Bar-Ilan University Is Praised
by Detroiters, U.S. Envoy Reid;
Banquet Here Planned for Jan. 12
Announcement was made this
week that a prominent national
personality will be the guest
speaker at the annual Bar-Ilan
University banquet Jan. 12.
The dinner is sponsored by
the Detroit Committee for Bar-
Ilan University.
This year's event is being
dedicated in honor of Isadore
Muskovitz, one of the leading
supporters of Bar-Ilan in De-
troit.
Harry Yudkoff will be toast-
master at the dinner. Norman
Sommers is chairman of the
dinner committee. Nathan
Goldin and Jack Gorelick are
co-chairmen.
Phillip Stollman, of Detroit,
chairman of American Commit-
tee for the Bar-Ilan, stated this
week that the Bar-Ilan workers
were heartened this week by the
receipt of messages of endorse-
ment of Bar-Ilan work and en-
couragement in its activities by
recent visitors at the university
in Ramat Gan, Israel.
Williarn Hordes, Irwin I.
Cohn and others who have
visited the university issued
statements commending its ac-
tivities.
Dr. Glueck Describes
Ancient Negev People
in Current Look
The unique culture of a for-
gotten people is told in the Dec.
8 issue of Look Magazine, by
Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of
the Hebrew Union College Jew-
iesh Institute of Religion.
The Nabateans, who had a
profound influence on Christi-
anity, and consequently on the
Jews in the time of Christ, in-
habited the Negev where they
"created a surprising marriage
of Semitic and Hellenic cul-
tures."
Originally from Arabia, the
sensitive and artistic people
transformed the barren desert
into fertile lands and entire
cities. Contrary • to rabbis of
their time, like Hillel, the Naba-
teans had the spirit and prac-
tices of Hellenism. Dr. Glueck
writes that there was much
commingling between Naba-
teans, Jews and early Chris-
tians, particularly in the first
century A. D.
But when the Nabateans were
Christianized, he writes, the
few Jews living among them
continued to retain and per-
petuate their own religious
identity, with their synagogues
slightly reminiscent of Byzan-
tine churches.
2 Arab Infiltrators
Killed in Gaza Area
.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Two
infiltrators from the Gaza Strip
were killed by an Israel army
patrol. The patrol intercepted
a group of three Arabs who
refused to halt and opened fire
_instead. The third Arab fled
across the border. Two mem-
bers of the patrol were wounded
and treated in a nearby hos-
pital.
(The United Arab Republic
was blamed by United Nations
officials for the killing last
Saturday of a Canadian United
Nations Emergency Force sol=
dier, Ronald Allen of Halifax,
Nova Scotia. He died from
wounds he suffered when his
jeep was fired on during a rou-
tine patrol of the Sinai border.)
Cohn, in a statement to Stoll-
man, wrote:
"Since I have made a contri-
bution to Bar-Ilan, I made it
my business to visit the school
and spend some little time
there. I can only tell you that
I was very pleased at the insti-
tution, its surroundings and its
facilities. As a matter of fact,
I spoke to a couple of the stu-
dents and they spoke in glowing
terms of the institution. I know
you will be glad to hear that I
feel that this institution is one
of the worthwhile houses of
learning which we have in
Israel."
Stollman also said that his
associates are encouraged by
the endorsements that have
been given to Bar-Ilan by all the
Americans who served as U. S.
Ambassadors in Israel, starting
with Dr. James G. McDonald
and continuing with the present
Ambassador, Ogden R. Reid.
Ambassador Reid, after visiting
the university, wrote to Dr.
Lookstein:
"Mrs. Reid and I greatly en-
joyed our recent visit to Bar-
Ilan. It was interesting to see
the new science building which
is to be named after Abraham
Lincoln. Further, I thought the
architecture and interior design
of the assembly hall and/or
eventual synagogue was particu-
larly striking. The campus by
moonlight was something to be-
hold, and the women's dormi-
tory could not have been more
attractive. Mrs. Reid and I also
valued the opportunity of talk-
ing with various friends and
professors of Bar-Ilan who were
present. I am looking forward
to learning more about Bar-
Ilan and its concept of an
American university in Israel
with reference to liberal and
scientific arts and especially
with reference to the halachah
and to the principles which it
presents for today's living."
Israel's Scientific Progress
to Be Reviewed at Technion's
Annual Dinner on Sunday
JACK 0. LEFTON
* * *
Lefton. Resumes
President's Duties
at DSG Meeting
Jack 0. Lefton, newly re-
elected president of the Detroit
Service Group, presided over
the first meeting of the organi-
zation's board of directors since
the biennial election of officers
and board members.
Serving with Lefton as mem-
bers-at-large on the board are:
Harry Barnett. Sidney J. Ber-
tin, Louis C. Blumberg, Tom
Borman, Paul Broder, Harry
Cohen, Charles H. Gershenson,
Dr. Perry Goldman, Abe Green,
IrWin Green, Samuel J. Green-
berg, Arthur Howard, John Is-
aacs, Sidney J. Karbel, George
D. Keil, Daniel A. Laven, Max
J. Pincus, Harold A. Robinson,
Hyman Safran, Abraham Satov-
sky, Maurice S. Schiller, Max
M. Schaye, Alex Sklar, Emil T.
Stern-, George M. Stutz, Louis
Tabashnik, A. Alfred Taubman,
Robert Trepeck, Jack J. Wain
ger, Harvey Willens, Stanley J.
Winkelman and Paul Zucker-
man.
The Detroit Service Group is
an organization of workers in
the trades and professions.
Israel's technological needs
and the country's scientific pro-
gress will be reviewed by au-
thoritative speakers at the an-
nual dinner of the Detroit
Chapter of the American So-
ciety for Technion, Israel's
technical institute and the lead-
ing engineering college in the
entire Middle East. to be held
Sunday evening at Temple
Israel.
Dr. William Fondiller, honor-
ary president of the American
Technion Society, will speak on
the subject "Will Science Make
Israel Self-Supporting?"
The other guest speaker, Carl
Alpert. assistant to Gen. Yaacov
Dori, Technion president, will
speak on the subject "Israel's
Technical Assistance to Under-
Developed Nations."
A Technion movie will be
shown.
Reservations for the dinner
still are being taken by the
treasurer of the Detroit chapter
of Technion, Sol Lifsitz, DL
1-0622.
Sensibar Elected
Technion Head
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Jacob
R. Sensibar. of Chicago, noted
engineer whose firm trans-
formed 44,000 acres of marshes.
in northern Israel into produc-
tive farming areas, has been
elected national president of
the American Technion Society,
He succeeds David Rose, who
retired after four years in of-
fice.
The Society is a nationwide
group composed of more than
15,000 engineers, scientist s,
technicians and industrialists
which sponsors the Technion-
Israel Institute of Technology,
and helps to introduce modern
technology into the economy
of Israel. Sponsors of the Soci-
ety include Nobel Laureates,
university presidents and out-
standing industrialists.
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Delay Changes in Election to Israel
Rabbinate After Toledano Meeting
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — A delegation
of Israel's Supreme Rabbinical
Council called on Rabbi Jacob
Toledano, Minister for Religious
Affairs, Wednesday, with a
warning about the dangers of
proposed changes in election
rules for the office of Chief
Rabbi.
Rabbi Toledano reportedly
agreed to postpone implementa-
tion of the changes after re-
ceiving the deputation.
The revisions would transfer
to the government municipali-
ties and other secular bodies the
present authority of the Rab-
binical Council to name can-
didates for rabbinical posts.
Another revision would dis-
qualify any candidate for the
Chief Rabbinate over 70 or who
was not a citizen of Israel.
The delegation presented to
Rabbi Toledano the Rabbinical
Council's concern as embodied
in resolutions adopted at an
extraordinary meeting of the
Religious Council Tuesday night
to which Rabbi Toledano was
invited but which he did not
attend.
The delegation also reminded
the Minister of the Rabbinical
Council's earlier decision to
boycott the elections to replace
the late • Chief Rabbi Isaac
Herzog.
Simultaneously, a spokesman
for the Ministry of Religions
noted that the revised regula-
tions would en-able "any dias-
pora rabbi" to be a candidate
for the Chief Rabbinate if he
assumed Israel citizenship.
It was understood, however,
that this clause does not con-
-.
which did not raise it in the
talk with Rabbi Toledano but
did indicate adamant opposition
to the age limitation proposal.
The Rabbinical Council's prim-
ary concern in regard to the
Chief Rabbinate, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency was told,
was to retain its present auth-
ority in the naming of candi-
dates and to be consulted on
any changes in the election
regulations.
Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the
Army Chief Chaplain, who
would be the principal beni-
ficiary in the proposed changes
an- - who is - the government's
choice for the post of Chief
Rabbi, remained noncommittal
in the controversy.
The changes would disqualify
two other candidates, 71-year-
old Chief Rabbi Issar Unter-
man of Tel Aviv and Dr. J. R.
Soloveitchik of Boston. Rabbi
Goren's election was prevented
by the decision of the Rab-
binical Council to boycott the
elections and to fight the
changes in election procedures.
Drop Neo-Nazi Charges
Against Austrian Recruits
VIENNA, (JTA)—Nine men,
most of them recruits in the
Austrian Army, were acquitted
on charges of having established
a secret neo-Nazi organization,
but were sentenced to jail
terms of from four weeks to
eight months on conviction for
theft of weapons from an army
depot.
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