America 'apish Periodical Cotter Friday, December 20, 1946 Re fugee Locates • Kin in Argentina CLIFTON AVENUE CINCINNATI 20, OHIO • DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle University of Judaism Launched to Spread Jewish Culture, Traditions Seminary already embraces every By RABBI LEON SPITZ NEWT YORK—The fervent wish one of the departments which of a lonely Polish refugee, Abram THE American University of should go into the making of a Judaism was launched in a University of Judaism—the Rab- Minskyof Tel Aviv, Palestine, to getin touch with relatives blaze of glory. The date was Sun- binical Seminary, the Teachers In- scattered- all over the world was day, Nov. 10. The place—The stitute, the Library, the Jewish fulfilled recently with the ells- Jewish Theological Seminary of Museum, the Eternal Light broad- ' covery of his grandfather, grand- America in New York City. casts, the department for cantor- mother, uncle and seven cousins,_ The great spiritual conference ial instruction, the Interfaith In- in Buenos Aires with the aid of was held under the auspices of stitute. It has even inherited the the location service of United America's most important seat of archives of the former School of Jewish learning and in the city Jewish Social Service. Service for New Americans. * « * Minsky, only survivor of his which holds the world's largest immediate family in Poland, suc- Jewish population. All this is ex- RABBINICS FIRST ceeded in reaching Palestine af- actly as it should be, even the ONE TREMENDOUSLY impor- V-E Day. He remembered that blaze of glory. For was not the tant fact must however be estab- , ter when he was a child many of his Torah launched from Sinai's lished. The Rabbinical school 1 relatives had left for South Amer- heights amidst thunder and light- must retain its prestige. It must ica, but he was puzzled just how ning? remain the central feature of the he could go about locating them. To "sell" Judaism, its great cul- stucture of the future University That puzzle was resolved when ture, its spiritual ideals, its fine of Judaism. True to Jewish trad- he read of the work of United traditions, its beautiful institu- ition this department must retain Service in helping refugees over- tions, to "sell" the Jewish way of its position of centrality. seas to locate their kin. life in this day and age to our A University of Judaism is not Writing to United Service, Min- own American Jews, we needed the same thing as a Jewish Uni- sky said that he believed his rela- the conference of Nov. 10. We versity. The University of Juda- tives were somewhere in South needed the presence of men and ism will not train doctors and America. The agency forwarded women of the calibre of a Gov. scientists, lawyers, accountants the appropriate data to its co- Lehman and a Judge Rifkind and and engineers. It will educate its operating committees for search. a Mrs. Felix Warburg. We need- §tudent body to become rabbis and A few It onths later it received ed the participation of scholars religious teachers, cantors and so- word of the location of Minsky's and sages like Mordecai M. Kap- cial workers and artists to serve .. relatives in Buerices Aires and it lan, Salo Baron and Louis Finkel- the American Jewish community r advised him of the successful stein at the birth of this latest in those capacities. What is contemplated is not a search. and noblest institution of them all University of American Judaism. This moved' the Palestinian to in American Jewish life. express his thanks to United Did the presence of the disting- To be sure, the University will Service. "I. could not believe it," uished personages lend glamour have its locale in America. It he wrote,. "when I received a let- to the University of Judaism? Or will be supported by American ter from my relatives in Buenos did the idea, the concept of a Uni- Jewry and it will minister prim- Aires. You can imagine what a versity of Judaism in America en- arily to the cultural needs of our lovely surprise to have a few words hance the prestige of these illus- American Jewish communities. But from someone who belongs to my trious men and women who es- Judaism is the heritage of every Jew in every land and in every family, after having lost in Po- poused its cause? generation. And it defies frag- land, all what was dearest to me." a * mentation even though it may VISIONS GRANDEUR FOR THIS WRITER the very adapt itself to various localized a University of Judaism, usages. Serves Mayo Clinic phrase, has a' magic all of its own. He thinks of it in a mood of exalta- tion. A Temple of Torah? It Chanukah Greetings will tower in spiritual grandeur over the horizon of Jewish life in America. Truth is that like the goddess of Greek mythology, the Ameri- can University of Judaism is now POULTRY AND EGGS emerfrina full-grown. All that the Jewish Thee:nog:6, of America really needs to do in 1360 DIVISK, - ST. order to become in fact the Uni- versity of Judaism is to change Eastern Market its name from Seminary to Uni- versity. 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