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UIA SETS GOAL OF $73 MILLION
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gift was made public during birthday party at the Belmont Country
Club where several hundred f-iends,
relatives and representatives of
leading Jewish organizations joined
in honoring Mr. Lown on h.s 75th
birthday. Brandeis Dean of 1 niver-
sity   Planning   and   Development,
VOL. XXI   No. 18   Thurs. December 16,  1965   Price Ten Cents
Brandeis U. Creates
Philip W. Lown School
The creation of tha Philip W. Lown School of Near
Eastern and Judaic Studies was announced by Brandeis
University this week. The new school was made pos-
sible by an undisclosed major gift from nationally
known industrialist-philanthropist Philip W. Lown of
West Newton.
This will enable Brandeis to in-
corporate several separate existing
departments, institutes ard pro-
grams in Near Eastern and Judaic
Studies into one school, and will
also permit the University to expand
greatly its study and research pro'
grams in these areas.
The creation of the school, coupled
with the recent decision of the
autonomous American Jewish His-
torical Society to relocate it: head-
quarters on the Brandeis cimpus,
will, according to Brandeis Presi-
dent Abram L. Sachar, "establish
Brandeis as a leading center of
Hebraic and Judaic learning in the
United States."
The announcement of Mr. ^own's
Ambassador's
Ball Assured
Record Turnout
A record attendance for
the Ambassador's Ball of
the Greater Boston Com-
mittee, State of Israel
Bonds, is assured by the
steady flow of reservations
received, announced Mr.
and Mrs. Ollie A. Cohen,
chairmen of the ball.
The gala event will be held Sun-
day evening, Dec. 26 in the Statler
Hilton Hotel, and eligibility re-
quirement to attend is by the min-
imum purchase of $1,000 in Israel
Bonds from Jan. 1 this year to
Dec. 22 and reservation fee of
$25.00.
The ball will be a tribute to
Israel's achievements in seventeen
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Max Fisher Re-elected General
Chairman At UJA Conference
NEW YORK , (JTA)--The four-day 28th Annual Na-
tional Conference of the United Jewish Appeal at the
New York Hilton Hotel, concluded with the adoption
of a fund-raising goal of $73,420,000 in 1966, and
the unanimous reelection, of MaxM. Fisher to a second
term as UJA general chairman.
vantaged immigrants from North
African and Asian countries settled
in 21 new development towns estab-
More than 2,500 community leaders
from all parts of the country ac-
claimed Mr. Fisher's leadership of
the 1965 nationwide campaign.
In his acceptance address, Mr.
Fisher said that, since the founding
of the Appeal in 1939, American Jews
have raised $1,618,000,000 for the
programs of the UJA. "Our most
significant accomplishment," he
noted, "was the resettling of
1,736,000 Jews from lands of des-
pair to lands of freedom, with 1,-
373,000 of that total given haven in
Israel." He said the principal tasks
confronting the UJA for 1966 were:
1. A stepped-up program to
help Israel absorb 200,000 disad-
Philip W.  Lown
Clarence Q. Berger, was toast-
master for the birthday celebration,
representing President Sachar.
"Mr. Lown's munificence," Dr
Sachar said, " crowns several ear-
lier major benefactions at Brandeis
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News Highlights
GERMANY'S
NEW YORK, (JTA)-
to defer $100,000,00C
Nazi victims over tl
today by the Americ
"mere budgetary con
The measure to defer sue
ments, recommended by Wes
man Finance Minister Rolf
gruen because of "budgetary
culties," was passed last Th-
in the Bundestag, the lower h
Parliament, on its third am
reading. It is now before the B
oat. or uDDer house.
SUPPORT PEACE-KEE
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,-
voted here last weekend with t',
majority of UnitedNationsme
to instruct a special commii
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DECISION DENOUNCED
�The decision by West Germany
in indemnification payments to
e next two years was denounced
an Jewish Committee as putting
siderations above moral issues."
continue its efforts to work out
guidelines for support of peace-
keeping operations, and to establish
a United Nations trust fund to aid
the victims of apartheid and their
families in South Africa. Prior to the
vote, taken by the General As-
sembly's Special Political Com-
mittee, Ambassador Michael S.
Comay, chairman of Israel's dele-
gation here, reminded thell7-mem-
ber body that Israel had "intimate
concern" with certain U.N. peace-
keeping operations.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
PHILADELPHIA,  (JTA) �Justice
Abe   Fortas   of the United  States
Supreme   Court  today told an au-
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Chanukah To Begin
At Sundown, Saturday
Chanukah, the Jewish "Festival of Lights" holiday,
will begin at sundown, Saturday, December 18. Like
many Jewish holidays, Chanukah has a clear-cut
historical and political origin. The actual event which
it commemorates, the Hebrew struggle for religious
freedom from the tyrannical regime which occurred
in 165 BCE.
For the Jewish people, Chanukah
symbolizes the victory of a spiritual
ideal over military and political
despotism. A handful of Jews,
determined to preserve their faith
and their culture, openly defied
the overwhelming power of the Sy-
rian king, Antiochus, who was de-
termined to suppress Jewish mono-
theism and its proper observance.
When in the year 168 BCE, Anti-
ochus ordered that the Temple in
Jerusalem be used for pagan prac-
tices and that sacrifices be offered
there to the Greek god Zeus Olym-
pus, the Jews, under the leadership
of Judas Maccabeus (also known as
Judah the Hasmonean) rebelled and
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German Deferment
Of Payment Raised
In British Commons
LONDON, (JTA)�Sir Barnett
Janner requested in Parliament
today that the British Govern-
ment urge the West German Go-
vernment, "on humanitarian
grounds," not to go through with
its plans to defer 1966 payments
to   certain victims  of Nazism.
George Thomson, Minister <jf
State of the Foreign Office, told
Sir Barnett that the Government
has "the greatest sympathy" for
the victims of Nazism who would
have to wait longer to receive
their indemnification, but de-
clared that the matter was one
that should be left to the German
Government.
In his intervention, Sir Barnett
asked Mr. Thomson if the For-
eign Office would stress to the
German Government the fact that
"there are a large number of
people, here and elsewhere, who
are deeply disturbed by the pro-
posed action."
achieved military victories which
culminated in the reconquering of
Jerusalem, the expulsion of the Sy-
rians, and the purification of the
Temple.
The holiday is observed with
special services, prayers andhymns
in synagogues, homes and religious
schools. It is a holiday of particu-
lar gaiety for childrenr games are
played, a special Chanukah top called
a "dreidel" is spun, and tradi-
tionally children receive presents
of Chanukah "gelt" (coins or money)
on the" fourth day of the holiday.
Special pancakes called "latkes"
are traditional food for this holi-
day.
The   Hebrew   word  "Chanukah"
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lished throughout Israel;
2.   Large-scale aid to transport
and   settle   an   anticipated   55,000
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Israel Opposes
Resolution On
Arab Refugees
JERUSALEM, (JTA)--Is-
rael's Cabinet today in-
structed its delegation to
the United Nations to vote
against a resolution to
come up before the Gen-
eral Assembly this week,
dealing with the Arab refu-
gee situation.
The resolution refers to a 1948
Assembly measure interpreted as
giving the refugees the right to
"return" to Israel or to obtain
compensation from Israel.
The decision to oppose the reso-
lution was taken at the Cabinet
session and was officially an-
nounced this week. The resolu-
tion was passed three weeks ago
by the U. N. Assembly's Special
Political Committee after it had
been introduced by the United States
and amended by a change presented
by Pakistan and Somalia. It is
to be put to the vote by a plenary
session of the Assembly this week,
probably Wednesday.
The original U.S. draft of the
measure started by "recalling" a
resolution adopted by the Assembly
in 1948. The Arab states have con-
tended repeatedly that the 1948 mea-
sure gives the refugees the "right
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State Of Affairs: By emanuel goldberg
On Being A Good
Hyphenated American
I was all set a few weeks ago to write a piece
�about how we ought, daily, to thank the Lord for being
Americans.
It was not my intention to drape the flag around
my person in the fashion of Senator
McCarthy or the John Birch Society
but I did hope to underscore that there
is a younger generation today which,
in some instances, has never heard of
Hitler, a generation which would find
it incomprehensible that some contem-
poraries in now free nations once recoiled before
the midnight knock of an unreasoning and brutal
secret police and also that it has been mankind's
attitude, for years and before the Bomb, to swallow
newspaper statistics about wartime,
casualties at breakfast without bat-
ting an eyelash or upsetting the
coffee pot. We won't even amplify
discussion about the incredible rise
in   living   standards   in   America.
I had even selected an apt quota-
tion by Goodman Ace, who now writes
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