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Friday, June 14, 1957
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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Colonial Jews Among
Brown U. Founders,
Documents Reveal
CINCINNATI, (JTA) — Doc
uments establishing that Jewish
merchants in Colonial New Eng
land were instrumental in the
founding of Rhode Island College,
forerunner of Brown University,
have been acquired by the
American Jewish Archives, Dr.
Jacob R. Marcus, its director, an
nounced this week.
The college, a Baptist institu
tion, guaranteed freedom of re
ligion to its students and at one
point even offered to appoint a
Jewish teacher if there were
enough Jewish students at the
college. It further offered to al
low the Jews to establish a chair
of Hebrew to be occupied by a
Jew.
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Ben Klein Promoted to New Job
With USO Club at Montgomery
MONTGOMERY — Benjamin
Klein, of New York City, veteran
social worker and for the past
five years associate director of
the Columbia, S.C., USO Club,
has been promoted to the posi-
Sandmel Is Named
HUC-JIR Provost
CINCINNATI — Dr. Samuel
Sandmel, Professor of Bible and
Hellenistic Literature at Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, America’s seminary of
Reform Judaism, has been ap
pointed Provost of the school, it
is announced by Dr. Nelson
Glueck, College-Institute presi
dent.
Action on Dr. Sandmel’s ap
pointment was taken at a recent
meeting of the HUC-JIR Board
of Governors here. The Board al
so approved the appointment of
Dr. John J. Tepfer, Professor of
Jewish History and Talmud, as
Doan of the HUC-JIR School in
New York, and the appointment
of Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, a
1957 graduate of the Cincinnati
school, as director of the Col
lege-Institute’s California school
at Los Angeles.
In addition, the Board approv
ed the appointment to full-time
New York faculty status of Dr.
Shaoul Hareli and Dr. Leon J.
Liebreich. Both had previously
combined College-Institute teach
ing posts with other duties. Dr.
Hareli, formerly Hebrew Literary
Editor of the Jewish Agency’s
Cultural and Educational De
partment, will be Professor of
Liturgy and Midrash.
Dr. Sandmel, a graduate of
Hebrew Union College, where he
was ordained in 1937, has been
a member of its faculty since
1952. A specialist in New Testa
ment and its relation to Judaism,
he is the author of the book: “A
Jewish Understanding of the New
Testament,” which has been ac
claimed as an important contri
bution in the promotion of pop
ular understanding of centuries
of scholarship about the history
of Christianity.
Before joining the HUC faculty,
Dr. Sandmel served three years as
Professor of Jewish Literature
and Thought at Vanderbilt Uni
versity, teaching at its Graduate
School and its College of Arts
and Sciences. In 1951, he was
elected a Fellow of the National
Council on Religion in Higher Ed
ucation in recognition of his con
tributions to religious education
at the graduate level. The same
year he was awarded the Presi
dent’s Fellowship by Brown Uni
versity and prepared his book on
the New Testament under this
grant. This month, the Universi
ty of Missouri, where he re
ceived his B.A. degree in 1932,
honoring him by election into the
national scholastic fraternity, Phi
Beta Kappa. A native of Dayton,
O., he received his Ph.D. at Yale
University where he was direct
or of the Hillel Foundation 1946-
49. Earlier, he served as a World
War II Navy and Marine Corps
chaplain; led the Hillel Founda
tion at the University of North
Carolina and Duke University
(1939-42) and served for two
years as assistant rabbi of Hebrew
Benevolent Congregation in At
lanta.
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tion of director of the Montgom
ery USO club, it was announced
by S. D. Gershovitz, executive
vice-president of the National
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB).
A specialist in the area of
program for military personnel of
all faiths — the main area of his
responsibility at the Columbia
club — Mr. Klein over the past
five years developed close rela
tions with the military. In the
organization of programs for
Jewish GIs, he worked closely
with the Jewish chaplains, as
sisting them in their weekly re
ligious services, Jewish holiday
programs, Jewish cultural and
educational activities and home
hospitality projects.
As supervisor of the work of
the Columbia JWB Armed Ser
vices Committee, which repre
sents all major Jewish groups
in the city, Mr. Klein directed
the morale work of its members
in connection with non-sectarian
programs they sponsored at the
USO.
Mr. Klein’s work brought him
in closest contact with commun
ity groups of all faiths, with
whom he established the finest
relations. In this broad area of
public relations, he was also re
sponsible for the preparation of
all publicity materials and the
development of contact with the
news media — press, radio and
work, he won widest commenda
tion from military and civic of
ficials. Mr. Klein was recently
elected as president of the Colum
bia chapter of B’nai B’rith.
Before coming to USO, Mr.
Klein was associated with a
number of case and group work
agencies including the National
Refugee Service, the Jewish So
cial Service Bureau, Pittsburgh,
Pa., the Williamsburg Settlement,
Brooklyn, N.Y., the Benjamin
Wolfe Transient House, Phila
delphia, and the New York City
Department of Welfare. He holds
a B.S.S. degree from the College
of the City of New York, and an
M.S.W. degree from the Pennsyl
vania University School of Social
Work.
Arab Boycott Fear
Causes Columbia Bar
on Israel Location
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A
World War II commando film,,
“Bitter Victory,” has been shot In
Libya for Columbia Pictures
which turned down plans for an
Israeli filming because of fear
of an Arab boycott, Variety mag
azine reported this week.
Finally filmed as a French
movie, on location in Libya, “Bit
ter Victory” was made in the
absence of its producer Paul
Graetz. Producer Graetz, a Jew,
was refused entry in Libya un
less he chose to falsify his Jew
ishness, a propoal he rejected,
according to the Valley report.
Graetz and director Nicholas
Ray originally planned "Bitter
Victory” for Israel where the
desert location was considered
perfect. Told Columbia had re
jected the location out of fear
of an Egyptian boycott, Graetz
offered to make up for the an
ticipated revenue loss.
The film company said, how
ever, that Egypt and the other
Arab states might boycott all
Columbia pictures and the com
pany would not take the risk,
according to the commercial en
tertainment weekly.
Variety reported that Music
Corp., of America asked one of
its Paris representatives to deny
his Jewishness to get into Libya
and the representative refused but
several Columbia accountants did
go, including one Jew who ob
tained his visa by representing
himself as a Catholic.
Commenting on his inability to
enter Libya as a Jew, Graetz
said he was tempted to put an
English-sound track on the French
film, “Nuit et Brouillard,” deal
ing with Nazi concentration
camps, to send it to Columbia of
ficials to look at.
“Then, perhaps, they will un
derstand why I drew the line,”
Graetz said.
Initiate Student
Exchange Program
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A pro
gram for exchange study of
American and Israeli college
students in their junior year has
been launched by Bar-Ilan,
American-sponsored liberal arts
schools in Israel, and Hofstra
and Adelphia Colleges, on Long
Island.
Students at Hofstra and Adel
phia will be selected at the close
of their freshman year and will
take up or intensify their study
of Hebrew and other subjects
pertaining to the Middle East dur
ing their sophomore year in pre
paration for their junior year at
Bar-Ilan University. Israel stu
dents at Bar-Ilan selected for
study at Hofstra or Adelphi will
use their sophomore year for in
tensified study of English and
other subjects pertaining to the
United States.
Orthodox Rabbis Say
Conservatives Plan
To Change Ritual
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the
United States and Canada this
week charged the Rabbinical
Assembly of America, the assoc
iation of Conservative rabbis,
with plans “to change the Jew
ish marriage ritual.”
A resolution unanimously ap
proved by 400 delegates at a one-
day conference of the Orthodox
rabbis asserted that “Conserva
tive rabbis do not have the
knowledge or authority to issue
decisions on matters of Jewish
Law.”
Rabbi' Meyer Cohen, executive
director of the UOR, said the
resolution referred to a proposal
approved at a recent conference
of the Rabbi Assembly. The pro
posal dealt with the problem of
the “agunah,” a term for Jewish
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the Rabbinical Assembly, said
that the Assembly had only au
thorized a committee to restudy
the problem.
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