West Point Honors Technion President

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Friday, February 13, 1953

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The family of the late Bernard
Elson announces the unveiling
of a monument in his memory
at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb: 15, at
Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
Rabbi Segal abd Cantor Fenakel
will officiate. Relatives and
General YAACOV DORI, left, president of Technion and Is- friends are asked to attend.
rael's first Chief of Staff during the War of Liberation, is present-
Charles Kanfer Dies
ed with a Sesquicentennial Medallion by Major Gen. FREDERICK
A. IRVING, superintendent of the United States Military Academy
Charles Kanfer, one of the
at West Point. General Dori toured the installations at the Aca-
demy and laid a wreath on the grave of Col. David Marcus, West best known general contractors
Point graduate who was killed in 1948 while fighting with the in this area, under whose super-
vision the 12th Street apart-
Israeli forces.
ments were built 30 years ago,
died Monday after a prolonged
Present World Jewish
Brandeis U. to Open
illness. He was 64. His late re-
was at 19169 Lauder.
First Graduate School
Population : 11,558,830 sidence
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at Kaufman's
The total Jewish population Chapel. Surviving him are his
WALTHAM, Mass.—The open-
of
the
world
is
11,558,830
of
which
ing of the first graduate school
wife, Rebecca; a son, Raymond,
at Brandeis University, leading approximately 2,500,000
are a University of Michigan engi-
trapped behind the Iron Cur- neering graduate who was as-
tain, it is reported in the 1953 sociated with him in the con-
tracting business for the past
American Jewish Year Book, five
years; two daughters, Mrs.
published Feb. 6, by the Ameri- Minnie
Gallas and Mrs. Alice
can Jewish Committee and dis- Lutz; eight
grandchildren and
tributed by the Jewish Publica- two great-grandchildren.
tion Society.

The Year Book states that 50.5
per cent of the Jewish- popula-
tion, a total of 5,833,030, resides
Prof. Fine
Dr. Lerner
in North and South America.
The population report discloses
that as a result of. mass migra-
tion, the Jewish population of
Israel during 1952 totaled 1,425,-
000, or more than 12 per cent
of the total Jewish population of
the world. By contrAt, Germany,
which once had a Jewish popu-
lation of 600,000, now has a Jew-
ish population of 23,000.
Dr. ' Cohen
Rawidowicz
The distribution of Jewish
population by continents is as
to advanced degrees in the arts follows:
and sciences, was announced by
Dr. Abram L. Sachar, president Europe (including Asiatic Number Pct.
USSR and Turkey)
3,420,500 29.0
of the university. Courtes of in-
America (North & South) 5,833,030 50.5
struction will begin in Septem- Asia
1,567,300 6.0
680,000 6.0
Africa
ber.
Australia & New Zealand 58,000 0.5
Dr. Max Lerner, professor of
11,558,830 100.0
TOTAL
American Civilization and Insti-
The largest Jewish population
tutions, was named chairman of
the school, which will offer in- is in the United States where
struction in chemistry, musical 5,000,000 Jews reside. There are
composition, Near Eastern and 450,000 in England, 235,000 in
Judaic studies, and psychology. France, 360,000 in Argentina and
Working with Dr. Lerner on 120,000 in Brazil.
the graduate school committee
are Dr. Saul Cohen, professor PEC Declares Dividend
of chemistry and chairman of
the Brandeis undergraduate
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
school of science; Prof. Irving board of directors of the Pales-
Fine, chairman of the under- tine Economic Corporation, 27-
graduate school of creative arts year-old American investment
and Guggenheim Fellow; Dr. and development company op-
Simon Rawidowicz, professor of erating in Israel, has de-
Hebrew literature and Jewish clared a dividend of 50 cents
philosophy and Dr. Abraham per share for all stockholders of
Maslow, Brandeis psychology record of February 16, payable
professor.
on February 28. The 50 cent di-
vidend represents completion of
a four percent dividend for 1952.
H. M. Seldon Realtors

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A Brotherhood Message

By FAITH BALDWIN
Novelist

Obituaries

MINNIE 'WOLMAN, 13700 Dex-
ter, died Feb. 1. Services at He-
brew Benevolent Chapel. Sur-
vived by her husband, Benny,
daughters, Mrs. Sophie Aver-
buch and Mrs. Yetta Steinberg,
of Los Angeles, Calif., two grand-
children, and a sister.
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LENA MYERS, 9307 Broad-
street, died Feb. 2. Services at
Hebrew Benevolent Chapel. Sur-
vived by her daughters, Mrs.
Ethel Schiner, of Los Angeles,
Calif., Mrs. Sadie Herskovitz and
Mrs. Honey Kraus, five grand-
children and seven great-grand-
children.
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WICHNA BREGMAN, 11501
Petoskey, died Feb. 2. Services
at Hebrew Benevolent Chapel.
Survived by a son, Joe, of Miami
Beach, Fla., daughter, Mrs. Belle
Ribiat, four grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
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JOSEPH LESSON, 2936 Pin-
gree, died Feb. 5. Services at
Hebrew Benevolent Chapel. Sur-
vived by his wife, Mollie; sons,
Samuel and Tappy, and a
daughter, Mrs. • Ida Gorodkin,
and five grandchildren.
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RACHEL GLAZER, 9274 Wilde-
mere, died Feb. 6. Services • at
Hebrew Benevolent C h a p e 1.
Survived by her sons,. Louis,
Jack, Bernard and Samuel;
daughter, Mrs. Shifra Rosen-
berg; nine grandchildren, a
-brother and two sisters.
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RUBIN MUDRICK, 4218 Duane,
died Feb. 8. Services at resi-
dence and Hebrew Benevolent
Chapel. Survived by his wife,
Gertrude; son, Irvin g; and
daughter, Mrs. Bertha Haber-
man.
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MINNIE KAHN, 20225 Stans-
bury, died Feb. 2. Services at
Ira Kaufman Chapel. She leaves
her son, Louis, daughter, Mrs.
Ernest J. White, three brothers
and two sisters.
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FANNIE SCHWARTZ, 1910
Gladstone, died Feb. 4. Services
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. She
leaves her husband, Isadore; son,
William; and daughter, Mrs.
Robert Zieve.
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IZIDORE L. HEIMAN, 5050
Elmhurst, died Feb. 4. Services
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. He
leaves his wife, Gussie; daugh-
ters, Mrs. Toby Mindel, Mrs._
Jules M. Klein and Mrs. Harold
Rubin of Dayton, 0.; a brother,
two sisters and six grandchil-
dren.

ANNIE BORNSTEIN, 3207
Blaine, died Feb. 4. Services at
Ira Kaufman Chapel. She leaves
her sons, Dr. Sidney, Cecil and
Lawrence; and daughters, Mrs.
D. V. Elconin, of Milwaukee. and
Mrs. Grady Katz.-
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MATILDA FREEDMAN, 2940
Taylor, died Feb. 5. Services at
Ira Kaufman Chapel. She leaves
her husband, Adolph; son, Sid-
ney , Leo; and daughters, Mrs.
William Silverstein, of Broo-
lyn, and Viola.
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SOPHIE JAFFEE, 2605 Sturte-
vant, died Feb. 6. Services at
Ira Kaufman Chapel. She leaves
her husband, Samuel; sons, Irv-
ing and Herman; daughter, Mrs.
Abe Zussman; a brother and five
grandchildren.
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CHARLES STEINBERG, 18482
Birchcrest, died Feb. 9. Services
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. He
leaves his wife, Frieda; sons,
Robert E. and William F.; and
a daughter, Mrs. Harold Helper,.

In Memoriam

In loving memory of our be-
loved husband and father. Hy-
man Berman, who passed away
on Feb. 2, 1951 (27 d
.days i n
Shvat).
Sadly missed by his wife (,
Jennie, his children and grand-
children.

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Owner

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People often take pride in
Distinctive
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people and a nation.
I believe that the extermina-
tion of prejudice is not accom-
plished by wars but by ordinary
men, women and children,
through their attitudes toward
one another. In recent years the
people who have most helped me,
outside of my immediate family,
are Jews and Gentiles, Catholics
and Protestants. I turn to them
in trouble, I ask their prayers,
knowing there is one God for us
all.
Mankind's worst enemies do
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Also foreseeable in 1953, Rob- who attended the opening in New York
an exhibit of sculpture
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the prices of new homes, with a before his death a year ago. The exhibit, sponsored by State of
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possible slight decrease in used Israel Bonds, includes busts of 'leaders of Israel's government, as
property prices.
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