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. OPEN SUN. 12 TO 5 WEEK NIGHTS TO 9 Lot 4 Eastland Lot G Northland Charge It: • Surwin's • Bank- Americard • Master Charge A Tribute to the Late Whitney Young, Jr. (Continued from Page 2) 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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