Thursday, April 10, 1941
JEWISH   WESTERN BULLETIN
The Helsrew University In War Time
Local Mount Seopiis Lodge
ZIONIST OBD£B HABONIM
About two years ago, a group of devoted and earnest Zionists, conscious of tlie need of an organization based upon a fraternal membership, decided to apply to the Supreme Council of the Zionist Order Habonim for permission to organize ;a Lodge of the order in Vancouver.
With the help and cooperation of Rabbi J. L. Zlotnik, a Past Supreme Nassi, the requested permission was given and the following signed the Charter Roll: Sam Rothstein, K. Katznelson, B. Shapiro, Dr. J. C. Moscovich, B. Nemetz, Nathan Fox, Harold Freeman, S. Tenenbaum, Dr. M. Fox, Harry Toban, David Nemetz, Myer Freedman, Dr. J. I. Gorosh, David Freeman and Charles Davis.
A charter was then issued to this group under the name and title of Mount Scopus Lodge No. 12.
The aims of the Lodge find official expression in the Constitution of the Order which declares that our object shall be to foster, in the spirit of fraternity, the work of Zionism from the practical viewpoint of "Bonim" (builders) and the spreading of Hebrew culture and language; and to strive for solidarity in the work of upbuilding Eretz Israel. Thus the program of the Zionist Order Habonim, fashioned on the ' broadest lines of Jewish Nationalism, makes permanent and continuous the association of its members with Zionist thought and action and brings into the Zionist Organization of Canada new forces that can be marshalled for every important un-
Lotta Levensohn, journalist, author and translator, discusses the influence of the war on the growth and expansion of the Hebrew University. Miss Levensohn has been living in Palestine since 1923.
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a new meaning and a new purpose, a new idealism and a new enthusiasm.
Since its inception in 1923 the Zionist Order Habonim has grown in stature and in scope. It now has lodges across Canada, from Halifax to Vancouver. It provides the only logical Zionist body into which Young Judaeans can and should graduate.
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The Zionist Order Habonim believes that the cohesive influence of Palestine and its attendant renaissance of the Jewish spirit, make possible the achievement of a type of communal unity and organization in the Diaspora, which will not only give scope for the various religious, social and political views that obtain in Jewish life, but will also evolve vnew opportunities for self-expression as "jews. The Habonim movement makes itself responsible not only for the conservation but also for the intensification of Jewish life in the Diaspora.
The Order believes that the Jewish Homeland will invigorate and inspire Jewish National consciousness and stimulate Jewish self-respect, and that it will lend to Jewish life everywhere a new dignity and a new glory.
Dr. J. I. Gorosh, Nassi
In the two years of its existence, Mount Scopus Lodge has doubled its membership and has made several contributions to the cultural life of the community. It has sponsored two dinners in commemoration of the opening of the Hebrew University and several discussions and debates. The debate with the Vancouver Zionist organization was an outstanding event, the Lodge hall of the Community Centre being unable to accommodate all those who wished to hear it.
The next event will be the annual dinner celebrating the opening of the Hebrew University. It will be held on Sunday, April 20, 1941, at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Centre. All net proceeds of all Lodge activities will go toward the creation and maintenance of a scholarship at the Hebrew University.
We ask all those who are interested in the principles of the ZiOhist. Order Habonim as outlined above, to join us in the promotion of our ideals of Zionism, Fraternalism and Jewish Culture.
The officers of the Lodge are as follows: Nassi, Dr. J. I. Gorosh; M'Fakeid, Sam London; Mazkir, Myer Freedman; Gisbar, S. Tenenbaum; Sadran, Chas. Davis; Shomer, H Weinstein; Yoetz, B. Nemetz.
By LOTTA UEVENSOHN
Just to plod along during a world upheavel might have been enough for the Hebrew University if it were an ancient and venerable institution, with centuries of achievement behind it. But youth makes a difference ; and the University is still very young —only sixteen on the first of April. And so, even in Virartime, there is much that is new to be seen on Mount Scopus: Handsome new buildings, a galaxy of distinguished new refugee professors, hundreds of new students from the far-flung Diaspora. There are also signs of expansion all around, what with additional faculties, chairs, and courses. Then, too, the University is doing its bit directly and indirectly, to further the war effort.
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The beginning of the second war year was marked by the establishment of an agricultural faculty. It may seem odd that this particular college was not established sooner, since agriculture has always been proclaimed as the foundation of Jewish re-settlement in Palestine. But the experts tell us that agricultural science is not precisely the same thing everjrwhere, and that it must be taught in each country on the basis of local tradition and experiment. The Jewish agricultural tradition in Palestine was, however, broken off nineteen centuries ago, and scientific experimentation dates back only about thirty years. A certain minimum of experience and experiment therefore had to precede the establishment of an agricultural college.
The five-year curriculum embraces citri-culture, mixed farming, methods of combating insect pests, and farm management. The first two years will be devoted to the study of natural sciences at the University, the third to practicail work on "mixed" farms, and the fourth and fifth to agricultural theory and practice. Provision is also to be made for courses for settlers, which are to be given during the dull seasons on the land. The laboratories will be housed in the new Aaron Aaronsohn Building, which was erected by the University near the Agricultural Research Station of the Jewish Agency at Reho-both. Dr. I. Elazari-Volcani, director of.: the Research. Station,. has, been, appointed professor of farm management.
The University's medical laboratories and the Hadassah institutes were merged into the School for Post-Graduate Study and Medical Research which is housed in the Nathen Ratnoff Building. With the opening of the school, men^ of international reputation were brought together under one roof. Heads of several clinical departments of the Hadassah Hospital were appointed professors and lecturers of the new Pre-Faculty of Medicine, (A full medical faculty can be set up only when facilities can be provided for undergraduate instruction).
At the enlarged Cancer Research Laboratories there is a new chemistry department which is headed by Prof. Carl Neuberg, formerly head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Bio-Chemistry and Experimental Therapy in Berlin. Prof. E. Franco, formerly of the University of Pisa, is the new head of the Institute of Pathological Anatomy.
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The Medical Centre is aiding the war effort by providing specialized instruction for physicians. Six courses have been given by Prof. S. Adler in tropical and sub-tropical medicine for British medical army officers, and one for local physicians in war surgery and camp sanitation.
In 1939 after the disturbances ceased, the Universilty's Malaria Research Station in Upper Galilee, which for many years has treated the population of the district, mainly Arab, has again expanded the scope of its work. The new Jewish settlements in the swampy Huleh Plain
were taken under its supervision. The results, have been very encouraging. For example, at Hulatta, a fisherman's Kevuzah, the incidence of malaria was reduced from 50% to 17% in a single season.
In the non-medical sciences, too, there have been new departures since the war broke out. A chair of Theoretical Physics has been etsablished, which is occupied by Prof. Giulio Rac^h, who previously taught at the University of Pisa. The facilities for teaching physics are now complete, and it has been raised to the rank of a major subject. Petrology has been included in the curriculum of the Department of Geology.
Much of the research work done at the University is devoted to specific Palestinian problems. There is room here to mention only a few of the practical results achieved during the last year or two.
In the Department of Botany, a method has been found for preventing the degeneration of Palestinian potatoes, so that they can be used for planting and the necessity for importing seed potatoes is thereby obviated.
Plant-ciittings which, formerly, rarely or never took root now thrive after soaking in a solution of auxin, a plant hormone which stimulates growth. This method is now being successfully applied to 50,000 vine-graftings.
Experiments with certain wild plants have yielded some substitutes for drugs that cannot now be imported. For example, a plant has been found from which valerian is extracted, and sufficient quantities of this plant are already grown for local needs.
A chemically impregnated wrapper for citrus fruit, which checks the* growth of certain fungi in the peel during storage and transportation, has been devised by Dr. A. Farkas, of the Department of Physical Chemistry. By the use of this wrapper, wastage which formerly cost the orange-growers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year can now be reduced to a few per cent of the value of the fruit.
Courses in the prevention and cure of poultry diseases are being given for breeders and experts by"'Prof.' I. J. Kliger, head of the Department of Bacteriology and Hygiene, and two of his assistants.
The Humanities have a decided share in the new developments. A very eminent scholar. Prof. Umberto Cassuto, formerly of the University of Rome, has been appointed to the Chair of Bible. Thereby it has become possible to teach Bible Research at the University as a major subject.
The Department of Education has been reorganized. Dr. Ernst Simon is now Lecturer in Principles of Education, and Dr. Eliezer Rieger, Lecturer in Educational methods and Administration. Prof. Enzo Bona-ventura, formerly of the University of Florence, has been appointed to the new Chair of Psychology in the same Department.
The Jewish National and University Library, which long ago outgrew its original quarters, has a new wing with stackroom for 50,000 volumes. .
The Institute of Jewish Studies, one of the oldest sections of the University has at last achieved permanent quarters of its own in the new Rosenbloom Building.
The Department of Archaeology and its collections will presently be housed in the new Museum for Jewish Antiquities.
The work of archaeological excavation, by the way, has been vigorously pushed during the past two years, and important finds are reported at Tel Jerishe ("Napoleon's Hill") and at the synagogue and catacombs of Beth Shearayim in Emek Jezreel, while several new sections of the Third Wall of Jerusalem have recently been uncovered.
MBE'nNG OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY'S FACULTY SENATE—This body decides on courses of Instruction, recommends appointments to the teaching staff, awards scholarships, passes on applications for admission, bakes decisions on granting of diplomas and degrees. 52 members of the University's faculty of 135 and over 800 of the 1,200 students are refugees.
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