UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM
west coast branch of the Jewish theological seminary of america.
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VOLUME XVII MARCH, 1964 NUMBER 4
F O U N D E R S DAY D I N N E R H O N O R S D R . L I E B E R
Rahlti Arthur HeftzEerg, left, i.v pictured ivith Dr. David Lii'liei; rifiht. In
the background i.v the new International Hotel where the University will hold
it.s Kith Annual Founder* Day Dinner, March \5t1i.
Stephen Singer Appointed
Bay Area Executive Director
^x^^ Mr. S t e p h e n
Singer has been
appointed Execu-tive
Director of
the University of
Judaism — United
Synagogue office
in Northern Cali-f
o r n i a . The an-
H:' U I I \l 'I "M^Mt W '' *-'
made by Dr. Dav-id
Lieber, Presi-dent
of the Uni-versity,
and Dr.
Abraham Bernstein, President of tin-
United Synagogue of America, North-west
Region.
Prominent in Jewish communal life,
Mr. Singer began his activities in
California in 1947 as a member of
the Valley Jewish Community Center
of North Hollywood. He served sev-eral
times as a member of that
Temple's Board of Trustees and as
President of their Men's Club.
Awarded the "Distinguished Service
Award" in I960 for outstanding serv-ice
to higher Jewish education by the
Los Angeles Hebrew High School,
Mr. Singer has served his community
in many posts. In 1956 he was Chair-man
of the Pacific-Southwest branch
of the Federation of Jewish Men's
Clubs. He was also the first President
of the Toastmaster International Club,
sponsored by the same organization.
In 1955 Mr. Singer was elected Vice
President of the Pacific Southwest
region of United Synagogue, and in
1958 became President of the region.
Mr. Singer held the post of Na-tional
Vice President of the United
Synagogue from 1961 to 1963.
Justin Turner Receives
National Service Award
Dr. Justin George
Turner, Honorary
Life Member of
the University's
Board of Over-seers,
and Chair-man
of the Li-brary
received the
Jewish Theolog-ical
Seminary of
America's Nation-al
Community
Service Award,
February 24th, in
Miami Beach.
The Award is a bronze plaque con-ferred
each year by the Seminary
upon a limited number of communal
leaders whose "distinctive and con-tinuing
service to the community at
large perpetuates the Jewish tradi-tion
of involvement in, and concern
for, the well-being of all men."
Presentation of the- plaque was
made at the Seminary's Fifth Annual
Convocation Dinner. The dinner lol-
Dr. Turner holds an honorary LL.D.
from Lincoln College, and honorary
LH.D. from the University of Juda-ism,
a Lincoln Diploma of Honor
and is a Fellow of Pierpont Morgan
Library. Lecturer and contributor to
historical journals and reviews, he is
a trustee of the National Foundation
for Jewish Culture and the Jewish
Publication Society. An honoraiy mem-ber
of the National Civil War Cen-tennial
Commission. Dr. Turner is a
consultant to the Manuscript Depart-ment
of the UCLA Library jsn-J is
closely associated with many national
and state historical and cultural so-cieties.
Pay Tribute to University President at
The International Hotel, on Sunday, March 15th
More than one-thousand outstanding lay and community leaders will gather
at the new International Hotel on Sunday evening, March 15th, to pay tribute
to Dr. David Lieher, president of the University of Judaism, on the occasion
of the Kith Annual Founders Day Dinner.
Tin: guest speaker will be Rabbi
Arthur Hertzburg, nationally renowned
author, lecturer and scholar.
Included in the Founders Day Din-ner
program will be the awarding of
citations to five outstanding University
leaders, They are Nathan Krems, Mrs.
David Kuris, Irving Niedorf, Jack
Ostrow, and Arthur Whizin. Addi-tionally,
Mr. Theodore Strimling will
be honored posthumously with a Spe-cial
Community Service Award.
Sidney Poitier, the distinguished
actor, will be the first to be named to
the Honored Artists' Council of the
University's Earl Warren Institute of
Ethics and Human Relations. As part
of tin- program, he will present a read-ing
of, "From Lincoln to Kennedy."
The outstanding violinist and com-petitor
in the Moscow Tchaikovsky
contest Arnold Sukonick will round
out the evening's festivities with the
playing of several selections.
Members of the women's and
hostess committee for the function
are: Mines. Julius Fligelman and
Martin Waisbren—co-chairmen, Mines.
Mathew Herman, Max Dworsky, Na-
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Hertzberg to Deliver
Fourth Backlar Lecture
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg will be the
guest speaker at the fourth annual
Rosemary Shuchart Backlar Lecture
at the University, Monday evening,
March 9, at 8:15. The topic of Rabbi
Hertzberg's talk will be, "Messianic
Dreams of Modern Man."
In his talk, Rabbi Hertzberg will
analyze the Jewish element in revolu-tionary
politics and social thought in
the last two centuries, and the role
the Jews played as co-founders of
liberalism.
Rabbi Hert/berg is the Spiritual
Leader of Temple Emanu-El, Engle-wood,
New Jersey. A brilliant writer
and speaker, he is a member of the
C.radnate Faculty of Columbia Uni-versity
as Lecturer in History. Among
the many books he has written are:
"The Zionist Idea," and "Judaism."
He is the co-author with Dr. Martin
Marty and the Very Reverend Mon-signor
Joseph Moody of, "The Out-
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"The World of Max Helfman" to Honor Works of Late Dean
"The World of Max Helfman," presented by the School of Fine Arts and
the Cantors Assembly ol America, Wesl Cuast Region, will lake place at the
Shrine Auditorium, March 22nd, 8:15 P.M. It features ensembles of more than
50 cantors and cantor soloists, the combined adult choirs of 16 Temples plus
the University of Judaism Chorale, Combined Chorus' of 400 children, Dances
and Choreography by Saida Cerrard and Theatre Dance Company, and salutes
to Max Helrman by stars of motion pictures and television. The script for the
concert lias been written by Michael Blankfort. For ticket information contact
HO 3-1161.
L to R: Robert Strassburg, Musical Director of "The World of Max Helfman"
Memorial Concert, Cantor Samuel Fordis, concert chairman and Dr. Max
Vorspan, Director of the University's School of Fine Arts.
PAGE 2 MARCH, 1964
Financing Our University
BY JULIUS FLJOELMAN
tit financial hand to i
our University.
Because of the
importance of the
subject matter, I
am reporting un-der
the same cap-tion
"Financing
Our University"
as used in the
Newsletter's last
issue. Then my
promise was to
promise in this
issue suggestions
for solving the
nouth existence of
Your attention is invited to two
news releases which appear in this
issue: "Samuel A. Fryer Bequeaths
$250,000 to University" and "Joseph
L. Judson appointed University Estate
Planner". Both stories indicate that we
have embarked on a full scale program
of Wills and Bequests. This is a long
step forward toward developing a
portfolio of reserves for the University.
More steps forward will come.
We will shortly announce the five
and ten year program for the orderly
growtli and development of the aca-demic
departments of our University.
This development Plan is being com-pleted
now by our academicians and
administrators. Growth and develop-ment,
and meeting the challenging
needs and demands that are and will
be made on our institution must mean
enlarging our faculty, our library,
expanding present facilities and in-creasing
our services to the community
to meet the requirements of a new
generation and new era in Jewish Edu-cation.
Costs will far exceed those of
today, just as today's exceed those
of yesterday.
Therefore it becomes increasingly
important that as part of the overall
Development Program we find means,
in addition to annual campaigns to
finance these needs. This can only be
done by developing a portfolio of
reserves.
To meet these needs and to open
such a portfolio we have set up the
Wills and Bequests program, to be
followed by a tidl blown Estate Plan-ning
Program which will be a part of
our Development Fund Campaign.
Although this in itself will not be
a panacea for solving all of our finan-cial
needs it will, in a large measure,
be the beginning of developing a
financial base and income that we can
depend upon each year. It will be
the insurance we can rely upon against
bad times.
I hope that you will become as en-thused
and excited over this project
as 1 am, and that you will give ser-ious
consideration to including the'
University as a beneficiary in your
Estate Planning.
This is an important program and
we must all support it.
Founders Day Dinner (Cont'd)
than Krems, David Kuris, Isadore
Levine, Benjamin Seewaek, Maurice
Turner and Jules Wail.
The University dinner will take
place at Los Angeles' newest hotel,
The International Hotel. It is located
at the entrance to the Los Angeles In-ternational
Airport Terminal, on the
Northeast corner of Sepulveda and
Century Boulevards.
Samuel A. Fryer
Bequeaths $250,000 to
University of Judaism
To launch the
x Wills and Be-f*
j\ quests Program of
the University,
Mr. Samuel A.
Fryer has an-nounced
a be-quest
to the Uni-
^L versity of Juda-
•.^hjir isni ()f $25o,ooo.
SOL ET^j^^fc This is another of
^R ^ Hj his many impor-tant
and generous
contributions to
the University. Among them was a
substantial gift which made possible
the purchase of the present building
and the air conditioning of its library,
auditorium and classrooms.
In making this bequest Mr. Fryer
stated, "I believe that privately en-dowed
institutions, in order to insure
their orderly and continued growth
must develop resources which will
provide incomes to meet the growing
demand for Jewish education. The
University of Judaism is the major
Jewish school of higher learning on
the West Coast and future plans will
enable it to become one of the great
centers of Jewish learning in the
world. This is why I am prepared to
support the University in all of its
endeavors. I urge all who are inter-ested
in the perpetuation of Jewish
life to join me in giving their fullest
support to the University of Judaism."
An Open Letter & Appeal
To the Friends of the
University of Judaism
The School of Fine Arts has
undertaken a most ambitious pro-gram
as its way of honoring the
memory of the late dean of the
School, Max Helfman. We have
devoted our energy and our funds
to arrange for a concert at the
Shrine Auditorium on Sunday even-ing,
March 22, when we will pre-sent
the life and works of Mr.
Helfman, as "The World of Max
Helfman." We must sell 6,000
seats and I regret to yay that our
friends have not yet ordered tickets
anywhere near this amount.
May I ;isl: you now, in as per-sonal
a way as I can, to please
call the University of Judaism and
order tickets for yourself and lor
your friends. When you call ask
for the Concert Office. This can be
otic of the most beautiful and mem-orable
programs yet presented to
the Los Angeles community. It
would be a great pity if you were
to be absent through negligence or
indifference.
Cordially,
Max Vorspan
TV Program To Feature
Music of Max Helfman
The music of Max Helfman will
be performed by tin- Cantors Ensem-ble,
with Soprano Estelle Marlov and
Soloist Cantors participating, on a
special television program broadcast
over KCOP TV (Channel 13) Tues-day
morning, March 17th, 9:45.
A panel of three Cantors, Leon
Bennett, Samuel Fordis and Saul
Silverman will discuss their per-sonal
experiences with Max Helfman,
late dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Joseph L. Judson Appointed
University Estate Planner
Dr. David Lieb-er
has announced
the appointment
of Mr. Joseph L.
Judson as Estate
Planner for the
for the University
of Judaism. Mr.
Juds.m will work
in this area with
Mr. Saul Rubin,
Director of Devel-opment
and a lay
committee.
Mr. Judson has served the Univer-sity
for the last six years as its Busi-ness
Administrator and will continue
to serve in that capacity. He is as-suming
this new assignment in addi-tion
to his present duties. In addition,
Mr. Judson serves as Administrative
Director of United Synagogue and has
served as Business Administrator of
Camp Raman.
In amounting this appointment Dr.
Lieber stated - "The Estate Planning
Program is of great importance for
the future growth of the University
and its orderly development. It alone
can provide the secure basis of support
the University requires to meet its
needs."
To date in excess of one-half mil-lion
dollars has been bequeathed to
the University. Generous bequests
have thus far been made by Messrs.
S. Fryer, L. Zanville, A. Skovnan, J.
Fligelman and Dr. Backlar.
Capacity Crowd Attends
University's Salute to
National Jewish Music Month
More than 500 people jammed into
the University's new theater as the
School of Fine Arts saluted National
Jewish Music Month witli a Sin-fonietta
Concert, Sunday afternoon,
March 1st.
Featured on the program was the
Los Angeles Premiere of Felix Men-delssohn's,
"Ninth Symphony for
Strings," and the Los Angeles Pre-miere
of "Migrations of a Melody,"
composed by Y. L. Peretz and adapted
by Robert Strassburg and Cantor Sam-uel
Kelemer. Cantor Kelemer of B'nai
Shalom Synagogue, was narrator and
soloist foi the performance of the
composition.
Other works presented were Grieg's,
"Holberg Suite," with Bertha A. Eg-loff,
Sophie Schiller, and Paul Strass-burg
as soloists; and, Alexander Bosco-vich's,
"Piccola Suite for Flute and
Strings." Boscovich's work was choreo-graphed
by Tsvia Alm:>g, with Sylvia
Greenfield as flutist.
Robert Strassburg of the School
of Fine Arts is conductor of the
Sinfonietta.
The event was sponsored by the
University Women.
Educational Seminar
At UCLA
A seminar on Interpersonal Relations
is being offered at UCLA to members
of the University of Judaism faculty
as the result of a grant made possible
by Mr. Jack G. Schapiro.
The seminar is being conducted by
Professor Frank F. Tallman and is
expected to lead to new directions and
techniques in the Jewish educational
process.
Ramah Annual Year Book
Dedicated to Allan Ziegler
Mr. Allan Zieg-ler,
University
Board of Over-seers
member, is
being honored
this year by Camp
Ramah with the
Ramah Annual
Year Book being
dedicated to him.
For the past
seven years Mr.
Ziegler has been
one of R a mail's
staunchest supporters and most active
vice presidents. He is currently the
executive vice president of Sinai Tem-ple,
and a member of the University's
executive committee.
The University's
Patrons Society Expands
The Patrons Society is comprised of
men and women whose support of the
University makes posible the continu-ing
expansion of this great institution.
Perhaps the greatest factor responsible
for this expansion is the growth of
the Society.
New additions to the Patrons So-ciety
this year are: Alex Abramson,
Victor Aleck, Max Dworsky, Samuel
Farkas, William Fingerhut, Harry
Friedman, Joseph Goldberg, Sanford
R. Goodkin, Frank Horny, Ben Lax,
Michael Kant/.ler, Reuben Kat/, Ar-nold
Leader, Irving Niedorf, Abbey
Paul, Ben Seewaek, Nathan Shapell,
Murray Sporn, J. D. Sterling, Ben
Tufeld, Martin Waishrcn, William
Warnick.
Max Dworsky William Fingerhut
J. 0. Sterling Martin Wiitbnn
MARCH, 1964 PAGE 3
Editorial —
The Library of the University of Judaism
BY Louis Sni'ii
The Library of
the University of
Judaism aims pri-m
a r i l y to meet
the needs of the
students of the
various depart-ments
and of re-seareh
scholars in
the field of Ju-claica
generally.
The original Li-brary
of twenty-five
hundred vol-umes
was based on the generous con-tribution
made by the Library of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of Amer-ica
in New York. This collection con-sisted
in large measure, of books from
the Morris D. Levine Memorial Li-brary
and the Hyman G. Enelow
Memorial Library.
The Library has grown consistent-ly
and today approximates more than
30,000 volumes. This growth was
realized with the establishment of
the Moses and Hannah Tannenbaum
collection made possible by the gift
of $13,000 by David and Leon Tan-enbaum
in memory of their parents,
and Robert Brilliant in memory of his
grandparents. In addition, there is
the Herman Hrickman Endowment
Fund of $5,000 that has permitted the
expansion of the Education Division
which now contains 2,000 volumes of
both Jewish and general content.
Incorporated in the Library are
several collections which have con-siderably
enhanced many departments
of our Library.
Our 3,000 volume Hebraic collec-tion
of Literary History, Literary Criti-cism,
Middle Ages and Modern Poetry
and Prose, was enriched by the pri-vate
400 volume Library of the late
Mr. Aaron M. Tonnis. The 15,000
volume collection of Theology, Philos-ophy,
Rabbinics, History and Archeol-ogy
now includes 2,000 volumes from
the personal library of Dr. Jacob
Kohn; 1,000 volumes from the li-braries
of the late Dr. Louis Gins-berg
and Dr. Alexander Marx; 200
volumes received from the library of
the late Lewis Browne also constitutes
a significant contribution to this area.
Our Social Science Department of
2,000 volumes contains the collection
of the hi1-" Or Ploilip—JvL'ini*"', whose
wife contributed major encyclopedias
in the field.
Important contributions of History
and 19th century Rabbinical Litera-ture
have been made by Dr. Justin G.
Turner, Chairman of the Board of
Governors of the Library. These in-clude
ten volumes on the Nuremberg
Trial, "Nazi Conspiracy and Agfircs-sion,"
which is a part of our 250
volume section on the "Literature of
the Catastrophe." A major addition
to our 4,000 volume History collection
was made by Dr. Arnold Wiznitzer,
who contributed a large1 number of
boks in the field of Latin American
History, both Jewish and general.
Two major collections in the Yiddish
Language were donated by I. Singer
and Leon Meltzer. Mr. Singer's col-lection
revolves primarily around the
Jewish Labor Movement in the United
Statees and Europe, Jewish Life in the
USSR, and Jewish Education. Mr.
Meltzer's library predominantly rich
in classical and contemporary Yiddisli
fiction and poetry, was integrated into
our 2,000 volume Yiddish collection
that was built up through gifts from
Y1VO and the Valley Jewish Com-munity
Center.
The Library also houses the private
Judaica collection of Dr. David Aron-son,
which is at the disposal of the
student body.
A Fine Arts collection of Jewish and
general interest, contains 1,000 vol-umes
on Art, Music, Drama and
Literature.
In addition to the 30,000 volumes
in the Library there is a special col-lection
of approximately 10,000 pam-phlets,
topically separated into 110
subjects, on all phases of Jewish life.
The Library also contains at 17 year
clipping collection of the New York
TIMES since 1947, dealing with all
pertinent material on Israel and the
Middle East, as well as material re-lating
to other phases of Jewish life.
The Periodical Department now con-sists
of 135 periodicals divided into
the following categories: Bible, Ar-chaeology,
History, Judaica, Educa-tion,
Israel and the Middle East, He-braica,
Yiddish, Current Aqairs, and
Organizational Magazine.
Plans are now in progress to in-crease
the number of volumes in the
Library to 100,000 by 1970.
The School of Fine Arts
Benjamin Zemach, director of the
Theatre Arts Department, of the School
of Fine Arts, announces the formation
of a Folk Dance Center under the
direction of Dani Dassa, noted chor-eographer.
The Center includes a
teaching program for prospective in-structors
and a professional perform-ing
troupe, as well as a course for lay-men.
Mr. Dassa and his Dance Com-pany
are prepared to present pro-grams
of colorful dances based on
Biblical themes, Hassidic Folklore
and Modern Israel, for Jewish and
other organizations. The troupe will
make its first public appearance, under
the sponsorship of the University of
Judaism, at an Israel Independence
Day Celebration on April 19.
Special Art Exhibit from Israel -
The Visual Arts Department of the
School of Fine Arts is proud to an-nounce
the exhibition of the paint-ings
of the noted Israeli artist, David
Gilboa, of Jerusalem and Safad. The
paintings will be exhibited in the
iu-\\ gallery of the University of
Judaism from March 25 through April
10. Als.) during the month of April
a major exhibition of the work of one
of America's foremost graphic artists,
and Dean of American Negro artists,
Charles White, will be presented. In
cooperation with the Heritage Gallery
of Los Angeles, the exhibition will be
known as "The Art of Charles White"
and will remain on view until April
30.
Tsvia Alinog, Yemenite singer, who
came to this country witli the famous
Inbal Dance Company, is currently
performing at the Ash Grove, noted
folk center.
University's Speech Clinic — Under
the leadership of Dr. Hal Bargelt,
noted speech pathologist, the School
of Fine Arts Speech Clinic has been
thriving. In each of the three divi-sions,
in which c mrscs for Rabbis
and Cantors, Drama students, and a
special class for the foreign born,
there has been a marked increase in
enrollment. New and larger quarters
for an expanded Speech Department,
has been designated in the lower level
of the University, and it is hoped that
soon the clinic can be moved to its
permanent quarters.
Seminary Professor to
Lecture at University
Dr. H. L. Ginsberg, Sabato Morais
Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theo-logical
Seminary of America and one
of the foremost Bible experts in the
world will deliver the lecture, "Sar-gon's
Shadow Over Jerusalem: New
Light on the Prophecies of Isaiah,"
on Tuesday evening, March 10th, at
the University.
The lecture will be presented in
Hebrew to the Faculty and Student
body of the College of Judaica and
the Hebrew Teachers College. The
public is cordially invited.
Roy Harris' Present
University Concerts
The well know American composer
Roy Harris and pianist Johana Harris
will present the third of five Sunday
evening concerts titled "Three Cen-turies
of Keyboard Music," at the
University Theater, March 8th.
Among the work to be played by
Mrs. Harris and interpreted by Dr.
Harris, are: Bach's "Organ Prelude
& Fugue in D", Kuhnau's Sonata "The
Fight Between David & Goliath",
Franz Schubert's "Variations Op. 90",
Milhaud's "Le Candelabra a Sept
Branches".
Three remaining concerts are sche-duled
to be given at 8:30 p.m. March
8th, April 5th, and May 10th. A limit-ed
number of seats are available in the
new University Theater. For ticket
information please call HO 3-1161.
Israeli Government Buys
University TV Program
The Israeli Government, through its
Los Angeles Consulate, has selected
(lie University's half-hour Insight tele-vision
program, "Africa-Israel Rela-tions,"
to be shown throughout the
world as a public information film.
The program which aired this past
Kail over KNXT, Los Angeles, was
written by Ruth Whitman Ehrlich and
produced by Louis Rudolph. Saul
Rubin, Director of Development at
the University, was Executive Pro-ducer.
Editorial Board of Min lla-Maarav, Literary Hebrew Student Annual of the
University, standing, gather with Dr. Lieber, seated, to discuss their forth-coming
edition. Left to Right: Dvora Komisar, Assistant Editor; \elnula Drori,
staff member; Dr. David Gross, Factdty Advisor; Michael Singer, Editor;
Avshalom Cohen, staff member; and Irachmiel Tans, Secretary.
Tlie publication, printed in Hebrew, contains literary works by outstanding
University students on a vast array of topics including research essays, belles
lettres and vignettes.
L to R: Israeli Council General Mordecai Slialev, accepts Insight film from
Bol> Wood, V-P and General Manager of KNXT. Dr. David Lieber and Leon
Drew, station manager, look on.
PAGE 4 MARCH, 1964
Ethics Television Panel
Appears Live
A unique experiment lias been un-veiled
as tlie first of four open forums,
based on the Karl Warren Institute ot
Ethics and Human Relations' televi-sion
program ETHICS, was presented
at the University, February 24th.
"Crime and Punishment," a program
concerning itself with the ethics of
capital punishment and aired the
preceding day on KNBC-TV was the
topic of the first open forum.
Future Forum Programs are: "The
House \\'e Live In,,' Air-Date: Sun-day,
April 5th; Forum: Monday, April
6th; "War and Peace", Air-Date: Sun-day,
April 12th; Forum: Monday,
April 13th; "Koligi:>u in the Public
Schools", Air-Date: Sunday, April
2fith; Forum: Monday, April 27th.
Chairman of the Forum is promi-nent
Beverly Hills attorney Rob-ert
Felixson, newly appointed chair-man
of the Board of (Governors of
the Kail Warren Institute.
Dr. Dinin Address'
Seattle Groups
Dr. Samuel Dinin, Dean of Facul-ties
anil Vice President of the Uni-versity
recently addressed two groups
in Seattle, Washington.
On February 3rd, the University
Professor spoke at the Herzl Con-servative
Congregation on, "The Quest
For Identity."
On February 4th, Dr. Dinin ad-dressed
a community conference com-posed
of members of the three major
faiths on "Religion and Welfare —
A New Look at the Old Partnership."
Attending and sponsoring the con-ference,
were representatives of the
Creator Seattle Council of Churches,
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, the
Federated Jewish Fund, Seattle Pacific
College, and the Council of Plan-ning
Affiliates.
Dr. Dinin is the editor of the pub-lication,
JKWISH EDUCATION, and
author of JUDAISM IN A CHANC-INC
CIVILIZATION.
L to R: Lou Shnli, Director of Library, left, Dr. David Lieber, President of
the University, center, look on an (mother Meyer Levin presents cony of lii.i
Intent book, "The Fanatic" to the University.
Frisco Congregations
Honor Dr. Lieber
A reception honoring Dr. David
Lieber was held on March 5th, at
the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
The affair was co-sponsared by the
University and the Northwest Region
of the United Synagogue of America.
The reception committee, headed
by Dr. Abraham Bernstein, presi-dent
of the Northwest region, in-cluded:
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
and Samuel P. Kasclan, president, of
Congregation Beth Abraham; Rabbi
Elliot M. Burstein and Ezra Battat,
president, of Congregation Beth Jacob;
Rabbi William Z. ' Dalin and Karl
D. Lyon, president, of Congrega-tion
Ner Tamid; Rabbi Saul E. White
and Jesse Levin, president, of Congre-gation
Beth Shalom; and Steve Singer,
Executive Director of the Region.
Redwood City Congregation
Honors Dr. Vorspan
Temple Beth Jacob of Redwood
City sponsored a reception in honor
of Dr. Max Vorspan on February 16th.
The reception was held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben David of
Atherton. Chairman of the function, at
which both Dr. Vorspan and Uni-versity
Campaign Chairman Ben Lax
spoke, was Mrs. David Lnbree.
The following became contributors
to the University from Redwood
City: Dr. and Mrs. S. Roland, Spon-sors;
Messrs. Ben David and Nat
Landes, Donors; Dr. V. Sborov and
Col. and Mrs. D. Reina, Fellows.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
March 8th
Roy and Johana Harris Interpreted
Concert at University.
March 9th
Rosemary Shut-hart Backlar lecture
at University.
March 10th
Dr. H. L. Ginsberg lecture at Uni-versity.
March 15th
Founders Day Dinner, International
Hotel.
March 22nd
"The World of Max Helfman,"
Shrine Auditorium.
"Jews In Israel and the World
Over" Topic of Third Faculty
Lecture Series
The third group of lectures of this
year Faculty Lecture Series will begin
on April 7th at the University.
In this series, the lectures will be
concerned with "Jews in Israel and
the World Over."
On April 7th, Mr. Louis Shub,
Director of the Library will speak on
"The World of Modern Israel, (Let-ters
to the Editor in the Israeli
Press.)"
On April 14th, Dr. Dan Almagor,
a Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Litera-ture,
will talk on "The Theatre in
Israel."
On April 21st, Dr. Wolfe Leslau,
Professor of Hebrew and Semitic
Linguistics at the University of Juda-ism
and Chairman of the Department
of Near Eastern and African Lan-guages
at UCLA, will lecture on, "The
World of the Falashas."
On April 28th, Dr. Morris Lieb-man,
Assistant Professor of Education
at the University and Executive Direc-tor
of the Bureau of Jewish Education
of Greater Los Angeles, will lecture
on, "Jewish Wit and Humor."
The Faculty Lecture Series is an
annual series of public lectures by the
Graduate School Faculty of the Uni-versity.
Admission for a series of
four lectures is One Dollar. Single
lecture admission is 50 cents.
Backlar Lecture (Cont'd)
bursts That Await Us." He has con-tributed
to the leading journals of
opinion, among them COMMEN-TARY,
THE NATION, and CHRIS-TIAN
CENTURY.
The Rosemary Shut-hart Backlar
Lecture strives to present publicly, the
cultural and spiritual contributions of
the Jewish people to the world in
general, and the Western World in
particular, in order to bring to the
attention of the general connrunity,
the contribution of the Jewish Pecple.
It endeavors to encourage Jews not
only to take pride in their heritage,
but also to strive to preserve it and
live by its principles.
The lecture is open to the public-.
Admission is free.
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Chairman of Faculties
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