A grant of $5,000 was voted to the department of Synagogue and school extension by the trustees of the Blumauer Fund, established by the will of the late Benjamin Blumauer of Portland, Oregon, it was announced by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Dr. Julian Morgenstern, president of the Hebrew Union College, will deliver a series of six lectures on the subject “Nationalism and Universalism in Judaism During the Persian Period” for the Graduate School of Theology of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, beginning tonight.
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