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The Southern Israelite
- The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Our 55th Year
VOL. LV ■ Atlanta, Ga., Friday, January 2t, 1979 / No. 4
AJF elects
Rittenbaum
The board of directors of the
Atlanta Jewish Federation, at its
meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 23,
elected a new state of officers
headed by Max Rittenbaum,
president.
Rittenbaum, president of the
Clean-Rite Products, is a graduate
of Emory University and a
member of its board of visitors. He
brings to the presidency a wealth of
experience' from a variety of
community endeavors, both in the
Jewish and general communities.
He is past president of Ahavath
Achim Synagogue, the Gate City
Lodge of B'nai B'rith, a member of
the board of overseers of the
Jewish Theological Seminary, and
a past board member of the
Council of Jewish Federations.
Joining Rittenbaum on the slate
of officers as vice presidents are:
Henry Birnbrey, Gerald Cohen,
Dr. Marvin Goldstein, and Betty
Ann Jacobson; Louis Taratoot
was elected treasurer, and Gerald
D. Horowitz assistant treasurer;
Mickie Eisenberg, secretary, and
David I. Sarnat, executive director
of the Atlanta Jewish Federation,
assistant secretary.
Rittenbaum said "The new slate
of officers provides for Continuity
with the previous leadership while
allowing for individuals to assume
new responsibilities.” He
expressed appreciation to Phyllis
Freedman, who was rotated as an
officer of the Federation after five
years of service, most recently as
assistant treasurer. Noting her
significant contributions to the
work of the agency, the new
President expressed confidence
that she will continue to play an
active role in the community.
The Atlanta Jewish Federation
is the central fund raising,
planning, budgeting, and
community relations agency in the
Jewish community. It* operating
divisions include Atlanta Hillel,
Jewish Family and Children’s
Bureau, the Ben Massed Dental
Clinic, and the Jewish Vocational
Service. Its local constituent
agencies include the Bureau of
Jewish Education, the Hebrew
Academy, Yeshiva High School,
Jewish Community Center, and
the Jewish Home. It directs the
annual Atlanta Jewish Federation
Drive which counts almost 8.000
individual contributions.
Carter counters
Young’s remarks
U.S. won’t deal with PLO,
President tells Jewish leaders
by Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Pres
ident Carter personally repeated
assurances to American Jewish
community leaders that the United
States will not_ deal with the
Palestine Liberation Organization
until the PLO accepts Israel’s
sovereignty and right to exist in
peace.
This assurance came at a White
House meeting last Friday in
which apparently the Administra
tion sought to allay Jewish
community apprehension
following another upsurge in anger
by the leaders that followed
remarks by Andrew Young, U.S,
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should deal with the PLO whose
representative* at the UN be found
to be “friendly.”
In an interview published in
Interdependent, the organ of the
United Nations Association of the
United States, Young was quoted
as saying that the PLO has
“tremendous influence" in the
Arab countries, that the basic
reason for the absence of any U.S.
UN observer* are “very skilled
politicians and very intelligent,
decent human beings” who have
acted as a “moderating influence”
in the UN.
The White House invited
Theodore Mann, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations,
and other Jewish leaders ....
meeting that Mann later said
“primarily" was to discuss the
Iranian situation. When he was
asked whether Carter wanted the
Jewish community to support the
Administration on its Iranian
position, he referred the questioner
to the Administration.
Carter, Mann, and Edward
Sanders, the President's special
assistant on Jewish and ■ other
matters, met privately for 10
minutes before they entered into a
discussion that lasted for another
80 minutes with the 14 other
Jewish leaders and Vice President
Walter Mondale, Zhigniew
Brzezinskt. the National Affairs
Security .Adviser; his deputy.
Dart* Aran; Wiffiam Quandt, the
National Security Council’s
Middle East specialist; and Harold
Saunders, Assistant Secretary of
State for the Middle East.
Meeting with reporters on the
White House grounds, Mann said
under questioning that “we were
assured by the Administration” its
position not to have dealings with
the PLO “stands regardless” of
Young’s statements in New York.
Kiryat Shmona hit again
Israelis inspect a heavily damaged building in the village of Kiryat Shmona following Palestinian
rocket attack. (See story page 2.)
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