Philip Slomovitz, editor of The
Detroit Jewish News, and Mrs.
Slomovitz have been visiting in
Israel. This is another of his
special reports for the Free
Press.

BY. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor, The Jewish News

RAMAT GAN, Israel— Israel's
universities won't open until the
first week in November, but the
dedications of new buildings have
been in progress.
In the area of education, Detroit
Jews emerge in as prominent a
role as they have played in land
reclamation and
the resettlement
of oppressed
Jews in Europe
and Africa.
One of the
major contribu-
tions of the Jew-
ish community of
Detroit is to the
newest university
in the land—Bar-
Ilan University,
Slomovitz
located in this
suburb of Tel Aviv. This univer-
sity is sponsored by the religious
Zionist movement, Mizrachi-
Hapoel Hamizrachi.
At the formal dedication cere-
monies of Bar-Ilan, last week, the
national president of American
Mizrachi, Rabbi Isaac Stollman, of
Detroit, was among the partici-
pants, and honor was paid to
Phillip and Max Stollman, leaders
in the Detroit religious commu-

pity, who provided the funds for
the first dormitory at the univer-
sity, known as the Stollman Dor-
mitory.
* *
ABRAHAM NUSBAUM, another
Detroiter, paid for the construc-
tion of the Nusbaum Lecture Hall.
On the spacious groUnds of Bar-
Ilan University, ground has just
been broken for another dormi-
tory, to be known as the Detroit
Dormitory, to be erected with the
$150,000 fund pledged by Detroit
Mizrachi leaders to this school,
which combines in its curriculum
religious studies with courses in
modern sciences.
The second largest gift to an
Israel university was made by Sam
Brody, Detroit builder, to the
Technion of Haifa, the Israel In-
stitute of Technology. Brody's
$120,000 gift was earmarked for a
laboratory for the Technion's De-
partment of Agricultural En-
gineering.
In addition, the Detroit Chap-
ter of the American Society for
the Technion has pledged an
additional $200,000 toward the
Technion's program for a new
$10,000,000 campus, in order to
enable the hundreds of appli-
cants for admission to this en-
gineering college — the largest
technical school in the entire
Middle East—to gain admission.
The largest of Israel's univer-
sities, the Hebrew University,
which now is building an impres-
sive new campus on the outskirts
of Jerusalem, is enlisting the aid

of Detroiters through a committee
headed by Charles Feinberg.
* * *
OF PARTICULAR interest in
Israel at this time is the establish-
ment of the Israel Dental School,
as part of the expanded Hebrew
University.
Detroit Chapter of Alpha
Omega Fraternity is among the
most active groups in behalf of
the new dental college. Drs.
Herbert Blum and Gerald Freed-
man were in Jerusalem recently
to plan further activities by De-
troit dentists in behalf of the
school, and during his stay in
this country Dr. Blum gave an
illustrated lecture on oral sur-
gery at the Hebrew University.
Leaders in the movement for
the dental college are Dr. Samuel
Lewin-Epstein, brother-in-law of
Dr. A. M. Hershman, of Detroit,
and his son, Dr. Jacob Lewin-
Epstein, who studied at the Uni-
versity of Michigan.
Another noteworthy Detroit con-
tribution to the Israeli educational
system was made by Morris
Schaver, president of the Central
Factory and Overall Supply Co.,
who established the Sifriah (Li-
brary) at Bet Berl, one of the
schools for advanced studies estab-
lished by the Histadrut, the Israel
Federation of Labor. Scheyer fi-
nanced the erection of an im-
posing three-story library building
in which are housed valuable col-
lections of books in many lan-
guages.

A Message from Free Press' Managing Editor

"We at the Free Press were highly pleased when we
learned that Phil and Anna Slomovitz were going to Israel,
particularly when Phil suggested that he would be sending
some special reports to us.
"We ran almost a score of these reports in the Free
Press and feel that through them we were better able to
inform our readers of Israel's development during its first
decade.
"It is an inspired idea that Mr. Slomovitz has had to pull
together all these reports into this excellent supplement.
This is an intensely interesting document that certainly will
also be noted by future historians."
Frank Angelo
Managing Editor

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Detroit Free Press

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