…Brodhead Scores UN Unit Butzel Award for Berman Rep. William Brodhead (D-17th District), in a speech to the U.S. House of Representatives last week, spoke out strongly against the UnitedNations Special Unit on Pales- tinian Rights. In his speech, Brodhead stated: "In December 1977, the United Nations General Assem- bly approved a resolution establishing within the UN Secretariat a Special Unit on Palestinian Rights. Over the past year, this ...…
…Project Renewal' Launched at Regional UJA Conference The three-day United Jewish Appeal East Central Region conference, held here last weekend at the Sheraton Southfield Hotel, assumed national significance. Inaugurating "Project Renewal" as a major addendum to obligations to be fulfilled in behalf of 40,000 impoverished families in Israel whose needs demand urgent immediate action, the 300 delegates from scores of communities set into motion...…
…The Nobel Prize in Literature for the Shtetl Mysticist Today a Laureate, Tomorrow a Yiddish Writer Again' By BEN GALLOB ISAAC B. SINGER NEW YORK (JTA) — Isaac Bashevis Singer was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature last Thursday, the first Yiddish writer to win this award. The announcement was made in Stockholm. Singer accepted the $165,000 award modeStly. He rejected questions as to which of his many novels and short stories were ...…
…Daughter's Biography of Zionist Pioneer Max Nordau to Appear in Jewish News -- '' • ...................................... The biography of the chief advocate pf the Zionist movement, Dr. Max Nordau, who was the chief supporter of Dr. Theodor Herzl in the founding of the World Zionist Organization and in the convening of the First World Zionist Congress in Basle in 1897, will commence in a series of articles that will be published beginning ...…
