THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 22, 1977 33
Annual Bar-Ilan Dinner Sept. 8;
Hermelin, Nusbaum Co-Chairmen
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Phillip Stollman, global
chairman of the univer-
sity's board of directors,
vho returned from Israel
,ast week, having presided
the annual meeting of
the governing board, report-
ed that the Greater Detroit
Jewry's role in establishing
numerous educational facil-
ities there are being viewed
as landmarks in Bar-Ilan
achievements.
At the commencement,
which was attended by Phil-
lip Stollman and Mr. and
Mrs. Max Stollman as De-
troit's representatives,
Rabbi Emanuel Rackman
assumed the presidency of
Bar-Ban.
Zvi Tomkiewicz, execu-
tive director of Detroit
In top photograph, Phillip Stollman, second from right
seated, looks on as Dr. Joseph Lookstein, chancellor of
Bar-Ran University presents an honorary degree to Sir
Isaac Wolfson, third from left, at the university's com-
mencement exercises last month. Stollman was re-elected
global chairman of the university's board of trustees. In
the bottom photograph, Rachel Twaig of Baghdad, Iraq, de-
livers the commencement address.
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Friends of Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity, states that reserva-
tions for the annual dinner
will be accepted from now
on at the local office, 23125
Coolidge, phone 398-7180.
Bar-Ilan officials appeal
especially for scholarships.
"We provide for many Seph-
ardic high school graduates
and we bring a large num-
her of overseas students to
Bar-Ilan," Stollman stated.
"The many Detroiters who
were encouraged by the
committee headed by Irwin,
Cohn to finance the scholar-
ship program have made no-
table contributions towards
the advancement of studies
at Bar-Ilan."
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Detroit Friends of Bar-
Ban University will sponsor
their annual dinner on
Thursday evening, Sept. 8,
at Cong. Shaarey Zedek, it
was announced this week.
David Hermelin and Ir-
ving Nusbaum, who headed
last year's dinner com-
mittee, have been renamed
co-chairmen of the annual
event.
Progress attained by the
university, located in
Ramat Gan, Israel, will be
outlined by visiting univer-
sity 'faculty members, and
the role of Greater Detroit
Jewry on behalf of Bar-Ilan
will be recounted, local
leaders announced.
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Detroiter Phillip Stollman
was re-elected global chair-
man of the Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity Board of Trustees at its
annual meeting in Israel.
Other officers are Mati-
tyahu Adler, director-gener-
al of the university since
1965, vice president for ad-
ministrative and financial
matters; H.' Jerome Sissel-
man and Rabbi Seymour
M. Zambrowsky, vice chair-
men; Dr. Zeraeh Wahrhaf-
tig, chairman of the execu-
tive council; and Dr. Jo-
seph Burg, chairman of the
international board of over-
seers. Elected to the board
were Abraham Spiegel,
Rabbi Abraham Khazan
and Moshe Nissim, member
of Knesset.
While in Israel, Phillip
Stollman attended the uni-
versity's commencement
exercises at which Sir
Isaac Wolfson received an
honorary degree. Dr. Jo-
seph Lookstein, chancellor
of Bar-Ilan, made the pre-
sentation.
The commencement exer-
cises were addressed by
Rachel Twaig, a recent im-
migrant from Baghdad,
Iraq, who with many other
Jews was deprived of her
rights in her native country
following Israel's victory in
the Six-Day War.
She stated in part:
"Friends, I was not cho-
sen to represent you—I my-
self asked to speak for I
felt that I had to stand here
and describe a certain pic-
ture and I am grateful that
my request was answered.
In this picture, I see a cere-
mony similar to ours here
today, which was to have
taken place exactly 10
years ago in the Jewish
school, Shamash, in Bag-
hdad, where hundreds of
Jewish students studied and
which today is no longer a
Jewish school where the
voices of Jewish children
can be heard.
"It was customary for
the Jewish community to
congratulate the out-
standing students and to dis-
tribute prizes, and in 1967 I
was chosen to represent the
graduating class and to ad-
dress the audience—but I
was deprived of this honor.
The Six-Day War and Is-
rael's victory brought the
final destruction of the Jew-
ish community. The ceremo-
ny where I was supposed to
give the opening address
never took place ; my
friends and I, graduates of
the Jewish high school,
were not allowed to fulfill
the dreams of our parents
and our community—we
were deprived of our
rights—all the rights of citi-
zens, for one simple rea-
son—our being Jews.
"Four years ago I imm-
grated to Israel and was ac-
cepted at Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity and today I see myself
in a similar situation to
that of 10 years ago but
with a major difference—a
ceremony and honors but
who and what and where?!
I am not in Baghdad but I
am here in Ramat Gan in
the state of Israel in a Jew-
ish religiously-oriented uni-
versity.
"Bar-Ilan was not only a
place of study for me but it
was a warm home where
every lecturer and every
firend was my partner and
helped me learn the lan-
guage and overcome the in-
itial difficulties in order to
become one of the crowd.
Thank God they succeeded
and this is my success: I
overcame the language diffi-
culties and I stand before
you now—a graduate like
the rest of you.
"Allow me one other per-
sonal comment: the re-
quired basic Jewish courses
were for me a special privi-
lege and they contributed
greatly to strengthen my
Jewish consciousness. I
didn't know much when I
came here ; I had little
knowledge of Judaism.
"I learned here at Bar-
Ilan University what it is to
be a Jewess and to be
proud of our heritage and
the land of . our fathers."
No man can dwell to-
gether with a serpent in one
house.
The Talmud
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