bring out "The Selected Histori- ant professor of engineering at send at its own expense about
Cross-Section. U.S. A.
Controversies:Had-1,er Report,
Separation of Stale, Religion
By ALLEN LESSER
An American Jewish Press Feature
MAC IVER VS. VOLUNTAR-
ISM: Minutes of the March
meeting of the NCRAC Evalu-
ative Studies Committee reveal
that the Large _Cities Budgeting
Committee (LCBC) and the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds (CJFWF )
are trying without success to
force a strait-jacket program
u p 0 0 the Anti - Defamation
League and the -American Jew-
ish Committee.
Objecting to proposals which
they claim went far beyond the
discarded MacIver Report, Dr.
John Slawson and Ben Herzberg.
of the AJCommittee, centered
tiwit- attack on the plan to give
Judges," to which "later histor-
ians and churchmen added
other folk material." Typical of
the article's bias is the judgment
that the "Song of Solomon and
portions of the Psalms are more
accurately esteemed_ as magni-
ficent fragments of the poetry
of ancient peoples than as re-
ligious doctrine." Hebraists will
bridle at the statement that the
King James version of the Bible
possesses "all the power and
beauty of the original Hebrew
and Greek."
SHORT SHORTS: Is it true
that differences over German
restitution claims between AJ
Committee president Jacob
Blaustein and Jewish Agency
tho AJCongress responsibility chief Dr. Nahum
Goldmann
for all community legal services, have reached a point where the
pointed out that procedures for
coordination of activities among two men won't talk to each oth-
various agencies which had been against West Germans using Is-
work out over the last decade
made for lasting agreement and raeli claims as bargaining point
in negotiations with British,
added that the plan for division F
of labor brought in by the French and Americans, whose
representatives are also present
NCR AC staff "would not dimin-
ish inter-agency tensions belt
at the talks as ""
observers . .
t
would increase them to the In Easton, Pa., rewards of $1,000
each
have
been
put
up by Ladies
point where a policeman' would
be needed to see that the lines Garment Workers Union, AFL,
and by Police Chief Schwarz
of demarcation are observed."
for arrest of crank who sent
Rabbi Jay Kaufman of the bomb threats to Jewish Corn-
UMW strongly defended Prof.
MacIver's proposals on labor munity Center . . . Ninth anni-
division. while Isaac Toubin. of versary of Warsaw Ghetto bat-
tie occurs on April 19 . . . Trib-
the AJCOngress, accused the
ADL and AJCommittee of using ute to veteran Zionist and cOm-
cal Essays" of Dr. Abraham
Neuman, Dropsie College presi-
dent . . . Seven Arts Feature
Syndicate will soon begin dis-
tribution of English version of
the true human interest stories
about American Jewish living
by Rabbi Abraham Hefterman,
of Manchester, N. H. His stories
are currently being featured in
Yiddish in the Forward . . . In
Technion Yearbook, Columbia
professor Percival Goodman,
after trip to Israel, makes fol-
lowing comment on Israeli ar-
chitecture: "The newer syna-
gogues (and how few there are!)
look like cinemas and the water
tanks like synagogues. Is this
symbolism?"
• • .
ISRAELI- AMERICAN EX-
CHANGE: Unspectacular de-
velopment of interchange of
cultural influences between Is-
rael and America and vice versa
is illustrated by the following
reports in the week's events:
-Before departing for Israel last
week. Dr. Sydney Goldstein,
Technion vice - president, re-
vealed that Americans now on
Haifa faculty include Dr. J. L.
Shereshefsky, former head of
the . department of physical
chemistry at Howard U. ; Dr.
Hirsch G. Cohen, former assist-
SPRING!
of a central pool.
The Evaluative Studies Com-
mittee is scheduled to meet
again April 26-27. at which time
it must decide what it will re-
port to the NCRAC. The dead-
locked situation will also be dis-
cussed by the LCBC at its meet-
ing on May 3-4. Failure of the
Evaluative Committee to bring
in a unanimous report means
that the whole problem must be
taken up again at the NCRAC
Plenary meeting scheduled for
June 15.
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An article in the April
Reader's Digest, entitled "The
Book by My Side," completely
distorts the character of the Old
Testament, describes it as "the
racial library of the Jews" which
was given to the world by
Christianity.
A condensation of the book by
the same name by Albert N
Williams. the article (circulated
among many millions of readers
all over the world) refers to the
Pentateuch as a collection of
"the legends of Joseph. Joshua.
Gideon and the great line Of
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Neither the Synagogue Council I
nor the UAHC was mentioned ' Jewish Publication Society will
by name in this formulation.
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Responsibility for policy and
program would rest with NCRAC
which would also allocate funds
to each constituent agency out
than Rosen, professor of phys- 16 — THE JEWISH NEWS
ics at the University of North
Friday, April 4, 194
Carolina.
Jewish Agency Executive
member Dr. Hayim Greenberg
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growing out of the MacIver re_ day of McCarran and Walter
port and the action of the re-
immigration bills (and support-
cent Plenary Session."
Plan offered by NCRAC staff ers of the Lehman-Humphrey.
would assign ADL to task of and FDR, Jr. immigration bills)
combatting anti-semitismt AJ are the American Friends Serv-
and
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Jewish Labor-- Committee, to ! Jordan project to divert, waters
labor groups: and interfaith of the Yarmuk River, which
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lem this summer for a two
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ative Coniginittee from coming tion Bureau, was paid by 250
"I.A) any constructive conclusions
Penn State and Brown U.; Dr.
Menahem Merlub-Sobel, profes-
sor of chemical engineering, who
was the first American to join
the Haifa faculty; and Dr. Na-
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