Proceed with Plans for Detroit
Dormitory at Hebrew University
Plans are proceeding for the
.
establishment of the Detroit
Dormitory for students at the
Hebrew University in Jerusa-
lem, recently announced by
Judge Theodore Levin, chair-
man, Alan E. Schwartz and
Leonard N. Simons, co-chair-
men of the sponsors committee
for this project.
Five thousand young men
and women are about to begin
the fall semester at the Hebrew
University. They are Jews.
Christians, Moslems and Bud- Mrs. MAX FISHER and
hists, representing 40 lands of Mrs. CHARLES H. GER-
national origin. SHENSON, co-chairmen of
the women's committee for
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An Evenin; : With Eleanor
university in the world where
Roosevelt," under auspices of
the language of instruction is
American Friends of the
Hebrew.
Hebrew University, at Hotel
Approximately half this stu- Statler, Sept. 24.
dent body is normally Hebrew-
I Women's League Plans Leadership Trainino- Seminar tn
Prof. Meyer Barash, of Way ne rector of Anti-Defamation
State University, will be the League of Bnai Brith. A ques-
keynote speaker at the le ad- tion and answer period will fol-
ership training seminar of the low.
League of Jewish Women's Or-
The entire community is in-
ganizations to be held at 10 a. m. vited to participate in the sem-
Sept. 24 at Beth Shalom Sy na-
gogue, 14601 Lincoln, Oak
Park.
The subject of Prof. Bar-
ash's talk will be "What's on
Your Horizon," the title of the
day. A graduate in sociology
from City College of New York
and Columbia University, Prof.
Barash has taught at Rutgers
University, University of New
York and Hofstra College and
has published works on mar-
riage, family, social theory, so-
ciology of religion, social and
group work. A discussion pe-
riod will follow his address.
Mrs. Sidney Fishman, Sister-
hood president of Beth Shalom
Synagogue, will deliver the
opening invocation following
registration, which will begin at
9:30 a.m. At the 11:30 a.m.
luncheon, Mrs. Louis Kasdan,
past president of the League,
will recite the blessing.
The afternoon session will he
opened with a talk by Rabbi
Mordecai Halperin, of Beth Sha-
lom, on "Why We as Jews Owe
a Responsibility to Our Com-
munity." This talk will lead
into the afternoon panel dis-
cussion, "To Learn, To Do, To
Teach."
Panelists will include Mrs.
Georg.. Rubin, vice president of
Hadassah in charge of pro-
grams; Norman Pearlstein, Mid-
west regional director of Ameri-
can Jewish Congress; and Sol
Littman, midwest regional di-
ONLY
inar, according to Mrs. Martin
Naimark, vice president of the
League and °program chairman.
Assisting her are co-chairmen
Mesdames Alex Shreier and
Louis Redstone.
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speaking, having received its each school year. The balance
secondary
in Israel.
The
largest education
proportion
of the of the costs of maintenance will
remainder are immigrants. be made up by university
Their college preparation was subsidy.
in diverse lands — Iraq and
Egypt, as well as Poland, Bul-
garia and Yugoslavia.
One hundred young Ameri-
cans and Canadians are study-
ing there, most of them under
the American Student Program,
wear. Available in Pewter Grey,
Simultaneous with the an-
by which they receive full cred-
nouncement
of
a
large
delega-
Bamboo Gold, Sand Beige,
it toward their degrees at Amer-
ican universities for the year tion scheduled to attend the
Turquoise, Snow White, Mink
spent in Jerusalem. Two of Israel Bond conference in Chi-
these are from Detroit. Japan, cago, Sept. 18-20, Tom Borman,
and
French Blue.
Burma, Ghana and Ethiopia chairman of the Detroit Israel
Bond
Organization,
stated
that
have sent students for graduate
and undergraduate work. There Detroit has accepted a 30-day
is a nun from Belgium, a priest $100,000 quota, linked with the
from Holland. All have been re- $400,000 national goal set for
q aired to learn Hebrew before the week preceding the national
th e term begins and special conference.
A special session with De-
cram" courses in an "Ulpan"
• Custom
troiters who will attend the
have been provided for them.
Installation
Arabs form a sizeable group Chicago conference is being ar- Israel a PEC Partner
at the University. Comprising a ranged by the local and national
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — At
• Convenient
substantial minority within Is- leaders. The Detroit delegatfon ceremonies - at the Ministry of
rael, they are admitted to all is expected to confer with Is- Finance, Joseph 1Vleyerhoff, of
branches of the University rael's Finance and Foreign Min- Baltimore, president of the
without "quotas". Several are isters, Levi Eshkol and Golda Palestine Economic Corpora-
studying medicine, as well as Meir; executive vice chairman tion, presented 100 shares in
education and social work, to of the Bond Organization, Dr. the company, valued at $10,000,
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return to their villages, to raise Joseph J. Schwartz, and others. to Finance Minister Levi Esh-
2 Blocks West of Livernois
the living standards of their
kol, making Israel a token
own people.
partner in the company.
The Hebrew University was
established 41 years ago on Mt.
Scopus. Its buildings there were
cut off from the city during the
"Report From Stockholm," a
War of Independence and the special program featuring mem-
University had to function in bers of the American delegation
makeshift quarters scattered to the World Jewish Congress,
through Jerusalem. In 1954, the held in Stockholm, Sweden, will
government of Israel, because be heard on "Pages From the
of its urgent need for trained Jewish Heritage," the weekly
and educated people in all pro- series of broadcasts presented
fessional fields, gave the He- by the Culture Commission of
Now ... receive a
brew University a large barren, the Jewish Community Council
tract of land at Givat Ram on of Metropolitan Detroit, over
higher return on your
the city's outskirts and gave the Station WCAR, this Sunday,
university authorities priority 11:30 p.m. to 12 midnight, an-
to build a University City.
nounces Dr. Leonard Sidlow,
money by saving
The Detroit Dormitory will culture commission chairman.
cost $250,000. The bulk of this
Participating are Rabbi Mor-
sum will, it is expected, be ris Adler, of Shaarey Zedek,
pledged before Sept. 24, when member of the executive com-
a reception and dinner, with mittee . of the Jewish Commun-
Eleanor Roosevelt, former ity Council; Dr. Leon Fram, of
First Lady, as guest of honor, Temple Israel, member of the
will take place at Hotel Stat- Council's executive committee,
ler. Mrs. Roosevelt, who is an and Philip Slomovitz, editor and
... note the new high rate!
Honorary Fellow of the publisher of The Jewish News,
Hebrew University, recently national vice-president of the
visited the Givat Ram Jewish Publication Society, and
Savings Insured to $10,000 by an Agency of
campus, for the dedication former president of the Ameri-
of the Eleanor Roosevelt can Association of English-
the United States Government
Chair in the History and Jewish Newspapers. The mod-
Philosophy of Science. She erator will be B. M. Joffe,
will speak about the students executive director of the Jewish
and the importance of educa- Community Council.
tion in Israel.
The Detroit Dormitory will Fall Fashion Show at
be constructed of Jerusalem
stone, from the very hillside on NCJW's 1st Meeting
New fall fashions will be
which it will be located. It will
contain 30 bedrooms, each for presented by Oleg C a s s i n i
two students, simply but func- through the courtesy of Saks-
current rate
tionally equipped with twin Fifth Avenue, Detroit on Sept.
beds, desks, chairs, built-in cup- 15 at 12:30 p.m., at the Jewish
on ALL
boards and wash - basins; two Center on Curtis and Meyers.
Savings
lounges for study and recrea-
Chairman of the program,
tion, a small "snack" kitchen which will be held at the open-
Dexter at Cortland
for preparing light meals, an ing meeting of the Detroit Sec-
1..;vernois at W. 7 Mile Rd.
isolation room for sick students, tion of the National Council of
showers and an automatic wash- Jewish Women, is Mrs. Law- W. 9 Mile Rd. near Coolidge
ing machine.
rence Weisberg.
Main Office
Students occupying these
A dessert luncheon open to
Woodward at Congress
rooms will pay a minimum fee, all members and guests will
3 Other Branches
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$100,000 30-Day
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