THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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Irving Blumberg Laboratory Established at Weizmann Institute

Detroit last summer and
met with Weizmann sup-
porters.
The Blumberg family has
supported a wide variety of
Detroit-based charities.
Since Mr. Btumberg's death
in 1958 the family has con-
tinued its philanthropy.
Irving Blumberg was a
partner, with his twin
brother, Louis, in the

Blumberg Brothers In-
surance Agency. During
his 42 years as a resident
of Detroit he was ex-
tremely active in local
communal organizations.
He was the president of
the Detroit Service
Group from 1941 to 1949
and served as a vice
president and executive
committee member of the

• AJCommitte Elects Friedman

NEW YORK (JTA) —
Howard E. Friedman of
Encino, Calif., a partner in
the Los Angeles law firm of
Loeb and Loeb, was elected
19th national president of
the American Jewish
Committee last week at the
organization's 77th annual
meeting at the New York
Hilton Hotel.
He succeeds Maynard
Wishner of Chicago who

served three years in the:
presidential post, and who
was elected an honorary
president.
In his acceptance speech,
Friedman presented a list of
Jewish values that would
guide the AJCommittee. He
included "full freedom of in-
quiry, including the right
and obligation of dissent."
The head of Italy's
Jewish community told

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the AJCommittee that
new anti-Jewish atti-
tudes stemming from the
Middle East conflict now
posed greater dangers
for European Jewry than
older and more familiar
forms of anti-Semitism.
Mrs. Tullia Zevi,
president of the Union of
Italian Jewish Corn-
munities, said also that
"classic" anti-Semitism was
diminishing in Western
Europe but, she stressed,
"continued vigilance
against known neo-Nazi
and anti-Semitic forces"
was still necessary.
The AJCommittee an-
nounced that its Chicago
chapter would study Jewish
voting • patterns in the re-
cent Chicago mayoral elec-
tion. Some 43 percent of the
Jewish vote — 2 1/2 times the
percentage of other whites
— went to black Democratic
candidate Harold Washing-
ton: Washington's oppo-
nent, Republican Bernard
Epton, was Jewish.

CELEBRATE
JERUSALEM DAT

Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion. He chaired the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign in
1953.
He was a member of the
board of Sinai Hospital and
the United Jewish

Yeshivot Host
Students from
Day Schools

Charities. He was a past
president of the Detroit
Association of Insurance
Agents and of Knoliwood
Country Club.
Bettye Blumberg and her
children, Alene and
Graham Landau, have con-
tinued to serve the Detroit
community and the Jewish

NEW YORK — A pro-
gram designed to give day
school students throughout
the country a taste of
yeshiva high school life was
recently announced by
Torah Umesorah — The
National Society for He-
brew Day Schools.
The participants will
spend from a week to 10
days on a yeshiva campus.
Yeshivot hosts include
Beth Medrash Govoha,
Lakewood; Toras Chaim,
Denver; Merkaz HaTorah,
Montreal; Beth Moshe,
Scranton; and Talmudical
Institute of Upstate New
York, the Chofetz Chaim
branch in Rochester.

world. Spokesmen of the
Weizmann Institute stated
that the laboratory "that
bears the name of Irving W.
Blumberg is an ongoing re-
membrance of a leader in
our community. His wife
and children, by this out-
standing deed, carry on his
good works."

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ERCEDE

The wife and children of
the late Irving W. Blumberg
of Detroit recently endowed
a laboratory in his memory
at the Weizmann Institute
of Science in Rehovot, Is-
rael.
The laboratory is part of
the Center for Neurosci-
ences and Behavioral Re-
search, headed by Prof.
David Samuel, who visited

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