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AMERICAN VETERANS of ISRAEL VOLUNTEERS in ISRAEL’S WAR of INDEPENDENCE UNITED STATES & CANADA VOLUNTEERS 136 East 39Th Street, New York, NY 10016 WINTER 2006 AMERICAN VETERANS OF ISRAEL VOLUNTEERS IN ISRAEL’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE UNITED STATES & CANADA VOLUNTEERS 136 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 Symposium on Aliyah Bet and Machal Museum Dedicated: Aliyah Lowenstein Lauded by Speakers Last July Raphael ben Yosef Some 37 veterans of morning, November 20, was Dr. of Givat Shmuel wrote the letter Aliyah Bet and Machal converged on Yitschak Ben Gad, Consul-General below to Ira Feinberg, President Gainesville, Florida, on November of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico. of AVI. The letter, as you see, deals 8-20 for a weekend devoted to Dr. Ben Gad, the son of a former with the centrality of aliya to Zionist dedicating the Aliyah Bet and chief rabbi of Libya, summarized self-realization (hagshama). Below Machal Museum in the University current Israeli policy toward the letter is an objective background of Florida’s new $8.5 million Hillel Palestinians in the search for peace. statement on the influences which building. He praised the new Aliyah Bet and led some mahal volunteers to The seven-cabinet museum Machal Museum for establishing a remain in, or later return to, Israel is located in the main hallway of while others chose to return to the Norman H. Lipoff Hall, which just lands from which they volunteered. opened to the 6,500 Jewish students I invited several members of AVI to on the UF campus late last year. write 100-150 words of comment on The main speaker for the official the ben Yosef letter. Others may want dedication ceremonies, attended by to supplement the comments below more than 200 persons on Sunday with accounts of their personal GAINESVILLE continued on pg. 2 decisions. I will run such responses as Letters to the Editor in future Bernstein and Warner: Assuming Presidency Newsletters. The Editor. and Vice Presidency of AVI Dear Ira: You may not like this letter. Arthur Bernstein Arthur Bernstein The Ulua was beached south of I will not renew my membership served in the Haifa on February 27, 947. The in AVI. It is beating a horse long Merchant Marine refugees and crew were interned dead. during World War II. in Cyprus by British authorities. The very fact that the In 947 he served as Upon his return to the U.S., Art address is New York and not a senior deck officer worked in the lumber industry and on the Ulua, a.k.a. Jerusalem or Netanya shows a made his mark as a businessman. He the Haim Arlosoroff . The Ulua, an retired from his business to devote half job was done by those who old decommissioned U.S. revenue his time to family and his avocation; came and did not return. cutter sailed out of Baltimore to the sea. Today he lives with his wife Capturing a spirit in rescue ,378 Holocaust survivors, Evelyn in Peabody, Massachusetts formaldehyde for show is not a bringing them from Italy through where he can be seen at the helm game I wish to play. the British blockade of Palestine. of his motor boat, the Ulua. SYMPOSIUM continued on pg. 18 BERNSTEIN continued on pg. 21 American Veterans of Israel SCHEDULE OF EVENTS- 2006 36 E. 39 Street Purim Celebration Sunday, March 12 New York, NY 006-094 Officers and Executive Board Mission to Israel First week in May President West Point Assembly Sunday, May 21 Arthur Bernstein 978 532 6956 Salute to Israel Parade Sunday, June 4 Hanukkah Celebration Sunday, December 17 Vice President Joseph Warner GAINESVILLE continued from pg. 1 46 497-040 Executive Director permanent symbol on American promote that legacy. Kol Hakavod Simon Spiegelman soil of the lasting bond between to AVI!!.” 22 685 8548 [email protected] the citizens of the State of Israel and the Jewish communities of Treasurer David Gerard North America. 63 499 4327 [email protected] Presiding at all the dedication events was AVI Regional Vice Presidents USA President Ira Feinberg. He Northeast: Ira Feinberg 20 886-1188 said that the thread of Jewish history was strengthened by the Southeast: Irving Meltzer 56 637 5874 courageous actions of a small West: Bailey Nieder group of men and women. We 206 722 897 were not particularly religious. We Lou Laurie, his daughter and her children. Midwest: Ben Hagai Steuerman were Jew and Gentile. We were 773 935 0802 idealists, socialists, adventurers. Si Spiegelman, Chairman Canada: Jerry Rosenberg 46 787-7632 of the AVI Executive Committee, officially presented the museum Israel Liaison: David Baum [email protected] to the care of the UF Hillel and World Machal: Zipporah Porath [email protected] VP/ Directors Newsletter, Internet and Trustees Committee: Samuel Z. Klausner 25 473 6034 [email protected] L-R Jerry Rosenberg, Al and Evelyn Bernstein Si Spiegelman and Lou Laurie Archives and Museum Ralph Lowenstein We consider ourselves fortunate to praised Ralph Lowenstein for the 352 392 6525 [email protected] have received this challenge and, tremendous organizational and in a sense, got more out of this promotional efforts that made the Public Relations: Paul Kaye (78) 428-2465 experience than Israel got from museum possible. Receiving this [email protected] us; a chance to change history. responsibility, Keith Dvorchik, Speakers Bureau: Naomi Kantey Zipporah Porath followed saying, Executive Director of the UF 20 489 3809 “Who would have dreamed that Hillel, said: “The theme of this Events and Activities David Hanovice after its heroic struggle for survival, building was intended from the Bill Gelberg Israel would go on to create one of beginning to be ‘Israel.’ When Louis Laurie Adrian Phillips the best armies in the world and to Ralph Lowenstein came to us with Norman Schutzman Lola Sprinzeles become one of the greatest success the idea for the Aliyah Bet and Charles Weiss stories of the 20th century. We Machal Museum, we seized upon Machal West- Liaison Machalniks had a lot to do with it immediately as a fulfillment Max Barchichat President-Machal West making that happen. Now, our of our commitment to teach the (88) 982-272 main mission should be to see that thousands of students, parents and Websites generations to come don’t forget professors who come through this http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~sklausne/aviweb.html http://www.israelvets.com it. The museum being dedicated building the history of the State of here aims to help preserve and Israel, and especially the bond of 2 Israel. The Museum is our story, Like American Jewry as a now finally being told. We can all be whole, the Jewish museums have proud that we accepted the challenge concentrated on the Holocaust almost sixty years ago, and we can almost to the exclusion of the be proud that our countrymen and phoenix that arose from the dust of our comrades played a significant the pogroms and Holocaust. Every part in creating a Jewish State.” Podunk university in America now Also attending the banquet has a Holocaust studies program, as special guests of AVI were Ann with thousands of books in their American Jews to the Jewish State. Bussel and Morris Broad, daughter libraries and a host of faculty It is with a great deal of pride that and son of the late Shepard Broad, members with the Holocaust as their we now accept partnership with the Miami philanthropist who academic field. But the greatest the American Veterans of Israel purchased the “Paducah” and miracle of the last 2,000 years in in preserving and enhancing this “Tradewinds.” Other special guests Jewish history – the rebirth of Israel museum.” were the production personnel of – is a pauper and an orphan where Early arrivers at the the Museum and their spouses. the universities and the Jewish dedication weekend had an museums are concerned. opportunity on Friday night to attend Breaking the Silence: Thus, when the new Hillel Orthodox, Reform or Conservative The Story is Told building on the UF campus was services with the students, and then under construction, I approached have dinner with about 200 students When I began collecting Keith Dvorchik, executive director at the Shabbat-eve dinner following questionnaires and documentary of the Hillel, and Mickey Smith, the services. material about the Aliyah Bet and supervisor of the construction Some 20 veterans and Machal veterans some 25 years activities, and asked about installing their families attended a reception ago, I did so because I thought our own museum in the new building. and banquet on Saturday night. Ira that someday historians might Without a moment’s hesitation, Feinberg presided at the banquet. be interested in details about the they agreed, as long as AVI could Special guests were Max Barchichat, Americans and Canadians who raise the money. This question was President of Machal West, who volunteered to help Israel before and posed by so many of our members: brought greetings from comrades during the War of Independence. “Why Gainesville?” The answer: on the West Coast, and Zipporah Thanks to the support of Because the bureaucratic idiots at Porath, who brought greetings from American Veterans of Israel, the the Northeastern museums were Aliyah Bet and Machal veterans Aliyah Bet and Machal Archives too money-grubbing (they wanted now living in Israel. grew and eventually became an millions of dollars from us for the Principal speaker for the official part of the University of favor of a single display) or too evening was Ralph Lowenstein, Florida Libraries. At that time, I unimaginative to recognize the void founder and director of the Museum. considered our role in the 948 war Ralph said, “I refer to this museum as a mere footnote, but one that should the museum of the ‘courageous few.’ be considered in any overall history There were courageous businessmen of the conflict.
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