High Court to Consider Sabbath. Work Case Dramatic Story of Exodus 1947 Dr. Ruth Gruber's Book Tells Dramatic Story of Famous Ship Posterity can read the story ; odus passengers while she cov- of the Exodus 1947 in its entirety ered the story for the New York —in the great book, "Destination! Herald Tribune. The Gruber book is not limited Palestine: The Story of the Hag- anah Ship Exodus 1947," by the to the ship Exodus 1947. It fol- lady who better than any one lows the travelers. to France, it else has interpreted the issues tells their reactions after they surrounding the tragedy of that were driven from Israel by the ship and described the experi- British, it takes us .back to Cyprus ences of the unfortunate travel- to relate the story of the intern- ees on the British detention is- land and concludes with an epi- logue about the final return of the ExoduS passengers. to Israel where all of them now are per- manently settled. Few books tell as dramatic a story as "Destination Palestine." Few books can boast of as brill- iant an author. Few books prom- ise to be as lasting because of the real story it tells. Dr. Gruber's book deserves a record-breaking circulation. Its excellence seems to guarantee it a place among the all-time best sellers. It is no wonder that Bart- ley Crum, in his introduction to the book, states: "No other event in 1947 was as important as the oddyssey of the Exodus ... Israel and the world are fortunate that Ruth Grtiber was there when that historic ship limped into Haifa Harbor." RUTH GRUBER ers. A. A. Wynn, publisher, Cur- rent Books, Inc., 23 W. 47th St., New York 19, published this sig- nificant historical record. Those who are inclined to the belief that the Irgun was in the main responsible for forcing the Israeli issue to the fore will learn from Dr. Ruth Gruber's report that the heroism of the Exodus travelers had more to do with influencing public opinion than any other incident. It was a peace- ful incident—except insofar as British troops saw fit to attack a vessel that carried Jews re- turning home. And in its peace- ful intentions, followed by the outrageous and inhuman way in which those who returned home were sent back to German con- centration camps, the immigrants drew the attention of the world to themselves, to the Jewish problem, to Israel—forcing the issue into the United Nations. Dr. Gruber not only tells the story brilliantly—as those who heard her addresses in Detroit and elsewhere can testify—but also illustrates the book with 32 photographs she took of the Ex- Theological Seminary Gives Honor Degree To Gen. Eisenhower NEW YORK.—General Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of Co- lumbia University, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters Monday, by Louis Finkelstein, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary . of America, at a. special. convoca- tion .which marked the opening of the Seminary's 62nd _'academic • year. The • convocation was attended by officials representing .all the religious and .educational insti- tutions on Morningside Heights, as well as by the officers, the faculty and the student body of the Seminary itself. Former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, chairman of the Semin- ary's board of overseers, read the citation on behalf of "an institu- tion representing in this latter day the ancient tradition of Is- rael, her prophets and her sages," and characterized General Eisen- hower as "the personification of • many of the virtues which they taught and inculated. ' The General was sponsored at the ceremony by tederal Judge Simon H. Rifkind, . formerly his advisor on Jewish affairs in the European theater of operations and vice chairman of the Semin- ary's Board of Directors; and by Doctor Alexander Marx, profes- sor of Jewish history and Semin- ary librarian. The principal address at the convention was delivered by Gen. David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America. PHILADELPHIA, (JTA)—The Pennsylvania Superior Court will consider the case of , a Jewish woman who, because she refused to work. on the Sabbath, was de- nied State Unemployment Com- pensation Board benefits. She re- jected a position offered her by the Board because it required working on Saturday. Leo Pfeffer, 'assistant national director of the American Jewish Congress, has asked the court to reverse the Board's decision • on the grounds that it was within the woman's right to refuse to work . on Saturday, "since work- ing on the Jewish Sabbath is 1n violation Of her religious observ- ance." • Sabbath obserVance, Pfef- fer argued,_ whether it •be on Sat- urday or Sunday, is a basic tenet of religious freedom. OTTAWA, (JTA) — The Can- adian Jewish Congres has peti- tioned the government of Canada to admit several hundred more Jewish orphans from Europe as well as a group of 108 Jewish technicians and skilled workers at present stranded in Shanghai. Call National Conference for Israel To Consider U. S. Jewry's Position NEW YORK.—A National Con- ference for Israel "to map Amer- ican Jewry's participation in the prospective liquidation of the Jewish DP camps and the reset- tlement in Israel of the homeless Jews of Europe •and other lands" has been called by Dr) Israel Goldstein, newly elected treas- urer of the World Zionist Execu- tive and United Palestine Appeal national chairman. Scheduled to be held in Chica- go, Nov. 6 and 7, the parley is expected to convene more than 3,000 delegates from communities throughout the country and will feature as principal participants: Maj. Gen. John H. Hilldring, former Assistant Secretary. of State And a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations; Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman, American Section Jew- ish Agency for Palestine; Dr. I. Goldstein, who will. preside; Eli- ahu Epstein, Israeli representa- tive to the U. 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