Announcement of the receipt of $120,000 for the establishment of a $300,000 Julian Morgenstern Chair in Bible at Hebrew Union College made here last night at the conclusion of the three-day inaugural ceremonies marking the installation of Dr. Nelson Glueck as the fourth president of the College. The ? was raised largely by H.U.C. alumni.
Dr. Joshua Liebman, author of “Peace of Mind,” addressing the more than 1,000 Jewish communal and educational loaders who attended the ceremonies, declared that American Jewry has developed “an inferiority complex” because it has come to think of self as an “insignificant minority.” Urging the Jews not to consider themselves in arms of minority status, but in terms of equality status in the symphony of American ?ligious and cultural pluralism,” Dr. Liebman asserted that “although Jews sometimes ##ak of themselves as the ‘chosen people,’ a great many of them act in their lives ## in their inner emotional reactions as though Israel were ‘the rejected people.”
Frank L. Weil, president of the Jewish Welfare Board, described Dr. Glueck “a man of penetrating scholarship and international renown.” He said his appointment as president of Hebrew Union College “is an event of transcendent significance to American Jewry.” He added: We can, with the utmost serenity, place our confidence in Glueck, certain that his administration of the College will enhance the already ?ustrious name of the institution and continue to widen its beneficent, and constructive influence.”
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