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THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 29 NO. 41
' PLAIN TALK
By Alfred Segal
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL -
(Continued From Last Week)
When I proclaim, as I have over
and over, that I belong to a syna
gogue and thereby am an authen
tic Jew, he replies that a Reform
temple isn't a synagogue and
therefore isn't Jewish . . . "It's
far. far away from being Jewish
like Schachne's schuL" he says.
Schachne's schul was the syna
gogue of his younger days when
lie came over here. I was bar
mixvah there ...
He looks at me sadly, as at one
hopelessly lost . , . “How Jewish
can you be in a Reform temple?”
he asks.
I can't argue the matter with
him because he is very deaf. If I
could tell him 1 would say,
"Papa, between you and me, I
feel Jewish enough. I'll tell you
something: My Judaism is all in
what Micah said. You remember
* the prophet Micah, don't you? He
was the one who said. 'Wjiat does
the Lord require of you but to do
justly, to love mercy and to walk
humbly with God?'
“And, papa, isn’t that the whole
thing of being a Jew? What
else?” '
Were his mind as clear as it
used to be up to 3 or 4 years ago,
he probably would challenge this
... "You're so young," he would
say, "and don't know much. Tell
me, how does doing justly, loving
mercy and walking humbly dif
fer from the religion of the Chris
tians? They also believe in all
that.
Probably I would answer him:
“But, papa, is it important that
we be different from Christians
in the good way of our lives.
Isn’t it all to the good enough
that we as Jews and they as
Christians walk in the same paths
of justice, mercy, humility and
loving-kindness? By these paths
we can arrive at the mountaintop
which is brotherhood —and that
should be the main goal of all
the religions.”
I came out of Orthodoxy early
in my life byway of the Reform
rabbinical seminary, known as the
Hebrew Union College at Cincin
nati which is my home-town. My
purpose, of course, was to become
a rabbi but I ran away from the
pulpit after two years and enter
ed journalism of the daily press.
Some tell me this has turned out
to be a much bigger pulpit than
1 would have had had I stuck to
being a rabbi.
Rabbis have said that they
really envy me. “In the press you
have a much larger congregation
to talk to than we rabbis ever can
hope to have. And your congrega
tion is much more desirable than
ours. You don’t see the members
and don’t have to bother with
them and their fault-finding,
their envies, their back-biting.”
My pulpit, if that's what you
(Continued on Paga •)
Balfour Day November 2nd to Launch Zionist Week
FLORIDA QUAKERS
VISIT SYNAGOGUE
ST. PETERSBURG, (JTA)
Fifteen children and six
adult leaders of the local So
ciety of Friends (Quakers) at
tended services here at Con
gregation Bnai Israel. The visi
tors doimed skull caps and
closely followed the service
which was explained to them
by Rabbi M. Chapman.
Following conclusion of the
service, the guests made a col
lection among themselves for
the synagogue fund and in
vited the Jewish children to
attend a Quaker service.
DAVID SARNOFF TO HEAD
DEFENSE MANPOWER
COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, (JTA) Ap
pointment of David Sarnoff,
chairman of the Radio Corpora
tion of America, as chairman of
the Department of Defense Citi
zen’s advisory committee on man
power was announced this week
by Defense Secretary Robert A.
Lovett.
ISRAEL NEWS BRIEFS
TEL AVIV, (JTA) An Israel
military mission consisting of six
colonels and lieutenant colonels
left for Belgrade this week on
invitation from the Yugoslav
Army to study its training
courses.
State of Israel
$500,000,000
Independence Issue 3-1/2% Coupon Bonds
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You are invited to deposit
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on or after November 1, 1952.
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120 Broadway. New York 5, N. Y., or AFDCI in your community.
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1952
Speaks On
November 9th
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RABBI IRVING MILLER
Rabbi Irving Miller, President,
Zionist Organization of America,
who has returned from top-level
conferences with Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion and other
leaders in Israel, will appear as
one of the principal speakers' at
the forthcoming National Confer
ence for Israel on Sunday, No
vember, 9th, at the Commodore
Hotel, New York City. The con
ference will be generally devoted
to developing plans for the pro
ductive absorption of Israel’s
240,000 immigrants still living in
transition centers.
Local Group Affair
Planned for Sunday
The Jacksonville District of the Zionist Organization of America
is joining Jewish communities throughout the South in celebrating
the 35th anniversary of the issuance of the historic Balfour Declara
tion on Sunday alight, November 2nd at the Jewish Center beginning
at 8 P. M. As in many other cities, Zionist Mobilization Week has
been announced in an official proclamation by Mayor Haydon Burns
of Jacksonville for the period of November 2-9. A breakfast spark
ing the week's activities will be held at 9:30 A. M. Sunday, while
an interesting evening has been planned to climax the day’s
observance.
Devoted to the speedy reen
rollment of the 1951-52 member
ship of the ZOA and the recruit
ment of thousands of new mem
bers, Zionist Mobilization Week
will be marked during the week
with the holding of mass rallies,
membership breakfasts and house
to house canvassing by volunteers
under the sponsorship of the over
800 districts of the organization
throughout the country.
The highlight of the Sunday
night local celebration will be an
address by Michael Adilman of
Savannah, who was recently
elected vice-president of the
Southeastern Region of the
Z.O.A. Adilman, who has lived
for nine years in Israel, and who
CONFERENCE OF JEWISH
GROUPS POSTPONED
LONDON, (JTA) The British
Commonwealth Conference of
Jewish organizations, scheduled
to be held here this year, has
been postponed until 1953.
fought with the Haganah against
the Arabs in the war for libera
tion, during the five years he
served with Israel's defense
forces, will relate of his exciting
experiences. His brother was sec
ond in command in the Israel
army and led the battle for the
Negev. His family still resides in
Israel. Adilman fs a past presi
dent of the Savannah Zionist Dis
trict, and is a Certified Public
Accountant.
Also on the program for the
evening will be an installation of
new officers for the organization.
Those to be installed include Can
tor Abraham Marton, president;
Max Rubin, vice president and
membership chairman; I. M.
Lieberman, vice president and
membership co-chairman; Jack
Becker, vice president and educa
tional chairman; I. J. Edelstein,
vice-president and J.N.F. chair
man; Isadore Moscovitz, vice
president, public relations and
program director; Samuel Thier,
secretary; Eugene L. Henry,
treasurer.
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Cantor Abraham Marton
Members of the board to be in
stalled include: Philip Bork, Max
Brownsiein, Sidney Eniman, Na
than Friedlin. M. W. Goldstein,
Manny Goldstein, Burton Gross
man, Joseph Hackel, Harry K&ts.
Louis Katz, Leo Moskovitz, David
Moss, Louis Moss, Louis Safer,
Dr. Julius Sloat. Ben Sohn, Leon
Springer, and Joseph Wilensky.
A reception will be held at the
conclusion of the celebration. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend. There will be no solicita
tions, or admission charge.
$3.00 A YEA*