Mid rashes New Judaic Dept. to Offer Courses in Jewish Law and Thought

The Midrasha, College of Jewish
Studies, announces the opening of
its Judaic department Jan. 28 with
two experimental courses in "Jew-
ish Law and Contemporary Soci-
ety" and "Jewish Thought and Con-
temporary Society." Registration
wil be held Jan. 19-26 at the Mid-
rasha building, where classes are
held.

Two instructors representing dif-
ferent disciplines will bring their
special knowledge to each course.
The law class will be taught by
Rabbi Simcha Berkowitz and Solo-
mon Schimmel, whose areas of
specialization are Jewish history
and Jewish law, respectively.

"Jewish Thought" will be taught
by Dr. David Kadosh of the philos-
ophy. department and Daniel
Schwartz, visiting lecturer in the
social sciences.
In the first course, a wide
variety of material from the re-
sponsa literature, equivalent to
case law in the Western legal
system, will serve as the basic

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how Jewish law views, and has
responded to, contemporary prob-
lems such as apostasy, conver-
sion, intermarriage, interfaith
relationshoips, invasion of pri-
vacy, the fifth amendment and
self incrimination, transplanta-
tion of organs, artificial insemin-
ation and cyronics (refrigeration
of the dead). Also to be discussed
are some of the halakhic (Jewish
law) problems generated by a
secular Jewish state and by the
Six-Day War and its aftermath.
The works of eight modern Jew

Rabbi Israel Miller will deliver
the annual Benz Memorial Lecture
marking the opening of the Metro-
politan Council of Young Israel
adult education program at Young
Israel of Oak-Woods 9 p.m. Jan. 21.
Theme of this year's lecture
series is "The Future of World
Jewry." Rabbi Miller will speak on
European Jewry.
Rabbi Miller, rabbi emeritus of
Kingsbridge Heights Jewish Cen-
ter, the Bronx, is the assistant to
the president for student affairs at
Yeshiva University. He has headed
many missions to Europe on behalf
of Jewish organizations in the
United States. Immediate past
chairman of the Conference for
Soviet Jewry and past chairman of
the commission on Jewish chap-
laincy of the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board, Rabbi Miller is chair-
man of the American Zionist Coun-
cil.
Other lecturers scheduled for this
series are Dr. Charles Leibman,
sociologist and researcher for the
Jewish Publication Society's Amer-
ican Jewish Year Book, who will
speak on the future of American

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The third lecture in the 10th an-
nual Bargman Memorial Scholar
series will be held at Temple Beth
El Jan. 24. Dinner will be at 7
p.m., lecture at 8:30.
Dr. Leon A. Jick, director of the
Lown Graduate Center for Con-
temporary Jewish Studies and pro-
fessor in the department of Near
Eastern and Judaic studies at
Brandeis University, will speak on
"The American Jewish Pattern:
Assimilation and Survival."
Dr. Jick, a graduate of Washing-
ton University in St. Louis, re-
ceived his PhD from Columbia
University. After serving in the
Air Force during World War II, he
went to Israel, where he participat-
ed in the establishment of a settle-
ment in western Galilee and taught
English and American civilization
at the Bet Beni Institute.
On his return to the United
States, Dr. Jick entered Hebrew
Union College and was ordained in
1954. He served as assistant rabbi
of Temple Israel in Boston and as
rabbi of the Free Synagogue of
Westchester in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
He is the author of "In Search of
a Way."

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Since these courses are being
subsidized by the Midrasha, a fee
of $15 per course will be charged.
Each course is two credits.

Dr. Leon Jick
to Speak at
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and "Jewish Thought and Contem-
porary Society" will meet 8 p.m.
Thursdays.

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ish thinkers, including Moses Men-
delssohn, Felix Rosenzweig, Martin
Buber and Mordechai Kaplan, will
be analyzed in the second course
with special emphasis on their
relevance to current problems. The
influence of anthropoligy, existen-
tialism and modern
scientific
thought on contemporary Jewish
movements will be considered.
The Holocaust and "God is dead"
theology will be examined in the
light of current Jewish thought.
The semester ends May 27. "Jew-
ish Law and Contemporary Soci-
ety" will meet 8 p.m. Tuesdays

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