The Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan finds itself in a very critical position for lack of funds with which to carry on the education work among Jewish students, and the Detroit community, from which hail half the Jewish students at the university, is being appealed to for aid in this crisis.
The problems arising as a result of this crisis will be discussed at a luncheon of local leaders to be held at Hotel Statler on Monday. Rabbi Bernard Heller, director of the U. of M. Hillel Foundation; Rabbis Leo M. Franklin and Leon Fram and Kurt Peiser will be among those who will participate in the discussion.
The critical situation at the Hillel Foundation was first brought to the attention of the Detroit Jewish community through a letter addressed to Rabbi Franklin by Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan. Dr. Ruthven wrote:
“I am most anxious that the several religious denominations have proper facilities in Ann Arbor to take the student beyond his study of the broad essentials in the religious field. It is my opinion that the abandonment of the Hillel Foundation work would be a disaster, not only for the Jewish students but indirectly for the whole student body.”
As a means of securing the necessary funds, plans are being perfected for the formation of a Hillel League, all dues to go exclusively towards the support of the University of Michigan Hillel Foundation.
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