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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 12, 1 948

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Inauguration of HUC President Major Leaders Czech Government Will Not Make
Occurs with Great Ceremony
To Participate in Changes in Jewish Organizations

CINCINNATI—Almost a thousand Jewish community
leaders from all over the country are expected to participate
in ceremonies this week-end, marking the inauguratiOn of
Dr. Nelson Glueck as fourth president of the Hebrew Union
College, it was announced by Benjamin Katz of Cincinnati,
chairman of the inaugural committee.

The actual inauguration service
will be held Saturday morning
in the historic Plum Sheet Syna-
gogue, which was the first home
of HebreW Union College when
it was founded 73 years ago.

Climax of the inauguration
will be a banquet at the Nether-
land Hotel Saturday evening, at
which the speakers will be Judge
Samuel I. Rosenman of New
York, special advisor to Presi-
dents Roosevelt anct Truman, and
Dr. Leo Baeck, heroic leader of
German Jewry during the Hitler
regime, president of the World
Union for Progressive Judaism.

The inaugural program opens
Friday with symposia on the sub-
jects, "The Future of Jewish
Scholarship in America," and
"The' Preservation of American
Judaism: Can the Synagogue
Meet the Crisis? ", Outstanding
American rabbis and educators
are participating in the discus-
sions.
In the evening, the consecra-
tion service will be held at the
Rockdale Avenue Temple with
Dr. Joshua Loth Liebman of
Boston as speaker. Greetings will

DR. NELSON GLUECK
be brought by Rabbi Victor E.
Reichert of the Rockdale Avenue
Temple and Jacob Aronson of
New York,• chairman . of the exe-
cutive board of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations.
At the Saturday morning 'in-
augural service,- the speakers,
besides President Glueck, will be
Dr. Julian Morgenstern, Hebrew
Union College president emer-
itus; Dr. Stephen S. Wise, of
New York, president of the • Jew-
ish Institute of Religion; . and
Dr. Jonah B. Wise, of New York,
son of ,the founder of the Hebrew
Union College.
Besides the principal- speakers
at the .banquet,. Judge Rosenman
and Dr. Baeck, greetings _will be
brought • by- Mayor Albert D.
-Cash Of Cincinnati; Dr. Abraham
J. Feldman of Hartford, president
of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis; Dr. Maurice
N. Eisendrath. of New York, presi-
dent of the -Union of American
Hebrew Congregations on behalf
of the Union and its affiliates;
and Dr. Henry J. Berkowitz of
Portland, Ore., president of the
Hebrew Union College Alumni
Association. Frank L. Weil of
New York, president of the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board, will
be the toastmaster.
Sunday morning at 10, Dr.
Glueck will be the guest preach-
er on the regular Message of
Israel radio broadcast heard
over the network of the Am-
erican. Broadcasting Company.
Broadcasting from the chapel of
the Hebrew Union College, the
Ato -service will be read by Dr.
Jonah B. Wise and the musical
program rendered by the HUC
student choir under the direction
of Dr. Eric Werner. After the
service, there will be an informal
meetink of out-of-town guests
and - a iterlthe.on given for them
by PreEident Nelson Glueck.

Inaugural Rites

A galaxy of outstanding Jew-
ish rabbis and laymen will con-
gregate in Cincinnati this week-'
end to participate in ceremonies
marking the inauguration of Dr.

tude remains "positive." Nobody
in the government is thinking of
changing this positive viewpoint,
he stated, adding: "On the con-
trary, the new
Czechoslovak
Government will persevere with
increased stress in its efforts in
behalf of a solution of the Pales-
tine problem in the spirit of the
United Nations decision."

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Plays, Parties Mark
Celebration of Purim
In Beth El School

Purim will be celebrated at the
Religious School of Temple Beth
El March 14, 20 and 21. •
The Intermediate Department
will inaugurate the celebrations
this Sunday morning. The Inter-
mediate Dramatics Group, under
the direction of Faye Portner,
will present "Purim Wizard of
Oz" by Ben Aronin. The cast in-
cludes Edith Nolish, Jimmy Spert-
ner, Bernice Kaplan, Robert Kar-
bel, Lauretta Wisok, Barbara
Heavenrich, Judy Goldstein, Judy
Kobler, Donald Wisok, Gail
Braff, Bonnie Winston, Bernard
Collier, fames Wainger, Janice
Fisher, Cecily Goldman and Sarah
Weiner. The play will be followed
by movies and classroom parties.
The third grade parties will take
the form of masquerades. Re-
freshments, including haman-
tasch,en and ice cream, will be
served by the school.
Saturday morning, March 20,
the Junior High Dramatics Group
will entertain the Junior High
Department with "Shushan Re-
view" by Fierman and Fine. The
cast includes Ronald Seltzer, Su-
zanne Altman, Lois Karbel, Rich-
ard Levinson, Tommy - Kreger,
Bertram Shapero, Mark Fleisch-
man, Robert Lippman, Eugene,
Kopple, Kenneth Bronson, Eliza-
beth Meyers, Betty Paysner, Tra-
cy Kay, Joyce Lane, Carol Gold-
stein and Margo Maxman.
The ninth grade will hold a
luncheon party, directed-by Sam-
ual Milan and Manuel Simon.
- Sunday morning, March 21, the
Intermediate Dramatics Group
will present its play before the
children of the Primary Depart-
ment. The children will then be
shown movies, followed by a
parade of Purim costumes by
class. Pictures will be taken and
refreshments served.
The ,High School Department
will hold its own celebration un-
. der the supervision of Edward
Kohleriter, Riaben Selitsky and
Faye Portner.

PRAGUE, (JTA)—No changes
in the organization of Jewish
communal institutions are con-
templated by the new govern-
ment, Vaclav Kopecky, Czecho-
slovak minister for information
and a leading member of the
Czech Communist Party, told
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
It is entirely an. international
matter whether actions commit
tees are formed within Jewish
communal organizations, he add-
ed.
Asserting that recent events in
the country can be interpreted
as essentially a defeat of those
forces which contained anti-
Semitic and fascist tendencies,
Kopecky declared that the new
regime wishes to respect to the
greatest extent the religious,
civic and social rights of the
Jews.
Regarding the Palestine issue,
Kopecky stressed that the atti-

Nelson Glueck as president of
Hebrew Union College.
Among the notables present
will be (top row) left, DR. MOR-
DECAI KAPLAN, professor at
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, right, DR. JULIAN
MORGENSTERN, HUC president
emeritus; (bottom row) left,
JUDGE SAMUEL ROSENMAN
of New York and (right) DR.
STEPHEN S..WISE, president of
the Jewish Institute for Religion.
Detroit representatives at the
inauguration will include Rabbi
Leon Fram of Temple Israel and
Irving I. Katz, executive secre-
tary of Temple Beth EL

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Melvyn Douglas, noted screen
actor, will appear as narrator On
the Eternal . Light program next
Sunday, March 14, when, "The
Trees of Galilee" will be present-
ed as the first of a series of sev-
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Rabbi E. 'Tenenbaum
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Rabbi Morris Adler of Detroit,
Rabbi Israel T. Notis of Temple
Bnai Israel in Saginaw and other
Saginaw dignitaries paid tribute
to Rabbi Edward M. Tenenbaum
at a farewell testimonial meet-
ing in his honor last Sunday.
Rabbi Tenenbaum, who occu-.
pied the pulpit- of Temple. Bnai
Israel for five years has accepted
a position at Upper Darby, Pa.
Dr. Philip Nolish presented
Ra\labi Tenenbaum with a gift in
behalf of the:Saginaw Bnai Brith
Lodge and Jay Lenick presented
the congregation's gift.

Yeshivah University Plans
To Open Medical School

NEW. YORK, (JTA) — The
first non-sectarian medical school
under Jewish auspices will be
established by Yeshivah Universi-
ty, it was announced at a dinner
of the Society for the Advance-
ment of Pre-Medical Sciences at
Yeshivah University, attended by
some 450 persons.
Dr. Elihu Katz, chairman of the
Society, said that the first objec-
tive of the organization was to
enroll 100,000 members to raise
$7,500,000 for the University's
academic and physical expansion
program. When sufficient funds
are available a medical school
will be established, he stated.
Speakers at the dinner included
Under-Secretary of State David
A. Morse, Judge -Jonah Goldstein,
and Dr. Horace . Kallen of .the
New School for :Social Research.

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story of a group of - Christian
children in the New England
town of Milton, Mass., each of
whom made personal sacrifices to
contribute toward the planting of
a grove of trees to memorialize
the thousands of Jewish children
killed by the Nazis. The trees
will actually be planted this
spring.

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