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Research intro-, be closely einord'
a*, - with the- is a unclear Power-;-the - kind tit s
duced at the Weizmann Inatitute larger -conquest ,liVitiaseer - "pure.:: more nations: shoidd-striVe , tb
in the field of Cancer, in the treat- • grams currently being .developed '4„reconimenii. those. or --similar,"
words now
shsuch a question
should"
, _ .
.
ment of drug addiction 'and multi- -.1-18 the U.S .A "
b e _asked.
uPYrtfAt71974,ATA- Itte:1
ple sclerosis, were made known at
As guest speaker of the evening.
JEWISH PROFESSORS: There Was
the annual-dinner of the Weizmann Dr- Glenn T. Seatiorff • Nobel Lau- - Dr Seaborg extolled the quality
y a 'gene . ration a go
Institute of Science, at the •Wal- reate, former chairman of the U.S. and applicalion of knowledge in —when ,one could hardly find a Jewalt professor on the factiliyrof, an
Atomic • Energy Commission': dis- Israel. Ile said it was "a living ex- American university or college. In the City; College of New-York,with
dorf Astoria. Nov. 3.
cussing "The State of Knowledge." ample of a country built and sir- its .many- thousands of Jewish e
. students, ther were only ffve . prcifessors
Dr. Albert B. Sabin, president described Israel as such a, state viving on knowledge .'. . in a sense in the 1930s, Here and_there Was a Jewish professor. in_retiniversitY
-
worth
emulating
by
the
nations
of
a
state
of
knowledge
where
learn-
but he had to be of the caliber of Felix Frankfurter or Aforris;Raphael
of the Weizmann Institute. in his
address to the gathering of 1.900, the world. in the course of , his im- ing, scientific and cultural, is held
pressive address lie stated:
, in the highest esteem—but more , Today, there are more than 50,000 Jewish professors and -academ-
stated:
"During my tenure as chair- than that, where it is applied.daily icians in the American colleges and universities. They include full - prof-
"The • problems of worldwide
-
-
to the business of living and grow- essors, associate professors, assistant professors and instructors.- They
human importance currently un• man of the AEC, I was asked On ing. Knowledge is Israel's greatest constitute 10 per cent of the 500,000 univerity faculty, according to a
der study at the Weizmann In- numerous occasions whether I capital, a major asset for its fu- study by the Carnee Commission on Higher Education.
stitute include cancer, growth of thought Israel was a nuclear ture development and an import-
Not all the 59,000 or more academicians who admitted to being
plants that yield substances
-
power—or, less euphemistically, ant item of export."
born Jewish are -interested in things Jewish. There are some among
needed for synthesizing drugs
For
the
first
time
in
27
years,
them
who
reject all contact with Jewish life. Some of them - are even
did she have the bomb? MY
for the - treatment of drug ad-
diction, exploration of potential usual reply was that she was since the Weizmann dinners have
approaches to the treatment of among those nations that had the been sponsored, Meyer W. Weis
Book Autographed for Ni xon ,• Mitchell •
multiple sclerosis, the physiology knowledge to build one if she gal, chancellor of the institution,
of reproduction a as a basis for
Is-
During his visit in - Detroit last weekend, Boris Similar - re-
wanted to, and 1 speculated no was absent. From his holm in Is-
finding better f a mily planning
rael he sent a warm message to
ceived a request from Max M. Fisher for autographed copies of
further.
methods, the chemical
them
basis for
the gathering.
his
book,
"Soviet Jewry Today and Tomorrow," to be sent as
learning and behvior, the nat-
gifts to President Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell.
"Now, in retrospect, I often The 1571 Weizmann Award in
ural water cycle and new meth-
ods for desalination and control wished' I had said yes, she is a the Sciences and Humanities was -
nuclear pOwer, the kind that knows awarded at the dinner to Theodore
of pollution of riverss by indus- of,
and makes use of, the atom's -R. Racoosin by Dewey Stone. "anti-Jewish" on occasion. However, this group is very small. The
trial operations, ec.
power for peace, She is a member Abraham Feinberg presided at the great majority of Jewish faculty members are not resisting links to
the -Jewish community. They are not divorced from sentimental and
"Perhaps the most exciting of the International Atomic Energy dinner.
emotional ties to Jewish life. In fact, the Carnegie study shows that
recent event is the establishment Agency, her nuclear laboratories
v
do
advanced
of-
American
two-thirds.-(67
d
research
in
most
nu-
Daniel
M.
Honigman,
who
heads
-
per cent) of the academicians
ns who said they were born
in the forthcomin weeks of a
fields—nuclear physics, solid the Detroit chapter-
Jews consider themselves of Jewish religion, although most -of- them
multidisciplinary, cientific can-
state
are
not-
physics, reactor Physics, ra- Friends of the Weizmann -Institute,
religious. The percentage probably would have been higher if
cer research cente at the Weiz-
the question. posed in the study were referring also to secular or
mann Institute, basedd on work diation chemistry, inorganic them- was among the honored guests
uses
d • eLouis
Lo • B erry an d N a t e ethnic Jewish %identificati on.
already in progress in four of istry, nuclear chemistry. She the
'
Onli ein the fields of philosophy-.and anthropology did - about One-
its departments, but scaled up radioisotopes in medicine, in agri- S. Shapero are, with HOrtigman,
culture
and
food
preservation,
in
members
of
the
national
board
of
half
of
thoSe
• bOirit:Jews indicate that they no longer con.sider Judaism
and designed to determine its
-
"
to be .their present religion.
relevance for the early diagnosis industry and in other areas of directors.
and treatment of human cancer. research.
.
•
Jewish
preponderance
is especially noticeable in lawfaculties where
Listed forparticipation at the
The work of this new cancer re-
they ire jaitunder 25 Per cent of_the faculty. In the Medical faculty :
"!Her professors in nuclear sci- dinner from Detroit were
search center will receive finan- ences and engineering are excel- man, Paul Borman, Shaperii, Honig
Abrar2. theX. constitute 22 per cent In bacteriology,- wh i ch is close to Medical.
cial support from the U.S. Na- lent and their students enthusiastic ham Shiffman and Mr.
scien*- they constitute20 per cent Their percentage 'in the ReidsOf
and Mrs. Physics
tional Cancer Institute and will and enlightened Of course Israel Phili p omo
-
- economics psyCholov sociology and social
ial work
k rges
SI
vitz
an
7from
12 to• • lkPer eent.' In other fields they constitute-less than 10 per cent

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MANPOWER FOR: LEADERSHIP: The Jewish- faculty members
in the American. schools of higher . learning constitute: a tremendous
potential .- Manpower for Jewish . communal leadership. ': . ..
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:The Council of-Jewis n "Federatio s and Welfare Funds is therefore

now concentrating...on 'attracting faculty members to active participation .
.. Jetrish'ihOttintimity.-work.
, .
in the areas where their universities are
r located, A program for local-
ni
s communitie
this subject, has - beitit: .`pri:
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NEW YORK = In in unprece- United States.
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nsittee.
'Willett
;deals
also
with
college
youth:
_
is Mrs. _Lawrenec.j..-Arein,
school to the survival Of the, Jews
dented action, Reform, Conserva-
bergpri.-.folin Slawson is the
'of' the:prograuvadvisorY=
cont4- -.
In what was described by the as a distinctive , religiO:cidtural
- chairman
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.cuittec
tive and Orthodox branches of president
of the council, Rabbi entity in the challengingrcircuni-
:
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American Judaism joined in a dec- Irving Lehrman of Miami Reach, stances of American freedom."
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It
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is
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ulestiniatect
that
Jewish faculty mein bers; v together - with - their .
.__ -__- _, -, i . .
laration of support for Jewish day as "a development of historical
la m es :etunprise.•close ' to .3 perCent of the total Jewiiih.rpOpulatiiin'
schools in the United States.
The
statement
'
calls
on
the in "this -countik, -Dr. Daniel J. Khmer, professor-of politicaVicience atv".
significance,"- the three branches
The declaration was in the form of American Jewry, who in the
Jewish community; and ,Oarticii- --• Temple University:- n Philadelphia,- is of the opinion that- 4111*e - near
th
of a major policy statement issued past differed sharply in their as- larly on Jewish federations - and - 'future; families_ whose heads- are involved in .academie-scientific-inte•;
by the Synagogue Council of sessment of the day- school move- welfare funds, to increase dab- lectnal pursuits May Conatitine•10 per cent of:the:total JewIssipiqila--
America, the coordinating agency ment, agreed that "few" causes stantially their Support of day lion: in ArObiica::.Iiis Projection. makes it all the ,niore:-.impostant -to-, -.'
for the national _rabbinic and have contributed so largely- and schools. ' concentrate on involving Jewish faculty members: - in Jewish coin-
synagogal organizations in the significantly as the Jewish day
The Conservative, Orthodox and munal affairs.
Reform constituents of the council
THE FIVE CATEGORIES: Prof. Mazer, :in dealing with the at-.
were in agreement that despite, titudes
,
academicians toward -Jewish attachment, points out
increased allocations hi some th at th of Jewish
tae t Y
e go v ,s rio
. t all of one piece in their views. lie classifies them in .
communities, "federation and wel-
fare support for Jewish day .
The firs
first category is the small group who _reject anything that has
schools remains by and large woe•
to do! with JeWish life, and in some cases eves deny'-their 'Jewish
fully inadequate.".
origin. TheSe are-mostly - people who , came of ,age before World ,WarII---:

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The policy statement refers to at a time When 'Jewishness probably was a- harden
in their particular::
studies which have found that the situationa.incultk in , this category have essentially removed . theM-.-.
day school is effective "in shaping selyea from'. the -Jewish community.
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profound Jewish commitment" and - • :The -secontt .category consists of young American academicianst-::
-that it is at the same tim e "a who do no/feel :the- least - attichinent-to - Jewish life, but are not
nee_ef''':-
high - quality. educational agency." sally hoitile.ln:Jadaiim. Freely acknowledgi
n
g their Jewish. descitat;:,
The • statement declares-. that the they iiiieMideipersonal. chciices te:abandon their Jewish. ties for 0a0 , : - ,,. :.
day sehool has' proved itself "ca reason t 'Ot anuXItir; - - '' - ' . i :-..- • ' -; .. " ' • ' .
1-v ' : _ -*;:;-'-'
: pable' of producing' the kind of ' ' Thelhilill category consists "of
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Jew" atadinlidailsv'wlia:cluillder-4-
Jewish. personality — at _home in themselves - Put of the Jewish community
in
some
Sense:
ma y
They '-'ca
7' ..
koth,- Jewisit - tradition and Seiniai. Contr:lbne ,hi'the..-WA.,, appear as speakers
- at they• Hillel Foundation8;:::::4
culture-- has not had many .. 'and va,va) ilffilitite with synagogues and: other -.fewialk;04211174#10WiL
parallel:sin - Jewish Igator'y in the .: often IP. 4-1
141.0 of their' thildven-' il'heY..1206•.slisiegiSd- . 4...:,"Jevifick.,•.,_
past ;2,000 years." " .. - ' . . - 03ta.,_
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at it is the,nhligation of . the
or- :world - today. '-- -- I -
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afford , tuition fees,. - and ; that no lciana vd•n
Jewish day - schoof is compelled tee Are.
compromise the'- quality:-
the :L
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