Sherman ants, Rabbi Adler on
Israeli Archaeologist
Early Marriage
Marriage One of Factors in
AJ Committee Cel ebration Program to Speak on New Finds Small Women's College Enrollment,
at Zionist Program
Sherman Adams, the Assist- and diplomacy, Columbia University;
ant to President Eisenhower,
will be one of the principal
speakers at the American Jew-
ish Committee's five-day 50th
anniversary observance, April
10 through 14
at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel,
New York.
Irving M.
Engel is presi-
dent of the
Committee.
Principal par-
ticipants, apart
from Mr.
Al Adams, will in-
Adams elude: Rev. Eu-
gene Carson Blake, president,
National Council of Churches of
Christ of America; James B.
Carey, vice-president, AFL-CIO;
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, chairman,
board of Continental Can Corn-
pany; Dag Hammarskjold, Sec-
retary General of the United
Nations; Herbert D. Lehman,
honorary vice-president, Ameri-
can Jewish Committee; Rev.
Lawrence J. McGinley, S.J.,
president, Fordham University;
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman,
Atomic Energy Commission.
Jacob Blaustein, industrialist
of Baltimore a n d honorary
president of the American Jew-
ish Committee, is chairman of
the 50th anniversary planning
committee. He announced that
the theme of the anniversary is
"The Pursuit of Equality at
Home and Abroad."
Social scientists, religious
leaders, specialists in education
and related fields, will partici-
pate with communal representa-
tives in a number of symposia
on the main aspects of the an-
niversary meeting theme.
Mordecai R. Kidron, Israeli Minister
Plenipotentiary and Deputy Perma-
nent- U. N. Representative; Dr. John
Coleman Bennett, Dean, Union Theo-
logical Seminary; Father Neil G. Mc-
Cluskey. S.J.; associate editor, Amer-
ica Magazine; Dr. Otto Klineberg,
professor of psychology, Columbia
University, formerly head of
UNESCO's Division of Applied Social
Sciences; Dr. Henry David, executive
secretary, National Manpower Coun-
cil, associate professor of economics,
Columbia University; Dr. Alfred Mc-
Clung Lee, professor of sociology,
Brooklyn College, president of the
Eastern Sociological Society; Dr.
Buell G. Gallagher, president, City
College of New York; formerly U. S.
Assistant Commissioner for Higher
Education.
April 28 to Be
JNF Box Day
DR. IMMANUEL BEN-DOR
Sunday, April 28, will be
Dr. Immanuel Ben-Dor, an
Jewish National Fund Blue and
White Box Day in Detroit and outstanding Israeli archaeologist
outstate, according to announce- who is now visiting lecturer in
•
at Harvard
ment by Mrs. Samuel Croll, Biblical archaeology
chairman of the JNF Blue and Divinity School, will speak at
White Box Committee. This date a general meeting of the Zionist
will mark the culmination point Organization of Detroit at 8-:30
of the traditional spring clear- p.m. Wednesday, at the Esther
ance sale of JNF boxes.
Berman Branch of the United
Volunteers—members of Ha- Hebrew Schools.
dassah, Ladies Auxiliary of
"Archaeological Finds in Is-
JNF, Mizrachi, Fannie Gluck rael and Their Impact on the
and Sisters of Zion, Northwest Bible" will be the subject of Dr.
Child Rescue Warren and Pio- Ben-Dor's discussion, which will
neer Women—participate in the be illustrated by color slides.
semi-annual clearance of about
On leave from his position as
4,000 JNF Blue and White deputy director of the Depart-
Boxes. The actual work of ment of Antiquities of the state
clearing boxes will begin within of Israel, Dr. Ben-Dor has par-
the next 10 days. The commit- ticipated in much of the major
tee is confident that by April archaeological research which
28, the clearance will be com- has taken place in the Near East
pleted.
in recent times, including work
The Blue and White Box was with the University of Penn-
the earliest source of income sylvania expeditions and the
for the Jewish National Fund. American School of Oriental
The coins deposited in these Research.
From 1936 until his appoint-
box4s made possible in 1906 the
Rabbi Morris Adler of De-
purchase of the first 4500 dun- ment to his present position
ams of land in Israel (a dunam with the Department of Anti-
troit will be one of the par-
ticipants in a session to deal is 1/4 of an acre). The JNF now quities, he was at the Palestine.
owns more than 4,000,000 dun- Archaeological Museum (Rocke-
with the impact of religious
feller Foundation), first as as-
institutions on intergroup re- ams of land.
lations.
The Blue and White Box sistant keeper and later as
Participants in other sessions serves to link Jewish homes librarian and keeper of records.
Dr. Ben-Dor came to Harvard
during the anniversary events with the land in Israel.
will include:
The JNF Box Committee also from a similar position at the
Joseph E. Johnson, president, Car- is organizing a special effort to Oriental Institute of the Uni-
negie Endowment for International place JNF Blue and White versity of Chicago.
Peace; John S. Badeau, president,
Dr. Ben-Dor, who was born in
Near East Foundation; Philip C. Jes- Boxes in at least 6,000 more
sup, professor of international law homes.
Poland in 1901, emigrated to
Mrs. Croll states that any Vienna as a youth. He gradu-
boxholder who wishes to have ated from the Hebrew Teachers
the box cleared earlier, should College and also studied at the
make arrangements by calling University of Vienna. Follow-
ing this, he then went to Pales-
the JNF office, UN. 4-2767.
tine, but returned to Europe to
study at the University of Rome,
'Bible and Scrofls'
from which he received his PhD
with honors in 1927. He then
New U-M Course by
returned to Palestine and has
made his permanent home
Dr. Leroy Waterman: since
there.
"The Bible and the Dead Sea
In view of the wide-spread
Scrolls" is the subject of a Uni- interest which has been aroused
SIGNIFICANCE
versity of Michigan Extension in archaeological subjects due
TO EVERY
Service course to be offered in to the controversy over the re-
Detroit and Ann. Arbor this cently discovered Dead Sea
OCCASION • .
spring by Dr. Leroy Waterman, Scrolls, the ZOD program com-
noted Bible authority.
mittee, of which Morris M.
The eight sessions will be de- Jacobs and Rabbi Milton Arm
voted to a study of the latest are co-chairmen, believes that
translation of the Dead Sea Dr. Ben-Dor's appearance here
scrolls. An endeavor will be will present an unequalled op-
made to evalUate the signifi- portunity for the general pub-
cance of the scrolls particularly lic to receive expert informa-
in their relation to the Bible, tion.
and their 'bearing on, subsequent
Rabbi Benjamin H. Gorrelick
Judaism and Christianity.
will introduce the speaker. The
Dr. Waterman, who retired public is invited.
TO HONOR
some years ago as professor of
Semitics and chairman of the 'Ten Commandments'
• Births
department of Oriental lan-
guages and literature at the Picked at Harvard
• Bar Mitzvahs
University of Michigan, was one as 'Worst '56 Movie'
• Weddings
of the translators of the new
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (JTA)
Revised Standard Version of the
• Holidays
Bible (1952) and had helped —Harvard University's humor
• Parties
with an earlier translation of magazine, "The Lampoon," this
the Bible. During his academic week chose "The Ten Com-
• Other Family
career, he taught Semitics and mandments" the worst Holly-
Occasions
the Bible in three institutions wood film of the year.
The nomination was one of
for a total of 50 years.
several in the magazine's se-
CALL
The class will open in Detroit lections of "movie worsts of
at 7 p.m., April 12, meeting at the year."
UN 4-2767
the Rackham Educational Me-
morial, and in Ann Arbor at
Urge Annual Checkups
7:30 p.m., April 15, meeting in
The American Cancer So-
131
School
of
Business
Ad-
JEWISH
ministration. Building, Monroe ciety says that annual health
checkups are important. Of
NATIONAL
at Tappan.
1,000 women more than 45
FUND
Persons desiring further in- years old entering a doctor's
18414 WYOMING AVENUE formation should write the office, 18 are likely to have
ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO JNF•:
U-M Extension Services, Ad- cancer, while among 1,000
ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE
ministration Bldg., Ann Arbor. men, 17 are apt to have cancer.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)— 1955-5'6 and of this total, pri-
Early m a r r i a g e, educational mary education received 75 per
costs and public opposition to cent.
women in professions are re-
She also reported that girls
sponsible for the small propor- comprised 57.6 per cent of the
tion of women in Israeli insti-
total attending secondary
tutions of higher learning, Mrs., schools. She explained that
Mina Ben Zvi told the United many boys were sent by par-
Nations Commission on the ents to specialized vocational
Status of Women.
and agricultural schools.
Mrs. Ben Zvi, Israeli repre-
All departments are open
sentative on the Commission, equally to Men
and women in
made the report in 'discussion Israel's institutions
of higher
on three statements on the ac- learning, she said, attributing
cess of women to education.
the "small proportion". of
She said that bugetary pro- women to early marriage and
vision for education in Israel cost factors and "the public
had been raised from 5.6 per view that most professiOns were
cent in 1948-49• to 13.5 per cent `not compatible' with women's
of the total appropriations in family obligations."
Start Oil Drilling
in Jerusalem Corridor
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—Oil drillings be-
gan Tuesday, in the Jerusalem
Corridor near the town of Abu
Ghosh, on the outskirts of
Jerusalem, where geologists pre-
viously had reported rock for
mations indicating good prospects
for oil.
The drilling is being done by
the Mazada firm for the Jehuda
Oil Prospecting Company which
holds the oil prospecting fran-
chise for the Corridor. The pros-
pecting company, which has
capital of 1,800,000 pounds, is
a joint venture of Solel Boneh
and a group of British and Bel-
gian investors.
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