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MEDICAL PROFESSION AT iMPORTANT DINNER
AT UJA MEETING:
Dr. Charles H. Best, co-dlscove- cularly imp'rfcsea him and he rer of insulin and world renown- said that their research was seed research scientist, spoke of \ cond to none. Dr. Best ijraised his recent trip to Israel to a dls-jthe medical school as being one tingulshed group of doctors, den-; of the world's finest and added
tists and druggists at the Prim rose Club, under tlie auspices of the Allied Medical Professions Division of the United Jewislj Appeal of Toronto.
PRAISES HEBREW UNIVERSITY
(L to R) Dr. Samuel Roxlcn, co-choirman, Phyticion'i Group, Dr. Alon Bossett, co-chairman, Phytician'i Group, and Irving Horowihi, co-chairman, Phamiaciih't Group.
Dr. Best, a-very widely travel-man who has met most of the leading doctors and researchers in his field In many countries around the world, said that Israel proved to be the most exciting place he had visited. The Hebrew University parU-
that the superbly trained medical teams sent by Israel into the underdeveloped countries were doing a first rate job and winning iiuiny new friends for the Jewish Stat-e.
The Hebrew University ls~ a beneficiary of the Unltcd_Jewish
Appeal. , -^Murray Kofi'ler, \chalrman of the. Medical ProfessionS^lvision, cited this as the most successful meeting in the Division's hlsto.rj', raising a record of $20,000 for the United Jewish Appeal.
Speaking after Dr. Best wa.s Abbie Ben Arl of Kiriat Gat, Israel, who has become a familiar fimire at UhI.A. meetings during his three week stay in Toronto. Making his .53rd speech in Toronto, he dt-scribed the dramatic progre.ss being made in the integration of newcomeFs in the important agricultural development of Lachish. Jews from-lr-Kliurdistan, Morocco, -Eastern Europe and Egypt., are being integrated on a plan which will set the standard for all Israel. Forty-two nationalities rub elbows here i\nd are learning to live together.
The United Jewish Appeal of Toronto raises money for local services, aid for immigration and
Dr. Ralph Halbert, Associate chairman. Dentist's Group.
Om Out hnlght
On the West Indian island of Barbados, all hoiels~provlde visiting barbers for their guests, who can-enjoy ; a "beach trim" for a BWI dollar, about 60 cents U.S.
resettlement in Israel and assis-tanr« for Jews In need in 25 countries around the world.
Holland University Will Prove
SEMITES WERE PAYING TAXES 4000 YEARS AGO
(L to R) Dr. John Sherman, Dr. Fred Weinberg, co-chairman, nirsfc^on'* Group, Or. Irving Siegel, chairman, DcntisH Group.
CINCINNATI (CJN) - If It's any comfort to you, taxes were a headache as far. back as 4,000 years ago and the records were much harder to keep then than they are today. Financially, the pain was probably comparable but the ancients paid with cattle, sheep, grain and other produce, and kept a careful accounting of every payment In a double-entrj' bookkeeping system.
This is the finding of a Professor of Bible and Semitic Languages at Hebrew Union College —Jewish Institute of Religion here, whoso specialization In cuneiform studies has transformed, him into an expert on Sumerian bookkeeping.
so far no one has put them all together, he explains.
ORGANIZED ECONOMY
He hiis already had the tliril-ling experience himself of finding a "bill" issued on one cuneiform tablet in Europe and the receipt for that very bill in a collection in the United States.
Although Sumer's economy was highly organized and lis heritage of meticulously kept accounting practices is enormous.
compared to those of other societies, many of the refinements of its txKjkkeeptng system remain a mystery, according to Dr. Hallo.
"If wit can but recover the prijiciples and terminology underlying the Sumerian accoimt-Ing methods", he says, "we could i then begin to reconstruct the archives in which they were em-ployi'd and thus, economically and meaningfully, proceed to publish and interpret the remaining thousands of Ur III texts.
Ontario Torah Tour To Enligliten Communities On Image Of Judaism
Rabbi
ANCIENT BILLS j ^^^^ members of Uie Torali bert Mayerfeld. Saniia;
The scholar. Dr. William HiiUo, ; Tour, which is co-sponsored by Philip Rosensweig, Kitchener.
is reconstructing in huge ledgers ; the Rabbinical Council of Ame-!---------------
that he keejK himself, the com- j rica and the Union of Orthodox i plicated double-entr>' bookkof-p-| Jewi.sh Congregations of Ameri-i ing system recorded by scribes , ca. will visit a number of com- |
Thereby the way would be opened to a detailed understanding ol the Sumerian economy and society, and to a .significant widening of the horizon of man's lasti-tutional history".
While the motivation behind the Neo-Sumerian economy still has not been ' determined—whether private profit, rehgious .service, political aggrandizement or something else—scholars tend to believe that the bookkeeping records a religiously-dominated society with a temple-centered economy based on an alliance between the crown and the^ prie.st-hood. Tlirough his reiUralized ledgers and his .studies thLs summer at Leiden. Dr. Hallo hopes to add knowledge that will throw light on this question.
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on clay-baked cuneiform tablct.s in the last quarter of the third millenniiun B.C. in ancient Sumer.
From hills, receipts and a very few more informative comhiuni-cations. lettered in wedge-shaped charactei^ that he deciphers, he the R.C..'\. seeks to draw new insights into the religion, economy "and history of Sumer, where man first learned to write and figure.
Dr. Hallo, who has been asseni-blin- his scholarly tax records from hundreds of neo-Sunierian texts now scattered in institutions in many countries, has just received a grant from the American Philosophical Socteiy, to read and publish an impre.s.«ively large collection of tablets at Leiden, Netherlands.
muniiio,s in Ontario between, March 5 and March 9, according! to- an announcement by Rabbi { Wiitter .S., Wurzburger, president of the Ontario Divisio.n of the Rabbinical' Council' of America and national vice-i)residciu of
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Under the grant, he will work at Leiden this summer, working with the de Liagre Boehl Collection of the Netherlands Iru>ti-tute for the Near East. Tliis is one of Uie world's outstanding collections. Dr. Hallo will read and tabulate the ancient trans-actiozis recorded on more than a thousand of its up-to-now unpub^ lishefd tablets and his copies and findings Will eventually be published in the scholarly .series of the Netherlands Ipstilute. ■
Unlike most periods of history scrutinized by scholars, the. TJr III or Neo-Sumerian era. Is marked by an over-abuhdance, rather than a paucity of text?. Dr. Hallo says.
There are so many cuneiforin tablets recording business transactions in various museums and collections aroimd the world that
Commenting upon the purjwse and scope of the project, Ral>i>i Wurzburger said. "The lortK^ Tour will help immeasurably In creating a new image of Orthodoxy in the various Jewish Communities. It will enlighten contemporary Jewrj', that Orthodoxy is not a petrified, fossile of the past, but that it represents the nucleus for the moral regeneration of our [jeople and of the worid."
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The message of the Torah Tour will be brought to Kingston, Hamilton. Kitchener, and Sarnia by Rabbi Benzion C. Ka^ ganof f of Chicago, Illinois. Rabbi Kaganoff, a pa.st president of the, Chicago Rabbinical Council, is the Rabbi of Congregation Ezras ItracI in Chicago and a lecturer in Jewish history at the Hebrew Theological College. He is a well-known author and lecturer. ,ahd has contributed to popular arid scholarly articles which have appeared in many prominent journals and periodicals,
Arrangements for tlie Torah Tour have been made possible through the co-operation of Rabbis Karpel Bender . and Jacob Ba.ssin of Kingston; Rabbi Morton Green, Hamilton; Rabbi Al-
Afrira, Toronto Telegram foreign correspondent Peter Worthlngton will pr(;sent a report on . his findings in Morocco to guest.s at a ."ipHr.iiil UJA Coast ruction Division dinner meeting at the Regency Towers Hotel oii March 9.
This will be the first address Mr. Worthing! on has made on ! dum. the situation since his return.
COVERED TROUBLE AREAS
Since 1956, foreign correspondent Peter Worthington has made "on the spot" reports from many
has covered the Lebanon Civil War, the Iraq Revojution, crises in Jordan,.Laos and Formosa: wius in Africa at the end of 1960 for the Congo crisis. South Africa Referendum and Rliodesijui Riots; covered the Belgian strikes and the French Referen-He has also Interviewed many of the world's most influential leaders including President Nasser, Kassem of Iraq. Hussein of Jordan. President Ch-'hab. Nehru, the Dalai Lama, Chiang Kai-Shek, Lumiunba and Colonel Mobutu.
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