Unified Educational Plans In New Areas roposed by Hebrew Schools • 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. — 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. (Continued on Page 20) • • • syss 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.' • • • 16. 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, . . . 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.