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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY VOL. 27 NO. 43 PLAIN TALK By Alfred Segal GRANDMA •• I have just heard a story about my grandma, selig. It strikes me in my conscience which admon ishes me: "Segal, how far you have gone from the ways of your grandma! You should be asham ed, maybe." I can’t remember ever seeing my grandma, though there’s a photograph—a stout and wide grandma who in these times would be worried what to do about her figure. She would be abstaining from wheat bread and using saccharin tablets in place of sugar and at the canasta pasty she would make no end of telling how she had lost a pound in a week. But grandma's mind was more upon her everlasting soul. She knew not one playing card from another, yet she knew by heart all the blessings for every occas ion. She knew what to say to God when she ate the first apple of the season, when she saw a storm coming on, when she wash ed her hands before meals. She was, indeed, washing her hands before meal-time that day she fell into the river. As I am told, grandma never did forget that day and made no end of being conscience-stricken on account of her lapse from Godliness in the moment she was struggling for the preservation of her good life in the waters of the river. Grandma lived in Lithuania. Her recreations had to do with the synagogue in her village and with the sweet religious observ ances in her house. It was a re creational treat for her to stand before the candles on Sabbath eve. saying the blessings, with her hands outstretched, like a priest's. It was pleasure when, in the eve of Sabbath, her husband came home from schul and praised her, out of the Book of Proverbs, as the woman of valor. But there was always a day every summer when • grandma gave herself to a recreation that was not in the Torah. On that occasion she gathered her nine children about her and took them for a picnic in a wooded spot be side the river. It was a picnic for the whole family except grandma herself, what with her nine children to look after: What with worrying about the children getting too near the river, what with the boys climbing the tall trees, what with the newest baby just learn ing to walk and falling over the protruding roots of the trees. After it was all over, grandma thanked God for the good time the children had, thanked Him that she was able to bring them all back alive and well. assembly oeceiDber WASHINGTON. P.C.- SHOREHAM HOTEL Jewish Immigrant Girl Named Defense Assistant jpHK:- 3gS HP v /, " f Hi J\ e , V, \ .. L, •: '• # 'IMIISIIIS ■L, JB MRS. ANNA M. ROSENBERG An energetic little woman, long the late FDR’s key trouble shoot er, and a fighter for admission of more refugees to America’s shores, this week was named to the second highest post in Ameri ca’s defensive network against aggression. Mrs. Anna M. Rosen berg, active in working toward the establishment of Israel, was named Assistant Secretary of De fense by President Harry S. Tru man. Her son Thomas told the American Jewish Press that his mother had worked with the Zionist organizations and actively participated in the fight for con gressional measures which would aid the entry of displaced persons into America. “Mother also helped arrange the tour of the Jewish Hungarian soccer team in the United States some years back,” her son added. Mrs. Rosenberg’s impending appointment marks the fist time in the history of the United States 1 that a woman has held such a top position in vital affairs. Mrs. Rosenberg presently holds mem bership in an advisory committee on mobilization policy for the Na tional Security Resource Board headed by W. Stuart Symington. A key advisor to the late Presi dent Roosevelt, President Truman and the late Fiorello LaGuardia, Mrs. Rosenberg served as person al representative of FDR and Mr. Truman in the European Theater of Operations during World War 11. She kept the chief executive informed of the problems con fronting returning Gls. Cited as one of,the most capa ble experts in public and labor relations, Mrs. Rosenberg was in strumental in the settling of some of New York City’s most serious labor disputes. She played a prime role to bring peace in a huge brewery dispute which re cently struck the nation’s largest city. A former key figure in the na tion’s social security structure, Mrs. Rosenberg was assigned many important tasks by Presi dent Roosevelt. She played a vital role in solidifying relationships between the United States and JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1950 Israel Gives Medical Supplies for U. N. Forces NEW YORK (ISI) l srael’s contribution of more than five tons of medical sup plies for United Nations forces in Korea was presented to the UN this week by Arthur Lou rie, Consul General of Israel in New York. Mr. Lourie made the presentation to Brigadier R.H.R. Parminter, UN special assistant for Korea, when the SS LaGuardia landed at New York harbor from Israel. The shipment included 200 pints cresol solution; 100 pints carbolic acid; 50,000 bottles of diphtheria antitoxin (20,000 units); 2 0 0,0 0 0 immunizing doses cholera vaccine; 20,000 immunizing doses tetanus tox oid; 5,000 tubes yellow oxide ointment (5 grams); 200,000 immunizing doses typhoid A B vaccine. Israel made the drugs avail able to the UN pursuant to a request by Secretary-General Trygve Lie. her Latin-American neighbors. She was the first civilian to be awarded the Freedom Medal by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. For her man-sized job as region al director of ' the N.R.A., Mrs. Rosenberg was commended by the President. President Truman, in turn, awarded her a Medal of Merit for efforts during the war as regional director of the War Manpower Commission. An immigrant herself, having been brought to America’s shores in the arms of father Albert Le derer, of Budapest, Mrs. Rosenberg has displayed consid erable interest in the welfare of America’s newcomers. Mrs. Rosenberg’s new import ant post as assistant to Secretary of State George Marshall will place her in command of man power and personnel policies. YOU will have OCEANS OF FUN AND EXCITEMENT at the 13th ANNUAL "CHANUKAH" CONFERENCE SOUTHEASTERN REGION ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA • Prominent National Speakers • Israeli Folk Dancing and Singing • Chanukah Celebration • Special Entertainments Swimming Pool Cabanas Private Beach at SUMMER RATES! Vanderbilt Hotel in glorious MIAMI BEACH DECEMBER 1 TO 4, 19 50 MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW Write the Regional Z. O. A. Office 701 Peters Bldg., Atlanta, Georgia Rabbi Schultz Replies to Georgia Hillel Director's Letter in Sou. Jewish Weekly (Editor's note: On Page 3of this week's issue we are printing a letter written by Rabbi Samuel Glasner, Director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the University of Georgia, deploring our publi cation of his recent letter criticizing the activities of Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, Executive Director of the American Jewish League Against Communism, Inc., whose organization attacked certain Hillel leaders. In the interest of fair play, and in order to bring more light on the most controversial subject in the history of our many years of pub lishing, we are printing below Rabbi Schultz's reply to the initial letter of Rabbi Glasner. In answer to this letter, we urge our read ers to read our editorial on Page 3 of this week's issue.) Frank Goldman Speaks in Miami Beach B’nai B’rith leaders from twen ty lodges in the state of Florida were in Miami Beach to partici pate in the colorful ceremonies honoring Frank Goldman, inter national president of B’nai B’rith, on Sunday, November 12, at the Sherry Frontenac Hotel. Honorary chairman of the testi monial banquet was Joseph M. Lipton. Goldman, who is making his first public appearance in South Florida, delivered a signi ficant address* regarding the re sults of his recent conference with government officials and B’nai B’rith leaders in Israel. Heading the delegation of Flor ida lodges were Frank Kleinfeld of St. Petersburg, Edward I. Cut ler of Tampa and Daniel Danart of Ft. Lauderdale. Goldman is a member of the board of governors of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is co-chairman of the coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations for Consultation with the Econ omic and Social Council of the United Nations and a member of the executive committee of the Conference group of the U 9 S. National Organizations on the United Nations. American Jewish League Against Communism ~ 220 West 42nd Street New York 18, N. Y. November 6, 1950 Mr. Isadore Moscovitz Southern Jewish Weekly Jacksonville, Fla. bear Sir: Aren’t your readers startled by the fact that Hillel’s Rabbi Sam uel Glasner, in your issue of No vember 3rd, admits by implica tion that our League’s charges against Rabbi Benjamin Lowell, national administrative secretary of Hillel, are true? There is no denial of our charges. For in stance, that Rabbi Lowell was the fund-raiser at an anti-American and pro-Communist meeting about Korea. That Rabbi Lowell spoke in the company of Israel Epstein, Daily Worker writer and member of the Communist Party. That Lowell derided the New York police. That Lowell was arrested in Los Angeles in 1946 for pro- Communist picketing. Mind you, the Korea meeting took place in August, 1950, while the Reds were already killing our boys. Heavens, we’ve put these charges in writing. We are responsible for them. We defy anyone to disprove them. Jews of America, can it be that you want your youngsters in the charge of such men as Lowell? We cannot believe it. The only answer—by Rabbi Glasner—is a smear of me and this League. Please note that his libelous statements are untrue. I think your readers should know who am. I am on the Executive Council of the All- American Conference to Combat Communism, of which the Amer ican Jewish Committee and the Jewish War Veterans are also members. On the Executive Council, besides myself, are Lewis Hines, of the American Federa tion of Labor; George Fredman, of the Jewish War Veterans; and Dr. Daniel Poling, of the Christ ian Herald. In 1949, the New York Ameri can Legion presented me with its annual Americanism Award, giv en in previous years only to Mr. Bernard M. Baruch and Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. In all modesty, I must report that the resolution called me “a great living Ameri can”. In 1948, the New York State Catholic War Veterans gave me its annual Americanism Award. For 12 years, from 1935 to 1947, I was the rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Yonkers, N. Y. Be (Continued on Pago Eight) $3.00 A YEAR