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NO. 11
new
IHCC officer slate
Paul Aronin, Atanta CPA, has
been nominated for the
presidency of the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center, which will
eleet officers at its March 27 an
nual meeting.
Nominated to serve with the
49-year-old Aronin are Perry
Morris, Leonard Levey and
George Stern, vice presidents;
Harry Maziar, treasurer, and
Jack Freedman, secretary.
Sidney Parks, outgoing presi
dent of the AJCC, will be ac
corded special recognition, as
will these past presidents: Meyer
L. Baber, Max A. Feldman, Max
L. Kuniansky, Milton Weinstein,
Bernard Howard, Sidney Feld
man, Dr. Morris Benveniste and
Leonard Diamond.
Aronin has served on the
board of directors of the AJCC
for some ten years. He has held
the offices of treasurer and vice
president and is chairman of the
Camp Barney Medints com
mittee.
He is a member of the board of
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Leaders seek ways to counteract
increased activity by fanatics
By Joseph Polakotf
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
B’nai B'rith leaders have appeal
ed for effective measures to com
bat the kind of terrorism that
paralysed Washington for 39
hours when 12 members of the
Hanafi Moslem sect seized three
buildings last Wednesday and
held 134 persons hostage.
"Unless people become more
concerned about terrorism, one
of man’s most precious gifts —
freedom — will be destroyed,”
In Atlanta, various Jewish
organizations received police
protection and increased
security patrols as a result of
the terrorist activity.
The local Anti-Defamation
League office asked for and
got Atlanta police protection
as a consequence of several
threatening pi me calls (“You
was atooincfawedsecurity at
the Atlanta JewisK Com
munity Center and several
synagogues. No incidents
were reported in the Atlanta
area.
said David Blumberg, president
of B’nai B’rith.
Of the 134 hostages, 107 were
held in the B’nai B’rith building.
The others were held at the
Islamic Center and the District
Building (City Hall). A majority
of the B’nai Frith hostages were
women and up to one-third of
the total were non-Jewish. Some
of them were construction
workers employed in the
building and one was a woman
who had come to the building
looking for a job.
Blumberg and Dr. Daniel
Thursz, executive vice-president,
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Jewish
Foreign
Legion
Henry Lefitt,
79, remembers
his role as a
member of tbe
first Jewish
fighting force to
enter Jerusalem
since Bar
Kochba’s Army.
"Oaoract DauhL"
Ben-Gurion's
is ravaalad in
Perhaps the most unexpected
revelation in Michael Bar-
Zohar’s newly published
biography of David Ben-Gurion
is that B-G had an “affair” — ap
parently on a purely intellectual
level — with Chaim Weizmann’s
English secretary.
Doris May, 12 years Ben-
Gurion’s junior, took up Zionism
as her “good cause” soon after
graduating in classical
languages and English
literature. It was at the head
quarters of the Zionist Organiza
tion that Ben-Gurion met her for
the first time, and was
spellbound by her erudition and
open-mindedness. In London
during the blitz, both spent their
enforced spells in air-raid
shelters studying Greek and dis
cussing philosophy — and
Zionism.
/
There are several letters ad
dressed to “Dearest David", in
which the Anglo-Catholic Miss
May advised her friend to read
poetry, and admonished him for
the “policy of murder” adopted
by the dissidents in Palestine as
well as the lack of adequate
Zionist propaganda in. Britain.
Some of the letters Bar-Zohar
found in Weizmann’s archives,
of all places.
After the establishment of the
State of Israel, the redoubtable
Miss May served in the Israel
Embassy as uncrowned head of
staff until her retirement. In
1954, she visited Ben-Gurion in
Sde Boker. When Ben-Gurion
became Prime Minister again, he
persuaded her to join his staff in
Tel Aviv for a limited period,
which she did against her better
judgment. (“Do you really want
a Devil’s advocate in your
house?’’) During this six-month
apell, the Sinai campaign was
fought, and Miss May helped to
draft the complicated documents
which determined Israel’s
relations with foreign countries
at that period. But after the
campaign, she returned to
England and ended her life in a
small town, tending her little
garden and her cats.
— Jerusalem Post