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AJWF Nears Record
Second to 1974 War Sum
The 1975 Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation Campaign, rapidly
coming to a close, promises to be one of the best in Atlanta history,
according to campaign chairmen Saul Blumenthal and Joe Cuba.
Blumenthal and Cuba reported that there arc high hopes the
final total will exceed $5.5 million. This compares to $4.1 million
for the 1973 drive and is under the record Yom Kippur War out
pouring of generosity last year.
“It will definitely be the second best campaign in the com
munity's history and one of the outstanding community efforts,”
they said.
Final campaign figures are expected t6 be reported later, giving
a number of contributors whose commitments are still outstanding
an opportunity to make maximum pledges.
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Blumberg Urges Jewry
Combat Arab Propaganda
by ADOLPH ROSENBERG
David Blumberg, international
president of B'nai B’rith and newly
adopted Atlanta resident, Sunday
evening urged mobilization of
Jewry to insure continuity -of
Jewish family life, to combat Arab
propaganda and in support of our
president.
He spoke before the annual
dinner at which the Gate City
Lodge Distinguished Service
Award was presented to Nate Lip-
son, fabled philanthropist and
Jewish leader.
Mr. Lipson, in the shortest
acceptance speech ever of any of
the distinguished service award
winners, left the audience
breathless with the brevity of his
remarks.
After the amenities of thanking
the persons responsible for “this
honor” and acknowledgement to
his family and close friends, Mr.
Lipson noted the muddled state of
the world today.
We're going to make it, he
asserted. We're going to make it
because we have to. Because unless
we do, there won't be any world
for tomorrow.
Mr. Blumberg utilized incidents
from Mr. Lipson’s life to illustrate
several of his speech points.
He referred to the “Nate Lipson
Story" as the title given the exam-
ple set by the Atlanta
philanthropist on a trip to Israel
for VIP’s. After hearing several of
the Jewish State’s cabinet tell of
the needs there, Mr. Lipson leaped
to his feet and challenged the
others on the tour to do their part
in helping conditions existing in
Israel.
His comments became known
throughout Israel and the UJA as
the “Nate Lipson Story.” It was a
demonstration of dedication and
determination coupled with a prac
tical demonstration of agonized
concern.
The B’nai B’rith leader, whose
wife, the former Mrs. Janice
Rothschild, shared the speaker's
table, noted
“Nate Lipson is a wealthy
man," qualifying his remarks with
"if you think I’m referring to
stocks and bonds,” you’re quite
mistaken.
“No, I’m referring to the Pirke
Avot criteria that the wealth of a
man lies in the depth and loving
care he brings to his family, to his
religion and to his community."
Mr. Lipson’s generosity extend
ed far, far beyond the Jewish com
munity.
Mr. Lipson, a modest gentle
straight-from-the-shoulder guy
who doesn’t believe in ‘hofma’s’,
probably had to be roped and tied
to agree to appear in public even
for this highly deserved award.
The B’nai B’rith leader, who
henceforth will divide his home
town loyalties between Knoxville
and Atlanta, said, “The time has
come to stand behind our president
and let him know we are with
him.”
He made reference to the “new
stature,” the President has achiev
ed by standing up and saying in
effect, "You can’t push us around
any more.” He was speaking of
course of the seized U.S. vessel’s
rescue.
Thus, Mr. Blumberg declared,
the President takes his place beside
Israel which in past years also has
stood up and declared to the world
‘You can’t push us around any
more’.”
He reported on a recent con
ference of Jewish leaders in
Washington to whom Ford said
“Israel is the best ally of the U.S.
in the Middle East.”
In my opinion, Blumberg said.
Ford is as staunch a supporter of
Israel as he ever has been.
“We can feel safe and secure at
the present time about the U.S.
attitude towards Israel.”
On the challenge of Arab
.propaganda in this country, he ex
horted Atlantans and other Jewish
communities to organize quickly
and seriously to face the $ 100,000,-
000 which the Arabs will spend on
propaganda in this country.
In the upper Mid-West for in
stance, hundreds of alert, well-
rehearsed Arab students are taking
to the highroads and byroads to
spread their misinformation.
The American Jewish communi
ty must organize itself with the
facts, with the truth, so that this
propaganda can be counter
manded and stalemated. Obvious
ly we do not have a like sum of
money to match the money the
Arabs have to squander in this
score.
Mr. Blumberg also noted the
challenge which is taking place to
family life within the Jewish circle.
"Unless we consciously concen
trate on survival and continuity of
Judaism in this country, there will
be no Judaism as we know it fif
teen to twenty years from now.
It is not enough, he cautioned,
for you in the audience to shake
your head in agreement and then
forget it when you leave this ban
quet hall.
Josh Shubin assumed the
presidency of the Gate City Lodge,
succeeding Davis Abrams, in th£
election of a new slate of officers.
Irving Kaler, one-time recipient of
the DSA and former lodge presi
dent, installed the new officers and
trustees.
U.S. Mideast Policy Awaits
Ford Talks with Sadat, Rabin
By Peter Eriedlinger
VIENNA, (JTA) — Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger has
informed Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko that
American Middle East policy will
be established only after President
Ford has held his meetings with
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in
Salzburg June 1-2 and with Israeli
Premier Yitzhak Rabin in
Washington June 11-12, American
Gulf Money for
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
Congressional investigators prob
ing bribes and other payoffs
abroad by companies based in the
United States expect the Gulf Oil
Corporation’s chairman Rob R.
Dorsey, to supply more details on
the company's secret contributions
to an Arab fund used to propagan
dize Americans.
Dorsey testified before the
Senate Subcommittee on
Multinational Corporations which
is making the investigation. When
the subcommittee sought more in
formation from him on the
payments to the Arab fund,
Dorsey said he would supply it.
sources here said this week.
Kissinger and Gromyko held the
first of three meetings scheduled
during the two diplomats’ 16-hour
sojourn in Vienna. It took place at
the Imperial Hotel where
Kissinger is staying. The second
meeting was to be at the Soviet
Embassy.
The meetings are the first
between Kissinger and Gromyko
since the end of trff Vietnam war.
Arab Propaganda
Dorsey, who also admitted May
16 to having made illegal political
donations in Korea and Bolivia,
said his company secretly helped
finance an Arab public relations
campaign in the U.S.
While claiming he had few
details of the pro-Arab “public
education” campaign, he said Gulf
paid $50,000 secretly to it through
the First National City Bank in
Beirut in 1970. He said he had a
general impression the payment
was made after a request was made
in the Middle East because the
Arab viewpoint “was not un
derstood in the United States.”
American sources said that the
Soviet Foreign Minister sought to
probe Kissinger on the U. S. Mid
dle East position and especially the
early resumption of the Geneva
peace conference, but Kissinger
remained non-commital pending
the outcome of the Ford meetings
with Sadat and Rabin.
Nevertheless, sources here
noted, the U. S. is not disposed
toward an early reopening of the
Geneva conference and Kissinger
will try to persuade his Soviet
counterpart that such a multi
national conference would have
difficulties making progress.
Kissinger told reporters that he
and Gromyko "would discuss
problems which would secure
peace for all people.”
A subject high on the agenda of
their meeting is the American in
itiative for a U. S.-Soviet treaty
limiting offensive nuclear
weapons. The sources said
Kissinger and Gromyko may
prepare the ground-work for the
signing of an arms pact when
Soviet Communist Party
Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev visits
Ford in Washington later this
year.
AJPA Members Converge Next Week
In Memphis for 33rd Convention
Editors for many of the
American Jewish newspapers will
gather at the Holiday Inn-
Rivermont in Memphis next week
for the 33rd annual meeting of the
American Jewish Press Associ
ation.
At the major banquet on Thurs
day night. May 29, the Association
will pay special tribute to two
member publications, The
Southern Israelite and Memphis’
Hebrew Watchman for 50 years of
service to their communities.
Adolph Rosenberg, editor and
publisher of The Southern
Israelite, and Leo I. Goldberger,
founder and editor emeritus, will
receive the awards.
Among the editors and their
wives/husbands expected at the
convention are Mr. and Mrs.
Robert A. Cohn, president of the
AJPA and editor, St. Louis Jewish
Light; Mr. and Mrs. Albert W.
Bloom, Pittsburgh Jewish Chroni
cle; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hammer
man, Dayton Jewish Chronicle;
Richard Pearl, Omaha Jewish
Press; Mr. and Mrs. Jerry D.
Barach, Cleveland Jewish Jews;
Mr. Rosenberg: Bernard Postal,
New York Jewish Week; Paul F.
Levy, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle;
M rs. Max Goldberg, Denver
Intermountain Jewish News; Mr.
and Mrs. Conrad Isenberg,
Worcester (Mass.) Jewish Civic
Leader; Morton Shlossman,
Wilmington Jewish Voice; Mr.
and Mrs. Herman and Mr. and
Mrs. Leo I. Goldberger; Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Firestone, Kansas
City Jewish Chronicle; Geoffrey
Fisher, San Francisco Jewish
Bulletin; Mr. and Mrs. Frank F.
Wundohl, Philadelphia Jewish Ex
ponent; Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy
Wisch, Texas Jewish Post; Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Gold,
Minneapolis American Jewish
World, and Mr.and Mrs. Milton
Pinsky, Ohio Jewish Chronicle.
Philip Slomovitz, editor and
publisher of the Jewish News of
Detroit and founding president of
the American Jewish Press Assn.,
who is unable to attend, wrote
Editor Rosenberg saying, “You
are especially deserving of all
honors to be accorded you because
of the tenacity with which you met
all difficulties and carried the
burdens of Jewish newspaper
publishing. You produce a good
newspaper and . . . your 50th an
niversary is deserving of national
acclaim. You have earned the
respect being accorded you on the
occasion of this important
celebration."
Attending from The Southern
Israelite along with Mr.
Rosenberg will be Vida Goldgar,
associate editor, and Cathy Wood,
office manager.
Main address at the banquet will
be delivered by Bernard Postal,
veteran Jewish journalist and
editor of the Jewish Digest. His
topic will be “The Jewish Press
and the Bicentennial.”
On Thursday morning, the
editors will hear David Ebin, direc
tor of public relations of the Coun
cil of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds. That afternoon,
Yehuda Heilman, executive direc
tor of the conference of Presidents
of Major Jewish Organizations,
and Leon Aaron of the United
Jewish Appeal, will address the
group.
Rabbi Kenneth B. Roseman,
Ph D., executive director of the
Institute for Jewish Life, will ad
dress (he Friday luncheon session.
The Southern Israelite, which
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