Newspaper Page Text
Gala events highlight
31st anniversary test
The 31 st anniversary of the
founding of the State of Israel will
be observed on Sunday evening.
May 6, at 7:30p.m. at the Temple.
Laurel Weiner, chairperson of
Atlanta Jewish Federation’s Israel
Affairs Committee, announced
that the gala event, co-sponsored
by Federation and the Jewish
organizations of Atlanta, will
feature Nico Castel, distinguished
Metropolitan Opera tenor.
Castel, a Lisbon-born Sephardic
Jew, serves as a cantor in his
congregation in New York State
when not performing on the road
for the Metropolitan Opera
Company. One of several Jewish
artists in lead roles with the famed
opera company, Castel will be
performing with Beverly Sills
when this troupe is in residence in
Atlanta next week. In his
appearance at the Temple to honor
the State of Israel, Castel will be
singing a variety of songs Israeli,
Yiddish, Ladino romanceros, and
Hebrew liturgy.
Mrs. Weiner also said that the
evening’s festivities will include
choral presentations by the
Hebrew Academy and the Epstein
School choirs, under the direction
of Nancy Sigal and Donna Wise.
Consul General Joel Arnon of the
State of Israel will deliver the main
address.
The evening’s events will
conclude with refreshments and a
reception in Friendship Hall.
Israeli dancing will be led by the
Hillel student’s dance group.
Throughout the day, “Passport
to Israel,” under the auspices of the
Atlanta Jewish Community
Center, will be held at the Center
from II a m. to 5 p.m. It will
feature Israeli food, films, exhibits
and special booths for all the
family to enjoy. “Jaffa,” the
Atlanta Religious School
children’s yearly arts festival, will
feature arts and crafts and Israeli
singing and dancing.
Hard-hitting Israelis
pound Palestinians
by Yitzhak Shargil
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli land,
sea and air forces pounded
terrorist strongholds in Lebanon
both north and south of the Litani
River this week, a military
spokesman disclosed. The naval
bombardment of Palestinian bases
on the Lebanese coast began
Sunday, only hours after the
terrorist attack on Nahariya.
The Air Force, grounded earlier
by heavy clouds over Lebanon,
went into action Tuesday bombing
terrorist artillery concentrations
on the Arnoun plateau north of the
Litani and in the Nabatiyeh area
where the Palestinians have placed
their artillery, mortars and rocket
launchers.
The Israeli communiques have
been terse. Most details have been
provided by sources in Lebanon,
mainly the Christian Phalangist
radio and PLO broadcasts from
Beirut. Beirut radio said about 10
Israeli fighter-bombers were
involved in Tuesdays attack.
Another Beirut report said the El
Fatah headquarters in Ajloun were
destroyed by a direct hit and that
an Israeli missile boat sank a vessel
carrying aims an^R(#pf>tfes to the
terrorists near SidML 5
Foreign news reports said Israeli
missile boats were active all along
the Lebanese coast, mainly in the
Tyre area. The reports said villages
on the road between Sidon and
Tyre were shelled. The Christian
militia radio reported that Israeli
artillery shelled the Beaufort
fortress on the bend of the Litani
where Palestinian forces were
concentrated. Other reports said
the militia itself joined in the
shelling of Nabatiyeh.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians
have charged that the Israelis and
the Christian militia commanded
by Maj. Saad Haddad were firing
American shells at the United
Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL) and a Lebanese regular
army battalion deployed in the
UNIFIL-controlled area of south
Lebanon.
Israeli spokesmen emphatically
denied these charges. They said the
terrorists themselves had attacked
UNIFIL personnel ‘ on seven
occasions and tried to put the
blame on the Christian militia.
Don’t miss a single issue!
For a number of weeks, through the cooperation of the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation, The Southern Israelite
has been sent to non-subscriben in the Atlanta metropolitan
area. We hope you have enjoyed these issues and discovered
the added Jewish dimension reading The Southern Israelite
brings to our readers each week.
All good things must end and next week’s issue is the
final “free" Federation issue. To avoid missing a single issue,
fill out the subscription coupon on pngc 27.
o
O LU
\ 30
Paid-in-full
‘We must remember the terri 15 -
price paid for bigotry and hatred...
by Joseph PoiakofT
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Carter, in a ceremony
Tuesday marking International
Holocaust Day, urged Americans
to “remember the terrible price"
paid for “bigotry and hatred” as
well as for “indifference and
silence,” and called upon the
Senate to ratify the United Nations
Genocide Convention.
The President's remarks were
made at the Rotunda beneath the
great dome on the nation’s
Capitol, where Americans for
generations have eulogized their
honored dead. At noon, the
President and the American
people remembered with intense
ioksnswity m4
five million non-Jews who werfe
slaughtered in the Holocaust.
The historic ceremony, which
also commemorated the 36th
anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising, was attended by more
than 1,000 people, including
members of the Senate and House
which adjourned for the program,
distinguished Americans of all
religions and races, and the
members of the President's
Commission on the Holocaust
which Carter named to arrange a
permanent memorial for the
victims of the Holocaust.
Vice President Walter Mondale,
in opening the solemn and moving
ceremony, declared it commemor-
President Carter
ated the “tragedy and vibrant
resilience of the human spirit,” He
said the purpose of the program
was “to say kaddish for the fallen
and sanctify the work of the
living."
The invocation was given by
Rev. A. Roy Eckhardt, a professor
of religious studies at Lehigh
University. Rabbi Bernard Raskas
of Minneapolis recited the kaddish
and many in the audience visibly
wept as Cantor Isaac Goodfriend
of Atlanta chanted the El Mole
Rachamim. The 48-member
Atlanta Boy Choir, wearing
yarmulkes, sang “Ani Maamin"
and partisan songs in Hebrew and
Yiddish.
Six candles, in memory of the
six million Jewish dead in the
Holocaust, were lit by Elie Wiesel,
chairman of the- President’s
Holocaust Commission; former
Supreme Court Justice Arthur
Goldberg, and Murray Berkowitz
of Miami.
A seventh candle was lit by Alex
Manoogiaa of Detroit, honorary
pmifcwtf the AnweauattGeneral
Development Union of America.
Rev. Vartan Hartunian, minister
of the First Armenian Church of
Belmont, Mass., pointed out in a
prayer that the l.S million
Armenians who perished in World
War 1 were the victims of what he
termed the First genocide. The
Armenians were slaughtered by
the Turks.
Carter, who was escorted to the
See Remember, page 25
Atlantans remember
At Holocaust Day of Remembrance services in Atlanta, Dr. David R. Blumenthal tells the crowd:
“The meaning of this hour lies in a remembrance that calls us to our better selves, to Torah, to God.”