October I, 1943 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 7 1 THE • YESHIVA AND YESHIVA COLLEGE-F-- Living Example of American Democracy By SIDNEY D. BRAUN Instructo r of French, Yeshivah College •.? _ "experimental" state, Dr. Belkin, in evaluating the proportions and The recent election to the die Law, Dr. Balkin has contrib. import of his new task, never- presidency of the Yeshiva and uted numerous articles to scien- theless likes to refer back to the Yeshiva college of Rabbi Dr. tific journals and is also the au- beginnings of this institution Samuel Belkin, who thus becomes thor of "The Alexandrian Hata- which, with only a handful of the second president of the in- kah in Apologetic Literature" in 1939 by students, was originated in the stitution, has been a choice of which was printed the Jewish Publication Society, downtown district of New York much wisdom and holds forth great promise for the continued and of "Philo and the Oral Law," City some fifty years ago. development and importance of published in 1940 in the Harvard A brief survey will indicate this institution in the life of Semitic Series. that it was only in 1915, when Having begun his affiliation Jewish higher learning and aca- with the Yeshiva College in 1935 Rabbi Dr. Barnard Revel who demic culture. was then appointed to the P resi- Educated here and abroad, Dr. as an instructor in Greek, Dr. dency of the faculty, that Yes- Belkin who has been ordained by Belkin soon became Professor of hiva was recognized. Also in that outstanding European rabbinical Talmud at the Yeshiva proper year, under the guiding hand and authorities, is also the recipient and, in 1937, organized the leadership of Dr. Revel, the Tal- of the degree of Doctor of Phil- Graduate School — now called mudical Academy, the first aca- osophy in Semitics from Harvard the Bernard Revel Graduate demic high school under Jewish University. As scholar of Talmu- School, after the first President auspices, was established as "an- of Sem- other school" of the Yeshiva. itic Yeshiva Studies. College In 1941, — he for was ap- In the course of time the pointed Dean of the Yeshiva. Rosh Hashonah Greetings! Teachers Institute, which pre- with the youthful ener- pares its students for the Hebrew gy and idealism necessary for Teaching Profession, was ah- the administering of his new du- ties, Dr. Belkin, who is only in sorbed into the Yeshiva proper. The highlight of the gradual his early thirties, looks forward with hopeful anticipation to the development and growth of the Yeshiva was the founding in 1928 Practical Furriers - Designers achievement of the deserved of the Yeshiva College — the recognition that Yeshiva and Yes- only college of Liberal Arts and Store Your Furs in Our hiva College will eventually hold only college of Liberal Arts and Certified Cold Storage not only in the religious world Sciences in America under Jew- Vaults ish auspices. Enabling its stu- but aso in American education. Fully aware that Yeshiva and (lents to continue their Jewish 8262 TWELFTH ST. Yeshiva College is now past its studies and at the same time to Col Virginia Park earn the baccalaureate degrees, MAdison 1110 the Yeshiva College thus emerg ed as living evidence of the Le Shone Tovo Tikosevu growing strength of the Jewish tradition in this country which is harmoniously blended with Amer- A. C. & H. R. BUNGE icanism. Upholding the highest academ- SEASON'S GREETINGS! ic standards, the faculty of the OPTOMETRISTS and Yeshiva College — under the Ivory able guidance of Dean OPTICIANS Moses L. Isaacs — includes many illustrious men, Jews and non- Makers of High Grade Eye DUNCAN Jews, who hold degrees from such Glasses Since 1896 institutions as Columbia, Yale. TOOL & GAUGE CO. Harvard, Brown, New York Uni- Eyes Examined on a versity and Johns Hopkins. On Scientific Basis the staff are also included grad- uates of the great universities, 2409 Mt. Elliott at Vernor Hwy. such as Cambridge, London, To- 103 1 7 NORTHLAWN ronto, the Sorbonne, Heidel- FITZROY 0058 berg, Berlin, Wurzberg and HOGARTH 8965 Frankfort-am-Main. Among the faculty, too have been holders of Guggenheim Fellowships and a former acting president of one Le Shono Toro Tikosevu of the metropolitan colleges. 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By way of contrast with most Vlnewood 2-5 700 4630 Braden higher institutions of learning in thi s (wintry, students at the Yes- hiva Collette who are unable to Best Wishes from - - nay for their tuition are admit- ted if then meet its rigid schol- estie requirements. It is of in- terest to note that the Yeshiva College receives full tuition from H. NERENBERG, Prop. enly six per cent of its students. TO. 8-0965 1 3 306 DEXTER BLVD. tse remaining q4 nor cent of its student body being on full or nontial scholarships. Un to date. Yeshiva Collpw• has graduated over three hundred FIXTURES JIGS DIES TOOLS and fitly students. Of this pum- a nercentage have contin- ned their studies in graduate WOO: at the universities of this country and abroad. in some in- stan•es at the I ondon School of Economics and the Hebrew Uni- 14820 E. JEFFERSON AVE. versity of Jerusalem. in stud' fi ,, Irls as Lain. Medicine, So- LENOX 7770 c ird wy and Teaching. Eora-curricular activities at Yeshiva College. also play an HUGO LIEBOLD ;nil-woe/it role in the integration snirit end culture. of Ameri- canism and Judaism • Besides the Blue Bird Fur Shop lr Donnelly Pattern and Engineering - JEWEL BAKERY Elkin Tool Company usual student activities of the ordinary college, including com- petition with other schools in chess, basketball, baseball, ten- nis and other sports, clubs and student journals written in Eng- lish, French, German and He- brew, give scope to enthusiasts in various fields of interest. An indirect, although highly valuable phase of Yeshiva Col- lege work, has been its civilian defense activities. Over fifty per cent of the students have receiv- ed training as air raid wardens, many of them participate as fire department auxiliaries and some have been trained in first aid work. More than one hundred students and faculty have do- nated blood to the American Red Cross Blood Chest. In addition, many of the recently graduated rabbis of the Yeshiva are now serving our Government as Chap- lains in the Army. The recent declaration by Pres- ident Roosevelt to the effect that the War Front and the Home Front are but One Front in the attempt to stamp out Hitlerism, fascism and paganism, clearly demonstrates the important part played in these days of peril by this singular institution of learn ing in the War Effort. This fac becomes all the more eviden when it is realized that new and additional "Yeshivoth Kitanoth," or simply elementary and inter- mediate parochial schools, from which a large part of the Yes- hiva College student body is re- cruited, have been springing up ever since the Hitler rise. Indeed, the "Four Freedoms" are being fought on the Home Front as well as on the War Front by im- planting into the hearts and minds of youth the principles and ideologies that the Allied Nations are striving for. 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