The Jewish Theological Seminary has received a check for $750,000 from the attorneys and executors of the estate of Morris J. Bernstein to help maintain in perpetuity the Seminary’s Morris J. and Ethel Bernstein Pastoral Psychiatry Center. Bernstein supported the center from 1964 until his death last November. It provides psychiatric counseling to the poor at no charge and to those of reasonable means at low cost, and trains rabbis and Seminary students in pastoral psychiatry, and finances research and articles. Bernstein, who died at age 87, was a Wall Street financier who later served as executive director of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun.
Walter Eytan, Israel’s former Ambassador to France, has been named chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, a quasi-governmental independent body, it was disclosed in Jerusalem. He will assume his new post on March 12, succeeding Dr. Chaim Yahil who is retiring.
A new clinic was opened today at the Gaza governmental hospital in the presence of Deputy Health Minister Abdul-Aziz Zouabi, an Arab. He stressed the improvement of health conditions in the Gaza Strip and the need to improve its social life.
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