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… Paine Music Hall, on the Harvard campus, to pay tribute to Wolfson, and to laud the growth and activities of the Hillel movement. It included prominent Jewish educators and scholars from universities…

… Hillel Commis- sion; Dr. Milton R. Konvitz, of Cornell University; Dr. Louis Gottschalk, of the University of Chicago; Dr. Franklin Ford, dean of Harvard's faculty of arts and sciences; and Mrs. Moe Kudler…

… community." which show that there are now Gottschalk, who was elected more than 275,000 Jewish stu- successor to Dr. William Haber dents at American and Canadian of the University of Michigan, colleges…

… Hillel Academic Award to Professor Harry A. Wolfson, 75 - year - old Harvard scholar, who held the first aca- demic chair established in the United States for Judaic studies. An audience of 600 gathered in…

… thought and have given an example of per- sonal devotion and humility for which we are all grateful," the President declared. "The award which you are receiving from the Hillel FoUndatiori is but a symbol…

… Australia. The .1963 operating budget, established by Bnai Brith for the Hillel prograni is almost $2,200,000. _ Label A. Katz, president of Bnai Brith, in one of the con- vocation addresses, attributed in…

…- char, president of Brandeis Uni- versity, and honorary chairman of the Hillel Foundations. Other convocation participants were: Dr. William Haber, who retired Monday after eight years as chairman of the…

…, president of Bnai Brith Women. * * * WALTHAM, Mass., (JTA) — The Bnai Brith Hillel Founda- tion broadened the scope of its campus activities by inaugurat- ing an intensive national Hillel program for Jewish…

… faculty mem- bers. The Hillel Commission, holding its 40th • anniversary meeting on the Brandeis Univer- sity campus here, adopted a pro- posal, outlin e d by Professor Louis Gottschalk of the Univer- sity…

… understanding of our respective traditions on a level which Hillel Foundation by the Charles E. Merrill Trust. Dr. Milton Konvitz, in the principal convocation address, deplored the loss of "many of our best…

… Daniel." Dr. are students at the University Silberg delivered the majority of Michigan. A late Spring wed- decision that said Brother Dan- ding is planned. iel, a Jew who became a Cath- olic monk, cannot…

…, Michigan- Department of Jimmie H a wk in s, 44, was HERBERT H. SCHIFF, of Co- Mental Health, will be honored at a public- banquet March 6 at luinbus, 0., vice-president and named managing director of the the…

… sales manager for the Man- Wagg on his. first quarter cen- 18694 Appoline, a Detroit mod- sion Hotels. tury of service tb the people of ern jazz duo, have been named He was general manager of Michigan…

… the Fair Em- since the fifth grade. * * ployment and Housing Acts en- Dr. ABBA HILLEL SILVER acted by the State of Pennsyl- Criterion Club Will of Cleveland, world Zionist vania. Hold 'Talent Nite…

….. Richards., and. Miss EVangeline Shiebley, professor, LOUIS M. BLOOMFIELD, kins, when he moved up from Wayne State' UniverSity. Pres- - Q. C., of Montreal, has been bell captain to resident manager ent…

…People Make News Rapaport-Klein Engagement Told Detroit Jewish Vocational Service Gets Grant to Find Jobs for Retirees Robert Kasle, president of the Jewish Vocational Service, an- nounces that…

… the agency has re- cently been awarded a . special grant to conduct a project which has the purpose of finding part- time jobs for retirees. This grant has been made by the Baron de Hirsch Fund, a New…

… Jersey philanthropy, to De- troit as one of four Jewish Vo- cational Service agencies in the United States and Canada in- terested in increasing employ- ment opportunities for retired persons. The Detroit…

… JVS is concerned that there are a diminishing number of jobs available for re- tirees who have serious eco- nomic and psychological needs to work. Most of these persons wish to supplement their So- cial…

… Security or retirement bene- fits. This grant will be utilized as an eight-month experimental project. An advisory committee of retired persons will work with the agency in an effort to provide an increased…

… citi- zens of Michigan who show "a background of general excel- lence of character and personal integrity" and have made a sig- nificant contribution toward the achievement of a socially desirable…

… Detroit and Michigan. Attorney William Cohen is praised in the award citation "for more than 40 years of dem- onstrated concern for and in- volvement in communal affairs." He is further cited for commit…

…- tional ZOA Convention which Montefiore Lodge Common Pleas Court Judge Jo- will be held from July 11 to July seph J. Pernick, a member of the 17 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, one of…

… Michigan board of the Anti-De- the chief architects of the State famation League of Bnai Brith, of Israel and a former President will address a meeting of Monte- of the ZOA, is chairman of the fibre Lodge…

… Istanbul "New Paths to Peace Between Israel and the Arabs" will be the subject of an address by Prof. Abba P. Lerner 8:30 p.m. Satur- day at Cong. Adas Shalom. Lerner, professor of economics at Michigan…

… Herbert Speiser, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Speiser of Brooklyn, N. Y. The bride-elect is a junior at Wayne State University. Her fiance is a senior at Long Island University. Plan for Jewish High School in…

… be held in April-May period are, from the left: seated, Mrs. Meyer Lipman, Israel chairman of Gershwin; Mrs. Max Solarz of Einstein; Mrs. Noel Lawson of Tucker; Mrs. Martin Goldberg of Stone; standing…

…, Mrs. Nathan Rosin, East Side; Mrs. William Levine of Detroit; Mrs. Thomas Freidman of Detroit; Mrs. Harvey Weisberg of Morgenthau, Mrs. Sol Hoberman of Rex; Mrs. William Ellmann of Frenkel and Mrs. Hugh…

… Rosin of Rex. The Metropolitan Detroit Bnai Brith 1963 goal in the Israel Bond campaign is $200,000. Workmen's Circle Will Present Cousens Award to 3 Civic Leaders Police Commissioner George Edwards…

… will be toastmaster at the annual Workmen's Circle presentation of its Community Service Awards. Three outstand- ing citizens have been selected as the 1963 winners of the Leon A. Cousens Award for…

… University of Michigan, has authored a num- ber of books. His most contro- versial, however, may prove to be his latest, "Dawn and Dusk," which has been published by Bookman Press. The statement on the cover…

…Heller's 'Dawn and Dusk' Urges German Re-Education, Recognizes Elements of Post-Nazi Contrition tY3 C.C3 473 . Dr. Bernard Heller, one-time director of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the…

… three other titles— The Dream, the Nightmare and The Hunter. There is comfort, secret pride and "dizzy sweetness of the universe" in the love songs, in which, inter alia, the poet sings: Feel for me the…

… —"The objective of this book is not to expose the criminal plotting and misdeeds of the Nazi regime. It attempts rather to reveal the overt and covert factors that impelled and con- ditioned Germans to…

… may draw objections. Indeed, Dr. Heller draws upon all available' sources to reveal the terrorism of the 12 years of German rule, the appeals to hatred, the mass murders. A deeply religious man, he is…

… nevertheless tolerant in his selection of those who, like Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Theodore Heuss, and a number of other associates as well as some clergymen, have shown a sincere desire to atone for the…

… crimes and to enter upon a pro- gram for penance, compensation and repudiation of Nazism. This book is based in large measure upon his personal ex- periences. Evaluating the moral codes that enter into…

… considera- tion in viewing the crimes and the criminals, as well as those who are selected for exonera- tion, Dr. Heller quotes Scrip- tures, draws upon rabbinic lore and virtually turns portions of his book…

… into a religious tract. He welcomes contribution• and extols it. Evaluating the seeds and the roots of anti-Semitism, "the malt in the devil's brew," Dr. Heller shows that "the German's sense of right…

… and wrong was blunted by theories and affirmations of Teutonic thinkers decades be- fore Hitler and Nazism," and he especially refers to Fichte as a source of this germ of bigotry. He says, however…