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...American who is a Jew"-so far as the referendum is concerned-is Dr. Cyrus Adler, archeologist, president of Jewish educational institutions in Manhattan and Philadelphia, and president of the American Jewish Committee. Founded in 1906. the Committee represents U. S. Jewry at its richest and most conservative, is non-Zionist, lukewarm toward boycotts and protests. Between President Adler and President Wise there is intense personal dislike. Last fortnight, speaking for his Committee and for "Americans who are Jews," Dr. Adler denounced Rabbi Wise's "Hitler plebiscite." In return, on Dr. Adler's home grounds in Philadelphia, Rabbi...
...rith, the Jewish Labor Committee of David Dubinsky, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations repudiated the referendum. Rabbi Wise hoped to get 1,000,000 Jews to the polls. Last week the American Hebrew, pro-Adler journal, listing the organizations which have declared themselves on the question, found their membership totaled more than 1,000,000, about 9-to-1 against Rabbi Wise and his conception of "Jews in America...
...work in the study of viruses Dr. Wendell M. Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has been awarded the Isaac Adler Prize for 1938 by the President and Fellows of the College...
Granted this year for the first time, the prize was founded in 1934 through a bequests of $20,000 by Mrs. Frida Adler of New York City in memory of her husband. It is given once every three years "for the best piece of original research produced in the United States or Canada within the medical or allied sciences...
...scared and in retreat. . . . Hutchins' 'good books' include political documents of no import today, a good deal of myth for the credulous and some pornography not current. . . . But Hutchins may not be unredeemable, if he could only get away from his medievalists, if [Philosopher Mortimer J.] Adler could be sent off on a sabbatical, if Hutchins could get time to read some good modern books, he might come out right side up, face forward. He is a better man, and a more serious menace, than is here revealed...