University receives $20 million for Judaic studies
ann arbor, mich. (ap) | Two alumni have donated $20 million to the University of Michigan for Jewish studies.
Michigan officials said it is the largest contribution for Judaic studies ever made to an American university.
The money will go toward the university’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The center was established in 1988, in part with a $2 million gift from the same two alumni, Detroit-area real estate developer Samuel Frankel and his wife, Jean.
“Our partnership created the vision for the institute, which will take the existing center and the field of study to a new level,” Frankel said in a statement.
The gift will be used to bring 14 leading scholars to Ann Arbor each year to research Judaism and Jewish history, culture and literature.
Judge rules against Nazi collaborator
washington (jta) | A former Nazi concentration camp guard was stripped of his U.S. citizenship.
A U.S. judge has ruled that Iwan Mandycz served as an armed guard at the Poniatowa labor camp in Poland in 1943 and later served in Sachsenhausen in Germany.
Mandycz concealed his Nazi collaboration when he applied to immigrate to the United States in 1949. The lawsuit against Mandycz was brought by the Justice Department’s Nazi-hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations.
Mandycz can appeal the decision.