Bar Han University Chancellor Joseph H. Lookstein, speaking last night at the university’s founders dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, announced the planned establishment at the university of a world center for Jewish education to train teachers, educators and educational administrators for the diaspora, and of an appropriate fund for the project’s implementation. Rabbi Lookstein also announced that 14 new founders have been added to the university’s rostrum equaling new contributions of $140,000.
Michael Fidler, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and a Conservative member of Parliament, told some 90 North American Jewish community leaders, he had met Tuesday with Britain’s Ambassador to the United Nations to discuss what his country could do for Israel in light of the recently approved pro-Arab resolution in the UN General Assembly which reaffirmed the principles of Resolution 242 but asked States to discontinue aid, “which would constitute recognition of this occupation (of Arab lands).”
Fidler, who is also vice-chairman of World Conference of Jewish Organizations and the World Conference of Jewish Education, said the major threat to Israel “is not physical, but the ignorance of Jewish youth of their religious heritage.” He said that for Israel to be “meaningful in our lives it has got to be a State where Jews live in a Jewish state because there are many non-Jewish states in which Jews live.”
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