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THE DETROIT JEW ISH NEW S — Friday, November 24, 1961 -
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, founded in 1887, is the
official center of Conservative Judaism. From it come the trained rabbis,
Hebrew teachers, cantors and community leaders who nourish the mainstream
of Jewish religious and communal life.
At the Seminary's eight schools—seven of which are housed in New York
City's famed intellectual and university center, Morningside Heights—intensive
scholarship and broad programs of public enlightenment enrich both Jewish
learning and the cultural life of all peoples.
The Seminary's eight schools (the eighth, the University of Judaism, in
Los Angeles, serves the West Coast) have a total annual enrollment of ap-
proximately 2,000 students from every part of the world. Recruitment for
these schools begins at a very early age, to insure the best possible students
for important positions of leadership in Jewish communities throughout the
Western Hemisphere.
A network of Ramah Camps, teaching the meaning and practices of
Judaism to American youngsters, is important in this recruiting effort, as
are other :programs such as the nationwide Leaders Training Fellowship con-
ferences and the preparatory departments at the Seminary in New York City.
The very heart of the Seminary in its Rabbinical Department, a gradu
professional school training men for the rabbinate. The Department as th
divisions: the School of Judaica, the Graduate Rabbinical Schoo and
Department of Postgraduate Studies. The faculty of the Semina and
Rabbinical Department, under the aegis of Dr. Louis Fin stein, e sin
Chancellor, would honor any university in the world.
Scholarship of a high order is a prime regal. to in t
i ry s Rab-
binical curriculum. Course content includes
, Bib
st y, Codes,
Homiletics, Jewish Literature and Institutions, a sh Philo h Midrash,
- Modern Hebrew Literature, Pastoral Psychiatry, hilosop
of Religion,
Theology and Talmud. Training for the rabbinate
igoro and demanding.
The Teachers Institute and Seminary Co s. e of Jewish Stud -
re
undergraduate colleges of the Seminary. Th
achers Inst'Itu
fessional college of Jewish education, trains teachers and
for the Jewish community. Its undergraduate division awards
diploma and the degree of Bachelor of Religious Education.
The Seminary College of Jewish Studies offers a libera
progra
in Judaica leading to the Bachelor of Hebrew literature deg . Under
exchange program with Columbia University, also located in the Morni
de
Heights area of New York City, students can pursue a combined study
gram
at the Seminary and at Columbia University towards liberal arts
trees at
both institutions.
Other important schools at the Seminary include the C
rs Institu
and the Seminary College of Jewish Music, which are two
artments o
single collegiate school devoted to Jewish musical studies
e Cantors
tute trains Hazzanim for congregational service. Its gr
ates serve in syn
DEC. 4th RECEPTI • HON
A promine • roster of De-
troit Jewr
11 extend a warm
welcom
Dr. Louis Finkel-
stein, Chancellor of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of Amer-
ica, when the world famous
scholar and religious leader re-
turns to Detroit after an eight
year absence and is honored
with a private reception at 6:30
p.m. in the Standard Club of
the Sheraton - Cadillac Hotel.
Dietary laws will be strictly
observed at the cocktail and
buffet reception.
THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL
SEMINAY OF AMERICA
Broadway and 122nd Street,
New York City
Hosting the tribute to Dr.
Finkelstein will be Joseph
Holtzman and John E. Lurie.
The reception committee in
formation includes Louis Berry,
gogues throughout the United States and Canada.
Vital programs of adult Jewish education emanate from the Seminary's
Women's Institute of Jewish Studies and the Seminary School of Jewish Studies.
The Seminary is also instrumental in enriching the cultural life of both Jews
and non-Jews by the - maintenance of one of America's great museums, The
Jewish Museum, located in New York City and visited by tourists and scholars
from around the world.
Another famous institution at the Seminary, also of major importance to
scholars from all over the world, is the Seminary's Library, the largest collection
of Hebraica and Judaica ever assembled. It contains over 200.000 printed books
in all languages and nearly 10,000 manuscripts dating from the ninth century
to the present, as well as microfilms which offer access to collections elsewhere.
The Seminary also reaches out to mass audiences throughout the United
States and Canada with its award-winning "Eternal Light" radio and television
broadcasts over NBC and the
recent "Directions '62—A Jewish Perspec-
tive" over ABC-TV. Radio an
ision scripts have been translated into many
languages for re-broadca t
oughout the world as
as for distribution
to thousands of people
write in for them.
Another way in w
he Seminary mak
entic Jewish contribution
the intellectual cl
our time i
e inter-faith seminars and study
programs it onsors. C
n an
s of all faiths gather at the Seminary
to -engage
he
ary's Institute for Religious and Social
Studies a
fence, Philosophy and Religion.
Othe
the Seminary include -work under the auspices
of the H
Institute of Ethics, the American Jewish History
Center, th
del Melton Research Center in Jewish Education, and
eminary
man Student Center in Jerusalem. The latter, a dormitory
ultura
er for Seminary students spending a year in Israeli schools,
or American visitors, will open soon. Also in Jerusalem is the
nstitute for Jewish Research of The Jewish Theological Seminary of
, with its remarkabl rary, also a mecca for scholars from around
orld.
The Seminary is
ings. In a real sense, it also is the home of its
two sister institution
oth used in the Seminary's buildings in New York
City. These sister in-
tions are: The Rabbinical Assembly of America, the
national organization
the more than '700 rabbis in the Conservative Move-
ment; and e United Synagogue of America, the association of more than 700
C servat -
olaregations in the United States and Canada.
Toda
e 1M0 graduates of the Seminary's Rabbinical School, and the more
,0
graduates of its Teachers Institute, occupy posts of leadership-
out the globe. Scholars trained at the Seminary bring the living ideas
eals of Judaism to all mankind. The Jewish Theological Seminary of ,
ca, by virtue of what it has given to Jewish life, and by virtue of what it
means for JeWish existence, belongs to all Jews everywhere.
ING DR. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN
Al Bo • an, Tom Borman, Ir-
win I. Cohn, Theodore Curtis,
Sol Eisenberg, Charles E. Fein-
berg, Walter L. Field, Arthur
Fleischman, David B. Gold-
berg, Harry Gimsberg, Louis
Hamburger, Samuel Hambur-
ger, Abe Kasle, Stephen
Lanyi, Ben Levinson, Robert
Marwil, Dr. Thomas Marwil,
David Miro, Max Osnos,
Tubie Resnik, William R.
Roth, Charles Rubiner, David
Safran, Abraham Satovsky,
Samuel Simmer, Phillip Stoll-
man, Benjamin Weiss, and
the rabbis: presidents, and
Seminary committee chair-
men of the leading conserva-
tive synagogues in Detroit.
Outdoor Sabbath service being conducted at the Seminary's
Ramah Camn in California.
SAM JAFFE, popular stage,
screen and television actor,
stars in "The Temptation of
Reb Yisroel," a highly regard-
ed Eternal Light television
play.
• •
DR. NAHUM SARNA, Assistant Professor of Bible, relates a
humorous story while teaching a class in the Seminary's
Teachers Institute. Dr. Sarna also is the librarian of the Sem-
inary's unique Library of Judaica and Hebraica.
Doctor Finkelstein, who is re-
garded as one of the most out-
standing religious leaders and
scholars on the American scene
today, was born in _Cincinnati,
Ohio, on June 14, 1895. He is
the son of Rabbi Simon J. and
Hannah Brager Finkelstein. He
received his A.B. from The City
College of the City of New
York in 1915; his Ph.D. from
Columbia University in 1918;
and was ordained as Rabbi at
the Jewish Theological Semina-
ry of America in 1919. He holds
an honorary S.T.D. from Colum-
bia University and an honorary
Litt.D. degree from- Boston Un-
iversity.
The author' and editor of many
scholarly works, Doctor Finkelstein
edited a two-volume work, The Jews:
Their History, Culture and Religion.
A third revised edition of this work
is being prepared for publication
soon. -Among his published works are:
Jewish Self-Government in the Middle
Ages (1924); The Pharisees, Their
Origin and Their Philosophy (1925);
Akiba-Scholar, Saint, Martyr -(1936);
The Pharisees, the Sociological Back-
ground of Their Faith (1938); Beliefs
and Practices of Judaism (1941);
Promaccabean Documents in the Pass-
over Haggadah (1943); Sifra, or Torat
Kohanim According to Codex Asser-
mani LXVI (1956). He is co-author
of: Religions of Democracy (1941)
and Faith for Today (1941). Among
the works of which he is editor are:
Kimchi's Commentary on Isaiah
(1926); Sifre on Deuteronomy (1935)
and (1936); Saadia Gaon; Abot of
Rabbi Nathan (1950). He is co-editor
of: Science, Philosophy and Religion
Annual Symposia, since 1942. In addi-
tion, he is a contributor to such pub-
lications as the Jewish Quarterly Re-
DR. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN
view, Journal of Biblical Literature,
Harvard Theological Review, Menorah
Journal, New Palestine, Hebrew Union
College Annual, Thomist and Revue
Des Etudes Juives.
Doctor Finkelstein was
awarded the Townsend Harris
medal in 1940. In that same
year, he was appointed by the
late President Franklin D. Roo-
sevelt to succeed Doctor Cyrus
Adler as representative of Juda-
ism to advise the President with
regard to steps for world peace.
Rabbinical Alumni of Jewish Theological Seminary Who Are Spiritual Leaders of CONSERVATIVE Congregations in Detroit
Adas Shalom
Jacob Segal
Ahavas Achim
Milton Arm
Beth Aaron
Benjamin Gorrelick
Beth' Shalom
Mordecai Halpern
B'Nai Moshe
Moses Lehrman
Shaarey Zedek
Morris Adler