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University to Premiere
Israeli Play
The American premiere of Chanoch
Bar Tov's outstanding Israeli play, EACH
HAD SIX WINGS, will take place at the
newly refurnished University Theatre at
the University of Judaism, Sunday, Jan-uary
19, 1964.
Directed by Benjamin Zemach, Chair-man
of the Theatre Arts Department,
EACH HAD SIX WINGS will feature
Henry Corden, Walter Janowitz and
Peter Brocco.
EACH HAD SIX WINGS will run
for 12 performances and will be the
first of a series of professional level
productions to be offered by the School's
Theatre Arts Department. The school is
currently planning an ambitious program
of significant dramatic productions of
American Jewish content, and of plays
from Israel.
For all theatre goers who enjoy good
Jewish theatre, this should indeed be wel-come
news. For ticket information and
theatre parties, call HOllywood 3-1161.
Calendar of Events
December 18th
Patrons Society Torah Session at home
of Martin Waisbren.
January 5th
First of Five Interpreted Concerts to
be given by Dr. and Mrs. Roy Harris.
January 19th
Theatre Arts Production of, "Each Had
Six Wings."
Sundays
Ethics, KNBC TV, (Channel 4), 1:00 p.m.
Insight, KNXT, (Channel 2), 4:00 p.m.
Interfaith Dialogue, KHJ, 7:30 a.m.
Eternal Light, KFI, 10:30 a.m.
Music of the Bible, KGBS, 11:00 a.m.
with Robert Strassburg.
Library Expansion (Cont'd)
Those investigating the problems of
Church and State in Israel will now have
available for examination a collection of
five volumes Dat u-Medinah (Religion
and State) edited by Rabbi Shaul Israeli,
that contains a treatment of the applica-tion
of religious law in the State of Israel.
Mr. Turner also called attention to the
fact that in the past year the Library
has received more than one thousand
books from thirty-five individual donors.
During this past month the Library re-ceived
the private Judaica collection of
Mr. Marc Soliterman which contain two
hundred volumes in French, German and
Russian.
eft to right: Mrs. David B. Kuris, Branch Torah
F d Vice President and Mrs. Jacob Pressman,
...nal Torah Fund Vice Chairman in portals of
me Jewish Theological Seminary of America scene
of recent Torah Fund-Residence Hall Confer-ence
in New York.
Sisterhoods affiliated with the Pacific South-west
Branch of the National Women's League of
the United Synagogue of America are busily en-gaged
in raising funs in support of the Seminary
and the University of Judaism.
The campaign will culminate in a gala luncheon
to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thurs-day,
February 6, 1964.
50 Congregational Boards
Meet Jointly
The officers and members of the Boards
of 50 Congregations in the Los Angeles
area, supporting the University of Juda-ism
held their third annual meeting in
the Grand Ballroom of the University
of Judaism, December 2nd.
A dramatic presentation of the dynamic
and diversified University program was
outlined, including a challenging inside
report on the University's future plans
by its newly appointed president, Dr.
David Lieber.
Highlighting the evening was the
award of nine plaques to the Boards of
the nine congregations which have adopt-ed
the National Enrollment Plan during
the past year. The nine congregations,
its spiritual leaders and presidents are:
Rabbi Marvin Bornstein and Ernest Fy-bel,
Westchester Jewish Congregation;
Rabbi Henry Kraus and Lewis Berkowitz,
S.W. Temple Beth Torah; Rabbi Sidney
Guthman and Stanley Goldin, Sinai Tem-ple,
Long Beach; Rabbi Franklin Cohn
and Dr. Robert Steinman, Temple Beth
Zion; Rabbi Israel Chodos and Herman
E. Platt, Sinai Temple of Los Angeles;
Rabbi Elias Levi and Louis Jacobs, Haym
Solomon Synagogue; Rabbi Jacob Press-man
and Joseph Harris, Temple Beth Am,
and Rabbi Edward Tenenbaum and Frank
Birschbein, Alhambra Synagogue.
Chairman of the Cabinet is Irving
Dubin. Co-Chairman of the Cabinet and
Chairman of the N.E.P. is Alex A.
Abramson. General Chairman of the
University campaign is Ben J. Lax.
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Irving Dubin, Chairman of the University's Congregational Cabinet, left, presents President Dr. David
Lieber with a testimonial scroll containing signatures of new 1963-64 Patrons, Sponsors and Donors,
at a dinner in his honor at Hollywood Temple Beth El, October 22nd. Beth El President Anatole Ponve,
right, and Nathan Volk, President of Valley Jewish Community Center, second from left, look on.
Samuel Dinin Named
Faculty Chairman at University
Dr. Samuel Dinin
has been named
Chairman of Facul-ties
and Vice-Presi-dent
of the Univer-sity
by the Jewish
Theological Seminary
of America.
Dr. Dinin has been
Dean and Professor
of Education at the
University since
1957. From 1926 to 1945, Dr. Dinin
served as Registrar and Associate Pro-fessor
of Education and Jewish History
at the Teachers Institute of the Seminary.
He is the editor of the publication, JEW-ISH
EDUCATION, and author of JUDA-ISM
IN A CHANGING CIVILIZA-TION,
ZIONIST EDUCATION N THE
UNITED STATES, and various other
books.
Dr. Dinin received his Doctor of
Philosophy degree from Columbia Uni-versity
and was granted a citation for
outstanding work in Jewish Education by
the Jewish Theological Seminary of Amer-ica.
He also holds a D.H.L., Honoris
Causa, from the Seminary.
John F. Kennedy
1917-1963
The following is an excerpt from the
eulogy delivered by Dr. David Lieber,
President of the University, at a Memorial
Service held at the University Chapel,
November 22nd, at 1:00 p.m., for the late
President John F. Kennedy.
"The assassination of the President
leaves us all with a sense of bereavement
and shock. One can scarcely believe that
so dastardly an act was possible in our
land!
We mourn him for the humanity which
characterized his administration. We grieve
for his widow and fatherless children.
Most of all, we are saddened by the law-lessness
it has revealed.
We pray that all decent men will be
sufficiently roused to rally about our new
President and his advisors, to cut out the
festering sore in our body politic that has
sullied our good name abroad, and brought
us to the abyss of violence at home. Mr.
Kennedy chose to 'stick his neck out' for
justice and decency. We can do no less!"
Julius Fligelman Honored
With National Award
J u l i u s Fligelman,
Chairman of the Uni-versity's
Board of
Overseers, and long
an active leader in the
rivic and charitable
. s affairs of his com-
•L :*<g^^^ munity, has been
Hk | ^Bfe| awarded the coveted
K Louis Marshall Me-
^^A A I^IH morial Medal of The
Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
The medal was conferred upon Mr.
Fligelman and eight other National Jew-ish
communal leaders at the annual dinner
of the Seminary's National Patrons So-ciety
on Sunday, November 17, at the
American Hotel in New York. Speaker
of the evening was the Honorable Arthur
J. Goldberg, Associate Justice of the Su-preme
Court of the United States, who
earlier in the day received the honorary
degree of Doctor Laws at a special con-vocation
at the Seminary.
The Marshall Medal is one of the
highest honors the Seminary can bestow,
given annually to a select few who have
shown "continuing effort to further the
spiritual and cultural well-being of the
Jewish community in the tradition served
so eminently by the late Louis Marshall."
Louis Marshall was a noted constitutional
lawyer who served so eminently as chair-man
of the Seminary's Board of Directors
from 1904 until his death in 1929.
Mr. Fligelman has for more than thirty
years been one of the West Coast's out-standing
Jewish leaders. He is presently
National Vice-President of the American
Association for Jewish Education,
Mr. Fligelman was one of the founders
of the University of Judaism. He has
served the University since its inception
as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Over-seers
and is currently its chairman.
In addition to Mr. Fligelman, recipients
of the Medal were: Charles Avnet of
Westbury, New York; Samuel H. Daroff
of Philadelphia; Peter I. Feinberg of
Great Neck, New York; Irgin Benjamin
of Newton, Mass.; Morris B. Kaufman
of Toronto, Canada; David S. Malkov of
Chicago, Benjamin M. Reeves of New
York and Morris A. Shenker of St. Louis.
PAGE 2 DECEMBER, 1963 DECEMBER, 1963 PAGE 3
My Week That Was
by JULIUS FLIGELMAN
The week of November 17 was truly
a momentous one for my wife Molly and
me. On Sunday night, at the Americana
Hotel in New York, I was honored with
the Louis Marshall award for distinguished
service to the American Jewish Commun-ity.
The occasion was the annual Patrons
Society dinner of the Jewish Theological
Seminary and the guest of honor and
speaker was Supreme Court Justice Arthur
Goldberg. His masterful address on the
nature of justice an on the Jewish con-tributions
to its essence were warmly
received.
The next morning I had the honor
of spending time with my revered friend
Doctor Mordecai Kaplan, who has had
the most profound influence on my own
view of Jewish life. Dr. Kaplan at the
age of 82 is now ambitiously engaged in
his latest project, that of establishing an
Institute of Applied Research aimed at
studying the nerve centers of Jewish life
with the goal of making specific recom-mendations
for its future. Very few of
us have the eternal youthfulness of a
Doctor Kaplan in New York and his
spiritual brother, Doctor Jacob Kohn in
Los Angeles. How fortunate we are to
have them as exemplars in our time.
Monday afternoon I journeyed with
Oliver and Virginia Unger to the Concord
Hotel where the United Synagogue was
celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. I heard
some of the great figures in American
Judaism orate, lecture, discuss and debate
the future of Jewish life. Doctor Simon
Greenberg and Rabbi Morris Adler en-gaged
in a stirring debate on their con-ceptions
of a philosophy of Jewish life;
Doctor Louis Finkelstein electrified the
large audience with his redefining of the
place of Judaism in America.
On Tuesday night we heard addresses
by Doctors Abraham Heschel and Martin
Luther King who responded to the chal-lenge
of the 100th anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation. Martin Luther
King brought the audience of 1800 people
to its feet with a moving description of
the coming victory of the Negro people
in its momentous struggle for equality.
These were only highlights of a week
which left us deeply stirred, sleepless and
yet very wide awake.
Everywhere that I went I was ques-tioned
about the University of Judaism
and its program. I got the distinct im-pression
that our school is rapidly becom-ing
a nationally recognized institution
respected for its vigor and dynamism. I
am more convinced than ever that we
who are committed to the growth of the
University whether as faculty, administra-tion
or lay leaders, are on the crest of a
great wave of the Jewish future.
Editorial —
The Goals of the University of Judaism
by DR. SAMUEL DININ
The function of a University can be sum-marized
in six key-words: through research
and study to get an authentic record of our
history, our tradition and our literature; to
interpret our history and literature in the mod-ern
idiom, and show its relevance to the prob-lems
of our modern world; to trainmil our cul-tural
heritage through the training of rabbis,
scholars, teachers, youth leaders and lay lead-ers;
to popularize our culture and tradition
through books and lectures and study, so that
all Jews may be better able to live intelligently
as Jews; to communicate the insights and
values of our tradition to the larger Jewish and
non-Jewish community; and to aestheticise Jew-ish
life and make it more meaningful and
beautiful through the expressive and interpre-tive
creative arts.
The University of Judaism tries to carry out
these functions through its library, its several
Schools, its TV and Radio programs, its Earl
Warren Institute of Ethics and Human Rela-tions,
its public rtctures and institutes, its pub-lications
and bulletins, its Museum, and its
concerts and plays.
During the year 1962-63, over 1,300 stu-dents
attended the University of Judaism: 25
in the Graduate School; 185 in the Hebrew
Teachers College, 135 at the School of Fine
Arts, and over 950 in the University Institute
of Jewish Studies in all of its branches. The
Graduate School this year offers 16 courses
taught by twelve professors. There are a dozen
scholars writing dissertations for their doctoral
di-grees. The Hebrew Teachers College is the
third largest in the country and the only one
on the West Coast training teachers for our
weekday Jewish schools. It offers 40 courses
totaling 70 hours taught by 18 instructors. The
School of Fine Arts is unique in American
Jewish life, and is the only school of its kind
offering degrees in the Fine Arts as applied
to Jewish life. It offers 35 courses taught by
21 instructors. The University Institute is the
largest school of adult Jewish learning in the
country offering 70 courses taught by 40 in-structors.
In addition to the courses offered at
the Central Building, the University Institute
offered courses at all of the Jewish Centers
and at seven congregational branches. It spon-sored
courses with five organizations, and con-ducted
a summer Ulpan at which 100 students
studied 8 hours a week in five classes.
The University of Judaism, because of its
location, its history, its Faculty and its re-sources
has become and can become outstand-ing
in six important areas of research: in Jew-ish
philosophy and ethics; in the origins and
history of the Jewish communities of the West
Coast; in the philosophy and methodology of
Jewish education; in the study of Israeli life
and civilization; in the cultivation of modern
Hebrew literature; and in the fine arts, par-ticularly
Jewish music and the history and phi-losophy
of Jewish art. To reach these objec-tives
and to continue to provide the basic
courses in Bible, Rabbinics, Jewish History,
Hebrew Literature and the Jewish Religion
needed by all graduate students, will require
a great library and a faculty of great scholars
whose competence in these areas will be
acknowledged by the world of scholars. No
single expenditure is as important and essen-tial
as that for additional Faculty; no single
investment will bring greater returns to Jew-ish
life and will insure the creative survival
of our people on the continent.
University Holds
Benefit Showing
Committee members for the University's benefit
showing of, "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,"
held November 10th at the new Cinerama Theatre
in Hollywood, met at the site in October to help
speed things along. The showing benefited the
Radio-TV department of the Earl Warren Institute
of Ethics and Human Relations. Shown in the
picture above, L to R: Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Krems,
Mmes. Sidney Krems, Samuel Shapiro, Daniel
Fogel, co-chairman, Mr. Sidney Krems, co-chair-man,
Mmes. Arthur Whizin, Harry LeCover, Ed-ward
Simon.
Patrons Society Honor Dr. Lieber
The Patrons Society of the University
held a dinner-reception on November
14th, in honor of Dr. David Lieber,
newly appointed president of the Uni-versity
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Ziegler.
In response to a testimonial scroll,
signed by the members of the society, Dr.
Lieber spoke on the importance of the
University as an institution of higher
learning on the West Coast.
Present at the function were: Messrs.
Alex Abramson, Dr. Joseph Backlar, Mat-thew
Berman, Mac Bodian, Hyman Bolo-tin,
Rabbi Israel Chodos, Dr. Samuel
Dinin, Max Dworsky, Isadore Familian,
Samuel Farkas, Samuel Fryer, George Gill-man,
Frank Horny, Abe Kanner, Michael
Kantzler, Herman Kranz, Nathan Krems,
Ben Lax, Isadore Levine, Ronald Levine,
Dr. David Lieber, David Marmel, Lewis
E. Pennish, Jack Perlman, Herman Platt,
Saul Rubin, A. J. Schwartzman, Ben See-wack,
Martin Waisbren, Arthur Whizin,
William Warwick, Allen Ziegler, Max
Zimmer, Nathan Zuckerman; Mmes. Ber-tram
Allenberg and Allen Ziegler.
"An Adventure in Art"
"An Adventure in Art," an art course
devoted to the use of various materials
and methods for the inexperienced as well
as the experienced artist, is being offered
for the first time this year by the School
of Fine Arts.
The course, taught by Mrs. Molly Flig-elman,
is given on Monday mornings and
strives to give its participants a feeling
of self expression in the "Art of Doing"
through art.
Mrs. Fligelman uses tempera, oils,
and other media including collage.
An artist herself for more than 15 years
Molly Fligelman's knowledge has been
gained through both instruction and prac-tical
experience. Recently she had an ex-hibit
of her works at the Gallery De-
Ville in Beverly Hills.
"An Adventure In Art"
Left to right: Mmes. Molly Fligelman, Max Vor-span,
David Dortort, Max Schleimer, Samuel
Steinberg, Theodore Ticktin.
University Library Expands
Dr. Justin Turner, Chairman of the
Library Committee of the University of
Judaism, announced that the Library had
added substantially this past year to its
ever growing collection which now num-bers
thirty thousand volumes, and 10,000
pamphlets.
Dr. Turner noted that the Director of
the Library, Mr. Louis Shub, while in
Israel, purchased several hundred volumes
of recently published Hebraica, as well
as three hundred books, brochures, and
magazines from the Hebrew University
Library. It was also announced by the
Chairman, that in order to apprise Jewish
educators of what was purchased in the
area of Jewish Education, a special Edu-cation
list of one hundred volumes was
published. Included in this listing was a
valuable five-volume set of Madrich Bib-liographi
le-Sifrut Pedagogit that con-tain
a selection of articles on education,
published in Israel's major educational
periodicals.
Students of Jewish musicology in the
Fine Arts Department of the University
of Judaism have found of particular re-search
value the recent editions of Israeli
music periodicals Duchan (1959-1963)
and Yediot Hamacbon ha-Israeli le- Mus-ika
Datit (1959-1962).
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University Offers
Faculty Lecture Series
Three series of lectures, of four weeks
each, is offered on Tuesday evenings,
at the University of Judaism begin-ning
November 26th, at 8:30 p.m. The
first series of lectures is titled, "Religion,
Science and Jewish Identity."
The first lecture on November 26th,
"God and Man in Contemporary Jewish
Theology," was given by Dr. David
Lieber, University President. On Decem-ber
3rd. Dr. Jacob Kohn, Dean of the
University's Graduate School, spoke
on, "Comrades in the March into the
Interior, (Parallel Trends in Modern
Science and Religion.)" "The Jew In
Time and Space," will be the topic for
the third lecture to be given on Decem-ber
10th, by Dr. David Aronson, Asso-ciate
Professor of Rabbinics at the Uni-versity.
In the fourth lecture on Decem-ber
17th, Dr. Samuel Dinin, Chairman of
Faculties and Vice-President of the Uni-versity
will discuss, "The Quest for
Identification, (The Search for Jewish
Identity In Our Day.)"
The second series of lectures, "Jews
and Judaism Past and Present" will begin
on February 4th. Lecturers for this series
will be: Dr. David Winston, Associate
Professor of Rabbinic Literature, speak-ing
on "The Meeting of Hellenism and
Hebraism."
On February llth, Dr. David Gross.
Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature,
and Literature, "The Zohar, the Book of
Divine Light and Mystery."
On February 18th, Dr. Moshe Perl-mann,
Professor of Arabic, will discuss
"The Medieval Muslim-Jewish Contro-versy."
On February 25th, Dr. Max Vor-span,
Executive Dean and Director of
the School of Fine Arts, "The Face of
the American Jewish Community."
In the series beginning April 7th, three
of the lectures will be concerned with
"Jews In Israel and the World Over." Lec-tures
for this series will include Mr. Louis
Shub, Director of the Library, "The
World of Modern Israel, (Letters to the
Editor in the Israel Press.)" On April
14th, Mr. Dan Almagor, a Lecturer in
Modern Hebrew Literature, talks on "The
Theatre in Israel." On April 21st, Dr.
Wolfe Leslau, Professor of Hebrew and
Semitic Linguistics at the University of
Judaism and Chairman of the Department
of Near Eastern and African Languages
at UCLA speaks on "The World of the
Falashas," and on April 28th, Dr. Morris
Liebman, Assistant Professor of Education
at the University of Judaism and Execu-tive
Director of the Bureau of Jewish
Education of Greater Los Angeles, will
lecture on "Jewish Wit and Humor."
Admission for a series will be One
Dollar, or fifty cents for each lecture.
University to Produce
Israel Bonds Festival
The Radio-Television Department of the
University has accepted an invitation by
the State of Israel Bond office to pro-duce
the Chanukah Festival to be held at
the Shrine Auditorium, Thursday evening,
December 12th.
Saul Rubin, Director of Development
for the University and executive produc-er
of the Radio & Television Department
has asked Louis Rudolph to serve as pro-ducer
and Francine Parker as associate
producer.
Ralph Nelson, producer-director of the
film hit "Lilies of the Field," will direct
the production and Elmer Bernstein will
conduct the Festival Symphony Orchestra.
Featuring a dazzling array of stellar
performers, the Festival will recreate the
story of the Maccabean triumph over ty-ranny
in a mammoth production from an
original script by celebrated playwright
Jerome Weidman, author of "I Can Get
It For You Wholesale" and "Fiorello."
Free tickets are available upon request
to all who have purchased Israel Bonds
during 1963, with seat location deter-mined
by the amount of the Bond.
Dan Almagor Teaching
At University
Famed Israeli writ-er
and lecturer, Dan
Almagor, Teaching
Fellow in Modern
Hebrew at the Uni-versity,
is the newest
member of the fac-ulty.
Mr. Almagor teach-es
courses in Hebrew
Language and Com-position,
and Modern Prose and Poetry.
Since 1956 he has written plays, songs
and satirical revues for most of Israel's
theatres and literary cabarets. More than
30 revues and 500 songs of his were pre-sented
on the stage in Israel during these
years.
He has translated several plays for the
Hebrew stage. Among them: the Ameri-can
musical comedies "Guys and Dolls",
"Fantasticks" and recently "My Fair Lady"
for the Habima Theatre. Mr. Almagor
translated Shakespeare's "Comedy of
Errors" for Habima, and poems and songs
from the plays of B. Brecht for the "Ohel"
theatre.
A collection of his most popular songs
are soon to be published. His study of
Joseph Zarpati is to be published by the
Bialik Foundation at the end of next
year.
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