Physicist Dr. Isidor I. Rabi Named
1st Special Columbia U. Professor

NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Isidor general advisory committee to the
1. Rabi, one of the world's leading Atomic Energy Commission and
physicists, has been appointed to the President's Science Advisory
the first university-wide professor- Committee. He is the United
ship in the 210-year history of Col- States member of the United
umbia University. Nations and NATO Science C,om-
The new rank is called Univers- mittee. In announcing the appoint-
ity Professor and the university ment of the noted Jewish scientist,
created two of them, naming Dr. President Grayson Kirk said that
Rabi to the first. The post, which "his eminence in scientific re-
is to be conferred on senior faculty search is matched by his excellence
members of the highest distinction, in the classroom."
will permit holders to work in
whatever area of study they choose
without regard to departmental
barriers.
Dr. Rabi, who has taught physics
at Columbia for 25 years, has been
a member and chairman of the

Act Forbidding
Bias in Housing
Loses in California

Bar Ilan U. Sets Up Kennedy Chair

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's
Supreme Court reversed a ruling
of the Rabbinical High Court
which had ordered a woman to ac-
cept,a divorce from her husband.
Under Israel law, the rabbinical
courts have exclusive jurisdiction
in matters of marriage and divorce
involving Jews. The Supreme
Court took jurisdiction on the
basis of the rabbinical court's find-
ing that the woman, Mrs. Eva
Bassan. was not Jewish. The secu-
lar court held that if this was cor-
rect, the rabbinical courts had no
jurisdiction.
Mrs. Bassan had originally ap-

Among those present at the
meeting were Moshe Shapiro,
Israel minister of the interior and
health; Naftali Finegold, president
of the Bank of Mizrachi; Herman
stein, president of Bar-Ilan.
Rabbi Lookstein, elected to the Hollander, vice president of the
presidency this week, will be guest board of governors; and Bar Ilan
speaker at the annual Bar Ilan department heads Prof. Baruch
dinner at Cong. Shaarey Zedek KurzWeil, Hebrew studies, and
Prof. Max Jammer, physics.
Nov. 18.
Detroiters present were Phillip
With the est-
ablishment of the Stollman, national chairman of the
chair, the univ- Bar Ilan board of trustees; Max
ersity hopes to Stollman, trustee; and Mrs. Max
contribute to Stollman, women's division nation-
Israel's under- al chairman.
standing of t h e
Lookstein "ingredients o f
American social and political in-
situations" Dr. Lookstein said.
N.Y. publisher wants books on all
subjects, fiction, nonfiction. No fee for
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stein said the chair's occupants lished,
reprints on writing, publishing, con-
would "consist of distinguished tracts. Write Dept. 23-K.
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an,d students of the arts and cult-
ure. of all faiths and races."
The Bar-Ilan board of governors

plied to the rabbinical court for
conversion to Judaism, stating
that her mother was a Catholic.
However, according to the find-
ings, she did not complete con-
version and was married by a

rabbi without informing him
that she had not been officially
converted.

(Direct .JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

SAN FRANCISCO — Against
' the opposition of organized Jewry
and leading Negro and other
ethnic organizations in this state.
California voted overwhelmingly
Tuesday to nullify the state's
Rumford Act. which forbids dis-
crimination in housing for rea-
sons of race or religion.
The ballot in favor of what has
been called here Proposition 14
not only repeals the Rumford Act
but forbids any future legislation
in this state that might outlaw
discrimination in the field of
housing.
Every organized Jewish com-
munity in California had come
out openly against Proposition
14. But the real estate lobby
backed by many other anti-civil
rights groups hailed the vote as
a victory for "freedom of con-
trol of residential property."
Opponents of the repeal indi-
rated the fight against housing dis-
crimination in California is, how-
ever. far from over. The State
Supreme Court has already ques-
tioned t h e constitutionality of
Proposition 14 although it refused
to keep the measure off the ballot.
In a statement on the adoption
of the measure, Gov. Edmond G.
Brown said "Naturally I any dis-,
appointed with passage of Proposi-
tion 14. However. I do not regard ,
this vote as the end of California's
fl ht
against discrimination and •
,egregation in housing."
ir

Israel Supreme Court
Reverses Rabbinical
Ruling on a Divorce

DR. ISIDOR I. RABI

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in American Civilization Studies

NEW YORK—A John F. Ken-
nedy Chair in American Civiliza-
tion has been created in Israel
by Bar-Ilan University, it was an-
nounced by Rabbi Joseph H. Look-

the United States and in Lsarel.

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Holding that she was not Jewish,
the rabbinical court ordered her
to accept her husband's divorce
petition. She appealed to the secu-
lar court.

met Wednesday and Thursday at
the Croydon Hotel to formally set

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, November 6, 1964

in recognition of his 30 years of
work in furthering Jewish reli-
gious and cultural education in

up the Kennedy chair. Dr. Look- I
stein was presented with a plaque I

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Frisco Council Probes
:1nti-Jewish Incident
With Building Owner

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)—The
San Francisco Jewish Community
Relations Council reported it was
investigating charges by a Jewish
apartment hunter who said she had
been told to her face by an apart-
ment owner that Jews were not
wanted in the building.
The complainant said she had
called on the managing owner of
a six-story apartment building to
rent a vacant apartment and that
• at the outset, she had been asked
if she was Jewish.
When she said she was, the

RABBI DR. JOSEPH H. LOOKSTEIN

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Nationally famous leader and author.

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apartment owner declared "No
Jews are going to live here."
The amazed applicant told the
owner that she knew of several
Jewish families living • in the
building.

The owner said that when they
vacated their apartments, the units
would not be rented to Jews.
The Jewish applicant then asked
''What have you got against Jews?,"
and the reply was "They cook
smelly fish." That statement ended
the interview.
The woman reported the matter
to the JCRC which immediately-
notified the State Fair Employ-
ment Practices Commission which
enforces the Rumford Fair Hous-
ing Law. However, it was found
that the complainant had waited
past the 60-day statute of limita-
tions provided in the Rumford law.
The JCRC said the case was be-
ing investigated "vigorously" also
through other channels.

PAUL ZUCKERMAN

PHILLIP STOLLMAN

General Chairman, Dinner Committee

National Chairman, Board of Trustees

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