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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Who's Who' Due

Stollman Says $200 Million Needed to Expand Bar-Ilan

RAMAT-GAN, Israel —
More than $200 million will
be needed to meet the ex-
pansion program of Bar-
Ilan University during the
next five years and to main-
tain the level of the univer-
sity's work in combining of
the idealism of Jewish val-
ues with academic training
for Israel's future leaders,
according to Philip
Stollman, chairman of the
university's board of trus-
tees.
He said that most of this
support would have to come
from world Jewry in view of
critical budget-tightening
by Israel government in all
;+s ministries.
:n pointing out that Bar-
iian's 7,000 students enjoy
approximately one-third
less campus and building
space per capita than those
attending Hebrew Univer-
sity, Stollman emphasized
his conviction that a
dynamic Jewish state and
people with a mission re-
quired a healthy Bar-Ilan to
serve it in providing higher
education - within the
framework of Judaic learn-
ing and tradition.

The noted Detroit
philanthropist has been
affiliated , with Bar-Han
since the idea for a reli-
gious university in Israel
was suggested aLmost30
years ago, and has visited
this country three to four
times each year since in
missions on behalf of the
university which opened
its doors in 1955.
He recently attended de-
gree presentation cere-
monies for 1,400 students in
one of the largest
graduations in Bar-Ilan's
history, and chaired meet-
ings of the board of trustees.
Additions to the univer-
sity planned for the near fu-
ture include a dental school
and "American-style"
school of business adminis-
tration, both geared to fill
pressing needs in Israel for
trained persons in these
fields.
. Emanuel
Prof.
Rackman is the first full-
time president to serve
the unviersity since its
founding.
Sotllman's brother, Max,
and sister-in-law, Frieda,
also have been honored for

1,400 Jews in Guatemala

By WARREN FREEDMAN

There are about 1,400
Jews in the Central Ameri-
can republic of Guatemala,
and nearly all live in
Guatemala City. In 1848,
Guatemala had only two
Jewish families, one being
Lewis Schlesinger from
Hungary; today all his de-
scendants are Catholics!
Between 1872 and 1880 a
number of German Jews ar-
rived. Jacob Engel later es-
tablished the first Jewish
cemetery. In the 1920's
Jews from Eastern Europe
and the Middle East ar-
rived, and in 1923 the
Sephardim established the
Sociedad Maguen David; in_
1928-1932 Polish Jews
founded the Centro Hebreo;
and later German Jews
founded the Sociedad Is-
raelite De Guatemala.
All three organizations
constitute the Consejo Cen-
tral. A new Reform congre-
gation has recently been es-
tablished.
Guatemala has not al-
ways favored Jewish mi-
gration. In 1932, the gov-
ernment sought to deport
all "peddlers," so Jews
came off the roads and
established stores. Per-
haps 15 percent of
Guatemala Jews are mil-
lionaires today.
One of the Sephardic
Jews'is Dr. M. Behar, who
invented a vitamin which is
1
milk substitute. The most
_
-- prominent members of the
Jewish community were the
Stahl family who built cot-
ton mills and were also
active in finance and bank-
ing.
Guatemala's turbulent
history discouraged growth
of the Jewish community.
Eduardo Gerstenhaber is
a Jewish communal leader;
and during the devastating
earthquake of February
1976 he was instrumental
in getting Israel to send to
Guatemala several con-

LOS ANGELES — A
California firm is planning
to publish early next year a
1980 edition, of "Who's Who
in American Jewry."
The firm, Standard Who's
Who, Inc., presently pub-
lishes a "Who's Who in Mo-
tion Pictures and Televi-
sion."

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Detroiter Phillip Stollman, left, joins Bar-Han
University President Dr. Emanuel Rackman at the
ribbon cutting ceremonies for a new maintenance
building on the campus of the Israeli university.

their work on behalf of Bar-
Ilan University.
Bar-Ilan's board of trus-
tees have appealed to the
university's friends
throughout the world to in-
crease scholarship support.
Bar-Han students received
$300,000 in scholarships
and grants during the
1978-1979 school year.
In recent events at the
university, Bar-Ilan
graduated 1,400 students at
its 20th commencement
exercises. Some 30 PhDs
and 130 master's degrees

signments of emergency re-
lief supplies, including
medicines, drugs, tents and
blankets.
Guatemalan
The
authorities told the Is-
raeli Foreign Ministry
that there was no need to
send medical teams,
which Israel had offered
to do. The Jewish com-
munity and Jewish in-
stitutions in Guatemala
City did not suffer
casualties or any serious
NEW YORK — With one
damage.
exception, all Arab-
Guatemala City has a American groups see the
Jewish elementary school, Egyptian-Israeli peace
Colegio Guatemalteco Is- treaty as a-"stinging defeat"
raelite.; with 110 pupils, 80 for the United States and
of whom are . Jewish, but the Arab world, contrary to
with a little less than half the general opinion in the
from mixed marriages. In U.S.
recent years there has been
That was the finding of an
a great deal of intermar-
American
Jewish Commit-
riage. Males especially
tee
study.
The study, con-
marry outside the group. As
a result, some Jewish girls ducted by Sheba Mittelman,
go to Mexico City to find research associate in the
Trends Analyses. Divison of
Jewish maths.
Max Trachtenberg is AJCommittee's domestic af-
president of local Bnai Brith fairs department; stated
in Guatemala City; he is that the American
also director of volunteer Lebanese League supported
the treaty on the ground
firemen.
A Jewish community of that in effect it created a
about 12 families lives in Western alliance of Egypt,
Israel and the United States
the mountain city of Quet-
zeltenango. Of Turkish ori- opposing the Soviet Union
gin, they appear to have in the Middle East.
abandoned the practice of
According to the report,
the Arab-American groups
religion.
felt that Israel got every-
it wanted at the ex-
Moynihan to Get thing
pense of the Arabs, that
Hebrew U. Prize Sadat was a "traitor" to the
NEW YORK — Sen. Arab cause, and that
Daniel Patrick Moynihan President Carter had given
(D-N.Y.) has been desig- in to pro-Israel pressure in
nated as the 1979 recipient the United States.
of the Hebrew University's
The United States was
Morris J. Kaplun Interna- condemned for promis-
tional Award.
ing large amounts of mili-
It will be presented to tary aid to Israel, aid that
Sen. Moynihan at a amounted to an "unac-„
dinner-dance sponsored by ceptable burden" on the
the American Friends of the American taxpayer.
Hebrew University,
"The central theme ex-
Greater New York Region,
Aug. 7 in the Rye Town Hil- pressed by all opponents to
the treaty," the AJCommit-
ton, Port Chester, N.Y.

were conferred.
Bar-Ilan has also opened
its Menahem Begin Insti-
tute for Research Into the
Resistance Movements.
Prime Minister Begin spoke
at the ceremonies, em-
phasizing the need for objec-
tive research.
Begin stressed the dif-
ference between national
liberation' movements
which attacked military
targets and terrorist organ-
izations which fought
against women and chil-
dren.

ABRAHAM MOUSSA

Arab Americans See M.E.
Peace Treaty as Defeat'

tee report noted, "was that
the Palestinians and their
chosen representatives, the
PLO, must be dealt with,
and that there could be no
peace without Palestinian
self-determination in an in-
dependent state."
Most Arab-American
spokesmen, it was observed,
perceived the treaty as a,
separate pact that would
only lead to war in the fu-
ture between Syria, Iraq
and Israel as well as to
Sadat's eventual, overthrow.
They also stressed the high
economic cost to the United
States of supplying aid to
Egypt and Israel.

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