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Decides Torah No Threat To President
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NEW YORK, (JTA) - “There
are many ways to kill people.
The KGB uses all of them.
Everybody should know that
Col. Yefim Davidovich was kill
ed by the KGB,” Prof. Alexander
Luntz, the noted Soviet Jewish
mathematician, who recently
emigrated to Israel, said Tues
day at a memorial service on
behalf of the Soviet Jewish war
hero who died Saturay from a
heart attack at his home in
Minsk. Davidovich, a close
friend of Luntz, was one of the
most prominent Jews denied
permission to emigrate to Israel
despite repeated pleas with the
Soviet authorities.
NEW YORK, (JTA) - The
head of the Republican Party's
national committee of state
chairmen and himself New York
State GOP chairman pledged
last weekend to introduce a
strong pro-Israel plank in the
Republican Party platform at its
national convention in August.
Former Judge Richard Rosen
baum, a close friend of Vice
President Nelson A. Rockefeller,
also said he would sponsor a
plank calling for the freedom of
emigration of Soviet Jewry.
Rosenbaum, in an interview
on nationally syndicated
newspaper columnist Victor
Riesel’s WEVD “Talk of New
York” program, said that he had
spoken with Iowa Governor
Robert Ray, chairman of the
Republican Platform Committee
and that the latter had agreed to
permit a resolution drafted by
Rosenbaum which “guarantees
the integrity, the existence, the
strength, and the security of the
State of Israel.”
by VIVA GOLDGAR
“I guess you can’t blame
them for being suspicious,”
said Joan King, “It looked like
two submachine guns with
bayonets on the end.”
Mrs. King, wife of Congrega
tion Etz Chaim's president, Dr.
Stephen King, was recounting
“The Tale of the Great Torah
Search,” or ‘The Secret Service
Is On the Ball.”
Sometime back, when Etz
Chaim, Atlanta’s newest Jewish
congregation, scheduled regular '
Friday services for last week at
the new Perimeter Marriott,
how were they to know that
President Ford would be making
a campaign stop there! Still,
there shouldn’t be a conflict,
should there? Well, not really.
Etz Chaim, without a perma
nent home keeps the Torah on
loan to the congregation from
Temple Sinai at the Kings’
home, carefully protected by an
afghan handmade by Dr. King’s
grandmother, Mrs. Bella Hans
of Clifton, N.J.
Each week, the Kings careful
ly transport the sacred scroll
covered by the afghan, to the
meeting place. Last week was no
different — until they reached
the Mariott to find the parking
lot closed off and the place swar
ming with police and Secret Ser-
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Cartoon Assailed In Memphis
MEMPHIS, (JTA) - The
Memphis Jewish Community
Relatlbgt Council has written a
letter to the Memphis Commer
cial Appeal in which it deplores a
cartoon published in the daily
newspaper on April 2 as “an
offensive depiction of the Israeli
or Jewish stereotype.”
The complaint was in the form
of a letter sent by Morris Kriger,
president of the Memphis Jewish
Welfare Fund, and Lewis
Kramer, president of the
Memphis Jewish Community
Leaders Predict Success
For 76 AJWF Campaign
The quickened pace of fund
raising activities throughout the
community these days is en
couraging campaign leaders to
make favorable predictions
about the outcome of tha 1976
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federa
tion Campaign.
A report released early this
week indicates that as the cam
paign moves into its concluding
phase, contributions exceeding
$3,000,000 have already been
pledged to the 1976 drive, an
achievement described by
general campaign chairman
Burton J. Epstein as “gratifying
and in keeping with both the
needs and our community’s
determination to see them met.”
The amount thus far pledged
represents 60% of the total com
mitments expected.
Epstein said that on the basis
of the level of commitments
evidenced in the campaign to
date, the total 1976 results
should reach a figure “to do us
proud." He had words of praise
tor both contributors and
Federation workers. “We want
to publicly recognize this great
team of men and women whose
diligence and devotion to Jewish
life have brought us to a stage in
our campaign at which the over
all success already appears
assured," Epstein said.
He cautioned, however,
against “the sense of complacen
cy which sometimes follows a
job well done,” noting that a
great deal still remains on the
agenda., “We are moving toward
the conclusion of the 1976 cam
paign with the confidence and in
the knowledge that what we do
affects the lives of thousands
upon thousands of Jewish men,
women, and children throughout
the world. Upon the extent of
our collective commitment
depends the quality of their
future.” A campaign closing date
of June 6 has been announced.
All division chairmen are
meeting with their co-chairmen
to make preparations to finalize
all prospects.
Relations Council.
According to the Hebrew
Watchman, which carried the
letter on its editorial page, the
cartoon depicted Israel as an oc
topus holding on to Arab oc
cupied land, shedding tears and
telling “Uncle Sam” that “Sob!
You know I can’t stand
criticism.” “Uncle Sam,” looking
amazed, points to Sadat while an
Arab says, “One man’s aid is
anotherman’s tantrum.”
In the letter, the two local
Jewish leaders said “It is
somewhat frightening and very
disturbing" to have seen the car
toon in the Commercial Appeal
and wondered if this meant a
change in the paper’s policy. “If
so it would appear that this
policy is blatantly anti-Semitic,”
they said.
Kriger and Kramer said the
editorial is a distortion of
Israel’s opposition to U.S.
military aid to Egypt and Am
bassador William Scranton’s
speech at the United Nations.
“In both cases,” they said, “it
must be clearly understood that
Israel policy is a result of
deliberate decision-making
processes which will allow First
and foremost for the preserva
tion of security, while at the
same time, work toward achiev
ing a lasting peace in the Middle
East.”
The letter concluded by noting
that Israel has always sought
direct negotiations with the
Arabs and has always been turn
ed down. “It is our fervent hope
and desire that this offer of con
tinual standing will be accepted,
and that a lasting and just peace
will result in the Middle East,”
the Memphis Jewish leaders
said.
LETHAL WEAPON? This is the Etz Chaim Torah which
aroused the suspicions of President Ford’s Secret Service agents
last weekend as it was being transported into a Perimeter
Highway hotel by congregation president, Dr. Stephen King and
Mrs. King, for Friday evening services.
Atlanta Jewry Unites Sunday
For Israel's 28th Birthday
Sunday, May 2, at 7:45 p.m. at
the Ahavath Achim Synagogue,
the Atlanta Jewish Community
will observe Israel’s 28th year as
a nation. In sharp contrast to the
sombre ceremony of Holocaust
Day, held at Greenwood
Cemetery last Sunday this will
be a festive occasion highlighted
by special greetings from Consul
of Israel Meir Romem, and the
lighting of 28 candles on a huge
cake prepared especially for this
event. Candles will be lighted by
the leaders of twenty-eight
organizations.
The major happening of the
occasion will be the appearance
of Israeli sabra Israel Rosen and
his wife Edna. While serving in
the Israeli Armed Forces, Israel
sang with the Army Music
Group. He accompanied the then
Chief Chaplain Shlomo Goren to
the Western Wall moments after
its liberation in 1967. After the I0 ^niertam
1967 war, he entertained the « HeIlo Dol , - on the Te , Aviv
troops m hospital and posts sUw , for it8 one run th
along the Suez. He was featured
in the Israeli production of " * ^TURN TO PAGE 5
Secret Service Inspects Suspected Bundle f
Jewish Home To Mark 25 Years
Baker Ganam Goldstein
'• ‘ ‘ 7 1 ' ’ " • V i'J
These presidents, past and present, have
had significant roles in the quarter century
history to be celebrated by Atlanta’s Jewish
Home on Wednesday, May 18. The gala event
to which the public is invited will begin at 8
p.m. Leaders shown here are Meyer Balser,
elected ’74; Frank Garson (deceased), ’51-
'58; Abe Goldstein, ’58-’66; William B re man;
’66-’71; Joe Cuba, ’7l-’74.
Cuba