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Friday, November 1, 1963—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Israel's Institutions of nigher Education
Report Swelling . Enrollment at New Term
Referring to limitations in en- graduate school enrollment also
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A rec-
ord of 9,200 students will enroll rollments in the sciences, Aca- includes a. record number of
at Hebrew University for the demic secretary E. Poznanski Israelis this year. The principal
new session, representing a 12 said that only 60 of the 300 who study choice of the visiting
per cent increase over the num- applied to medical school were scientists is nuclear physics.
i(Copyright, 1963,
ber attending last year. accepted and that a similar situ- Students from abroad will be
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Some 550 research students ation prevailed in the other housed in a newly built Inter-
national House contributed by
will be , among the young men science faculties.
Negro-Jewish Relations
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British magnate Charles Clore.
Much has been written about Negro-Jewish relations in and women_ attending the main
campus
in
Jerusalem
and
the
HAIFA,
(JTA)
—
The
new
Meanwhile,
it was announced
connection with the Negro issue which has become the dominant University's branches in Tel academic year of the Haifa In- that a three
- year g r ant of
fact of public life in America . . . Now the Council of Jewish Aviv and Rehovot.
stitute of Technology opened $100,000 to study how viruses
Federations and Welfare Funds has presented to community
The number of foreign stu- with a record enrollment of 804 induce cancer has been awarded
by the National Institutes of
leaders through the country the opinions on this subject of top dents this year will increase to first year students.
They include 50 girls, 60 for- Health to Prof. Leo Sachs, head
experts in the field of Jewish community relations who include 600 from 450 last year, including
100 from Asia and Africa, most eign students of whom 30 are of the genetics section of the
top executives of the American Jewish Congress, American Jew- of them in the medical school. taking special courses in agri- Weizmann Institute. The gene-
ish Committee, National Community Relations Advisory Council,
University president Eliahu cultural engineering for stu- tics section under Dr. Sachs is
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, and others . . . Their Elath noted that the School of dents from developing coun- investigating the mechanisms
evaluations will be examined by delegates to the CJFWF General Education now produces some tries and 30 who are soldiers involved in the conversion of
Assembly which opens Nov. 6 in Hollywood, Fla:, and will be 300 teachers annually or about from Oriental settlement back- normal cancer cells by certain
considered by Jewish communities in the months to come . . , 95 per cent of all the newly grounds. They passed special viruses and chemicals.
The evaluations, solicited by the CJFWF, are made with a view qualified teachers in I s r a e 1. preparatory courses organized
to help Jewish Federations in the country to define the role These, however, were only half by Technion and the Army. The Hebrew Corner
has 2,500 students.
which each of them is to play in the general action for Negro of the number required. He said Institute now
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equality . . . CJFWF is especially eager to make Jewish com- that about 70 per cent of the
State
Archives
secondary
school
teachers
were
REHOVOT,
(JTA)—The
1963
munities aware ofthe tasks confronting them in the field of
In the State Archives are kept all
Negro-Jewish relations so that each of them could establish a now without academic qualifi- 64 academic year has been de- the important documents of the gov-
Glared "International Year" at ernment. On the long iron shelves
policy with regard to complications that confront Jewish corb- cations.
the little "monuments" of the
Prof. Yoel Racah, university the Weizmann Institute and rest
munities in the South . . . The problem is not a matter of
complete government activity in the
rector,
reported
that
overseas
scientists
from
15
countries
are
State.
Files of the law courts, copies
ideology, since every major Jewish organization stands behind
important contracts, fateful cor-
the Negro demand for equality and was backing this demand research contracts, mainly from augmenting the Institute's of
respondence — all these papers that
once "news" are now found in
years before the present Negro revolution started . . . The U. S. Government a g e n c i e s, scientific s t a f f and graduate were
closed cartons. They are waiting for
problem is more. of a practical nature . . . Jewish communities would rise this year to about school enrollment.
an historian to take them out of the
Officials of the Institute re- basement.
must decide how they will act in a variety of situations . . • 5,000,000 pounds ($1,667,000).
In a closed room, behind a steel
Formidable problems are implied for Jewish welfare services He stressed that the continued ported that 54 of the Institute's door,
lies the written history of the
and for Jewish communal planning agencies . . . If there is a rise in enrollment would inevit- research personnel and 27 of its Eichmann Case: protocols of the case,
documents,
recordings of the police
Jewish hospital, how shall its professional staff be appointed? ably create a shortage of build- graduate students are scientists inquiry and television
films taken dur-
.. . Shall its board in any way reflect its clientele, increasingly ings and instructors. from overseas countries. The ing the hearings. In closed envelopes
is Eichmann's manuscript, that he
Negro . . . To what extent shall the service of the Jewish com-
wrote during the time he lived in
the Israel Jail. What is written there?
munity- center be available to the Negro community? . . . Shall
That is, for the time being, the
Jewish communal schools undertake programs of intercultural
secret of the government archives.
A secret key opens a giant "safe."
education, so urged by the Jewish Community Relations Coun-
there in a silver case is kept the ori-
cils for the public schools? . . . How shall the Jewish Federation
ginal document of Declaration of In-
dependence of the State of Israel.
respond to the increasingly articulate demand that construction
The date — 5th Eyar 5708 (14th of
of new buildings shall require non-discriminatory pledges by
May 1948).
The further down you go into the
builders and contractors . . . Shall Federation funds be delib-
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Prime alone, has assumed great re- depth of the documents of the ar-
erately invested in non-discriminatory projects or institutions?
chives,
you find older material. What
Minister Levi Eshkol reiterated sponsibilities and the cost of is the oldest
material found today in
The Main Tasks
security and defense which com- the archives? These are the files of
As the Negro struggle for equality grows in intensity, it Israel's proposals for a non- pletely falls on its own shoul- the Prussian Consulate in Jerusalem
the middle of the past century
becomes more and more obvious to experts in the field of aggression pact with Egypt and ders and is staggering. No from
till the beginning of World War
Jewish community relations that the responsibility for fostering for complete disarmament of moral power on earth can ab- This material reached the archives
qnly by chance. Seven years ago a
sound Negro-Jewish relationship will have to be carried by the both Israel and Egypt "under solve Israel of these responsi- policeman
noticed a truck laden with
whole Jewish community rather than by individual groups only mutual inspection."
the truck traveled to a card-
bilities for the security and papers,
factory, to turn the old papers
. . . The issues will from now on confront every facet of He issued his new challenge well-being of its citizens of to- board
something more useful . . . the
organized Jewish life and every Jewish agency—every philan- to Egypt's President Gamal day and for preparing and pre- into
people of the archives hurried to the
and bought, for LI 500, the old
thropic agency, every welfare agency, every recreation agency, Abdel Nasser at a dinner here serving a home for the hun- place
documents, whose scientific value is
every Federation or central communal planning agency . . . This honoring the United Jewish Ap- dreds of thousands yet to much
more.
Translation of Hebrew Column
is brought out with great clarity by Isaiah Minkoff, executive peal Mission composed of 120 come."
Published - by Brith Ivrith Olamith,
vice-chairman of the National Community Relations Advisory leaders from various American
--Jerusalem.
Council, the central coordinating body of Jewish groups dealing Jewish communities sent to
with race relations and with fight for equal rights . . . This study conditions here.
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is also the opinion of Dr. John Slawson, executive vice-president
Referring to an address by
of the American Jewish Committee, who foresees the probability Nasser last week, in which the
that there will be an intensification of conflict, or, at the very Egyptian President char g e d
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least, tension, between Negroes and Jews . . . In part this is that Israel is "a base for aggres-
likely to result from the deepening crisis of the metropolis, sion and aims at expansionism,"
where nearly all American Jews and an increasing proportion Premier Eshkol noted that
of Negroes live . . . The difficulties and frustrations generated great quantities of arms, mili-
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ployment, education, and civic and welfare services—often are support enable Nasser to inter-
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expressed in interracial hostility, Dr. Slawson points out . . . vene militarily in Yemen as
This time it will be caused partly by unfulfilled Negro demands well as in the Algerian-Moroc-
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against their Jewish bosses, landlords and storekeepers even
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before . . . To this traditional resentment of the weak against Premier, "that not only Is-
the strong, there is now increasingly being added a resentment rael took note of President
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of equals, or would-be equals, against entrenched competitors Nasser's claim that fear of
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community that enhances the prestige of the Jews, but few like peace, devoting these sums to
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relationship of charity between Jew and Negro often strengthens ease, poverty and illiteracy."
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What is more, in those very hospitals the unskilled and poorly
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clash of interests.
Nasser Offered Non-Aggression
Pact and Mutual Disarmament
in New Challenge by Eshkol
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