Warren to Launch University TV Series on Ethics
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UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM
Volume 2 Number 1 January 10, 1963
WARREN INSTITUTE TALKS
Series Opens
On Extremism
Trends toward extremism throughout American life
are being analyzed by leading scholars from all over the
nation in a series of 11 weekly lectures which started Thurs-day,
Jan. 10, under auspices of the
Earl Warren Institute of Ethics
PROF. HYMAN
. . . moderator of seminar . . .
Dr. Ant to Speak
at Founders Event
Dr. Max Arzt, vice-chancellor
of the Jewish Theological Sem-inary
of America, will be honor-ed
guest and principal speaker
at the 15th annual Founders
Day dinner of the University of
Judaism.
The event will be held Sun-day,
March 31 in the Embassy
Room of the Ambassador Hotel.
Announcement of the speaker,
place and date was made as this
issue of the News-Bulletin went
to press.
Additional details will be an-nounced
shortly.
and Human Relations of the Uni-versity
of Judaism.
Initial speaker was Prof. Mi-chael
Scriven of the department
of history and logic of science, In-diana
University, and a fellow of
the Center for Advanced Study
in the Behavioral Sciences, Stan-ford,
Calif.
His subject was "Extremism and
Religion". Subsequent Thursday
evening lectures deal with such
areas as national security, poli-t
i c s, philosophy, conservatism,
psychodynamics, architecture, ra-dicalism,
mass media and the mil-itary.
SPERLING CHAIRMAN
Prof. Harold M. Hyman of UC-LA's
history department is mod-
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which film producer Milton Sper
ling is chairman and attornej
Martin Gang, co-chairman.
Subsequent series lectures in
elude such noted authorities as
Dr. Bernard Brodie, RAND Corp.
Prof. David Chalmers, University
of Florida; Prof. David Eitzen
Claremont; Prof. Arnold Kaufman
University o f Michigan; Prof
John Jacobus, U.C. at Berkeley
Prof. Page Smith, UCLA; Prof
Frank Vandiver, Rice University
Philip Kerby, editor of Frontier.
Prof. Hyman, series chairman
said, "This series will focus the
attention of thoughtful American
on the growing tendency towarc
increasingly polarized viewpoints
and positions in American life."
Julius Fligelman, chairman ol
the university's board of over-seers,
recalled that the Earl War-ren
Institute was established after
the Chief Justice's speech on July
4, 1961, at a University of Juda-ism
dinner.
U of J And Area
Leaders Greet
Dr. Finkelstein
DR. KAPLAN LAUDS UJ PROGRESS
Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan,
"founding father" of the Univer-sity
of Judaism, has lauded "the
marvelous progress of the Univer-sity
as reflected in the News-
Bulletin."
In a letter to Julius Fligelman,
Dr. Kaplan commented on the last
issue of the News-Bulletin and the
Earl Warren Institute brochure
about the "Extremism" lecture
series. The progress reflected, Dr.
Kaplan wrote, "is unquestionably
the result of the realism, vision
and devotion expressed in the
statements concerning the univer-sity
by you and Dr. Simon Green-berg."
In a special tribute to Mr. Flig-elman,
Dr. Kaplan stated: "That
you accepted the chairmanship of
the Board of Overseers at my urg-ing
is source of great happiness
to me. You seem to be a veritable
catalyst in activating creative for-ces
in the West Coast Jewish
Community."
DR. KAPLAN
letter to Mr. Fligelman
DR. GREENBERG DR. FINKELSTEIN
. . . welcome to Seminary Chancellor . . .
Spring Semester Offers
More Than 125 Courses
The spring semester of the University of Judaism, which
will begin in the second week of February, 1963, will find
the university offering a grand total of more than 125 cours-es
through the scholarly contributions of approximately 70
instructors.
Of these courses, 14 will be offered in the Graduate
School. The Graduate School, <
which keys its courses to profes-sionally
trained Jewish leaders—
rabbis, educators, communal work-ers—
has on its faculty the finest
academic minds on the West Coast.
From UCLA we have Dr. Jonas
Greenfield, Prof. Wolf Leslau and
Prof. Moshe Perlmann; from our
own faculty we have Dr. David
Aronson, Dr. Samuel Dinin, Dr.
David Gross, Dr. Jacob Kohn, Dr.
David Lieber and Dr. David Win-ston.
The Teachers College and Col-ege
of Judaica will be offering
approximately 30 courses. The
Teachers College trains prospec-ive
teachers for our congrega-ional
and religious schools. All
professionally trained teachers on
he West Coast study in this de-partment
to attain their requisite
competence in subject matter and
n pedagogy. The College of Jud-aica
is aimed at boys and girls
who wish to continue their educa-ion
either in the Teachers College
>r as rabbis, or in other forms of
professional training.
PROUD RECORD
The School of the Fine Arts is
offering 30 courses. Students in
his school are studying in the
ields of music, drama, dance, or
he visual arts. Some hope to
each, others to attain to excel-lency
in their art, some are in-terested
in self expression under
the.fine instructors at the Univer-city
of Judaism.
The University Institute of Jew-ish
Studies, which is the adult ed-ucation
arm of our school, offers
some 60 courses at the University
of Judaism and its 15 branches.
Here is the school aimed at edu-cating
the layman, the Jew. Klal
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Both Jewish and general
community leaders through-out
the Southland honored
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor
of the Jewish Theological Semin-ary
of America, on his visit to Los
Angeles, Monday and Tuesday,
Jan. 7-8.
The seminary is the parent in-stitution
of the University of Jud-aism,
with whose leaders and
friends Dr. Finkelstein conferred
during his two-day stay.
Lay and spiritual leaders of the
Conservative Movement from syn-agogues
all over the Southland
feted Dr. Finkelstein at a dinner
Monday at 6:30 p.m. in Hollywood
Temple Beth El. In charge of din-ner
ar'iangoiiicnf^ \vorc Irving
Dubin, and Fred Fine, chairmen
of the Congregational Cabinet.
RECEPTION COMMITTEE
They were assisted by Dr. Ar-nold
Naftalin, Maurice Rosen, Da-vid
Sellman, Irving Weinberger
and Victor Horwitz.
An invited list of general com-munity
leaders greeted the chan-cellor
Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at a
cocktail reception at the Hillcrest
Country Club.
A reception committee to host
Dr. Finkelstein in Los Angeles
was announced by Dr. Victor
Goodhill, chairman of the Patrons
Society, and Julius Fligelman,
chairman of the board of over-seers
of the University of Judaism.
Members included Matthew Ber-man,
executive vice chairman of
the board of overseers; Lewis E.
Pennish, chairman of the board of
governors; Mrs. Mildred Allen-berg,
Isadore Familian, Isadore
Levine, Ben Swig, Mrs. Maurice
Turner, and Arthur Whizin, vice
chairmen of the board of over-seers;
Anatole Ponve, president,
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Samuel A. Fryer Building
VOLUME 2 — NUMBER 1 January 10, 1963
OFFICERS
Dr. Louis Finkelstein Chancellor, Jewish
Theological Seminary of America
Dr. Simon Greenberg... - ...President
Julius Fligelman .Chairman, Board of Overseers
Matthew Herman Executive Vice-Chairman,
Board of Overseers
Lewis E. Pennish Chairman, Board of Governors
Dr. Samuel Dinin.... .Dean
Vice-Chairmen, Board of Overseers: Mrs. Mildred Allen-berg,
Isadore Familian, Isadore Leyine, Benjamin Swig,
Mrs. Maurice Turner, Arthur Whizin.
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Henry Brandler, Bernard
Burton, Peter Grant, Ben J. Lax, Joe Nathanson,
Eric Ray, Saul Rubin, Dr. Max Vorspan.
The University of Judaism, West Coast school, Jewish
Theological Seminary of America, is accredited by both
the Middle States and Western States Associations of
Colleges.
6525 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles 28, California
Hollywood 3-1161
Letter to My Friends
By JULIUS FLIGELMAN
For the past 30 years and more I have been involved
in a host of Jewish organizations and activities. Friends
have wondered at my frenetic pace. It has stemmed from
my philosophy of Jewish life. Believing as I do that Juda-ism
is a many-faceted, constantly evolving Jewish civiliza-tion,
I have been irresistibly drawn to every positive and
constructive force that could use my help. I have been a
consistent "yah /ager" for every healthy Jewish purpose.
My friends have also noticed that in recent years my
activities have been crystalizing more and more about a
core, a unifying influence, a
central institution. This has
not been with me an errant
impulse, nor was it pressed
upon me. I believe that it
has rather been the logical,
a l m o s t inevitable develop-ment
of a lifetime of reading,
thinking and articulating of
the real needs of Jewish life.
Briefly stated my ideas
have developed along the fol-lowing
lines:
The motivations for Jew-ish
life will be far different
for my children's children
than they have been for me.
I have spent my adult life in
a Period of Jewish crisis. My
Jewish activities have been
motivated and influenced by major upheavals in Europe
and Israel which have decisively shaped the currents of
American Jewish life. Physical needs, holocausts, emergen-cies
and philanthropy do not need to be reasoned, argued,
or rationalized. A situation literally cries out for remedy
and the Jewish heart responds.
# # *
God grant that Jewish life in the coming generations
be founded and birthed upon a softer couch. In free soci-eties
which we trust will emerge, what of our Jewish com-munities?
What of Jewish life without crisis? In my opin-ion
we will then be facing the real challenge to our future.
Our children will have to be persuaded as we did not
have to be. They will have to be persuaded because we had
no alternative to Jewish identification and they will have.
They will have to be convinced that Judaism in the 20th
and 21st centuries possesses the profundity, the sophistica-tion,
the intellectual and emotional depths, the rich nutri-ents
that can nourish a college-trained, scientifically ori-ented
generation. In a word, Judaism will have to meet the
test not of crisis but of relevance — relevance of Judaism
to their lives and to the life of the larger A m e r i c a n
non-Jewish community.
I for my part find relevance in the complex of schol-arship,
idealism teaching and planning which makes up the
University of Judaism. I have determined that in its devel-opment
I will be making my most secure and my most
permanent and ultimately most meaningful contribution to
the Jewish life of the aees.
PI i 'i \i\v
Torch Event to Host
Dr. Murphy, Sam Jafte
Chancellor and Mrs. Franklin Murphy of UCLA and Sam Jaffe, distinguished actor
who plays Dr. Zorba on the Ben Casey TV series, will be among the honored guests and
speakers at this year's Torah Fund Luncheo n of the Pacific Southwest Branch of the Na-tional
Women's League.
With the luncheon scheduled to take pla ce at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, Feb. 7,
Mrs. Jules Wail of Valley Jewish j
Community C e n t e r , vivacious
branch president, predicted that
this year's luncheon "will be one
of the most successful
More than 1200 woi
pected to altend.
ever.
are ex-
The luncheon will mark the cul- I
ruination of the year's intensive j
campaign of support for the Jew- ;
ish Theological Seminary and the i
University of Judaism. "In that '
campaign,1' Mrs. Wail smiled, "our |
region led the entire country in
the number of C'hal benefactors."
BRANCH 1,KADKRS
How was the distinction gained?
Mrs. Wail characteristicaly cred-its
"all those wonderful, devoted
women in our sisterhood." But she
speaks with special warmth of the
work of such branch leaders as
Mrs. David Kuris of Temple Beth
Am, vice president of the branch
and regional chairman of Torah
Fund, who "spearheaded the cam-paign";
Mrs. Joseph Brown, also
of Beth Am; Mrs. Joseph Wagner,
program chairman and wife of the
spiritual leader of Hollywood Tem-ple
Beth El; Mrs. Jacob Pressman,
national vice chairman and adviser
to the campaign, who is the wife
of the spiritual leader of Beth Am;
Mrs. Marcus Mandel of West Los
Angeles Synagogue, Chayay Ola-m
(life everlasting) chairman; Mrs.
Ferd Hechinger of Haym Solomon
Synagogue, Chai chairman, and
Mrs. Louis Freeman of West-chester
Synagogue, member oi the
national executive committee for
the Torah Fund.
Details of the luncheon pro-gram
have not yet been announ-ced,
but Mrs. Wagner, program
chairman, promises that it will bo
"one of the most rewarding that
we have ever had."
GUKST OF LAIVIKS—Sain .lafJe, in his Dr. Zorba smock on TV
of Ben Casey, accepts invitation to Torah Kund Truncheon Feb. 7
from, left, Mrs. David Kuris, regional chairman of Torah Fund,
and Mrs. Joseph Wagner, program chairman.
Dr. Greenberg to Address
Rabbinical Assembly Meet
Dr. Simon Greenberg will give a major address at ihr
annual conference of the Western States Region of the
Rabbinical Assembly of America early in February.
The conference, representing Conservative rabbis from
--^throughout the West, will nn-ot
DR. FBNKELSTEIN
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Ben Soewack, past president, and
Palm Springs.
Theme of the conference, ac-cording
to Rabbi Paul Dubin, re-gional
president, is "Toward Uni-
Dr. Sendrey's
Works on Jewish
Music Are Lauded
1)7\ Alfred Sendrey's "Bibliogra-phy
of Jewish Music," published
by Columbia Press, is the compre-hensive
reference work being
used by the University of Jerusa-lem's
Music Division as a guide in
forming one of the world's great
libraries of musical Judaiea.
Dr. Sendrey is associated with
the School of the Fine Arts of the
University of Judaism, where he
teaches the History and Bibliogra-phy
of Jewish music at the gradu-ate
level, and acts as consultant
to the Ph.D. candidates in the Mu-sic
Department.
Dr. Sendrey's music career began
in his native Hungary at the Roy-al
Academy of Budapest. He later
studied musicology at Leipzig Uni-versity
where he received a Ph.D.
After World War I, he directed the
Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, as
well as the musical activities of
the Leipxig Broadcasting Station.
Dr. Sendrey's works include nu-merous
symphonies and chamber
music compositions, as well as ar-ticles
and texts on conducting, ra-dio
broadcasting and musicology.
Early this spring 250,000 copies of
the first popular "History of Jew-ish
Music" will appear in paper-back,
published by Heritage Press.
Simultaneously, an extensive stu-dy
of the "History of Jewish Mu-sic"
for the scholar will appear in
hard-cover edition. A European
edition will be published by Breit-kops
and Havtel this winter.
Reuben Katx, treasurer, of Holly- fjed, Common Rabbinic Practices."
wood Temple Beth El; Fred Fine A representative of the National
and Irving Dubin. chairmen of the j Rabbinical Assembly will also ad-dress
the group.
rON'FKRKNC-K OFFK'RRS
With rabbis expected to attend
('ongregational Cabinet.
SAN FRANCISCO
In San Francisco, leaders of
Conservative Jewish congregations from as far away as Canada and
throughout the San Francisco Bay | Texas, conference officers have al-area
hosted Dr. Fmkelstein at. a j ,.eady beon named to facilitate ar-dinner
in his honor Wednesday, rangemen1s. Rabbi Joseph Wagner
Jan. 9 in the Terrace Room of the
Fairmont Hotel.
With Benjamin H.
and community leader, presiding,
the event served to confer the co-veted
Louis Marshall Award upon
Dr. Abraham Bernstein, disting-uished
San Francisco surgeon.
seph Wagner
is program chairman, and Rabbi
j Marvin Bornstein is arrangements
Swig, civic chairman.
Conference committee members
are Rabbis Kalman Friedman,
Paul Dubin, Matthew Simon,
Fredric Kazan, Ben Zion Berg-man,
Edward Tenenbaum and Jo-in
addition, the University of seph Hurwitz.
Judaism Merit Award was con-ferred
upon Herman Hertz of
Oakland, prominent business and
Rabbi Hurwitz, spiritual leader
of Temple Isaiah in Palm Springs,
has arranged a banquet in honor
service leader, for his efforts on j of the rabbis at the host temple,
behalf of that institution. Among questions to be discussed
The Louis Marshall Award, at the meetings will be rending
named after the famous constitu-tional
lawyer who was chairman
of the board of the Seminary for
25 years, is conferred upon indi-viduals
who have made outstand-ing
contributions to the Jewish
community.
BAY C'OMMITTEK
Reception committee for Dr.
Finkelstein, with Mr. Swig as
chairman, consisted of Rabi Elliott
M. Burstein, Temple Beth Israel;
Rabi David B. Coren, Temple Kol
Shofar; Rabbi William Z. Dalin,
Temple Ner Tarn id; Jaseph Dorf-practices
and other observances to-ward
a more meaningful Sabbath.
Ner Tamid; Dr. Jacob S. Margo-liash,
Temple Kol Shofar; Rabbi
Harold M. Schulweiss, Temple
Beth Abraham; Rabbi Herbert D.
Teitelbaum, Temple Beth Jacob;
Rabbi Saul E. White, Temple Beth
Sholom; Rabbi John J. Zucker,
Temple Beth Sholom; and Maurice
Hamberger, Temple Beth Israel.
Distinguished service certificates
for activities on behalf of their
synagogues were conferred upon
man, Temple Beth Abraham; Ben | congregational presidents and past
Friend, Temple Beth Israel; Paul
Fulton, Temple Beth Jacob; Cole-man
M. Herts, Temple Beth Sho-lom;
Judah Landes, T e m p l e
Kol Emeth; Rabbi Harry Leven-berg;
Jesse Levin, Temple Beth
Scholom; Karl D. Lyon, Temple
presidents.
Besides his leadership of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, Dr. Finkelstein is na-tionally
known as president of the
Conference on Science, Philosophy
and Religion. <
January TO, 1963 UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM NEWS-BULLETIN Page Three
Warren to Launch University TV Series on Ethics
Are There Standards?
By DR. SIMON GREENBERG
No statement is more difficult to challenge than the
one that pronounces Mr. A to be as "good a Jew" as Mr.
B, even though Mr. A does not do or know this or that
which Mr. B does know or do. I wonder whether we are
ready to say the same about Jewish communities!
It seems obvious that we would all agree that all other
things being equal, a community that was concerned with
the Jewish education of its children, that encouraged Jew-ish
scholarship, that nurtured Jewish religious piety, whose
adults had a good knowledge of Jewish History, Literature
and Thought was a better Jewish community than one
that did not.
Why should we not apply the same standards for
judging ourselves as individuals? Why should we not say
that, all things being equal,
a Jew who is informed Jew-ishly,
who supports Jewish
religious institutions a n d
participates in their activi-ties,
who helps to establish
and maintain institutions of
Jewish learning and encour-ges
Jewish scholars in their
I'esearch, is a better Jew
than one who does not?
# * #
The Prophets and the rab-bis
after them have made it
quite clear that as between
the Jew who "serves" God
but does not serve man, and
the one who serves man but
does not "serve" God, God
prefers the one who serves
man. But far bettor than either of them is the Jew who
does both, who "loves mercy and walks humbly with God."
That is the kind of a Jew the University of Judaism
strives to nurture. Let us not be satisfied with being as
good a Jew as the next one. We should seek to attain the
highest standards that our Prophets, Saints and Sages
J>R. SIMON* GREENBERG
Dr. Jacoby Named to Chair
USA Council on Education
Dr. Emil Jacoby, widely known
Director of Education of the Val-ley
Jewish Community Center, has
been unanimously elected chair-man
of the United Synagogue Re-gional
Council on Jewish Educa-tion
to succeed Rabbi Julian M.
White.
Rabbi White, council chairman
for the last eight years, has now
assumed the post of consultant: to
the Conservative Congregational
Schools for the Bureau of Jewish
Education, but will continue also
as a member of the regional coun-cil.
It numbers 18 educators drawn
primarily from four groups- -the
University of Judaism, Rabbinical
Assembly of America, Bureau of
Jewish Education and from among
education directors of Conserva-tive
Congregational Schools.
COUNCIL MEMBERS
The council, meeting monthly
with frequent interim sub-commit-tee
sessions, innovates and imple-ments,
co-ordinates and evaluates
various projects and educational
efforts of the many arms of the
Conservative Movement in the
Greater Los Angeles ai'ea.
Jt plans and conducts annual
teacher conferences, student con-claves
and encampments, and has
been instrumental in raising edu-cational
standai'ds and for project-ing
the Bar and Bat Mitzvah ac-creditation
of school programs,
soon to be further implemented.
Los Angeles Hebrew High
School, the United Synagogue
Youth Program and Camp Raman
have been aided by these profes-sional
educators.
Council members, in addition to
Dr. Jacoby and Rabbi White, in-clude
Dr. Moshe Bailis, Sol Beck-erman,
Dr. Samuel Dinin, dean of
the University of Judaism; Rtitabi
Fredric Kazan, Dr. Zachary Kur-man,
Dr. David Lieber, Dov Peleg,
Mrs. Ayola Reiss, associate regi-strar
of the University of Juda-ism;
Rabbi Harry Silverstein, Dr.
Michael Slatinsky, Eliezer Slomo-vic,
Rabbi Martin Sofer, Irvvin
Soref, Miss Ronnie Tofield, Dr.
Max Vorspan, registrar of the
University of Judaism, and Rabbi
Joseph Wagner.
SPRING TERM
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Vi.sroel. It is estimated that in its
15 years, as many as 7500 indivi-duals
have studied at the Univer-sity
of Judaism in one or another
of its departments.
In addition, more than 50 cour-ses
will be given at the following
branches of the University Insti-tute:
Bay Cities Jewish Center;
B'nai Israel Conseivative Congre-gation;
Hollywood Los Feliz Jew-ish
Community Center; Rodef Sho-lom;
Temple B'Nai Emet; Valley
Beth Israel; Valley Cities Jewish
Community Center; Valley Jewish
Community Center; Westside Jew-ish
Community Center; and in co-operation
with the following or-ganizations:
Beverly Hills Hadas-sah;
Los Angeles Hadassah; Na-tional
Women's League; National
Council of Jewish Women; Amer-ican
Friends of the Hebrew Uni-versity;
Jewish Centers Associa-tion
and Workmen's Circle. There
are also several home study
groups in various areas of the
city.
A new branch of the University
Institute will be opened in the
spring at Valley Beth Sholom,
15739 Ventura Blvd., Encino, one
of the largest Conservative con-gregations
in Greater Los Angeles.
United States Chief Justice Earl Warren will introduce the latest television series
of the University of Judaism, "Ethics", ove r station KNBC (Channel 4) Sunday, Jan. 13,
at 1 p.m.
Produced by the University^Earl Warren Institute of Ethics and Human Relations,
in cooperation with Howard
Sturm, public affairs chief of
KNBC, the series will probe many
facets of American social, econom-ic,
political and cultural life dur-ing
its 13-week run.
Top spokesmen in various fields
will be presented as the series
spotlights problems of ethics and
human relations as they relate to
motion pictures, business, educa-tion,
law, religion, labor, televi-sion,
science, politics, medicine,
journalism and other areas.
The sponsoring Warren Insti-tute
was founded at an Independ-ence
Day dinner in 1961, address-ed
by the Chief Justice. Goal of
the Institute is to help in the
"constant re-examination of the
relations between law and ethics
and human relations," according
to Dr. Simon Greenberg.
BOX-OFFICK DILEMMA
Panel for the initial "Ethics"
telecast on motion pictures, for
which video taping is already un-der
wav at KNBC color studios in
Burbank, will include film produ-cers
Julian Blaustein, Samuel En-gel
and Milton Sperling, and Ar-thur
Knight, film critic for Satur-day
Review. It is called: "The
Box-Office Dilemma." Dr. Green-berg
will be moderator.
Others assisting with the series
w i l l include Marion C. Freeman
and Senny Takahashi, coordina-tors;
William Wintersole, associ-ate
producer; Louis Rudolph, pro-ducer
for U.T. and Saul Rubin, ex-excutive
producer.
Blaustein, now an independent
producer, has served in top crea-tive
capacities with Universal Stu-dios,
Music Coi'p. of America,
Paramount and Twentieth Cen-tury-
Fox Studios.
Sperling, who heads United
Slates Productions, Inc., a highly
successful independent film com-pany,
releasing through Warner
Bros., has long been active in UJ
affairs and is now serving as
chairman of its "Extremism in
American Life" lecture series.
Film critic for Saturday Review
for the past decade, Knight is
author of the recent history of the
movies, "The Liveliest Art," and
internationally recognized as a
leading authority on the medium.
In 1958 he received the Screen
Directors Guild's Critics Award.
AT 'ETHICS' TV SESSION— Shown near NBC camera prior to
taping program on "Box Office Dilemma" are, left to right: Louis
Rudolph, producer for University of Judaism; Dr. Simon <;r«MMi-berg,
moderator for panel; Milton Sperling, movie producer ami
panelist, and Saul Rubin, executive producer. First release will be
Sunday, Jan. 18 at 1 p.m. over KNBC (4).
BODIAN, COMMUNITY LEADER.
ELECTED MEMBER OF BOARD
Mac Bodian of West Los Ange-les,
distinguished community lead-er
and industrialist, has accepted
election to the Board of Overseers
of the University of Judaism.
Aftivc !r; oirnnrunity <iff;;'
many years, Bodian has been
chairman of the electrical division
of the United Jewish Walfare
Fund, and is a Guardian and
member of the board of the Los
Angeles Jewish Home for the
Aged. He lives with his family at
2720 Monte Mar Terrace, and is a
member of the board of directors
of Temple Beth Am.
President of Sunbeam Lighting
Company, Inc., Bodian was a
member of the reception commit-tee
for the Jan. 7-8 visit here of
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor
of the Jewish Theological Semi-nai~
y of America.
In announcing Bodian's election
to the Board of Overseers, Julius
Fligelman, board chairman, stat-ed,
"Mac Bodian's outstanding rec-ord
of achievement is further as-surance
that the University of Ju-daism
will meet the great and ur-gent
goals set before us by our
vital and growing community."
MAC BODIAN
. . . 'outstanding record'
Ezra Stone Heads TV Council of Notables
Ezra Stone, producer-director
and actor, has accepted the chair-manship
of the University of Juda-ism's
Advisory Council for Radio
and Television. Stone was produc-er-
director of last season's HATH-AWAYS
on TV which starred
Peggy Cass.
Mr. Stone began his career in
1924 as a child actor in radio and
on Broadway. Among his many
starring roles he created Henry
Aldrich in What A Life.
While presently developing sev-eral
TV properties of his own for
the coming season, Mr. Stone has
accepted this voluntary post to
guide the school's radio and tele-vision
department.
OTHER MEMBERS
The council membership in-cludes
Sheldon Leonard, executive
producer of Marterto Enterprises,
Inc., Thomas W. Sarnoff, vice
president of NBC, and Robert M
Weifman, vice president of M-G-M
Television.
Other members are Peter Cott,
assistant to the president of the
Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences; Arthur Friedman, chair-man
of the television division of
the Theater Arts Department of
UCLA; Hugh Benson, executive
assistant to the vice president of
Warner Brothers; Joseph Schild-kraust;
Samuel Sacks, head of the
legal department of William Mor-ris
Agency; Arthur Frankel of
Screen Gems, Inc., and Louis F.
Edelman, packager of the Danny
Thomas Show and other TV series.
At the same time, Stone an-nounced
the appointment of Irving
Friedman, President of Primrose
Company, to the University's
Council. The University is pres-ently
producing a number of radio
and television shows, and, through
its council, it hopes to apply the
professional knowledge of the
members toward the expansion of
its activities. Some 25 members
are currently serving on the Ad-visory
Council of the University of
Judaism.
EZRA STONE
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AUDIENCES OUTSIDE LA
GREET UNIVERSITY LECTURES
The University of Judaism has
arranged for a number of lectures
by its faculty in areas outside of
Los Angeles.
In Palm Springs two lectures
were given during December by
Dr. Simon Greenberg and Dr.
Stephen S. Kayser. The five re-maining
lectures will be given by
Dr. David Lieber, on "Ethics oi
Biblical Culture"; Dr. Max Vor-span,
on "The Secular Jew in a
Religious Community"; Dr. David
Aronson, "Man and his Potentiali-ties";
Joseph Young, "Architecture
as Jewish Ritual"; and Dr. Jacob
Kohn, "The Synagogue in Western
Culture."
In San Francisco four lectures
were given during November by
Dr. Lieber, Dr Kohn, Dr. Green-berg
and Dr. Winston, at Temple
Beth Sholom, on "The Bible in
Jewish Contemporary Life," "Jew-ish
Mysticism and Contemporary
Jewish Life," "Modern Jewish
Philosophies," and "The Talmud in
Contemporary Jewish Life."
Two lectures are scheduled to
be given by Dr. Stephen S. Kayser
on March 3 at Ner Tamid and on
March 4 at Beth Jacob.
Chief Justice's Ethics
Talk Stirs Discussion
Fine Arts School
Adds New Courses
The second semester of the
School of the Fine Arts will see
two new courses added to the cur-riculum.
A course in Mosaics will
be given by Dr. Joseph Young in
addition to the course which he
now gives on the Architectural
Arts.
Moi Solotaroff, distinguished set
designer, will give a course in
stagecraft.
Dr. Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco
will continue to give his course in
advanced musical composition, Er-
.ic fLay_a_CQiirse in Graphic Arts,
Max Band in painting.
Heads of the departments are:
Joseph Young, Visual Arts; Dr.
Stephen S. Kayser, Humanities;
Benjamin Zemach, Theatre Arts,
and Dr. Tedesco, Music.
MINISTER ENROLLS AT U OF JU-DAISM—
Rev. Frank P. Dannelly, right,
pastor of the Los Feliz Methodist Church
in Los Angeles, registers for additional
courses. With him are, left to right, Dr.
Max Vorspan, registrar, and Dr. David
Gross, under whom Pastor Dannelly stu-died
last semester.
Hanukah Concert Draws Huge
Enthusiastic Throng to UJ
The largest audience in the
history of the University of
Judaism took part in a Hanu-kah
program presented in the au-ditorium
on Dec. 17, 1962, and
featuring the School of the Fine
Arts.
Not only was the auditorium
jammed to standing room only
capacity but hundreds were turn-ed
away from the program which
featured the first appearances of
the Kinor Sinfonietta conducted
by Robert Strassburg and the
University of Judaism Chorale
directed by Max Helfman.
The Sinfonietta of 20 instru-ments
played the Symphony of
the Lights composed by Strass-burg,
while the 80-voice Chorale
offered six songs in the Hanukah
spirit to the warm applause of an
enthusiastic audience.
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION
Under the direction of Benja-min
Zemach, students of the Dra-ma
Department presented a scene
dramatized from "Our Glorious
Brothers" by Howard Fast. Dr.
Simon Greenberg delivered a brief
message on the meaning of Hanu-kah
and Dean Helfman taught
some Hanukah songs to the 500
persons lucky enough to have
seats and the many standees. Dr.
Samuel Dinin chaired the evening.
The two-hour performance elec-trified
the audience with its qual-ity
and its sparkle. It was climax-ed
with a reception social in the
Warner Assembly Hall prepared
under the chairmanship of Mrs.
Simon Greenberg.
HANUKAH COMMUNITY SING— Max Helfman, School of the
Arts dean, leads standing-room-only audience in holiday song.
Event debuted University of Judaism Chorale, directed by Dean
Helfman, and the Sinfonietta, conducted by Robert Strassburg,
whose original composition was premiered.
Faculty Forum
Series to Continue
The four remaining lectures in
the highly sucessful Faculty For-um
series will be given on Jan. 14,
Jan. 21, Jan. 28 and Feb. 4.
On Monday evening, Jan. 14,
Dr. David Lieber, dean of stu-dents
at the Hebrew Teachers
College and College of Judaica,
will speak on "Ethics of Bibical
Culture."
On Monday, Jan. 21, Rabbi Saul
White of Congregation Beth Sho-lom
in San Francisco, will speak
on "The Jew as Outsider."
On Monday evening, Jan. 28,
Louis Shub, librarian of the uni-versity
and brilliant commentat-or,
will speak on "The Jewish So-cial
Image and the Contemporary
Jewish Novel."
The last lecture in the series
will be delivered by Dr. Samuel
Dinin, dean of the university, on
the evening of Feb. 4, and will
deal with "Jewish Education and
Your Child."
The series has proved to be so
popular that the Valley Beth Sho-lom
branch of the University has
requested that it be repeated for
residents or the Valley at Val-ley
Beth Sholom, 15739 Ventura
Blvd., Encino.
At the Louis Marshall Award
Dinner given in honor of Chief
Justice Earl Warren at the Amer-ican
Hotel by the Jewish Theolog-ical
Seminary of America on Sun-day,
Nov. 11, the Chief Justice ad-vocated
the development of pro-fessional
"counselors in ethics"
and stressed that a program of
this nature is "an urgent need in
our troubled times."
Terming ethical concepts as
"the beyond the law," the Chief
Justice declared that the counsel-or
in ethics should have "the same
relation to interpersonal conduct,
beyond the law," that the lawyer
has to conduct that is subject to
court review.
"The developments of this cen-tury
indicate that this need is no
fantasy at all," Chief Justice War-ren
said. "Until this century, the
world had never heard of marriage
counselors or of psychoanalysts.
Yet the value of each calling has
been demonstrated. The search for
ethics has ben pursued since an-cient
times. Is it not obvious that
all of us need ethics counselors?"
The address of the Chief Justice
I was commented upon in the New
York Times, the Los Angeles
Times and in newspapers, maga-zines
and columns all over the
country.
"In the law beyond the law,"
Warren stated, "which calls upon
us to be fair in business, where
law cannot command fairness;
which bids us temper justice with
mrecy, where the law can only en-force
justice; which demands our
compassion for the unfortunate,
although the law can only give
him his legal due, each of us is
necessarily his owji Chief Justice
ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING
"In fact, he is the whole Su-preme
Court, from which there
lies no appeal. The individual cit-izen
may engage in practices
which, on the advice of counsel,
he believes strictly within the let-ter
of the law, but which he also
knows from his own conscience
are outside the bounds of propri-ety
and the right. Thus, when he
engages in such practices, he does
so not at his own peril — as when
he violates the law—but at a peril
to the structure of civilization, in-volving
greater stakes than any
possible peril to himself."
Chief Justice Warren also said
that "The Herbert H. Lehman In-titute
of Ethics, established at
your Seminary, and named for
one of the truly eminent figures
in our country and our time, can
serve as a pilot project, in which
to train such ethics counselors to
stimulate the development of sim-ilar
centers in other traditions."
Without ethical understanding,
the Chief Justice stated, "the law,
as a ship of state, would be
stranded on dry land. Where
there is no ethical commitment to
observe the law, the judicial and
police systems are really helpless,
and law often ceases to operate at
all. Therefore, the genius of the
civilized world, particularly the
English-speaking peoples, has
made obedience of law and ac-ceptance
of decisions of duly au-thorized
agents of the community,
whether legislative or judicial,
mandatory as an ethical princi-ple."
Max Cohen Named Northwest Director
SAN FRANCISCO—Max Cohen,
veteran worker on behalf of Jew-ish
causes, has been named exe-cutive
director of the Northwest
Region of the United Synagogue
of America and the University of
Judaism.
Dr. Abraham Bernstein, presi-dent
of the Northern California
Friends of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, joined Dr.
Simon Greenberg, in welcoming
Mr. Cohen to the region.
Mr. Cohen's experience, Dr.
Bernstein noted, goes back to
World War I when he served with
the Jewish Welfare Board.
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