(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A petition urging that the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, now a post-graduate, research institution, be transformed into an under-graduate school for the Jewish victims of the numerus clausus in East European countries will be submitted to the executivie of the World Zionist Organization.
The petition was drafted by the League of Zionist Revisionists, whose leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky, has advocated this idea in numerous articles in the European press. Jabotinsky has contended that many universities maintained by the smaller nations in Europe operate on a budget much smaller than the one at the disposal of the Hebrew University, but are, none-the-less, in a position to accomodate the needs of their youth. Jabotinsky also claimed that some of the best run universities in Germany, from which many students are graduated, cope with the problem with budgets similar to that of the Hebrew University.
The Revisionists in Poland have secured ten thousand signatures to the petition.
Rabbi Charles Bender, of Rochester, N. Y. has accepted the call to the oldest synagogue in Canada, the Shearith Israel Synagogue of Montreal, and will arrive there about August 1st to take up his duties.
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