that want such
relations with all countries that
want such relations with West Ger
many. He added that improving
relations with one country did not
mean deterioration of relations
with another "To be more
specific, improving relations with
another country will not be at the
expense of the State of Israel,"
Brandt said. He noted that the
Israeli Government shared this
view.
Brandt said in reply to
questions that at their recent
meeting in Bonn, Soviet Com
munist Party Secretary Leonid I
Brezhnev had not asked him to
carry any messages to Israel. But,
he said, he did convey to Premier
Meir some of hs impressions of his
talks with Brezhnev and other
world leaders. However, Brandt
added, “It would be very unwise
were 1 to report on details of these
talks other than to give my impres
sion that, despite all differences
between leaders of the world
powers, all of them are interested
in a political solution in the Middle
East”
Brandt said West Germany
would try, in talks with both par
ties in the Middle East, to be as
objective as possible. “That does
not mean only to try to be aware of
the positions but we want to in
troduce elements which we con
sider to be on the line of reason."
Brandt stressed that Israel and
West Germany have had normal
relations since they exchanged am
bassadors eight years ago but these
have always been in the context of
the historical background of the
past. "Without the acceptance of
our share of responsibility for the
crimes which Nazism committed
abusing the name of Germany, ex
ternal freedom would not be credi
ble nor reliable," he said "The
three decades that separate us
from the days of horror made us
forget nothing of what must not be
forgotten," he said.
The German leader said his
talks with Premier Meir included
cooperation between their two
countries, international relations
in general, the Middle East con
flict and the problems confronting
that region.
The Chancellor said another
topic of discussion was the
relations between the European
Economic Community and
the Middle East region. He said on
that subject he was in a dilemma
because he strongly favored
political cooperation between the
nine Common Market countries,
yet there are substantive
differences among them on such
subjects as the Middle East. He
said, however, that Israel's
economic and politcal interests in
the EEC were consonant with
West Germany’s views. "We shall
bear them in mind when the
enlarged community goes about
the task of working out a com
prehensive and balanced policy lor
the Mediterranean," he said.