Friday, May 12, 1967-33 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS People Make News The Bnai Brith Hillel Founda- tions has named Rabbi YECHIAEL E. LANDER, administrative as- sistant to the president at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, as Hillel director at Smith College. Rabbi Lander, who directed the Hillel program at Miami University in Oxford, 0., in 1965-66, will also serve as Hillel counselor at Am- herst College in his new post. Rabbi ALBERT G. SILVERMAN, spiritual leader of Temple Israel, Jamaica, N.Y., since 1948, will di- rect Hillel activities at American University. Rabbi Silverman, who formerly served as Hillel director at Yale University and associate Hillel director at the University of Illinois, will also counsel Jewish students at Georgetown University. • • s "1 Louis R. Gotts- chalk, Distin- guished Service Professor of His- tory at the Uni- versity of Chi- cago, is currently Samuel Paley, Lecturer in' American c u 1 - ture and civiliza- tion at the He- brew University , of Jerusalem. He will teach during the entire spring term. Gottschalk • • s Rabbi MARC H. TANENBAUM, director of interreligious affairs of the American Jewish Committee, will receive two honorary doctor- ates and a medal of honor from Catholic colleges during the forth- coming college commencement season, in recognition of his "out- standing contributions" to inter- religious and intergroup under- standing. He will receive the Medal of Honor from Avila Col- lege, Kansas City, Mo., May 27. On the next day, Saint Ambrose College, in Davenport, Iowa, will confer an honorary Doctorate of Law degree on Rabbi Tanenbaum, and Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia, a Jesuit institution, will do likewise on June 4. Rabbi Tanenbaum will deliver the com- mencement address at each of these three Catholic institutions at the time of receiving their awards. * • • Dr. LEO JUNG, noted Orthodox Jewish philosopher, rabbi, educa- tor and author, was guest of honor Sunday night at a dinner marking his 75th birthday and his 45th year as spiritual leader of New York Jewish Center. Dr. Jung, who has been professor of ethics at Ye- shiva University since 1921, also serves as president of the World Beth Jacob Movement and of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sci- ences. He is the author of num erous works on Jewish life, law and comparative folklore. • • • MURRAY GURFEIN, former president of United Bias Service, was honored in New York for his r e c o r d of sevice as a leader for close to 10 years of the organization's rescue and migra- tion activities. The occasion was the agency's annual dinner on be- half of the United Jewish Appeal. at which a total of $750.000 was pledged and contributed by more than 200 guests. • • The appointment of EDWARD R. VAJDA as national executive director of the American Technion Society was announced by Maur- ice M. Rosen of Philadelphia, na- tional president. Vajda has been a key executive in the nationwide United Jewish Appeal campaigns for more than two decades. • • • JOSEPHINE MAHDIK, with sales totaling $170,000 led the Elsea Realty and Investment co. sales force in property sold during March. Mrs. Mandik works in the residential department of the Elsca downriver office and has been with the lirm seven years. Abraham M. Druckman of New York has been named the reci- pient of the 1967 Kether Shem Tov Award of the Union of Ortho- dox Jewish Con- gregations of America, it was announced by Joseph Karasick, national presi- dent of the or- ganization. T h e award, an en- graved silver pla- que given for "outstanding lea- dership and ser- vice to the Jew- ish community at the national level and for major contributions t o Druckman the upbuilding oftraditional Jew- ish life," will be presented at the UOJCA annual national dinner to be held May 21 at Americana Hot- tel, New York. s • • Ambassador GIDEON RAFAEL, Israel's new permanent represen- tative and head of the UN Mission, presented his credentials to Secre- tary-General U Thant, after which the two diplomats engaged in a conversation about current United Nations problems in general, in- cluding Arab-Israeli issues. After his meeting with Mr. Thant, Am- bassador Rafael was a guest of the United Nations Correspondents Association, at a reception where the representatives of all news media at the UN greeted the new envoy and engaged in informal talks about the issues he will face here as Israel's top representative. Enroute from Israel to New York he visited the Soviet Union and conferred with top USSR Foreign Ministry officials including Deputy Foreign Ministry Vladimir Semio- nov. He said his talks with these officials were "realistic," but would disclose no further details. UJA Needs Leaders Confer on "Analysis of the Low Voltage Arc Mode in Plasma Diodes" is the dissertation on which SHEL- DON N. SALINGER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Salinger of South- field Rd., SOUthfield, submitted his doctoral thesis. A degree of doc- tor of philosophy in electrical en- gineering was conferred upon Sal- inger by the University of Michi- gan at the graduation exercises April 29. Dr. Salinger, a former Detroiter, now lives in Sunnyvale, Calif., where he is engaged as a senior scientist by an electronics firm. . a. Kaufman Probate Judge • geIr; was elected president of the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Society for the Blind at its an- nual meeting. Judge Kaufman w a s previously first vice presi- dent of the Met- ropolitan Society. He is the imme- diate past presi- dent of the Zion- ist Organization of Detroit, a member of the Crescent Shrine Club and of Per- fection Lodge Judge Kaufman F&AM. He is honorary life presi- dent and founding president of Adas Shalom Synagogue. • SAMUEL J. SILBERMAN was re-elected as president of the New York Federation of Jew- ish Philanthropies here. He has been active in federation's annual drives for many years and in other philanthropic causes. * * * ZVI GETZLER, senior lecturer in the faculty of civil engineering of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, was awarded the Clemens Herschel Prize by the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Alfred L. Deutsch (left), 1967 Allied Jewish Campaign chairman, talks with Max M. Fisher, national chairman of United Jewish Appeal. The successful drive, which supports 54 Jewish agencies and services in Detroit, the nation and overseas, concluded Wednesday. The first diplomatic reception tendered by West Germany's Am- bassador in Jerusalem, ROLF PAULS, was attended by hundreds of dignitaries led by Premier Levi Eshkol and Knesset Speaker Kad- dish Luz. Practically all political parties, with the exception of the leftist Mapam, the Communists and Agudat Israel, were represented. Some observers speculated that the Premier's participation indicated a discreet but effective turning point in Israeli relations with West Germany which they felt were like- ly to become still closer in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. NORMAN S. RABB of West Newton, Mass., will be honored by two Brandeis Univer- sity groups at a spring ball in the Louis XIV Ballroom at the Hotel Somerset , Boston, May 28. 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