THE JEWISH NEWS-25
Friday, October 1, 1948

News Brevities

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Rabbi Morris L. Blair of
Cleveland has been elected to
the Administrative Staff of the
Hebrew Theological College of
Chicago.
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SENATOR ALBEN W. BAR-
KLEY, Democratic Vice Presiden-
tial nominee, has accepted an in-
vitation to address the 53rd an-
nual encampment of the Jewish
War Veterans of the U.S.A. it was
announced by Brigadier General
Julius Klein, national command-
er. Lt. Governor Joe R. Hanley
and Senator Irving M. Ives- of New
York will attend as special repre-
sentatives of Governor Thomas E.
Dewey!
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- "AWAY TO THE SOUTH
SEAS; " with new color motion
pictures of gay Tahiti, the fan-
tastic Marquesas, and the tropi-
cal Leeward Islands, will be the
season's opening program of the
WORLD ADVENTURE SERIES,
civic and non-profit public lec-
ture course at the Detroit Insti-
tute of Arts, at 3:30 Sunday
afternoon, Oct. 17. Charles All-
mon, globe-trotting young photo-
grapher for the National Geo-
graphic Magazine, will be the
speaker. -

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The first shipment to Israel of
essential machinery and medical
equipment by PIONEER WO-
MEN, women's labor Zionist or-
ganization of America, has been
The Art Calendar for 5709, is-
announced by its president, Mrs.
sued by the National Federation
Israel Goldstein.
of Temple Sisterhoods, exceeds
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in beauty many ''of the Calendars
CARL LAMP-
of past years.
This touching plea which
NEE. of Brook-
Drawings for the 5709 calendar
lyn was named
are by the eminent artist, A.
is one of the most mov-
national execu-
Raymond Katz.
tive director of
ing of all the Holy Day
MASADA. A
Commencing with a biographi-
former presi-
cal sketch of the artist, the calen-
prayers carries with it
dent of th e
dar contains reproductions' of Mr.
Brooklyn re-
Katz's famous paintings.
an admonition for every
gion of Masada,
Among the works reproduced
Lampner . suc-
are: "KodOsh, Kodosh, Kodosh,"
day in our lives. As the
ceeds Abe Co-
a composition derived from the
hen who left for
letter Kuf; a lithograph "Eight
years go on, we dreaM
pre-Israel train-
Visions of Zechariah"; "Silent
Lampner
ing as a Halutz.
Prayer"
derived
from
the
He-
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of the future and we
brew letter Peh; "Passover Nar-
Frank Goldman, national presi- rative," a white and black draw-
hope for years of peace
dent -of Bnai Brith, and Lt. Col. ing; "Sh'chino," derived from the
Elliott .A.. Niles, chairman of the letter Shin; the Hebrew letter
and joy and security.
national committee on - veterans "Samech."
affairs, announce the appoint-
There are, of course, all the im-
Such protection requires
ment of LOUIS E. BARDEN, portant dates on the Hebrew cal-
Detroit attorney, as a member endar and provisions •
for daily
realistic "planning which
of the committee on veterans af- records for the possesSor's en-
fairs. He will represent Dis- gagements.
will give you the peace
trict 6, which comprises Mich-
The 5709 Sisterhoods calendar
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igan, Illinois, Dakota, Wisconsin, is available from the national of-
of mind that the prayer
MRS. AGNES BUCHLER, of Iowa and Nebraska. Barden, a fice in Cincinnati or from mem-
veteran
of
World
War
II,
is
Budapest, Hungary, arrived in the
bers of Sisterhoods in Detroit
"Forsake Us Not" in-
United States to study case work president of Tikvah Lodge.
and other Michigan communities.
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4.
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at the School of
vokes.
Social Work of
ISRAEL JACOBSON Joint Dis-
the University of
tribution Committee representa-
Southern C a 1 1-
tive for Hungary, was decorated
with the Hungarian Order of the
fornia on a
Commander Cross in recognition
s cholarship
of the JDC's relief work. The dec-
awarded her by
oration was presented to Jacobson
the National
by Karoly Olt, Minister of Wel-
Council of Jew-
fare, in the name of President
ish Women. Wid-
Arpad Szakasits.
owed when her
husband was
shot by Hungar- Mrs. Buehler .
Yeshiva 'University opens
ian Nazis, Mrs. Buehler owes her
own life to a courageous escape Pre-Medical Courses
en route to a concentration camp.
During much of the war, she was
For the first time in the annals
forced to live in hiding under an
assumed name. A: former em- of Jewish education in America,
ployee of the American Joint Dis- a separate unit of Yeshiva Uni-
tribution Committee in Hungary, versity, America's first accredited
Mrs. Buehler; like the 25 previous university under Jewish auspices,
Council overseas scholarship stu- has been set aside, wherein stu-
dents, will return to help in the dents, regardless of race .ior re-
reconstruction of the Jewish com- ligion, will receive intensive
munity abroad when she com- instruction in premedical
sciences.
pletes her duties here.
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By expanding its chemistry and
Development and historical on physical laboratories and by ad-
of anti-Semitism in the Unit- ditional science courses in its
ed States is the subject of DAN- curriculum, Yeshiva University
GER IN DISCORD, second in the takes the initial step in bringing
series of FREEDOM PAMPH- to a realization the Yeshiva's ex-
LETS published by the Anti-De- pansion program for profesiiona,1
famation League of Bnai Brith. training. The premedical courses
Written by Prof.- Oscar ,Handlin are sponsored by the Society for
of Harvard, and his wife, Mary the Advancement of Pre-Medical
Handlin, it analyzes the factors Sciences at Yeshiva University.
in American history which gave This society was organized for
rise to • anti-Semitism in recent the purpose of supplying the
years.
necessary funds with which to
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The final chapter in the story. establish the premedical science
of the 4554 refugees aboard the courses in the new unit of the
EXODUS who tried, unsuccess- College of Liberal Arts and
fully, to migrate to Palestine in Sciences.
the summer of 1947 was written
just recently when the last of
them finally achieved their goal
of reaching Israel. The first half
of the stirring and tragic story is
ou and our3
-nappy new 2 ear
told by Ruth Gruber in her book
DESTINATION PALES T INE:
The Story of the Hagannah Ship
— Representatives —
Exodus 1947, published by A. A.
Wyn, Inc. Miss Gruber covered
Earl Hordes
A. Bigelman
Lawrence Friedman
S. Rapp
the attempted landing at Haifa
as foreign correspondent for the
A. Keltz
Henry Burston
Geo. W. Gray
• Bert P. Seedberg
New York Herald Trillime.

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IN OUR OLD AGE"

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nzrizrol ritit ri:v5

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LeShono Tovo Tikosevu!

May the New Year 5709 see the fulfillment of the

hopes of the Jewish People and the State of Israel for

a permanent and lasting peace for all mankind.

- MR. AND MRS. PHILIP J. CUTLER

On the first Rosh Hashanah
in the era of Jewish na-
tional redemption, we wish
to -extend our sincerest
good wishes to all our
friends for a very Happy
New Year. Great things
have happened in Israel.
Greater still are the events
to come --- to mark the
complete realiza tion of the
ideal of a Reborn Israel.
May the new era bring
\ glory to all Israel and peace
for all humanity.

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Wi34

Isadore Fisher

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.urs,rn
A. Raymond Katz's
Drawings in 5709
Calendar of NFTS "FORSAKE US NOT

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The appointment of DR.
ABRAHAM J. KLAUSNER as
provost of the Hebrew Union Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of Religion,
America's oldest Jewish semin-
ary, was announced by Dr. Nel-
son Glueck, president of the Col-
lege-Institute.
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Compilation is announced of a
"Third-of-a-Century-- Index" of
MENORAH JOURNAL, leading
Jewish cultural quarterly, com-
memorating 33 years of continu-
ous publication. Since 1915, Me-
norah Journal has issued 139
numbers containing 13,282 pages
of text as well as inserts repro-
duc.ing the works of 190 artists.
Early numbers include writings
and addresses of great men of
the past generation — Louis D.
Brandeis, Solomon Schechter, Is-
rael Zangwill, Charles W. Eliot,
Max Nordau, Jacob H. Schiff, Sir
William Osler, Kaufman Kohler,
Israel Abrahams, George Foot
Moore, Flinders Petrie, Israel
Friedlander, Claude Montefiore,
Solomon Solis-Cohen, Joseph Ja-
cobs, Simon Dubnow, Emil G.
Hirsch, and others.
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The nationwide distributiOn of
ISRAEL IN SONG, a new album
of Israeli songs just completed by
the newly established • Palestine
Art Corp. of New York, has been
undertaken by Junior Hadassah,
young women's Zionist organiza-
tion of America, it was revealed
by Miss Zelda Funk, president of
the irganization.
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A ,campaign to "give a kit to
every soldier in 'Israel" has been
launched by "KITS FOR THE
ARMY OF ISRAEL," 250 West
57th St., New York. "Kits for the
Army of Israel" is a new project
sponsored by Material for Pales-
tine and which has already re-
ceived the pledged cooperation
of Jewish fraternal and Zionist
organizations. Among the organi-
zations which have offered to send
kits to Israel are the American
Zionist Emergency Council, Zion-
ist Organization of America, Jew-
ish . War Veterans, Knights of
Pythians, Poale Zion and Pioneer
Women. Each kit, which costs
$10, will contain underwear, toi-
let articles, a cigarette lighter
•and other small essentials.
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Dr. Leo L. Honor, professor in
education at Dropsie, College, will
direct the New York Extension
Division. Dropsie
e partrnent o f
Education,' it
w a s announced
Dr. Abraham
A. Neuman,
resident. These
classes in edu-
cation — to be
given by Profs.
Solomon Zeitlin,
Israel Efros,
Dr. Honor A 1 e x ander M.
Dushkin and Dr. Honor— will be
the first given outside of Phila-
delphia in Dropsie's 40 year his-
tory.- Classes will begin on Oct. 7
at New York headquarters of
Dropsie College, 667 Madison.
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Forty thousand pounds of lay-
ettes and infants' wear have been
shipped to Israel - during the four
months' period ending Sept. 1, it
has been announced ' by Sonia
Shatz, national chairman of the
linen and layette drive of -PI-
ONEER WOMEN, women's labor
Zionist organization of America.

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