Unified Educational Plans In New
Areas roposed by Hebrew Schools
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Urge All Cultural Units
To Aid in Expansion,
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
A revolutionary step was taken this week by the Unite d
Hebrew Schools of Detroit in the direction of solidifyin
related community groups for unified programs of actio n
in areas where educational groups can cooperate, thus elim-
inating unnecessary duplication of effort and expense.
VOL. 17—No. 24
of Jewish Events
708 David Stott Bldg., Detroit agiaa,. 7
August 25, 1950
Jewish • Agency Call
Urgent Sessions to Deal
Recognizing the need for the erection of additional schools
in new areas now being populated by large numbers of Jews and
foreseeing a desire on the part of all schools to construct build-
ings in such areas in order to be able to serve those who endorse
their programs, the United Hebrew Schools issued a statement
inviting "other existing school systems to cooperate with them
in creating a single school program in those areas in the best
interests of efficiency, economy and expanded service to our
people."
The invitation to the other school systems in Detroit forms
part of a statement of principles which reveals that the United
Hebrew Schools have adopted a new program of action for the
enlargement of the Yiddish, Talmudic and adult education de-
partments. The call to the other schools in Detroit reads:
With Fund Raising Crisis
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—The. Jewish Agency will hold a plenary session in
New York in the beginning of October, it was learned here Tuesday. After the
session concludes, the members of the Agency . Executive will assist the
United Jewish Appeal campaign in the United States.
It- was also learned that on Sept. 3, a meeting of Israel cabinent
members, leaders of the American Jewish community, United Jewish
Schools' Call for Unity
"It is evident that in the months to come it will - be neces-
sary for the Jewish community to establish schools in districts
that are not now served by.. any Jewish aggpcies in the com-
munity.
"Already on record in favor of building schools in such new
-areas as the need arises, the United Hebrew. Schools invite other
existing school systems to cooperate with them in creating a
single school program in -those areas in the best interests of ef-
ficiency, economy and expanded service to our people. .
"Our schools are prepared to work together with other
school systems in the *best interests of the entire Jewish com-
mtnity through - such expanded prograMs under the supervision
-of a more inclusive Board' of Directors. Through such coopera-
tion, we shall be in A-- --better position to rededicate ourselves to
the major responsibility that challenges Jewry today that of
providing educational facilities for all our children. We have
faith we shall make greater progress as time goes on, thanks to
the encouragement of Detroit Jewry and the financial support
extended to the schools by the Jewish Welfare Federation and
the Allied Jewish Campaign.
Appeal leaders and the heads of the agencies supported, by the UJA will be held
here. It is -understood that leaders of British and South African .Jewry will also
participate in these talks. •
(The planned meetings indicate concern in Jewish ranks over the future of fund-
raising in behalf of Israel. Read Boris Sm olar's column on Page 2 revealing urgent
measures being taken to - ease Israel's serious economic situation.)
Freed Hungarian _Zionists Arrive in Haifa
HAIFA—Forty Hungarian Zioniit leaders, some of them recently released
from Communist detention camps, arrived here Tuesday with 750 other immi-
grants from- Hungary, Germany and Austria and 500 from North Africa.
Among the newly-arrived Hungarian Zionist leaders were M. Fraenkel, vice-
president of the Hungarian . Zionist Organization, and Chief Rabbi A. Zisman, form-
er head of the orthodox communities in Hungary.
Ambulances waiting at the pier drove 64 immigrant invalids to hospitals in
Tel Hashomer, Mahaneh Israel, Magdiel and Beit Sieff, while 14 mental cases were
removed to the government hospital at Acre.
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Turkey Commended for Anti-Discrimination Policies
LONDON,The
World Jewish Congress has addressed a communication to .
Cevat Acikalin, Turkish Ambassador to Britain, expressing gratification with his
government's campaign to eliminate discrimination, against any section of the
Turkish population.
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Detroit's First Jewish Casualty;
Louis Molar Reported 'Missing
Louis J. Molar, son of Mrs. Bertha Wisotzky of P600
Seward, is Detroit's first Jewish casualty in the Korean war.'
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Molar was reported missing in action since July
His brother, Meyer Wisotzky, also serving in Korea, could
not be located at the time news was received here about
his brother.
Norman L. Berkley, commander of Michigan Depart-
ment of Jewish War Veterans, has been making contacts
with the War Department on behalf of Mr. Wisotzky who
suffered . a heart attack upon hearing the sad news. She is
reported critically ill at Receiving Hospital.
, Record Enrollment in Israel:
A record enrollment that will
tax all available classroom and laboratory facilities of the Hebrew University, Weizmann
" institute of Science and Haifa Technion is expected with the be,,ginning of the academic
, year in Israel following -the High Holy Days.- Word received at UIT headquarters from
heads of the three institutions indicate that enrollment at the Hebrew University, now housed ,
in 22 buildings scattered throughout Jerusalem, will exceed the record 1,600 who register-
.- ed last year. The Technion, in response to demands from the government and private in-
dustry, is preparing to expand the enrollment of its Technical College from 850. students
to 1,200, as well as adding new'departments in aeronautical and agrotechnical engineering.
The expanded program of research and experimentation at the Weizmann Institute of Sci,
ence will be highlighted in October by the opening of two new departments of the Insti
tute- of ExperiMental . Biology: a department of cancer research and.an animal house. Sup-
port .for. Israel's three institutions of higher learning is enlisted in the United States through
UIT: In the photo: Top: left, Prof. SELIG BRODET,SKY, president of the Hebrew University;
right, a student takes over in the school of pedagOgy. •at the University. Center; left, Dr.
LEON HASKELBERG, at work in a laboratory of the Weizmann Institute of Science; right,
MEYER' W. WEISGAL, chairman, executive council of the - institute. Bottom: left_ Dr.
SHLOMO •KAPLANSKY, president of Haifa Institute . of Technology; right, students in a
shop at the Technion.
_First Navy Volunteers: The six Jew-
/ ish young women pictured here, members of the first class
of women selected from candidates from all over the country
for the first Reserve Officer- Candidate Training Program in
th Navy ever opened to -women, learn from Chaplain Samuel
Sobel at Great Lakes Naval Training Station about the re-
ligious and - cultural services available to them through JWB's
.Division of Religious Activities and Armed Services Division.
The girls, who were-in their freihman or sophomore years of
college, will be coMmissioned as ensigns in the Naval Reserve
after completing two summer sessions of training and their
college courses. Left to right, Jacqueline Axelrod, Elkins Park,
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Pa.; Rita Wolfe, Pittsfield, Mass.; Jane M. Blake, Kerrville,
Tex.; Nancy Levy, San Mateo, Calif. ; Sondra Kornman; West
Haven, Conn.; Carol Schycon, New Haven, Conn. The Jew-
ish girls were part of a class of 134.