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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
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VOL. LI
Established 1925
One Section, 16 Pages
• OUR 50th YEAR
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Atlanta, Ga., June 20, 1975
NO. 25
Israel Closes Aliyah Office
In Atlanta After 12 Years
A July I closing of the Southeast Aliyah Center in Atlanta has been
announced.
Rami Dromi, in charge of the facility headquartered in Georgia for the
past 12 years, said Atlanta was one of two of the fourteen American
centers scheduled for immediate closing.
The other, he noted, is in New Jersey. Under evaluation is the St.
Louis Center, which may also be closed.
Mr. Dromi will move to New York where he will be identified with the
Aliyah headquarters there.
The move, he observed, is part of a budgetary realignment the agency
has had under consideration for a long period.
Aaron Margalit created the Aliyah office in Atlanta. It was located at
the time in the Exchange Place Building. Later it was removed to the 805
Peachtree Building.
Abe Tooch was the next director, followed by Eran Shorer. Shorer
died in Houston where he had undergone extensive surgery. Samuel
Hard was Southeast director after Shorer.
His successor was Rami Dromi, well known Israeli journalist.
"Jteb" Shleme (S. J.)
At 96; Businessman,
Solomon Jacob (“S.J.") Gold
died Tuesday, June 10, and with
him a Jewish legend not likely ever
to be reproduced in Atlanta.
He operated a Jewish
delicatessen in his community at a
time when the current generation
can hardly realize the close
relationship of such a place to
Judaism.
A native of Lithuania, he and his
wife moved to Atlanta at the turn
of the century and soon opened his
store.
Housewives gladly paid the
quarter or thirty cents a pound for
corned beef, although the purchase
was usually likely to be con
siderably less than sixteen ounces.
Such Jewish goodies as black
olives, herring, lox, pumpernickte
were available to tempt customers
and on the shelves items tasty and
exotic as well.
People came, singly and in
droves, to fill the store as they
bought what meager times could
prompt, or what parties required.
They dreamed of the times when
they could buy in larger and more
effusive quantities.
The person behind the counter
was not always Mr. Gold himself.
At least not Mr. Gold alone. His
first wife, the former Kalie Freed
man, who died in I94J, helped. So
in turn did his beautiful family of
TECHNION’S Haney Prize winners Dr. Goerge Klein (I) and Prof.
Edward Teller. Dr. Klein, professor of tumor biology and head of the
Institute for Tumor Biology at the Karolinska Institute Medical School in
Stockholm, receives the Harvey Prize in Human Health for his discoveries
in cancer immunology. Prof. Teller of the Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory of the University of California was chosen for the Science and
Technology prize for his work toward the utilization of fission and fusion
energy for peaceful purposes.
The Haney Prizes, each of which carries a cash award of $35,000, are
named for the late Leo M. Haney of Los Angeles, who was a prominent
leader of the American Technion Society. Mr. Haney was founder and
chairman of Haney Aluminum Co. who died in 1973 at the age of 87. A
million dollar gift from the Lena P. Haney Foundation was used to es
tablish the Haney Prize Fund in 1971.
Rabin Still in Dark on JJ.S.
Policy After Top Level Meet
NEW YORK, (JT A) —
Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel
indicated here Saturday night that
after two days of meetings in
Washington with President Ford
and Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger he was still in the dark as
to what U.S. policy will be in the
Middle East.
Addressing 2300 Jewish leaders
from the United States and Can
ada at a dinner given in his hon
or by the Israel Bond Organiza
tion at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel,
Rabin said that he had explained
Israel's position “very
thoroughly” to President Ford but
Gold Dies
Talmudist
sons and daughters, each assisting
after school or during vacation as
the years turned.
“Gold's” became a byword in
the community — for the
Orthodox and others who beat a
path to the store and returned
home with the Jewish foods
offered there.
It was said that he did enough
business on some Sundays to be
closed the other days of the week.
But in the broad service the place
offered, the place was closed only
on the Sabbath.
The volume on Sunday was
greatly increased by persons who
came to Atlanta from dozens of
smaller communities in Georgia
where no such Jewish food place
was available.
Packages of edibles from Gold’s
were brought back like treasures
— on trains, in cars and perhaps
during earlier times even by horse
and buggy.
Merchants who came to Atlanta
to buy at the wholesale places did
not dare return home without stop
ping at Gold's and acquiring
samples and staples for the family.
The first thing in Albany, Ga.,
for instance, this writer ever heard
about Atlanta was Gold’s. Always
family travelers to Atlanta bought
items there and brought them as
special treats.
It was from Gold’s too that
Albanians and Jewish citizens in
many another community ordered
their Passover matzoh and the
myriad of things needed for the
passover table. Even Sedurim.
His Pesach orders must have
been monumental, mounting for
weeks as Passover approached and
then being crated and shipped in
order to arrive at whatever loca
tion on time.
At one time his place was in one
of the two stores located on the
same Capitol Avenue property of
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did not know if "all was accepted.”
He said, “I am sure there was
understanding to what I told
Ford" but that he does not know
■ now what the U.S. government’s
decision on the Middle East will
be. “I explained to Ford that con
ditions not accepted by Israel in
March will not be accepted
today," Rabin said, referring to
Kissinger’s “shuttle" diplomacy
which broke down last March.
He rejected the contention that
Israel is intransigent, emphasizing
that “We do all for progress" but
that Israel has the right to
decide what is right and wrong
when it comes to its future and
security. He said Israel is ready to
make concessions to the Arabs but
cannot make any that would en
danger its security.
Describing his country’s
relations with the U.S. as
friendship deeply rooted in values
and beliefs," Rabin said that Israel
had demonstrated flexibility but
was not prepared to accept Egyp
tian dictates. “We said no, even
when the U.S. was ready to accept
Egyptian dictation," Rabin
declared.
He said that Israel was com
mitted to do whatever was possible
to achieve an interim agreement
WASHINGTON — The State
Department has blamed the killing
of an Israeli woman, her husband
and brother by Arab terrorists in
the Israeli village of Kfar Yuval, as
“clearly sparked by an act of wan
ton terrorists.”
Referring to the attack and the
Israeli retaliation that followed
against an Arab village in south
Lebanon, the State Department
statement said: “Our position on
such incidents has been stated
many times and it has not been
changed. We deplore such in
cidents of violence, which in this
caseiwere clearly sparked by an act
of wanton terrorism. We par
ticularly deplore and regret very
much the loss of innocent lives."
• • •
BONN — The chairman of the
Central Council of Jews in Ger
many, Werner Nachmann, 50, is
off on four weeks military training.
Nachmann, who was recently
awarded West Germany's Order of
Merit by President Walter Scheel,
says his decision to do voluntary
military training is to demonstrate
the closeness of German Jews to
the new West German State
Under present laws, Jews are not
obliged to do military service in
the Bundcswehr.
• • •
JERUSALEM — Foreign
Minister Yigal Alton called in the
British Ambassador, Sir Bernard
with Egypt but observed that if
that is not achieved, there will be a
need to move toward the negotia
tion of an overall settlement. He
did not mention the Geneva con
ference. He emphasized however
that if Egypt will be
“forthcoming", Israel will be the
same.
He described the present situa
tion in the Middle East as better
than it was three months ago. He
said the threat of war had
diminished, the Suez Canal- is re
opened, the mandate of the United
Nations peace-keeping forces has
been extended and Israel’s recent
unilateral thinning out of its forces
in Sinai has contributed to further
relaxation.
As to the future, he stressed that
Israel is ready to negotiate for
peace not for its right to exist.
“Our existence as an independent
Jewish State does not depend on
their (Arab) recognition," Rabin
asserted. He said he doubted that
peace would be achieved m the
Middle East as long as the Arab
leaders refuse to reconcile
themselves to Israel’s existence as
an independent Jewish State. At
present, he said, the gap between
the Arabs and Israel “is too wide
to breach."
Ledwiedge to voice Israel’s con
cern over reports of impending
massive Britain-Egypt arms deals.
The reports followed last week's
visit to Britain by Egyptian
Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy.
They spoke of deals totalling near
ly half a billion Pounds Sterling.
British officials have termed the
reports premature — but have not
denied their substance.
• • •
NEW YORK — Jews across the
Soviet Union were scheduled
Saturday to begin hunger strikes in
connection with the fifth anniver
sary of the June 15, 1970 mass
arrests which led to the Leningrad
trials of 1970 and 1971, the Stu
dent Struggle for Soviet Jewry
said. The protests will draw atten
tion both to the plight of prisoners
of conscience in labor camp and to
the Soviet government's harass
ment of Jews seeking exit visas.
• • •
MONTICELLO, N Y — Bnai
Zion, the national Zionist frater
nal order, ended its 66th annual
convention by adopting a un
animous resolution urging tough
legislation to curb the abuse of
Arab boycotts of American firms
in business relationships with
Israel and to halt Arab-directed
discrimination against Jewish in
dividuals employed by government
or business firms.
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