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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. 30 No. 42
PLAIN TALK
BY ALFRED SEGAL
A LADY CALLS
I write a column for the daily
plan, too.—for the Cincinnati
Poet, that is. In this function I
hare become a kind of social
agency, a court of last resort, you
might say.
There was the recent case of
the man who seven years before
had run away from our work
house where he was serving out
a fine of SSOO. Then, several
months ago, the police picked
him up and he was sent back to
the workhouse to work off the
SSOO fine.
His wife came to me asking if
this was fair—he being put back
in prison for a forgotten offense,
he who should better be working
for his four children than in
prison for the State. Well, by the
contributions of my readers the
SSOO was raised and in less than
a week the man was back at his
job supporting his family.
I am the agent for the con
science of a man who every month
sends me a S2O bill for a crippled
child named Judy. I don’t know
his name, have never seen him,
don’t know what compulsion of
his conscience makes him do this.
Only this morning his S2O bill
came to me.
So it goes in my column which
has to do with all injustice, and
reports the decencies as well as
the sins of the human mind. It
hates intolerances of all kinds and
gets mad at the discriminations
against Negroes. It plays at phil
osophy, too, and only today I re
port a meeting I had with an old
ex-judge on the street. We didn't
talk about the miserable affairs of
today’s world at aIL Rather we
took up the subject of being suc
cessful and what success means
at our time of life.
The judge and I agreed that
the only success worth mention
ing is to bring ftp good children.
He and I had brought up good
children and we shook hands on
thafr in a congratulatory way.
But please understand that this
Is no advertisement for my col
umnar prowess in the daily press.
It is written in order to make it
dear why a certain Christian
lady happened to call me up.
She was Mrs. E for short and
for anonymity.
“Mr. Segal,” she was saying, “I
come to you with a problem.” I
didn’t like to be addressed as an
other Mr. Anthony but with my
accustomed courtesy I said, “What
is your problem?”
"Well." she replied, "i'ts about
intolerance among the Jewish
people." She said she had read
much in my column about the
intolerance and discriminations
the Negroes have to take... "Mr.
Segal, you've never written about
the intolerant spirit of some of
your own people, the Jews."
“Oh, Mrs. E., to be tolerant is
of our religion. It’s in Leviticus
which says ‘love thy neighbor as
thyself.’ That’s tolerance, isn’t
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TAMPA COMMITTEE FORMED TO PROMOTE OBSERVANCE
OF 300th ANNIVERSARY OF JERUSALEM
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With Clarence P. Berolzheimer, David Cowen,
and Mrs. Thomas C. Weiss as co-chairmen, a
Steering Committee of leaders of the Tampa Jew
ish community has been formed to organize a cele
bration locally in commemoration of the 3000th
Anniversary of the founding of the City of Jeru
salem by King David.
The Committee will sponsor a dinner in the
Tampa Terrace Hotel on November 11.
Shown above are at the first meeting of the
Committee held recently at the Floridan Hotel,
reading from left tQ right, beginning with back
row, are: Charles J. Adler, Manuel Aronovitz,
Jacob Fuchs, Mrs. David Cowen, I. Zack, Mrs. Sam
A slate of special committee
chairmen has been named by the
co-chairmen as follows: Tele
phone, Mrs. Harry Migid and
Mrs. Louis Schonbrun, co-chair
men; Floor Ushers, Mr. Abe Sil
ber and Mr. Jacob Fuchs, co
chairmen; Reception, Mrs. Char
les J. Adler; Attendance, Mrs.
Nathan Rosenblatt, Jr.; Speakers,
Mr. Robert Fishkind and Mrs.
Thomas Weiss, co-chairmen; and
arrangements, Mrs. Bertha Wolf
son.
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In a statement calling upon the
Tampa Jewish community to sup
port the celebration as a means of
demonstrating its friendship for
Israel “in these critical days,” the
co-chairmen said, “There is no
single object or place in the whole
world which has made a greater
impact on Jewish tradition than
the city of Jerusalem, the source
and fountain of our most glorious
heritage. It is most fitting that
the Jerusalem anniversary cele
bration be sponsored by the Is
rael Bond Organization, for that
organization has enlisted the par
ticipation of all elements of the
Jewish community in Tampa and
throughout the rest of the coun
try interested in the development
of modem Israel as an economi
cally sound and secure democratic
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, NOVEMBER 6, 1953
nation.
“Especially in these critical
days for Israel do we call upon
the Tampa Jewish community for
its fullest support. This is a time
when every American Jew must
stand up and be counted. Israel
is in a state of technical war with
her Arab neighbors. She is sur
rounded, embargoed and block
aded and nightly Arab mauraud
ers cross her boundaries and kill
and maim Israeli men, women
and children. And now Secretary
of State Dulles has threat
ened sanctions against Israel.
Our position as American Jews
must be to protect this unfortu
nate action of our government in
suspending economic aid to Israel
and to mobilize all financial sup
port possible through a maximum
purchase of State of Israel Bonds
as an effective demonstration of
our support of Israel.”
Zionists Thonk
Eisenhower
Following President Eisenhow
er’s announcement of the resump
tion of economic assistance to Is
rael, Mr. Louis Lipsky, Chairman
of the American Zionsit Coun
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Stein, Phil Brinen, Sam Stein, Mrs. Charles Adler,
Robert Fishkind, Seymour Liebman, of Miami
Beach, Simon Woolf, Milton S. Malakoff, Edward
I. Cutler, Rabbi Joseph Asher, of Sarasota, Rabbi
David Zielonka, A. A. Finkelstein, Sol Haliczer,
Mrs. Sol Haliczer, Mrs. Louis Schonbrun, Mrs.
Clarence P. Berolzheimer, Mrs. Harold Plevin,
Mrs. Irvin Salsbury, Mrs. Thomas C. Weiss, David
Cowen, Clarence P. Berolzheimer, Judge Harry N.
Sandler, Dr. Herbert Lewy, Nathan Rothberg,
Rabbi Henry B. Wernick, Mrs. Jacob Wittner, Mrs.
Harry Migid, Simon Essrig, and Mrs. Nathan
Rosenblatt, Jr.
Jewish TV Program
Set For Sunday
The second telecast in a series
of four programs portraying vari
ous phases of Jewish faith and
culture will .be presented on
Sunday, November Bth, from 1:30
to 2:00 P. M., EST, as part of the
National Broadcasting Company’s
public service religious series,
“Frontiers of Faith,” it was an
nounced by The Jewish Theologi
cal Seminary of America, under
whose auspices this program is
produced.
The forthcoming telecast will
star Ezra Stone, notable stage,
screen, radio, and TV actor, in the
title role. Written by Peabody
award winner Morton Wishen
grad, “The Remarkable Adven
tures of Deuteronomy Katz,” is a
humorous fantasy.
The camera will focus on the
trials and tribulations experienced
by the sincere yet comical Mr. D.
Katz in his efforts to live literally
the Laws in the Book of Deuter
onomy. unique production will
feature several props highlighted
against a bare stage.
Charleston Reform
Rabbi Asks For
Tolerance Among
Jews
Writing in the November Ist
issue of Center Talk, published
semi-monthly in Charleston, Rab
bi Alan Tarshish, spiritual leader
of the Reform congregation, takes
exception to certain statements
made by the Orthodox leader. We
are printing the article in full:
A Plea To Our Jewish
Leaders and the Jewish
Community
I have been asked to comment
on Rabbi Joseph Rothstein’s
“Plea To Our Jewish Organiza
tions,” which appeared recently
in Center Talk, and I have agreed
to do so, for there is one point ,
especially which should be clari
fied without any shadow of doubt
in the interest of harmony and
understanding in our Jewish
community.
This point has come up time
and time again in the last few
years. It has come to my atten
tion a number of times that some
Jewish leaders and some mem
bers of our Jewish community
have expressed the point of view
that if one does not pray in a
prescribed fashion he is not a
good Jew, that Reform and Con
servative Jews are not good Jews,
that Orthodox Jews should not
associate with Reform Jews, that
Orthodox Jews should not visit a
Reform Temple, and so on. This
kind of thinking, it appears to
me, is divisive and harmful to
all of us as Jews and Americans.
In his “Plea,” Rabbi Rothstein
falls into the same error. He
builds up a series of statements
leading to a false conclusion and
I quote them: “If we are mem
bers of a group, be it social, po
litical, or religious, there must be
a willingness to submerge indi
vidual tastes to conform with the
traditions and practices of the
collective body . . . For an organ
ized group of Jews to violate
Jewish traditions publicly is not
only poor taste, but also very bad
relations ... Do you think it cor
rect for a Jewish organization to
plan its functions in violation of
Jewish Dietary Laws ... All Jew
ish affairs ought to be Kosher.”
There is the assumption in his
remarks, and those I have men
tioned above, that there is "one
Jewish tradition," one Jewish set
of practices." one Jewish way of
worship," which alone is right,
which all Jews should follow, and
if they do not they are violating
Jewish law.
But Judaism is not Catholicism,
which is united and has one defi
nite set of regulations for all who
are Catholics. Jews differ about
many aspects of Jewish practice
and tradition, and honestly and
sincerely so. I am fond of Rabbi
Rothstein personally and respect
his integrity and point of view
about what Jewish life should be,
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