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the pressing problems facing
humanity.
She has continued, as did Dr.
King, to reach out to the Jewish
community, and to be sensitive to
Obituaries
for another, and for the black man
to be struggling for justice and then
turn around and be anti-Semitic is
not only a very irrational course
but it is a very immoral course, and
wherever we have seen anti-Semitism
we have condemned it with all of
our might.”
Of Israel, he said:
“I see Israel, and never mind
saying it, as one of the great outposts
of democracy in the world, and a
marvelous example of what can be
done, how desert land almost can
be transformed into an oasis of
brotherhood and democracy. Peace
for Israel means security and that
security must be a reality.”
Of Soviet Jewry he said:
“While Jews in Russia may not
be physically murdered as they
were in Nazi Germany, they are
facing every day a kind of spiritual
and cultural genocide. . . the
absence of opportunity to associate
as Jews in the enjoyment of Jewish
culture and religious experience
becomes a severe limitation upon
the individual.”
Coretta Scott King has continued
to keep Dr. King’s dream alive.
But, she has done much more than
treasure memories of past struggles
and victories. Throughout the year
and particularly during King Week,
she works to focus public attention
on and foster creative solutions for
our struggles. She has spoken out
in support of Israel and Soviet
Jewry. She signed an ad in the New
York Times criticizing President
Reagan s Bitburg visit, and spoke
out against Minister Farrakhan’s
anti-Semitic statements. She con
tinues to offer her support in all
programs designed to strengthen
relations between the black and
Jewish community.
How often we rally together when
there is a crisis and our issues are
threatened. Unfortunately with the
rise in world terrorism, we feel
even more vulnerable.
Let us gather together during
King Week ’86 to celebrate what is
good in our nation.
Let’s rally our support around
the King family in the numerous
events taking place in Atlanta to
mark this historic national
observance.
Let us celebrate the first national
Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
Holiday by recognizing that Dr.
King’s dream was a dream we all
shared and his life was a moral
legacy that touched us deeply. His
non-violent strategy offers a sensible
alternative to the madness of war
and nuclear threats. His dream is
still yet unfulfilled. We have the
capacity to bring the world closer
to that dream if we roll up our
sleeves and join in the struggle.
Lawrence Kelly Sr.
Lawrence Joseph Kelly Sr., 81,
of Savannah died Saturday, Dec.
21.
The Savannah native retired from
Issac D. Hirsch Co.
Surviving are a son, Lawrence
Joseph Kelly Jr. of Savannah;
brother, Frank A. Kelly of Savannah;
sisters, Mrs. Doris K. Kroskin,
Mrs. Cecile K. Arenson and Mrs.
Sara K. Landrum, all of Savannah,
and Mrs. Adeline K. Roth of Largo,
Fla.; and two granddaughters.
Joseph D. Weil
Joseph David Weil, 74, of Tybee
Island, Ga., died Monday, Dec. 23.
Funeral service was held Monday,
Dec. 23, at Sipples Mortuary, with
burial at Bonaventure Cemetery in
Savannah.
The Savannah native was a member
of Congregation Agudath Achim
Synagogue, the A. A. Brotherhood
and Landrum Lodge 48. He was a
shriner and a former member of
the Marine Rescue Squadron at
Tybee Island.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jean
J. Weil; son, Daniel Charles Weil
of Savannah; daughters, Mrs.
Virginia W. Caplan and Mrs. Sandra
W. Driggers, both of Savannah,
and Mrs. Jacquelyn W. Gay of San
Diego; sister, Mrs. Ervin W.
Oestreicher of Salisbury, N.C.; 11
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Jewish woman to aid
Shultz on South Africa
-WASHINGTON
The only woman and Jewish
member of the Advisory Committee
on South Africa consisting of 12
outstanding Americans announced
by Secretary of State George Shultz
(Nov. 19) to advise him on South
African-American relations is Helene
Kaplan, who is chairman of Barnard
College and the Carnegie Corporation
of New York.
Kaplan’s associates on the com
mittee, which was mandated by
President Reagan last Sept. 9,
include Frank Carey, former
chairman of the IBM corporation;
former U.S. Attorney General Griffin
Bell; Owen Bieber, president of the
United Automobile Workers Union;
Lawrence Eagleburger, president
of Kissinger Associates and former
Under Secretary of State; the Rev.
Timothy Healy, president of
Georgetown University; and Vernon
Jordan, former president ol the
National Urban League.
Shultz announced that the com
mittee has been formed to advise
him on ways in which the United
States can encourage peaceful change
in South Africa, includingabolition
of apartheid and the effects of it. It
will investigate conditions in South
Africa and make recommendations
on U.S. policy toward that country.
Kaplan, born in New York in
1933 to Jack and Shirley Jacobs
Finkelstein, is a graduate of Barnard
and of New York University law
school. Her husband, Mark Kaplan,
was born in New York in 1930 to
Louis and Ruth Hertzberg Kaplan.
He is a graduate of Columbia’s
college and law school. Married in
1953, they are the parents of two
daughters.
Mark Kaplan is a member of the
HarmonieClub, an old established
Jewish grouping in New York City.
He was formerly associated with
Drexel, Burnham and Lambert Inc.,
and other major financial and business
corporations. The Kaplans are
affiliated with separate New York
law firms.
—Joseph Polakoff
Edwin Neal Sherr
Edwin Neal Sherr, 24, of Atlanta
died Monday, Jan. 6.
Graveside service was held
Tuesday, Jan. 7, at Crest Lawn
Memorial Park, with Rabbi Judah
Kogen officiating.
He was a member of Congregation
Shearith Israel.
Survivors include his parents,
Saul and Alice Sherr; and brothers,
Larry E. Sherr of Champagne-
Urbana, Ill., Gilbert Paul Sherr
and Joseph Samuel Sherr, both of
Atlanta.
Donations can be made to Congre
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Mr. Arao Meyer Ohana
Mr. Arao Meyer Ohana, 33, of
Clarkston, Ga., died Thursday, Jan.
2.
Graveside service was held Sunday,
Jan. 5, at Greenwood Cemetery,
with Rabbi Robert Ichay officiating.
He was a native of Brazil.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Consuelo Cano Ohana; parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Abrahao Ohana of
Atlanta; sisters, Mrs. Simone Feld
man of Atlanta, Miss Helena Ohana
of Birmingham, Ala., and Miss
Elizabeth Ohana of Smyrna; and
grandmother, Mrs. Mery Alvez of
Atlanta.
Mr. I. M. Pintchuck
Mr. I. M. Pintchuck of Atlanta
died Tuesday, Jan. 7.
Graveside service was held
Thursday, Jan. 9, at Crest Lawn
Memorial Park, with Rabbi Judah
Kogen officiating.
A United States Navy veteran of
World War II, he retired from the
General Wholesale Company after
36 years. He was a member of
Congregation Shearith Israel.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Bertha Pollock Pintchuck; daughter,
Mrs. Paul Cohen of Atlanta; sister,
Mrs. Ana Lea Steinberg of Charles
ton, S.C.; six grandchildren; one
great-grandchild; nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Isadore Itzkovitz
Mrs. Ethel Segall Itzkovitz, 77,
of Savannah died Friday, Dec. 20.
Graveside service was held Sunday,
Dec. 22, at Bonaventure Cemetery
in Savannah.
The Chatham county native was
a member of Congregation B’nai
B’rith Jacob, its sisterhood and
Hadassah.
Survivors include her husband,
Isadore Itzkovitz; son, Charles
Itzkovitz; brother, David Segall;
sisters, Mrs. Louis Wexler, Mrs.
Rudolph Weil and Mrs. Milton
Lipsitz; three grandsons; several
nieces and nephews; all of Savannah.
Mrs. Bettye Dreyfuss
Mrs. Bettye Dreyfuss, 98, of Miami
Beach died Tuesday, Dec. 31.
She was the mother of Jack
Dreyfuss of Atlanta.
Graveside service was held
Thursday, Jan. 2, at Graceland
Cemetery in Miami.
She was the widow of Jules J.
Dreyfuss.
Other survivors include her sons,
Jerome Dreyfuss of Miami and
Harold Sandak of Stamford, Conn.;
five grandchildren and nine great
grandchildren.
Mrs. Mary G. Stein
Mrs. Mary Goldman Stein, 89,
of Savannah died Saturday, Dec.
21.
Graveside service was held
Monday, Dec. 23, at Bonaventure
Cemetery in Savannah.
A native of Russia, she had lived
in Savannah since 1932. She was a
member of Congregation B’nai B’rith
Jacob.
Survivors include her stepson,
Louis Stein of Savannah; step
daughter, Mrs. Rachael Lipsitz of
Atlanta; brother, Joe Goldman of
Atlanta; and several nieces.
Mose M. Darling
Mose M. Darling, 76, of Augusta
died Sunday, Jan. 5.
He was the father of Mrs. Ann
Darling Levin and Mrs. Jane Darling
Lefco, both of Atlanta.
Graveside service was held
Tuesday, Jan. 7, at Westover
Memorial Park in Augusta, with
Rabbi Chaim J. Wender and Rabbi
Norman M. Goldberg officiating.
A United States Army veteran
of World War II, he was a member
of Congregation Children of Israel
in Augusta.
Also surviving are his wife, M rs.
Helen Blum Darling; sisters, Mrs.
Sadie Dobran, Mrs. Belle Bogen
and Mrs. Rose Levinson, all of
Columbia, S.C., and grandchildren,
Leigh Levin and David Levin, both
of Atlanta.
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