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LEADERSHIP TROUGH LEARNING
Meeting the Problem of Higher Jewish Educa-
tion for College Youth
By DR. ISAAC RABINOWITZ
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EDITOR'S NOTE: A unique approach to the question of higher
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Jewish education for young people of college age is being tried
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out at the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of
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Michigan where the Oxford system of teaching has been adapted
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to Jewish learning through the creation of an honors course
Bay City, Mich.
in Judaism. Dr. Rabinowitz, director of the Foundation, ap-
praises the value of this course as a means of coping with
a knotty problem in Jewish education.
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A high school student seeking registered for the course
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an answer to the question "Which Jewish history offered at the
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College" wrote me last spring Foundation this year. This is an
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as follows: extraordinary enrollment con-
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. "The great problem that is sidering that there was no other
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facing me is making a suitable motivation than the desire for
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college
choice.
I
have
Rabbini-
this
knowledge
for
its
own
sake.
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brew learning. I do have some ceed 100. But such courses,
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Bay City, Mich.
Hebrew knowledge, but my back- like the three or four other
Bay City, Mich.
ground needs great strengthen- classes we have organized, have
ing, and I need a lot of work obvious weaknesses; in no case
in grammar. B , wrote and can they be anything but curs-
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told me that you give free He- urY surveys, designed to intro-
brew lessons. Is this true, and duce the student to their sub-
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would it be possible for me to ject matter.
We Jews are, however, in no Best Wishes to All ...
take lessons from you?"
This boy came to the Univer- position to await counsels of
sity of Michigan and is now en- perfection. It may take years
rolled in the Hillel Foundation's before the proper instrumental-
ities for meeting this need are
Honors Course in Judaism.
Mean-
A graduate student, sensing a brought into existence.
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"My knowledge of Jewish tra- taro, problems for the solution
SINCE 1893
dition and ethics and history is of which higher Jewish educa-
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infinitesimal,
but
I
feel
more
and
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is
indispensible.
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Considerations such as these
more strongly the bond which
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, exists between Jew and Jew and prompted the Michigan Founds-
Bay
City, Mich.
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City,
Mich.
am curious as to the component tion to bring into being the
parts of this bond." Honors Course in Judaism as an
This man is satisfying his cur- adjunct to our regular system
iousity through the Foundation's of classes, lectures, and semi-
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Honors Course in Judaism. nars. To be sure, it is at best
A law student, seeking an in- a temporary expedient; it is a
troduction to the Jewish way very modest beginning at an
of life as incorporated in the herculean task. What it amounts
legal literature of his people, to is an organization of individ-
came to the Foundation for guid- ual efforts at self-education. The
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ance. In the Honors Course in technique was at hand in the
experience
of
the
great
univer-
Judaism, he has found it.
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A college senior, troubled in sities, Oxford and Cambridge, as
spirit about the chaos into which well as in the modifications of
he was about to emerge, sought this experience which have been
to study the foundations of Ju- evolved in various American uni-
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what he had learned in his col-
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lege classrooms by means of a
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Mich.
time-tested scheme of values. The
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Honors Course in Judaism met
his need.
PERRY FEIGENSON, Pres.
foregoing illustrations
The
BEN FE: tiENSON, Vice-Pres. throw into relief one of the most
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vexed problems in contemporary
American Jewish life, that of
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higher Jewish education, and
suggests a temporary means of
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Virtually no organized
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the college level, however, is as
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yet in existence. Here and there,
to be sure, sporadic efforts may
be seen: colleges of Jewish stud-
ies, extension courses, a few
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public courses in various rabbi-
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nical seminaries, and one paro-
chial college. When we have
'mentioned these we have al-
most completed the roster of ex-
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istent institutions in this field.
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It should be noted moreover,
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that the rabbinical schools are
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not equipped for widespread
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Jewish education at the collegi-
ate level; that the so-called col-
leges of Jewish studies are real-
ly not colleges at all; and that
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the extension courses are little
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President
more than hit-or-miss proposi-
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From our experience here at
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the Michigan Foundation, it is
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apparent that a genuine desire
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for such education exists among
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extent than is generally realized.
Let me cite, as an example,
that approximately 30 students
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