Friday, June 14, 1946
T . F1E JEWISH. NEWS
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Plan Expansion of Hebrew University
Charles J. Rosenbloom of Pitts-
burgh, national chairman of the
United Palestine Appeal and a
national chairman of the $100,-.
000,000 United Jewish Appeal for
Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine, sailed recently on the
SS Vulcania to make an intensive
study of the refugee settlement
program in Palestine and of the
progress that has been made in
the Jewish homeland in the ab-
sorption of the survivors of Hit-
lerism with the funds provided
by American Jewry through the
United Palestine Appeal.
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WA Head Leaves
For Zion to Study
Settlement Program
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Bnai Brith Aids Texas
Churches Desecrated,
Plastered on walls and billboards all over Palestine are these
notices by the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) Destroyed by Vandals
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informing the public about the mortal casualties suffered by the
Underground in clashes with the British.
Noted Archaeologist
Tells Graphic Story
Of Historic Jordan
New 'Book by Prof. Nelson
Glueck of HUC Printed
In English and Hebrew -
THE RIVER JORDAN. Illustrated
account of earth:s most storied rivet.
By Nelson Glueck. Philadelphia: The
Jewish Publication Society of Ameri-
ca and Westminster Press, 1946.
The hero of modern scholar-
ly research is the archeologist,
and few archeologists have
DR. NELSON GLUECK
achieved more than Prof, Nel-
son Glueck of the Hebrew
Union College of Cincinnati, who
for the last few years has been
head of the American School of
Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
In recent years he has given
us a graphic shipbuilding center
in Ezion Geber. He has also told
the story of Trarisjordan, home
in Bible times of several tribes
of Israel as well as of the Am-
monites and Moabites.
Like so many of the rivers
famed in song and story, the
Jordan is by our standards a
small and narrow stream. It is
important, however because of
the history that surrounded it.
Patriarchs and prophets wander-
ed along its banks; Moses looked
across it to the Promised Land;
the armies of every nation fam-
ous in antiquity crossed it; and
now electric power it produces
is helping in the rebuilding and
the modernizationof the country.
Dr. Glueck gives us glimpses into
modern Arab life along the river,
but his main interest is in the
ancient landmarks, from pre-
Bible days to the Mohammedan
era.
As he makes his way from
north to south along the river,
Dr. Glueck stops at every spot
of interest whether to Christian,
Mohammedan or Jew and des-
cribes the event which happened
there, frequently recalling the
words in which that event is
described in one or another of
the -holy books.
One hundred and thirteen
pages of • marvelous photographs
add xmaterially to the beauty of
the book and to the reader's ap-
pretiation of its contents. No
wonder that long before the
book was published in America
it was being prepared for pub-
lication in Hebrew in Palestine.
This edition of the book
German Refugees
May
Regain - U.S. Holdings
WASHINGTON, (JTA)— Ref-
ugees from Germany who are not
now .residing.in Germany, Japan,
Italy, Romania, Hungary or Bul-
garia may obtain the release of
their property in the U. S. from
the special blocking restrictions
imposed by reason of their Ger-
man nationality, the State. De-
partment, Treasury. Department
and the Alien Property Custodian
announced.
Refugees living in European
countries which have concluded
"defrosting" arrangements with
this government—France, Bel-
gium, the Netherlands, Czecho-
slovakia, Luxembourg, Norway
and Finland—also may obtain un-
restricted use of their property
upon the joint recommendation
of the appropriate authorities of
such countries and the American
Missions therein.
HOUSTON, Tex. — When a
group of vandals last week dese-
crated the Glad Tidings Full Gos-
pel church in Houston and an-
other group of masked men
burned• to the ground the Downs,
ville Baptist church near Waco,
some 200 miles away, Bnai Brith
members of the area were the
first to respond by offering ma-
terial and spiritual support to
both churches.
Bnai Brith District Grand
Lodge No. 7, comprising lodges
throughout the South and Middle
West, at its annual convention in
Houston, adopted a resolution to
replace the Bibles and the prayer
books which were destroyed at
the Glad Tidings church and to
contribute a sum of $500 towards
a fund for the rebuilding of the
Baptist church in Waco.
Heads Jewish Congress
Advisory Legal Board
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Delivered Jews to Gestapo,
Italian Officials on Trial
ROME (JTA)—A number of
Italian guides and border officials
charged with delivering Italian
Jews to the Gestapo went on trial
in Milan. The Jews were prom-
ised by the defendants that they
would be guided across the Ital-
ian frontier into Switzerland.
However, when they reached the
frontier they were robbed and
handed over to the Gestapo which
sent them to Oswiecim.
is available at all bookstores
under the imprint of Westmin-
ster Press. It also is one
of the books which members of
the Society receive. Full details
on the membership plan, cata-
logues and other literature on
the work of the Jewish Publi-
cation Society of America, the
world's largest publishers of
Jewish books in English, can be
obtained by writing to the ex-
ecutive vice-president, Maurice
Jacobs, 320 Lewis Tower Bldg.,
Philadelphia 2, Pa.
Cornerstone for the first of several new buildings will be
laid in September at the Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus,
Jerusalem, where an urgently needed medical school is soon to
be erected. DR. DAVID W. SENATOR (right), administrative
head of the University, who recently arrived in New York,
is shown looking over plans for the new medical school with
COL. HAROLD RIEGELMAN, co-chairman of the drive to
raise $4,000,000 for that worthy cause. First of the new struc-
tures will be a Biology Building for pre-medical students.
Institute of Religion
Gives Honorary Degrees
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Honor-
ary degrees were,-,eonferred on
five prominent Jewish and non-
Jewish leaders by the Jewish
Institute of Religion at the'
school's 21st annual commence-
ment exercises. Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, president of the Institute,
conferred the degrees and or-
dained. the 15 members of the
graduating class. .
The degrees were awards to
Pierre Van Paassen, author and
Unitarian minister; Zalman Shne-
our, noted Hebrew poet and no- ELECT . . .
velist; Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein,
RALPH ELLIOT
Advisor on Jewish Affairs to
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Amer-
ican commander in- r o p e;
Rabbi Morton M. Berman of
Chicago, who served as Marine
JUDGE of
Corps Chaplain during the war;
and Dr. Nathan Krass, .Rabbi
RECORDER'S COURT
Emeritus of Temple Emanuel,
New York.
• Former Asst. Prosecuting
Will you give—that they may
Attny.
live? Millions are hungry or
• Instructor Detroit College
starving in liberated lands. Your
of Law
gifts of money, or food in tin
• Research Lawyer, Mich.
cans," to the Emergency Food Col-
Supreme Court
lection,' will save lives.
• Overseas War Veteran
HELPER
DAVID STONEMAN
David Stoneman, prominent
Boston attorney, has accepted
the = chairmanship of the national
advisory- board of the commis-
sion on law and social action
of the American Jewish Cong-
ress.
Mr. Stoneman has been prac:-
tieing law for the last 40 years.
He has argued -hundreds of civil
cases before the U. S. Supreme
Court and in the trial courts of
Massachusetts and other states.
LET GEORGE DO IT
. HE KNOWS . HOW:
GEORGE j.
McLAUGHLIN
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VETERAN WORLD WAR II
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FOR COUNCILMAN
Attorney, 20 Years
Graduate, U. of D. Law School
Post Graduate, Oxford University, England
12 Years Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of
Wayne County In Charge of Araffic Dept.
McNAMARA, MAN WHO MADE
DETROIT RENT CONTROL WON,
FAVORED TO WIN COUNCIL SEAT
Patrick V. McNamara is highly,
favored to win the nomination for
the vacancy in the Detroit Common
Council in the primaries, Tuesday,
June 18. Detroiters out of the ranks
of business, industry and labor are
rallying behind McNamara in rec-
ognition of the great service he
rendered in making rent controls
work. McNamara has actually,
saved Detroiters millions of dollars:
Too, his proved administrative abil-
ity and devotion to duty stamp
Patrick V. McNamara as a man
decidedly needed in Detroit's city
government. Give Pat McNamara
your VOTE OF THANKS for they
money he has saved you.