THE DETRO IT JEWIS H NEWS -- Friday, Octobe r 12,
Irwin, I. Cohn to Receive Fellowship from
Bar-Ilan University at Dinner on Dec. 5;
Committee Heads Chosen for Annual Event
Irwin I. Cohn, one of Detroit's Charles Grosberg, Ed Levy and
most distinguished community Paul Zuckerman.
Judge Wise's co-chairmen on
leaders who has played import-
ant roles in local congregational the Fellowship Committee are:
and educational activities and
who has been among the chief
supporters of movements in be-
half of Israel, will be awarded
an Honorary Fellowship by Bar-
Ilan University of Israel.
Phillip Stollman, chairman of
the American Committee for Bar-
Ilan University, announced this
week that the honor for which
Cohn has been selected will be
extended to him at the annual
dinner of the Detroit Committee
for Bar-Ilan University, to be
held in Cobo Hall on Dec. 5.
Tom Borman, Dr. Jacob Gold-
man, David Pollack and William
Sucher.
In his statement announcing
the Fellowship voted for Cohn,
Stollman said: "Irwin I. Cohn
has been chosen for this great
honor for the many years of his
dedicated work and services he
has rendered our community and
the State of Israel. He has been
an inspiration to all of us in the
field of philanthropy and educa-
tion."
Stollman announced that
Judge John M. Wise has been
named chairman of the Irwin
I. Cohn Fellowship Committee.
He also announced that Max
M. Fisher has accepted the hon-
orary chairmanship of the com-
mittee, and that his honorary
co-chairmen will be: Al Borman,
IRWIN
I.
COHN
Supreme Court Expected to Clarify
Ruling on School Prayer-Reading
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON — Clarifica-
tion of the Supreme Court's
stand on the public school
prayer issue is expected in the
wake of the court's agreement
to take a further look at reli-
gious practices in public educa-
tion.
The court announced that it
will hear arguments—probably
later this year—on Maryland's
practice of opening the school
day with prayers and on the
Pennsylvania schools' Bible-
reading system.
The ultimate decision by the
court may settle the bitter
debate over what the court
meant last June when it held
unconstitutional a New York
regulation promulgating a spe-
cific prayer for classroom use
each day.
Since the court's ruling,
school boards and educators
throughout the country have
sought clarification of what
religious practices in the
schools are unconstitutional.
Observers said the Maryland
and Pennsylvania cases may
help clear the atmosphere.
The practice in Maryland was
held constitutional by the Mary-
land Court of Appeals by a
vote of four to three last April.
But a three-judge Federal court
decided unanimously in Febru-
ary that the Pennsylvania Bible-
reading practice was constitu-
tional.
There are differences be-
tween the practices in the two
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constitutional significance.
The Baltimore school board
regulation required that the
school day should open with
a reading without comment of
a chapter in the Bible and/or
the use of the Lord's Prayer.
The Pennsylvania law required
reading of 10 verses from the
Bible without comment at the
opening of each school day.
In both states, the law was
revised after protests to per-
mit children to be excused
from participating at the
written request of their
parents.
British Labor Party
Backs Demands for
Outlawing Bigotry
LONDON (JTA) — The Labor
Party put its full weight this
week behind demands for legis-
lation to ban racial hatred and
discrimination in public places
in Britain.
Harold Wilson, Labor Party
chairman and probable Foreign
Secretary if Labor wins the next
general election, told the annual
party conference at Brighton that
fascist and racialist propaganda
was deeply repugnant to the over-
whelming majority of the British
people.
He urged the government to
introduce legislation which, while
carefully preserving the right of
freedom of speech, would clearly
prohibit public incitement of 'ra-
cial hatred and make illegal the
practice of racial discrimination
in public places.
Several leaders at the confer-
ence expressed the view private-
ly that the endorsement of this
statement would commit the La-
bor Party to enact such legisla-
tion if it came to power and the
present Tory Government had
not taken action on the issue.
The high court refused to
review an Oregon Supreme
Court ruling a g a i n s t state
grants of textbooks to parochial
schools, a ruling based on the
Oregon state constitution. The
Oregon Supreme Court ban was
taken to the U.S. Supreme
Court on the argument that the
ruling denied children in paro-
chial schools and their families
equal protection of the law
and the right to free exercise
of their religion.
Meanwhile, notice was taken
here of an article just published
by the Harvard Educational
Review attacking as unconsti-
tutional the idea of Federal
loans supporting science, mathe-
matics and foreign language
study in such parochial schools
as Catholic academies or Jew-
ish day schools.
Despite assumptions that
such loans aid "secular" sub-
jects, the Harvard Educational
Review said "sectarian mate-
rial has been integrated into
the teaching of science s,
mathematics and languages
in parochial schools.
A detailed attack was made
on the National Defense Educa-
tion Act section which auth-
orities loans to p a r o c h i a l
schools for equipment con-
nected with these subjects.
It was charged that into "un-
deniably scientific" subjects
"parochial schools inject a con-
siderable amount of religious
interpretation and even more
sectarian doctrine."
British Jewry's Board
ago, was editor of the Yiddisher
Kemfer, a Yiddish language lit-
erary magazine published in this
country. He also served as editor
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