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 FENCE Nobody UNDERSELLS GREAT LAKES FENCE CO. DON'T EVER FORGET IT ! ! ASK FOR "Morrie Sherman" Sales Manager 16540 GREENFIELD VE 6-6080 GREAT LAKES FENCE states but they may not be of 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. 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