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Hebrew U. Med School
10—Friday, July 17, 1970
Ends Special Entrance
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To any state. Also drivers furnish-
views in selecting medical school ed to drive your car anywhere.
candidates have been abolished at
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team headed by Dr. Moshe Prywes
of the department of medical edu-
cation at the institution.
The group of scientists assigned
to the project discovered that when
candidates were interviewed per-
sonally for admission, the judg-
ment of the individual interviewers
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differed appreciably with respect
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to the characteristics of the candi-
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dates. Furthermore, analysis of
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and
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ist, Translator.
special entrance examination re-
of Shakespearean
first Nobel Prize
wright
and Oriental Jewish
Odorless
Plays
sults
showed
that
they,
too,
failed
winner.
Literature.
Non-toxic
as indicators of achievement in
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later years. Psycho-technical tests,
Their memory lives on in the splendor of their work.
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according to this survey, have yet
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Instead, intelligence and per-
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In order not to discourage educa-
tionally disadvantaged students
who are frequently members of
special ethnic groups, and army
veterans with low grades obtained
Whitest white
several
years prior to seeking ad-
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Non-fading
JERUSALEM — The Mendele before the full 12-volume set will
ing to what extent the two lit- mission, Hebrew University is pro-
color
Project of the Hebrew University's I be available.
viding
a
pre-university
preparatory
up.
eratures are bound
Mildew
Institute of Jewish Studies expects
According to Prof. Rabin, this is
Resistant
year.
The
final
problem
is
that
Men-
to have the first two volumes of the first time that such a project
Peel
its authoritative complete text of is being undertaken on a modern dole belonged to a forgotten tra-
Resistant
He who knows when to stop runs
Mendele Mokher Sforim's works Hebrew writer. He points out that dition and as a result many of his into no danger.—Lao-Tse
in print by late autumn.
Mendele was selected because he references and usages are mean-
ingless to the modern reader un-
The first complete volume will is in effect the father of two mod- less they are accompanied by a
Daniel G.
ELECT
be a collection of journalistic es- ern literatures—Hebrew and Yid- commentary. Mendele furthermore
dish.
As
yet
no
scholarly
edition
says by Mendele, whose real name
used
paraphrased
expressions
from
was S. J. Abramovitz, and the of his works exists and for that
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liturgy and talmud which must
second book will be a collection matter no complete edition exists the
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be traced to their original sources.
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of his short stories in both Hebrew at alL
Mac-O-Lac
than any other
A more pedestrian difficulty was
Paid For By Friends of
brand.
and Yiddish.
Until now the project has had simply to trace and locate every
Berk Committee
The project is sponsored jointly
to overcome numerous and com-
available writing by Mendele, in-
by the Chaim Rubinstein Cultural
plicated problems. Foremost cluding all existing correspondence
Foundation in Australia and the among them was the abundance
and manuscripts. A 60-page bibli-
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Israel Academy of Arts and of incomplete and inexact ver- ography listing his works, which
FOR A WEDDING OR A BAR MITZVA?
Sciences.
sion of Mendele which have been was published in 1965, later proved
printed Mendele himself made sorely incomplete.
Heading the project is Prof.
many changes and alterations
Chaim Rabin in his capacity as
One of the more interesting as-
chairman of the Institute of Jew- during the course of his lifetime pects of the project is a concord-
which had to be checked against ance of his "Fathers and Sons"
ish Studies. The editor is Prof.
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In a tragic succession, Israel and the Jewish world have lost, in the past few months,
five of the great men of Modern Hebrew Literature.

Hebrew Universi ty to Publish Mendele s Writings

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Alan King Gives $200,000 to Hebrew U

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Alan King talks with students of the Hebrew University's pre-
academic course, given to about 500 Israeli students and new immi-
grants in downtown premises due to lack of space at the university

proper.

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L JERUSALEM—American televi- established by King was "a ma-

sion personality Alan King was jot- and urgent necessity" for a
guest of honor at a faculty lunch- number of students and that these
eon at the Hebrew University on funds would help support both
the occasion of his pledge to estab- Israeli and overseas students who
lish a $200,000 scholarship fund would otherwise not have found
for Ilebrew University students. I it possible to pursue studies at the
King, who was accompanied by Hebrew University.
Cherrick presented King with
Mrs. King, met with overseas and
Israeli students of the university's the university's medallion and
pre-academic course, given in Mrs. King with an album con-
downtown quarters for lack of taining reproductions of treas-
space on the campuses, and later ures in the Jewish National and
University Library.
toured the university's Mt. Scopus
In September, the Hebrew Uni-
and Givat Ram campuses.
Welcoming the guest of honor. versity plans to honor King by a
university Vice President Bernard special convocation in New York

Cherrick said that the scholarships City.

' Rabbi Urges Religious
Anti-Nuclear Parley

MEXICO CITY (JTA)—An inter-
national conference of world reli-
gious leaders who would make a
"moral call for the destruction of
nuclear weapons before the nuclear
weapons destroy humanity," has
been asked for by Rabbi Dr. Abra-
ham F. Ifershberg, president of
the Union of Rabbis of Latin
America and chairman of the
International Committee of• Reli-
gious Freedom.
"They should also call upon the
countries behind the Iron Curtain
to grant religious freedom to all
their pcoples, especially their mi-
norities who suffer so much," he
said.

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