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with the Heart o American Judaism

Rabbi Benjamin Gorrelick
Class of '33

Rabbi Moses Lehrman
Class of '42

Rabbi Jacob E. Segal
Class of '39

I Jerome Keywell and Max H.
Goldsmith, Adas Shalom; Arthur
Faber, Beth Aaron; Arthur Bos-
chan, B'Nai Moshe; and Arthur
ang, Shaarey Zedek. Also, Dr.
Manuel Feldman, Beth Moses;
Asher Tilchin and Robert White,
Beth Shalom; Morris Kampner,
B'Nai Israel, Pontiac; and Sey-
mour Ungar, Livonia.
Mrs. Abe Katzman, Overall
Chairman, Michigan Branch, Na-
tional Women's League, for the

Combined Campaign of Torah
Fund and Matilda Schechter
Residence Hall, will coordinate
the participation of the Sister-
hoods, whose presidents are:
Mrs. Ben Z. Freeman, Beth
Aaron; Mrs. J. Stewart Linden,
Adas Shalom; Mrs. Julius Mes-
kin, Shaarey Zedek; Mrs. Oscar
Spilkin, B'Nai Moshe; Mrs. Mor-
ris Bletstein, B'Nai Israel, Pon-
tiac; Mrs. Jerome Efros, Beth
Shalom; Mrs. Harold Eskovitz,

Beth Moses; Mrs. Morris Gural,
Livonia; and Mrs. David Grai-
ner, Ahavas Achim.
The participation of Men's
Clubs will be arranged by their
presidents: Dr. Davis Benson,
Shaarey Zedek; Eugene Fried-
man, B'Nai Moshe; Jack Kauf-
man, Adas Shalom; and Allan
Rosenberg, Beth Aaron. Also,
Jerome Efros, Beth Shalom;
Jerome L. Kohn, Beth Moses;
and Dr. Mort Knopper, Livonia.

Fountainhead

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lay leadership, a leadership
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Schechter Insptred Seminary

If today's Jewish Theological Seminary with its vital
links to the world community of Gentile and Jew alike, is
the product of over 75 years of dedicated service, it is
nevertheless primarily the child of a single inspiration.
For the Seminary owes the achievements it has to its credit,
and the possibility of attaining those in sight, to the genius
of Solomon Schechter (1847-1915), doubtless the wisest
and most learned Jew of his time, a man equipped with
rare vision and a gift for social engineering.
He created in the Seminary an institution bridging
the immense chasm between the traditions of European
Jewry and America, between the Jewish past and present,
between the various fragments of American Jewry, between
Jews and their neighbors, and in our families, between
parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren.
But Schechter's extraordinary success reaching back
some 75 years has imposed a number of obligations upon
the Seminary, which more than ever must provide guidance
and inspiration for the Conservative Movement in the next
25 years. Judaism must be explained in terms of the known
facts of history and simultaneously related to the wonder
and beauty of the Universe, which scientists are unfolding
daily.
Teachers of Judaism not only have to master biblical
lore and rabbinic law, but western knowledge as well.
They must understand better than ever before the rock
out of which Judaism has been hewn and the contemporary
world to which it is trying to give meaning. Thereby, in
mastering history and appreciating the progress of the
present, they are laying the foundations of the future.

Seminary-sponsored camp for young people in Wisconsin, where, as

in other Seminary camps, the spirit of Judaism, our prayers and traditions,

are imbued in the generation of young men and young women.

mats' imam nomaa amt—TZ

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The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, comprising three
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buildings
built on a quadrangle at 1 22nd Street and Broadway in New
York City.

The Jewish Theological Seminary

Taught and reared in the Seminary's Rabbinical School, there has arisen
a group of rabbis, distinguished by wisdom, devotion, piety, and selflessness. And
through these rabbis, there have developed almost eight hundred congregations,
including more than a million and a half oeople, in process for the first time of
creating a viable and vital American Judaism, rooted in tradition, yet dealing
with the problems of our time. This Judaism is as important and revelant to our
children as to our ancestors, enabling them to find strength in their religion
rather than regarding it as a calamity, as did so many a generation ago.
The Seminary has developed a Teachers Institute where, for the first time
in this country, modern techniques are used to make attendance at Jewish reli-
gious school not only a pleasure, but a preparation for a wise and creative life.
As part of its contribution to this goal, the Seminary supervises the production
of textbooks, and devises systems of instruction and guidance for religious schools.
One after another, the six Ramah Camps, laboratories for testing the peda-
gogical teachings of the Teachers Institute, were created and developed by the
forward-looking local United Synagogue regions.
In its Herbert H. Lehman Institute of Ethics, the Seminary is nurturing its
future faculty, and providing teachers in Judaism for universities throughout the
land, as well as discovering just how Judaism can contribute to the world we
live in ideas indispensable to the ethics of the Nuclear Age.
In The Institute for Religious and Social Studies, The Institute on Ethics
and the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion (all creations of the
Seminary and sponsored by it), the Seminary elicits, from all fields of learning
and all traditions, wisdom to enable men to live together in a world of unprece-
dented complexity. The influence of these institutions is now worldwide. Never
before in all Jewish history has a Jewish institution of learning exercised such
influence on the world generally.
Inspired by the faculty's interpretation of tradition, the Seminary has
created the Eternal Light, a radio and television program that brings the
message of Judaism to more than eight million people each week.

Dr.
addresses
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gious and

Seymour Siegel, Assistant Professor of Theology at the Seminary,
a group of entering freshmen of the Rabbinical School of the
He is explaining the program of the Seminary's Institute for Reli-
Social Studies.

