The B'nai B'rith magazine · 1927-07-01 · 10 (7.1927) · p. Seite 411

A CROSS-SECTION OF JEWISH LIFE 411 Education r~PHE forty-first year of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America was brought to a close last month when the eight members of the graduating class were ordained as Rabbis. Three degrees of Doctor of Hebrew Literature were conferred and diplomas were awarded to twenty-nine graduates of the Teachers' Institute of the Seminary. The diplomas were awarded by Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the institution. Louis Marshall, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Seminary, who delivered the principal address, was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature. * * * AMERICAN Jewry, if it is to survive, must provide adequate Jewish education for its children. This was the keynote of an address presented by Dr. S. Benderly, director of the Bureau of Jewish Education in New York, at the convention last month of the National Council for Jewish Education. Following the address, a resolution was adopted by the convention urging public school authorities to shorten school hours to permit pupils to receive religious training in the institutions of their respective faiths. Dr. Alexander Mordecai Dushkin, Executive Director of the Board of Jewish Education of Chicago, was elected president of the National Council. * * * FELLOWSHIPS for advanced study abroad in practically every branch of education were recently awarded to fifty-four men and womeij. by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The aim of the Foundation is "to improve the quality of education and the practice of arts and professions in the United States, to foster research, and to provide for the cause of better international understanding." * * * JUDGE IRVING H. LEHMAN, of the J New York Court of Appeals, was honored by Columbia University last month when the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him at the graduation exercises of the college. Honorary awards for high scholastic attainments in mathematics, history and law were won by eleven Jewish students of Columbia. * * * '"PHE eternal desire of the Jew to acquire learning no matter what odds are against him, is seen in the colleges of Italy. A report recently issued by the Union of Jewish Students in Italy shows that more than a thousand Jewish students are enrolled in the various universities of that country. Most of them came from Hungary, Roumania and Poland when they were barred from higher education by the numerus clausus and other restrictions. * * * "HP HE American Jewish Student" was discussed from all angles at the second annual convention of the Avukah, the American Student Zionist Federation, at Atlantic City last month. More than one hundred delegates, representing twenty-nine Avukah chapters in forty universities, attended the convention. Miscellaneous Y\ 7ITH everything to lose and seemingly nothing to gain, Charles A. Levine climbed into the cockpit of the monoplane, "Columbia," at Roosevelt Field, New York, last month and started for Europe—the first trans- Atlantic air passenger. Ever since the completion of the record-breaking flight, the lives of Levine and Chamberlin have been one continuous round of receptions, luncheons, parades and banquets. The governments of Germany, Austria and Hungary officially welcomed the flyers. Exceptionally joyous receptions were arranged for the flyers by Jewish organizations. * * * '"PHREE Jewish doctors, internes at Kings County Hospital, New York, were subjected to a midnight hazing last month as the result of what is claimed to have been an outbreak of anti-Semitism at the hospital. The three doctors were dragged from their beds, hurled into ice water, smeared with ink and dye, beaten, bound and gagged, it is claimed. Six non-Jewish internes at the hospital were arrested on charges of assault and suspended from the hospital staff by Mayor Walker. Mayor Walker declared that a city-wide investigation would be made to determine if there were any traces of anti-Semitism in other city institutions. * * * TO A JEWISH sculptor, Louis Rosenthal, of Baltimore, goes the honor of being chosen to execute a gold miniature of America's hero, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, and the flyer's mother. The statuette, which will be about twenty-seven inches high, will cost approximately $25,000. It has been contracted for by the Advertising Club of Baltimore. * * * HP HE Hakoah soccer team, composed of all-Jewish players, continued its victorious tour of American cities last month. The famous Jewish organization swamped the Maryland All Stars by the decisive count of 9 to 1 and defeated an all-Jewish team of Brooklyn by the score of 4 to 2. A part of the proceeds of the Maryland match went to the Red Cross Flood Relief Fund. * * * T ARGE crowds in cities of the United States are turning out for the games of another all-Jewish allstar soccer team, the Maccabees of Palestine. The Maccabees were officially welcomed to the United States last month by Mayor James Walker, of New York City. * * * HP HE progress made in agricultural projects in Palestine was described by three Jewish delegates from the Holy Land who attended the International Congress of Soil Science at Washington last month. Each of the three, Dr. Adolf Reifenberg, Dr. Felix Menchikovsky, and Meir Winnik, read a paper at the congress.' * * * JEWISH folk songs were an important feature of the International Music Exposition which opened at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, at the end of last month. Concerts were given by the choirs of three synagogues in Frankfurt. * * * p\R. OSCAR WASSERMANN, general manager of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin, has accepted an offer to serve as a member of the nonpartisan Jewish Agency Palestine Survey Commission, it was announced last month.