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Friday, August 8, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Annual Bar-Ilan Dinner Marks Founders' Tribute;
Detroiters Pioneered Creation of Israeli University

religious Zionist movement,
in the early 1950s, gave
birth to the idea of a univer-
sity," Stollman pointed out.
"He defied skepticism, he
predicted the growth and
acceptance of the idea. He
was the prophet who had
faith."
Stollman recalled that
five years before the uni-
versity was established as a
memorial to the late Rabbi
Meir (Berlin) Bar-Ilan, who
was one of the outstanding
world Mizrachi leaders, Dr.
Churgin, came to Detroit
and the Detroiters' initial
gifts made his idea a reality.

Detroiters pioneered in
the establishment of one of
Israel's great universities
and their devotion to the ad-
vancement of the cause of
Jewish learning is recalled
on the occasion of the 20th
anniversary of Bar-Ilan
University.

Phillip Stollman, global
chairman of the board of
trustees of Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity, recalled the prelimi-
nary work for the establish-
ment of the university,
during the planning years,
in his announcement of the
20th anniversary dinner of
Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan
University, to be held
Thursday, Sept. 18, at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek.

The annual dinner will
honor Paul Zuckerman, the
recipient of the honorary
PH.D. at the Bar-Ilan con-
vocation in Ramat,. Gan, Is-
rael, on June 22.
Dr. Leon Fill is general
chairman of the committee
of arrangements for the
dinner. The committee is
now in formation.

RABBI BAR-ILAN

Stollman pointed to the
growth of Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity from a student
body of 70 some 20 years
ago to the 7,000 of today.

He recalled that the idea
for the university was pro-
mulgated by the late Dr.
Pinhas Churgin, first presi-
dent of the university.
"Dr. Churgin, who was
president of Mizrachi, the

"Without the initial De-
troit contributions it is
doubtful whether the uni-
versity would have come
into being," Stollman
said.

He recalled that the first
meeting with Dr. Churgin
was held here at the home of
Abraham Nusbaum.
The pioneers included
Louis Per4in, Daniel Tern-
chin, Irving Schlussel and
the Isaac Rosenthal family.
"They labored zealously
for the ideal," Stollman

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IRVING SCHLUSSEL

LOUIS PERSHIN

DANIEL TEMCHIN

Zion Square Incident

PROFESSOR CHURGIN

By MOSHE.RON

JERUSALEM — For
weeks the old Jewish porter
Shabtai Levy has been in a
state of lament and tears.
He had inadvertantly helped
Arab terrorists take the re-
frigerator primed with ex-
plosives from a car in Zion
Square in Jerusalem and
had received 100 pounds for
his help.

Levy was a member of
Hagana, and was a prisoner
of the Arab Legion in the
Old City during the War of
Independence in 1948. He
was a prisoner of war for 10
months.

Now Levy, who has borne
the heaviest burdens on his
back for dozens of years, is
completely broken. He does
not sleep and eat. His fam-
ily is ashamed to show itself
on the street.

Nearly every Jerusalem-
ite knows the old porter
from Havazelet St. There

is a shop of new machines.
Whoever buys a new ma-
chine hires Levy to bring it
to his house.

He told us. "People come
to comfort me as if I lost a
member of my family.
Everybody looks at me as
the porter who helped to un-
load the explosive refrigera-
tor which caused the loss of
lives of many Jews and Ar-
abs. My family has no
strength left."

Levy was born 57 years
ago in Kurdistan. Forty-six
years ago he came with his
family to Israel and lived in
the Old City of Jerusalem in
a small room next to the
Misgav Ladach Hospital.
His father was a porter too.
Shabtai started to work
when he was 12, in the Ma-
chane Yehuda Market in
Jerusalem.

Levy is proud that the
present President of Is-
rael, Ephraim Katzir was
his commander in the Ha-
gana. "I acted as his body-
guard and accompanied

him on many inspection
trips and he got to like
me," Levy says. After the
president's brother Prof.
Avaham Katchalsky-Kat-
zir had been killed during
the terrorist attack on the
Lod Airport, Levy met him
at Zion Square in Jerusa-
lem, approached him and
conveyed his condolences
to him. "The president
recognized me imme-
diately" Levy says. "Nov
on the same Zion Square
this horrible mishap oc-
curred."

The family of Josef
Cohen, who was a victim of
the terrorist act in Jerusa-
lem, published a letter in an
Israeli newspaper saying,
that its members do not
want visits of Cabinet mem-
bers to console them.
"We wish that the author-
ities would adopt stricter se-
curity measures and that
the open borders with Jor-
dan should be closed imme-
diately in order to stop visits
of murderers and terror-
ists" the letter states. "The

DR. HERSHMAN

said. "There were many oth-
Boris Smolar's
ers who helped advance the
Bar-Ilan dream. Many, the
families of the pioneers,
men like Isadore Moskowitz,
inspired leaders like Rabbi
A. M. Hershman, helped us.
Editor-in-Chief
That's how the Detroit pi-
Emeritus, JTA
oneers contributed towards
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
a great ideal which now is a
blessing to the educational
THE GATHERING STORM: The Arab campaign
programs of Israel."
among underprivileged nations to secure the expulsion of
Pningi
Israel from the United Nations General Assembly at its
1975 session is a gathering storm.
Jewish organizations are hardly in a position to influ-
ence the situation in the UN Assembly, but the Arab insist-
ence on the eviction of Israel from the Assembly is becom-
ing a matter of grave concern to the United States
government. The move is now looked upon by leading mem-
bers of Congress, by the Administration, and by U.S. ex-
perts on international affairs not merely as an hostile act
against Israel but also as an open challenge to the status of
the U.S. in the UN.
The present Arab maneuver is aimed at indicating to
the U.S. that it has no real influence any longer when the
underdeveloped countries can, with the aid of votes from the
Soviet bloc, muster a majority in the Assembly on any issue
they choose, disregarding the sentiments of the U.S. or any
of the democratic countries.
The concern over this situation has now found an
alarming expression in opinions advanced by a group of se-
ABRAHAM NUSBAUM
lected editors, American experts on UN affairs, and special-
ists in international law at sessions of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.
U.S. WARNS ARABS: It was agreed by all partici-
pants in the "assessment" parley that the U.S. government
is today in a far more difficult position in the UN than at
any time. A picture also emerged establishing that the UN
is not popular now among the American people.
Recommendations made by some participants in the
police should increase the "assessment" included the suggestion that the U.S. should
number of telephone lines, withdraw from the UN Assembly deliberations if the As-
in order that citizens, who sembly votes to expel Israel. Another recommendation sug-
see a suspected thing, gested that the U.S. should, in such a case, freeze its pro-
should be able to contact the rata contributions to the upkeep of the Assembly.
police immediately. A citi-
Guided by the "assessment" discussion, the Senate now
zen should not have to wait stands on record—through a resolution it adopted unani-
for 10 minutes and more un- mously—that if Israel is expelled from the UN Assembly,
til he gets a connection."
the present U.S. commitments to the Third World nations
Meanwhile, 35 yeshiva involved in the expulsion will be "reviewed" by the Senate.
scholars of the Yeshiva The resolution also contains a warning stating that the S -
Merkoz Hary in Jerusalem ate may consider "seriously" the implication of contir..
have turned to the police U.S. membership in the United Nations, if the Assembi,
and asked to mobilize yields to the Arab demand to have Israel expelled.
THE OBSOLETE UN SYSTEM: The expulsion of Is-
them in the special unit
fighting terror. They wish rael would actually constitute a violation of the UN
to combine this national Charter. The Assembly can only vote on resolutions but is
duty with their studies in not empowered to put them into effect. Such power is
the yeshiva.
vested in the UN Security Council only, in which the U.S.
The Chief of Police Shaul can use its "veto" rights.
Rosolio has accepted their
But although suspension from the Assembly without
proposal and appealed to recommendation from the Security Council is definitely il-
the heads of other yeshivot legal under the UN Charter, the Assembly nevertheless did
in the country to allow their not hesitate to exclude South Africa last year from its ses-
scholars to join special reli- sion. The threat of similar action this year against Israel is
gious units in order to therefore real:
•strengthen the security of
The confusion is all due to the present "one-country,
the country. The police in- one-vote" system in the Assembly under which the smallest
tend to mobilize several state—the name of which may not even be known to many
hundred yeshiva scholars of the Assembly delegates—has the same vote as the large
for such national duties and countries. This procedure is obsolete under the circumst-
incorporate their units into ances in which the UN has grown from about 50 state-mem-
bers at its' founding to more than 130 today.
the border police.

Porter Laments Aid to Terrorists

Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent

A number of special pro-
jects, including imposing
buildings, were financed at
Bar-Ilan by Detroiters.
The first building estab-
lished at Bar-Ilan was by
Abraham Nusbaum.
The Stollman family fi-
nanced the administration
building and a men's dormi-
tory.
An imposing structure on
the Bar-Ilan campus is the
Charles Grosberg Building
of the Churgin School of Ed-
ucation.
The Muskovitz-Pershin
Women's Dormitory was
the gift of the two promi-
nent families that had taken
a deep interest in Bar-Ilan.

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