Jewish Liberal Arts College Established in New York City

Touro
NEW YORK (JTA)
College, a liberal arts school un-
der Jewish sponsorship, will be
opened in Manhattan in Septem-
ber. One of its objectives will be
to create a sense of Jewish com-
mitment among its students.
Named for the American Jewish
philanthropist who founded the
first synagogue in the U.S. in New-
port; R.I., the 'new school has
been chartered by the New York
State Board of Regents as a pri-
vate four-year liberal arts college.
Dr. Bernard Lander of Forest
Hills, N.Y. a leading Jewish schol-
ar, has been named its president.
Another goal of the new college
will be to "answer a need for
smaller colleges which give stu-
dents an opportunity to establish
relationships with faculty and to
eliminate the feeling of indiffer-

ence that they are subjected to at
a 'multi-university' campus," ac-
cording to Eugene Hollander of
New York, treasurer of Bar-Ilan
University.
Dr. Lander, who told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency he is planning
to leave his posts at Hunter Col-
lege and Notre Dame University
to assume the post of Touro Col-
lege president, said the new school
will seek to fill the gap for young
Jews in their Jewish outlook
which many of them suffer when
they enter secular colleges.
The new school will be for
men only but a women's division
is being planned. The college
will be housed in a 12-story
building deeded to it by the
federal government after it was
declared surplus property. Stu-
dents will be able to obtain a

Brandeis Students Turn Mobil Away

WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) — The
Jewish Activist League at Bran-
deis University has taken credit
for the cancellation by Mobil Oil
Co. of its recruitment session
scheduled for this past Monday.
Students M. J. Rosenberg and
Bruce Phillips, the JAL leaders,
called it "a victory in our struggle
against those companies that ad-
here to the guidelines of the Arab
Boycott Committee."
They added:, "We also con-
sider it significant that the JAL
of Brandeis was the first campus
Jewish group to take on Mobil
and they so easily caved in when
they were forced to justify their
anti-Jewish position. We have no
doubt but that it was student
pressure, and the tacit support

CJFWF to Air
Program Ideas

NEW YORK (JTA)—Major areas
of Jewish communal responsibility
—at home, overseas and in Israel
—will be assessed by over 200
community leaders and federation
executives at the quarterly nation-
al board and committee meetings
of the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds March
18-21.
An announcement by the CJFWF
stated that the delegates, repre-
senting 69 communities in the
United States and Canada, will
discuss a wide range of ongoing
programs and proposals for the
strengthening of Jewish com-
munal services that call for com-
munity and CFJ action.
The committee on college youth
and faculty, focused on the grow-
ing participation and integration
of students and faculty in Jewish
communal life, will review new
program developments across the
country. Further guidelines as to
how communities can continue to
strengthen their ties with the
campus world will be explored
by the committee.
From a national standpoint,
similarly; increased student par-
ticipation at the 40th CJF general
assembly in Pittsburgh in Novem-
ber will be considered.
The committee on funding
national campus projects, a sub-
committee, which last month
awarded $17,000 to campus-
based projects, will review
further applications for grants
to student groups and organiza-
tions.
Against the background of the
upcoming assembly of the Jewish
Agency in Jerusalem in June, the
overseas services committee will
explore current developments re-
lated to the agency, especially
as they presage new patterns for
American interaction and involve-
ment of leaders and communities.
The personal services com-
mittee will explore new avenues
for the recruitment and training
of men and women for JeN ,sh
communal service, in light of the
growing need for higher qualified
people.

of the Brandeis administration,
that led to the Mobil surrender."
The two activists said they hoped
that "the tactics used by the Bran-
deis JAL will be followed by stu-
dents at other schools with sub-
stantial Jewish populations when
companies like Mobil apear on
their campus."
On Feb. 12, more than 100 Jew-
ish students at Brandeis inter-
rupted a job presentation by four
Mobil executives, challenging
their company's policy. They and
other students then left the room,
leaving only around 10 of the
original group of 125 students.
Rawleigh Warner, Jr., chair-
man of Mobil, denied last month
that the huge oil operation he
heads complies or has complied
with "a worldwide boycott of Is-
raeli goods," noting that "Mobil
observes only those boycotts
which are the expressed policy
of the U.S. government." Rosen-
berg termed this policy anti-
Semitic.
One of the Mobil officials, col-
lege relations manager Robert
Brooksbank, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that he had de-
cided not to return to Brandeis
Monday because there had been
"a very poor response" at the
February session and because it
was "unlikely" that Mobil "could
get a fair hearing at this particu-
lar time" considering "the gen-
eral climate that has prevailed on
the campus."
Elaborating on the unsympa-
thetic "climate" at Brandeis,
BrOoksbank said the "baiting" by
Jewish students had given him and
his colleagues "very little oppor-
tunity to be rational, very little
opportunity to be factual."
The situation was further comp-
licated, he added, by squabbling
among various Jewish protestors.
It was all, Brooksbank said, "a
very distressing situation," espec-
ially in that Mobil had considered
Brandeis "a good source for re-
cruits of the Jewish faith."

BBYO to Aid Damaged
Calif. Temple for the Deaf

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
three components of the Bnai
Brith Youth Organization will con-
tribute $200 toward repairing the
damage sustained by Temple Beth
Solomon of the Deaf of San Fer-
nando in the southern California
earthquake last month.
A survey by the Union of Am-
merican Hebrew Congregations at
the time showed that the temple
was hardest hit of all Reform con-
gregations in the earthquake area.
The contribution was approved by
the presidents of the Aleph Zadik
Aleph, Bnai Brith Girls and the
Bnai Brith Young Adults. They
announced the gifts after learn-
ing that the congregants planned
a drive to raise $5,000 to rebuild
the damaged part of the temple.

Infant and maternal mortality
rates have dropped sharply during
the past 21/2 decades, states the
Michigan Civil Rights Commission.

bachelor of arts or science
degree in three years and that
the traditional grading system
has been modified so that stu-
dents will receilve a certifica-
tion of course completion on
the basis of pass or fail.
Academic excellence will be
stressed by a series of depart-
mental examinations by visiting
scholars. The school would seek
to "meet the educational needs
of large numbers of students who
otherwise might be lost to the
Jewish community and ultimately
to the American democratic tradi-
tion." Hollander indicated this re-
ferred to the phenomenon of
Jewish youth who have committed
themselves to anti-Jewish New
Left positions. He expressed the
hope that Touro College might
serve as a prototype for similar
schools in other major Jewish
population centers.
Hollander also said that students
will be required to take three
core programs in the humanities,
sciences and the Jewish heritage.
Dr. Lander said that "studies in
Hebrew language and literature,
Jewish history, philosophy and
culture will be available at a
variety of levels of student
achievement and will be included
in the required core curriculum
for all students.'
One year of study in Israel also

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22—Friday, March 19, 1971

will be a requirement and plans
are being made for creation of a
"sister" school in Israel so that
eventually students here will be
able to do their required Israel
study within the Touro college
framework.
Between 60 and 70 students
are expected for the initial
freshman class in the fall and
in line with the goal of a small
college, 750 students is planned
as the maximum enrollment
for all four years. Tuition will be
$2,000 a year.
Dr. Lander said that an "out-
standing faculty," made up of
committed Jews, had been en-
gaged. They include Dr. Milton
Konvitz, the Cornell University
expert on law and industrial re-
lations; Dr. Alvin Radkowsky, the
nuclear physicist; and Dr. Michael
Wyshogrod, a philosopher and
Jewish scholar. Finances to op-
erate the college will come from
private sources.

ISRAEL COIN CLUB

meeting Tuesday
March 23, 8 p.m.
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

Room 8

1 0

Mile Rd. Branch

Candy Centerpieces

Personalized Party
Mementos
Invitations and Party Ac-
cessories for all occasions.

MARCIA MASSERMAN

646-6138

Zionists Revisionists

of Detroit Announce their

PURIM BALL

March 20, 9 p.m.

Young Israel Center of Oak-Woods

• Super
• Floor Show
• Music
(Eric Rosenow & His Continentals)

Proceeds go to

NATIONAL ISRAEL SICK FUND
Seve Goldin LI 7-3606; Simon Geck TR -35757

Boston Jewish Hospital
Gets $99,744 Grant for
Stress Ulceration Study

BOSTON (JTA)—A major in-
vestigation of "stress" ulceration
in the stomach and large intestine
is being made at the Beth Israel
Hospital with a two-year grant of
$99,744 from the John A. Hartford
Foundation of New York. A team
of surgeons is studying the phy-
siology of the resistance of the
stomach to the acid it secretes.
Officials said this resistance may
be one of the keys to understand-
ing the development of ulcers in
patients who have other acute and
serious illnesses.
The officials said that stress
ulceration may be lethal in 60
to 80 per cent of cases and that
it develops after a wide variety
of other stress conditions, such
as burns, central nervous sys-
tem disease, operation, trauma or
respiratory failure.

Tickets $3.50 available at the door

United Hebrew Schools Nursery School

announces

REGISTRATION for September 1971

for children 3 to 5 years.
Mornings — 9 to 11:30 a.m. 2, 3, and 5 days.
Afternoon session — 1 to 3:30 p.m., 5 days only

(children must be 4 years old by Dec. 1st)

Transportation available in Southfield, Huntington Woods,
and Oak Park

Now in its 21st year, the UHS Nursery School
is licensed by the State ofMichigan.
OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, March 28, from 3 to 5 p.m. for parents and
children. Meet our staff and see our facilities.
For information call LI 8-4191 between
8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
THE UHS NURSERY SCHOOL MEETS AT
15110 W. Ten Mile Rd., Oak Park.

THIRD ANNUAL

Passover Seder

Sponsored by

MEWS CLUB and SISTERHOOD

OF

CONGREGATION B'NAI MOSHE

First Night

TIME: 7:30 P.M. SHARP

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1971

Traditional Seder Conducted by Our Own

Dr. Moses Lehrman

and

Hazzan Louis Klein

Complete Passover Dinner, Everything included

Catered by Crown Kosher Caterers, Inc.

FRED and LEAH BAUM

ADULTS $15.00

CHILDREN AGE 12 & UNDER $11.00 EACH

—

Reservations will be accepted with preference extended

to members of Congregation B'nai Moshe

No reservations will be accepted after April 1, 1971

For information call:

GERT CROSS
548-7997

or

B'NAI MOSHE OFFICE
548-9000

