Cultural Fund
Considers Grants
NEW YORK — Some 123 appli-
cations for g r ants from the
National Foundation for Jewish
Culture are now being considered
by the foundation's academic ad-
visory council of 15 scholars. Total-
ing more than $500,000, the re-
quests range from $500 to $44,000,
it was announced by Dr. Daniel
Jeremy Silver, NFJC president.
Half the applications are from
graduate students seeking aid
toward the completion of their pre-
doctoral studies. The others are
from scholars, university faculty
members and individual writers
requesting assistance for research
and publication projects. The ap-
plicants are affiliated with 50 uni-
versities in the U.S., Canada and
Israel.
This year's applicants represent
one of the largest in the decade
of the foundation's grants pro-
gram. They span a wide spectrum
of specialized areas in Jewish
scholarship in such fields as Bibli-
cal study, rabbinics, anthropology,
sociology, history, political science,
art, music, social welfare, litera-
ture, linguistics and philosophy.
"The foundation undertook the
program of scholarships, fellow-
ships and grants-in-ad," Rabbi
Silver explained, "to encourage the
development of a cadre of first-
rate young American scholars in
the field of Jewish studies, and to
stimulate needed research and
publication in Judaic a among
established scholars."
More than 200 grants have been
awarded since the inception of the
program.
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A Tribute to the Late Whitney Young, Jr.
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by the UN in 1947 and their aggressive adventurism, of racial prejudice. Today, the Arab rulers of the
that has made them unable to effect a real revolu- Sudan are waging a merciless war against the black
people of the southern region of that country, and
tion for their people.
Moreover, I simply cannot understand the myth Arabs in Chad are at war with the black govern-
of Arab-Black friendship. Arabs got into the slave ment of that country. And I know of no real aid
trade centuries before the white man did—and kept oil-rich Arab countries have given the struggling
it up longer, too—right up to a few years ago. new nations of black Africa, although the Israelis
Despite the teachings of the Koran (don't forget, have a very impressive program of technical assist-
Christians also say we should love our neighbors), ance of the no-strings-attached variety, even in na-
Arab history and culture is replete with instances tions that take the Arab line in the UN."
That's how Whitney M. Young, Jr., who was the executive director of the National Urban League,
tackled a serious issue and went to great lengths to be just to this fellow-citizens of the Jewish faith who
have a great stake in Israel. He said he could not "believe that the criterion for relevance in the black
struggle for liberation here in the United States is dependent upon adopting slogans and ill-informed
opinions about issues of foreign policy. Black people have a duty to free themselves from other people's
propaganda and to work together for justice and complete equality in our own country."
There is no doubt that when we speak of the hasidei umot ha-olam—the righteous among the nations
of the world—the name of Whitney Young will be blazoned in golden letters as one of the great in our
midst who, when he spoke of justice, meant it for all mankind.
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