Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1960-12-02

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VoL 38, No. 50
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2, I960
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JEWISH STUDENTS AT U.S. GOILEGES ARE INCREASING
NEW YORK. (JTA)—Jewish enrollment at American ooUegfes jumped 8.5 percent this semester, spiraiiinK the demands for Jewish student services on the campus, B'nai Bfrlth was told at Its H7th anual meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel by Dr. William Haher, national chairman of B'nai B'rith HUlel Foundation.
Dr. Haber forecast an enroll¬ ment of 400,000 Jewish under¬ graduates and graduate students by 1970. Tills would mean doub¬ ling the number of Jewish col¬ legians In a 16-year period, he said. The enrollment study, con¬ ducted by Hillel Foundation oper¬ ating on 225 campuses In the United Stfites, showed a higher rate of increase for Jewish stu¬ dents than the 5.6 percent rise this year In the general student population.
DR. HABER, who is professor of economics at the University of Michigan, said the statistics on Jewish enrollments were "some¬ what unexpected." Since propor¬ tionately twice as many Jewish high school graduates have ma¬ triculated In recent years as com¬ pared to all high schooi graduates —a ratio of two-thirds to one- third—"we anticipated a satura¬ tion point and a. percentage de¬ cline among the Jewish group," he said.
He attributed the increase to "unusually higher Jewish enroll¬ ments this year in snoall colleges looated In rural areas or in Iso¬ lated communities separated from the urban centers of Jewish com- nautiJiij-Jife." The Inci^ase among small schools Is 16 percent, Dr. Haber reported. He cited several Instances of small colleges, en¬ couraging regilstratlon from met¬ ropolitan alreas such as New York, whose Jewish enrollments are now twice what they were a year ago.
THE QUOTA system, which at One time restricted the number of Jewish students seeking ad¬ mission to college, "is today virtu¬ ally dead," Dr. Haber declared. Moreover, he added, "booming en¬ rollment coupled with the hos¬ pitable attitudes to religious iden¬ tification by university officials have created unparalleled pres¬ sures to increase extra-curricular activities on the campus."
This was also emphasized by Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn of Washingrton, D.C., who directed and analyzed the enrolteient study. He is national director of Hillel Foundation.
Israel Gives Compensation Plan For Arab Refugees
UNITED NATIONS, NY., (JTA) — Israel has reaffirmed its Ing there are gross Inaccuracies In willingness to compen.qatc displaced Arab refugees for properties the relief rolls maintained by the they left behind In Israel, if integration of the refugees "In the Arab   United Nations Relief and Works
world were actually carried out."
The offer was made here before the General Assembly's Special Political (Committee by Ambassador Michael S. Comay, chairman of Israel's delegation to the United Nations, in his first major speech before the committee, which has
FASHION SHOW MODELS
Left to right are Miss Barbara WilllEuns, executive model at mr. jon's of (IJolumbus; Mrs. Melvin L. Schottensteln, Mrs. Norman N. Katz, Mrs. Don Levy, Mrs. Robert L. Friedman, Mrs. Max Tennebaum and Mrs. Ben (joodman. They wUl model at the French-Israel Fashion Show. Not pictured: Mrs. Morris Bromberg, Mrs. Bernard Feitilngor, Mrs. Henry Gurvis, Mrs. Robert L. Hailet, Mrs. Raymond Kahn, Mrs. (Afford Levin, Mrs. Morris L. Mattlin, Miss Barbara Paine, Mrs. Saul Schottensteln and Mrs. Paul Stoan. The show, which is presented on behalf of State of Israel Bonds, will be held on Thursday, Dec. 8 at the Deshler-Hilton Grand Ballroom.
Chicago Leader Is Speaker At Clinic
A prominent <3hicago leader in Jewish philanthropic work will address a day-long United Jewish Fund and CtouncU leadership campaign  clinic  Dec.  4 at Winding Hollow Country Club.
Joshua B. Glasser, past president of the (Combined Jewish Appeal of Metropolitan Chicago and chairman of that city's 1957 and 1958 CilA campaigns, will discuss fund raising techniques and problems during the afternoon session. The clinic begins at 10 a.m.
A NATIVE of Dublin, Ireland, Glasser is an outstanding civic leader who flavors his keen ob¬ servations of Jewish  life  with  a
dynamic delivery, effervescent personality and native Irish wit. He is a director of the Chicago Jewish Welfare Fund, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and American Friends of Hebrew University and Is vice president of the last-named group.
'Ondine' Opens GP's Season On Dec. 10
"Ondlne," the romantic fantasy about a water nymph who falls in love with a mortal, which opens at the Jewish (Center Saturday evening, Dec. 10 in a production by the Gallery Players, has long been the source of inspiration for creative minds In every field of art.
The script for the Gallery Player production is an adaptation by Columbia University's Maurice Valency of the play by one of France's greatest playwrights, Jean Giraudoux. The original fairytale, entitled "Undine" was written by Fredrich
de la Motte Fouque somewhere about the year 1850, In the glor¬ ious days of romanticism . The following year It became, almost at once, oaie of the first widely- known and best beloved of all fairy tales. Since then it has tak¬ en ita place in various fields of literature as well as music and art
IT HAS BEIEN performed as a play in many versions. "Undine or the Naya.de" was written by a John Benedict and pertormed In the Park Theater ta London, In
1839. History records another version produced at the Olympic Theater in London, in 1870. The author credited for this version is Ralph Reece. Other London Productions of "Undine" are re¬ corded as a dream play in 1902 by William L. Courtney, and a fantasy by Lilian Frances Purdon, in 1921.
There have been many CSerman versions, too numerous to re¬ count, Inoluding one written by Innocenz ToUavania,  a   romantic
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He Is a member of the National (Council of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Citizens Boards of the University of Oii- cago and Loyola University and serves as vice president of the American  Society of Technlon.
GLASSER  and  his   wife   have traveled to Israel  twice  In  the past four years to study condl tions and activities of the Amerl can Joint Distribution (Committee and the United Jewish Appeal.
Charles C. (Joldsmlth and Mrs. Aaron Zacks are serving as co chairmen of the clinic, which Is aimed at preparing UJFC leaders for the forthcoming 1961 cam¬ paign. Goldsmith served as chair¬ man of the 1960 campaign and Mrs. Zacks as 1960 chairman of the   women's   division.
THE MORNINO session will be divided into five seminar groups which will discuss the role and responsibilities of local organiza- tlona, development and Improve¬ ment of methods for Increasing levels of giving, conducting ef¬ fective meetings and fund-raising affairs, making the role of cam¬ paign workers more meaningful and organizing a campaign when no world crisis Is apparent.
Seminar leaders will be Mrs. Jack Resler, Allen Gundersheim¬ er, Jr., Marvin Glassman, Mrs. David Roth and Mrs. Ben Yenkin. Serving as panelists will be Ed Schlezlnger, Mrs. Jack Wolman, David Gtoldsmlth, Mrs. Ben Kahn, Mrs. Simon Lazarus, Ralph Rosenthal. Mrs. Morris Paine, Ben Yenkin, who is 1961 cam¬ paign chairman; Mrs. Jero;me (Continuad   on   paqa  4)
been discussing tho Arab refugee problem for two weeks.
OOMAY referred in his one- hour address to Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's report of two yeras ago. In which the UN CJhief urged economic Integration of the entire Middle Bast In such a manner as to make possible the Integration of the Arab refugees tn the Arab countries.
Ho recalled that, in 1955, the late U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, proposed Interna¬ tional financial aid to help Israel compensate Arab refugees for property they left behind them In Israel. Then he told the commit- I tee:
"MY DEajXJATION is author¬ ized to reaffirm the previous dec¬ larations of my CJovernment, that If a solution by integration in the Arab world were actually carried cut, and if the International as¬ sistance offered in 1955 were available, Israel would be pre¬ pared to pay compensation, even before the achievement of a final peace settlement, or the solution of other outstanding problems."
Ambassador Comay told the ~copunittae,.Iioiwe.ver, that "In fix¬ ing the level" of such compensa¬ tion, other factors would have to be taken into account compensa¬ ting Israel for Jewish properties.
"IT WOULD be necessary," he said, "to take into account Jewish property in areas such as the Jewish quarter In the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Jewish vil¬ lages in the Jerusalem and He¬ bron districts, as well as the claims of half a million Israel citizens for the property they have had to leave behind in various Arab countries, and for which no Arab Government has made any compensation offer at all."
(3omay opened his address by telling the committee that he would not stop at this point to reply to all calumniations voiced during this year's refugee debate by other spokesmen. He did not name either the Arab attackers or those belonging to the Soviet bloc, who have been hewing to the customary demands that the only solution of the refugee prob¬ lem lies in the wholesale "repatri¬ ation" of "all the refugees" to Israel territory.
THE ISRAEL representative told the conrmittee that Israel has already released to the Arab refu¬
gees $8,000,000 In frozen bank ac¬ counts, releasing those monies in foreign currency. He recalled that Israel has also handed over "a great number of safe-deposit lock¬ ers and valuables which were left behind by Arab refugees."
Questioning the figures con¬ stantly cited here, which claim that there are more than 1,000,000 Arab refugees, Ambassador Co- may called the UN's attention to various neutral statistics and re¬ ports. Including some United Na¬ tions documents, to prove that, at most, the bona fide refugees number less than 550,000.
The refugees can be absorbed In tho Arab lands, he maintained. "The fundamental question," he said, "whether something more than 100,000 Arab families can be absorbed in a region which con¬ tains about 45 million Arabs."
THE ISRAELI representative pointed to authentic studies show-
Agency for Palestine Refugees In the Near East.
Emphasizing that he does not blame UNRWA for these inac¬ curacies, he insisted, however, that no cleansing of the relief rolls has been effected by UN¬ RWA. in spite of many demands, Including a demand for such cleansing made by a General As¬ sembly resolution  last year.
ON THE ARAB insistence for "complete repatriation," C3omay told the committee: "As every dis¬ interested observer knows, there Is no realistic outcome, short of a war which would destroy the State of Israel, and resettle the refugees amcxng the ruins. Such an alternative 'solution,' however. Is not one in which Israel Is likely to cooperate, or which the United Nations could tolerate."
Comay declared: "In saying that the future of the Arab refu¬ gees lies in the Arab world, my delegation says nothing contrary to any single United Nations reso¬ lution on this problem." He point¬ ed out that the Ai-ab spokesmen
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EDITORIAL
Light The Way
Again we feel it woul(J be worthy to take the torch in hanci to try to help light the way for one of the finest institutions to become a reality in this city in many years—the construction of a much needed new Home for the Aged.
To date, money has been raised but the goal is far from being reached, (raised, $730,000-n e e d e d, .$120,000).
It's not too late to make your pledge now. Call CA. 8-4581. Don't wait to be contacted. Become a part of this wonderful mitzvah of our day, the creation of a haven of the future for our elder citizens. This is in fulfillment of the teachings of Judaism to care, honor and respect our elders. Your pledge is needed regard¬ less of how large or how small. Numerous Small pledges account for large sums. .
There are still a number of fine memorials which you can purchase in honor of loved ones of blessed memory. No finer way can be found to memorialize them.
Take time now to become an unofficial member of the Home committee by doing your part in sup¬ porting this finest of causes. No more appropriate time can be found than during this Chanukah season when the spirit of giving is at its height.
Call your pledge in today, and help to complete this wonderful Home, a place where our elder citizens will feel free to go aa the future dictates.
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$730,000 RAISED
A spirited gathering at a dinner meeting at Agudas Achlm Nov. 21 carried the pew Co¬ lumbus Jewish Home for the Aged a giant step forward. Campaign chairman Aaron Zacks, stand¬ ing to the left of the microphone, received pledges
of more them $60,000 bringing the present amount pledged to $730,000. Since entering the second phase of the campaign, marked by groundbreak¬ ing ceremonies Oct. 30, over $72,000 has been raised.
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