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Greetings For The New Year
From The Vice-President
Of The United States
Southwestern Jewish Press, September 4, 1953, Page 1
By Richard Nixon
Within the heart of every man and woman, as he sees the dawn of a New Year, is a prayer for peace, serenity of soul, happiness and security for his family and his people.
May is come to pass soon that there will be planted the lasting roots for understanding and brotherhood among people of all lands and all faiths, so that mutual trust will replace doubt and persecution.
And may the hand of friendship extend around the glove from one to another, and all the nations of the earth be blessed with the love of liberty so that justice for all will prevail throughout the world.
New Discussion Group
Open to All
Southwestern Jewish Press September 4, 1953 Page 1
The Jewish Community Center is organizing discussion groups on subjects concerning everyone.
Groups will be limited in size, and led by trained discussion leaders. Dr. Ernest Wolf, chairman, assisted by Mrs. Florence Barach, Mrs. Grace Rittoff, and Mr. Isaac Domnitz suggested some of the topics to be discussed.
Fees to members are $2.00 per 6 sessions, others may attend at a fee of $2.50 per session. Make your reservation at the Jewish Community Center, 3227 El Cajon Blvd., phone T-1-7744.
Yo-Ma-Co Dance
Yom Kippur Night
The final plans have been completed for the sixth annual Yom Kippur Nite Dance, sponsored by the Yo-Ma-Co Club, to be held Saturday night, Sept. 10, at the El Morocco Club. It promises to be the “dance of the year,” with the kind of music that keeps your toes tapping and makes your heart feel light and gay. You will get a “kick” out of the entertainment…and with a surprise or two in store you won’t want to miss this nite of nites.
Start the New Year on a joyous note and forget your cares at the rollicking Yom Kippur Nite Dance. Tickets may be purchased at the door, or from any Yo-Ma-Co member.
Community Center Cooperative Nursery Holds Open House
Southwestern Jewish Press September 4, 1953 Page 1
Sunday, September 13th at 3:00 o’clock, the Jewish Community Center will open its doors to welcome the parents and children participating in the new cooperative nursery.
School opens Wednesday, September 16th under the guidance of a trained nursery school teacher, Mrs. Jacquelaine Bramson. The object of the school is to train parents as well as their offsprings . Mothers will participate every 6th session to assist the teacher.
The nursery is non-sectarian and non-profit. Those interested in this project may receive more information by calling Mrs. Melvin Karzen, T-1-2437 or Mrs. Peter Tolins, H-9-1761.
Pioneer Women Plan
Succoth Festival
Southwestern Jewish Press September 4, 1953 Page 1
Pioneer Women committees are busily engaged in soliciting merchandise from generous businessmen of San Diego for the Succoth Festival and Bazaar to be held throughout the day Sunday, Sept. 27th at Beth Jacob Center. A varied cafeteria-style menu will be offered all day. The public is urgently asked to lend a helping hand to the needy children in Israel by their support and attendance at this Bazaar.
New committee members are: Florence Lebb, Rose Brooker, Goldie Kitaen, Rose Gordon, Pauline Press, Rose Weitzman, Florence Barach, Rose Gaberman, Rose Dommnitz, Jeanette Abrams, Rose Abrams, Norma Shaffer, Bess Segal and Gertrude Rawdin.
Negba Club is proud to announce the participation of almost half of its membership in the Bar Mitzvah Gift plan of the 13th bi-annual National Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., Oct. 4th to 8th. The $13.00 gift is also credited to the members’ Donor quota. A drawing of a prize trip to Israel for every $13,000 donated nationally is offered so every member who participates has a chance to win this free trip. Join in the plan now!
Dance Class to Open
At Jewish Center
Southwestern Jewish Press September 4, 1953 Page 1
Mrs. Irene Timen, noted dance teacher, will instruct the ballet and creative dance classes to be held at the Jewish Community Center, 3227 El Cajon Blvd., on Wednesdays beginning September 16th. An adult and a pre-school dance class is being organized in addition to the children’s classes.
Mrs. Timen recently arrived from New York where she had her studio for 15 years and also taught in leading private schools for girls. She is a graduate of the Chalif School of the Dance in New York; studied with Mikhail Mordkin, one of the founders of the New York Ballet Theatre, and with Mascagno of the Italian Ballet; and the Modern Dance with Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Jose Limon, all in New York City; she also studied Russian Ballet with Avley and Oukrainsky, ballet masters of the Chicago Civic Opera, and the Creative Dance with Margaret H’Doubler of the University of Wisconsin.
The size of classes will be limited to twenty and the fee is $10.00 for 10 lessons for center members, $15.00 for non-members.
Community Currents
Southwestern Jewish Press September 4, 1953 Page 2
By Albert Hutler, Exec. Director United Jewish Fund
Jewish community development for the future in San Diego requires a process of community planning by leaders of the San Diego Jewish Community. It is a process that has no place for selfish unilateral vested interests.
Emerging from the shadows is the beginning of the realization of plans that were projected some seven years ago by our Jewish Community leadership. In an orderly fashion we will see the development in the next few years of a Jewish Community Center of which the entire community will make use and be proud.
In the very near future we will see the start of what is expected to be a most modern and beautiful Hebrew Home for the Aged which will house some twenty-five residents.
There has also been a marked increase of cooperation by all of our community agencies in providing a full and well rounded program for all ages through the Home for the Aged, the Jewish Community Center, and the Jewish Social Service Agency all working hand in hand.
And yet there is a tremendous job to be done in meeting the needs and requirements of our Jewish community properly.
The Home for the Aged though it has the responsibility for meeting the challenges thrown at it by all of the aging groups in San Diego, certainly does nothing near the job that should be done. Though its facilities are good and its guests happy, there is a growing need for recreation and occupational therapy for the residents of the Home as well as a well planned program for those over sixty who are not residents and who do not wish to be residents of the Home.
Though the Center is attempting to do a fine job without adequate facilities, there are many things that can be accomplished. Many of these are in the planning stage but we will see a cooperative day nursery starting at the Center after Labor Day; a forum series for the fall, and a great deal of emphasis on programming for all ages. The Day Camp which has become a traditional San D’iego institution had another most successful year and did a tremendous job for the children of our friends and ourselves.
Recently as you read in the Southwest Jewish Press the Jewish Community Center purchased and now owns five and one-half acres of land on Fifty-fourth Street between El Cajon and University Avenue. This site was chosen since everyone agreed, including the planning commission, that the shifting of population is towards the Eastern section of San Diego.
Incidentally, as always, there are those people who cannot believe that there are individuals that want to do things for others. I’ve heard rumors to the effect that those that made possible the purchase of the land for the Jewish Community Center are doing it because they expect to profit individually.
There could be nothing more untrue than that type of statement which is completely unjustified and done for the purpose of hindering the creation of a Jewish Community Center in San Diego.
The opposite is actually true. The Center people have shown an amazing amount of community understanding and they hope that the entire community will participate in the project. They feel that this is a community project for everyone and not something that belongs to a few.
Because of their understanding of community problems they have helped to develop a master plan which would include the San Diego Hebrew Home for the Aged, the Jewish Social Service Agency, the Community Center and the United Jewish Fund and Federation offices all in the same area. This would mean that there would be Jewish Community Buildings located at 54th that would include all of the agencies. This is good planning because it makes for much more efficient operation than if our Jewish community buildings were spread all over town.
The Center people feel the community responsibility so strongly that they have even discussed turning title to the property over to the Federation so that there can be no question of an individual agency owning land by itself. Rather the entire piece of property would be held by the Federation in trust for the entire community.
Conferences are now being conducted between the building committee of the Home and a committee of the Center as to the possibility of the Hebrew Home putting its new building in this area.
I sincerely hope that this type of thinking will continue and that the Hebrew Home for the Aged will build its new home on the 54th St. site. There is enough room for the Home and for the Center and for any other community buildings that might be necessary.
It really begins to look like the dreams that some of us had seven years ago are coming to realization in the next few years.
Beth Israel Religious School
and Hebrew School
Southwestern Jewish Press September 4, 1953 Page 2
Registration of old and new pupils at Congregation Beth Israel Religious School will be conducted in the Temple Center on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 16 and 17, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., and on Sunday, Sept. 20 from 9:45 to noon. The school is open to any Jewish child in the community.
Classroom sessions will begin on Sunday, Sept. 27th, at 9:45 a.m. and children should be enrolled in advance of that date.
With the acquisition of the beautiful, new Temple House, our classroom facilities are now doubled, and a more stimulating educational program is assured.
Hebrew classes—also open to any child—will be held on Monday and Wednesday afternoons after public school hours.
Registration for these classes will be held on Monday, Sept. 14 at 3:30 p.m. and all children of 4th grade age level and
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upward are urged to attend. The classes are taught by the capable Mrs. Leon Elkind, and Bar Mitzvah instruction is given by Rabbi Morton J. Cohen.
The Meaning of Rosh Hashonah
{Editorial}
Southwestern Jewish Press September 4, 1953 Page 2
Rosh Hashonah has written itself deeply in the soul of the Jew. Perhaps we owe for this a bit of a debt to Nature, which seems to preen itself for the holiday. The Jewish New Year comes as Emma Lazarus wrote. “When orchards burn their lamps of fiery gold. The grape grows like a jewel, and the corn a sea of abundance lies.”
The changing rints of Autumn foliage seem in rhythm with the Holy Day. The pious Jew reviews his life and asks forgiveness of man and God through the symbols of tashlich, casting his sins into the water. The ram’s horn is sounded in the synagogue. At the family table, the bread dipped in honey symbolizes the hope of a Happy New Year.
At Rosh Hashonah time, American Jews have traditionally turned their thoughts to the problems of their brothers and sisters in other lands. Today, in this connection, we think primarily of the heroic men and women who are building the State of Israel.
The picture in Israel reflects significant progress. We do not expect a five-year-old child to be adding to the family exchequer and we should not expect a five-year-old nation, which has been required to double its population in a few years, to be economically independent. Roads must be built, land irrigated, harbors expanded, new industries constructed.
Here in San Diego we are growing into a big city and keeping pace with the rest of the country. We are building new facilities and enlarging those we have to take care of the needs of the children and young people. A new center is just completed to one of the synagogues and another has just purchased a new building. The Jewish Community Center has announced the purchase of land for a new building which will also offer enlarged facilities for the Hebrew Home for the Aged.
All in all, the New Year looks bright for the communal life of our city. It is forward looking and progressive.
“May the word of our mouths and the works of our hand be pleasing in thy sight. Oh Lord.”
A Message From Korea
Southwestern Jewish Press September 4, 1953 Page 2
Munsan, Korea—We the Jewish chaplains serving in Korea, join you, the Jewish community of America in a special and fervent prayer of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the end of the bitter fighting in Korea.
We pray that the conference following the armistice may lead to a righteous and enduring peace.
We join with you in a memorial prayer for the sainted souls of some of our most valiant sons who made the supreme sacrifice.
We pray that the sick and wounded may be speedily returned to health and vigor.
We take pleasure in expressing our heartiest appreciation for the superb performance of American Jewry in meeting the religious, morale, and recreational needs of our fighting forces. We take pride in the reputation achieved by the JWB—representing American Jewry—among the men in the bunkers and the officers of the highest levels of command.
The thousands of young soldiers who were able to enjoy a Pesach seder near the battlefront because you, the American Jewish community, provided so well-are forever grateful. The lads who clutched a JWB mezuzah as they went forward into the frightful night on their first patrol, or who read a few comforting words from a JWB prayer book before going into action will always cherish the memory of American Jewry’s thoughtfulness and providence.
We Jewish chaplains assure you that the tears of the first Jewish lad to be repatriated from an enemy PW camp—and his first she smile of thanks for a gift from the Jewish women of America—were worth all the effort and expense that have gone into the maintenance of JWB’s Armed Forces service program. The grim face of a single boy lighting up when the rabbi dropped into his bunker with a memento from the Women’s Organization’s division of JWB and its wonderful Serve-A Committees is telling testimony of American Jewry’s patriotic and Jewish duty well done.
So much for the past. Now—what of the future? Now that the bleeding and dying have been halted, will American Jewry put its warm interest in the spiritual well-being of our servicemen in cold storage? Or will you resolutely and devotedly continue to meet the undoubtedly greater morale and spiritual needs that are bound to arise?
Our boys will still be in Korea. Crouched in bunkers and perched on hills, they will be facing fear of the unexpected and that cold loneliness that comes of separation from loved ones.
There are still the torrential Korean rains, the ubiquitous and sullen mud, the bitter and paralyzing cold of the Korean winter. There is still the need for nerve-straining vigilance, for intensified preparedness and alertness. There is, therefore, still most certainly the need for the splendid program of spiritual and morale services made possible until now by the wholehearted support given us by the Jewish community of America through JWB.
Be assured, O you Jews of America that with your continued support of the JWB program, we, the rabbis in Korea, will continue to minister to the needs of the Jewish sons and daughters of America and thus demonstrate that the bond between the home front and the Korean front is unbreakable!
Amen
(signed) Louis Barish, Meyer Blech, Nathan Estersohn, Milton J. Goldberg, Norman T. Goldberg, Murray I. Rothman, Howard Singer.
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