The Yeshiva Bahur and the College

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1969, JTA, Inc.)

Tag: those who had also the privi-
lege of sleeping over and those who
had only the meals. The latter
would have to sleep at the yeshi-
va. There were beds but the ye-
shiva bahur would stretch himself
out nice and comfortable on the
floor. Usually, it was quiet at night
and the only danger was that some
other yeshiva bahur might walk
over him during the night. They
had no mattresses and slept in
their clothes. There is the story of
the man who offered a yeshiva
bahur a pillow.
"What is it?" he asked.
"It's nice and soft," he was told.
"It is made of feathers."
The yeshiva bahur immediately
saw through it. He figured it out
with talmudic logic. "Everyone

Dr. Abram L. Sachar, first presi-
dent of Brandeis University and its
present chancellor, has been visit-
ing Israel lately. Meeting an old
friend, he said, "It has been seven
years since we met last, but I don't
measure time in years but in build-
ing. So it's been 26 buildings (on
the Brandeis campus) since we
last met."
Brandeis has had the experience
of other universities in having
some of its buildings taken over
by rioting students.
The more buildings, the more
rioters have to take over, but Dr.
Sachar is, on the whole, optimistic.
We must view, he said, the thing
in its proper perspective, noting
that the "student turbulence" is
taking place only at some 20 of the knows," he said, "it is hard to sleep

2,700 institutions of higher learning on one feather. How much harder
it must be to sleep on a whole pil-
in the United States.
low of them."
• • •
In the days of old, there was the
In time, the yeshiva bahurim
Yeshiva Bahur. There were no found out about pillows, but they
scholarships then. So the Yeshiva remained scarce. The same pillow
Bahur lived by a system known had to be used for several people.
as "Essen Tag" or "Eating Days."
It's not easy to sleep on the floor,
One day of the week, you ate at but
then, there is a kind of educa-
the Weinsteins, a second day at the
tion of the spirit that one gets
Goldfarbs and so on. These fami-
sleeping on the floor that maybe
lies took the yeshiva bahur in out
modern students lack. And
of the goodness of their heart. some
a yeshiva bahur attending
They received no compensation. anyway,
a meeting could always say, "Mr.
Let us admit it: It was no ideal sys- Chairman, I have the floor."
tem. You didn't get steak dinners.
The people who fed the yeshiva
bahur were for the most part poor
as church mice, or, shall we say,
synagogue mice, so the student had
to expect a simple diet. Some

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onions, a bit of bread and tea and
maybe, once in a while, a bit of
fish and perhaps, on the Sabbath,
a piece of extra halla or even
bagel, but only rich people ate
bagel. It was a good diet to ke?p
your figure.

• •

There were two classes of Essen

AJCongress Brief Claims
Church Polling Place
Hampers Orthodox

NEW YORK—The use of churches

as polling places in New York

"effectively disenfranchises" many
Orthodox Jews whose conscience
does not permit them to enter a
Christian church, the American
Jewish Congress argued in a
friend-of-the-court brief submitted
to the Second Circuit Court ofAp-
peals in New York.
The case was brought by Morris
Berman. a New York resident,
against the city's board of elec-
tions, Attorney General Louis J.
Lefkowitz and Gov. Nelson Rocke-

feller.

According to Leo Pfeffer, spe-
cial counsel for the American
Jewish Congress, who wrote the
brief, "For the first time, a court
will have to decide whether an
Orthodox Jew loses his right to
vote because his conscience does
not permit him to enter a Chris-
tian church in order to cast his
ballot."
"We think it high time for the
legislature of New York to repeal
the law allowing this practice," he
continued. "In the meantime, we
will continue to fight this issue in
the courts."
The brief notes that state elec-
tion authorities refused to provide
alternative means of voting for
Berman, such as an absentee bal-
lot or permission to cast his vote
in a neighboring election district.

REFORM
'In the first place 'tis a gr-reat
mistake to think that annywan
ra-aly wants to rayform. Ye niver
heerd iv a man rayformin' him-
silt He'll rayform other people
gladly. He likes to do it. But a
healthy man'll niver rayform till
his will has been impaired so he
hasn't power to resist what the
pa-apers calls th' blandishments
iv th' timpter. An' that's thruer
in politics thin annywhere else."—
, Mr. Dooley (Finley Peter Dunne)

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