Hebrew U. Conducts Studies on World Jewry

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

JERUSALEM — Major strides
have been made in evaluating how
the Jewish people is facing up to
a world of continuing violent
change, according to an evaluative
report from the Hebrew Univer-
sity.
Until a decade ago, no such re-
search had ever been made sys-
tematically, but with the establish-
ment in 1959 of the Institute of
Contemporary Jewry at the He-
brew University, university scho-
lars, in cooperation with collea-
gues abroad, set out to study the
modern Jew on a global basis.
Taking stock of some of the in-
stitute's achievements in its 10th
anniversary year, Prof. Moshe
Davis, head of the institute, for-
merly provost of the Jewish Theo-

Israel Offers Alternate to Suez Canal Route

4 Illinois Families Mark
Bar Mitzva on Masada
MASADA — The pilgrimage of
four families from the Suburban
Synagogue Beth El of Highland
Park, Ill-, reached its climax in
the 2,000-year-old synagogue on his-
toric Masada mountain, with a
joint Bar Mizva for their children.
In the first tour of its kind, en-
tire families made the trip to Is-
rael to enable parents and children
to share the religious and spiritual
experience of a journey to Israel.
The idea came from the syna-
gogue's educational director, Dr.
Louis Katzoff, who accompanied
the group, together with Mrs. Katz-
off. Dr. Katzoff intends to make
biblical family tours an annual
event, to take place during the
winter school vacation.
The synagogue on the Masada
fortress is the oldest known
synagogue that has been preserv-
ed, one of the few already in ex-
istence before the destruction of
the Temple in Jerusalem.
It was used by the Jewish zea-
lots who took refuge here from
Roman oppression. After a siege of
three years they committed mass
suicide, rather than face the fate
of Roman slavery.
The ceremony on Masada includ-
ed a recitation by the children of
the Zealots' -dramatic history.
Synagogues- and individuals in-
terested in Bar Mitzva pilgrimages
to Israel may write Rabbi Shmuel
Nathan, ministry of tourism, 24
King George, Jerusalem.

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logical Seminary in New York and
research professor in American
Jewish history, says that the in-
stitute has become the major cen-
ter in the world for teaching, re-
search and documentation of con-
temporary Jewish life.

As an example of the institute's
recent rapid expansion, Dr. Davis
cites that 104 students are enrolled
for the 1969-70 academic year
(consisting of 89 M.A. students and
15 post-graduate students) compar-
ed with a total of 71 students in
1968-69, 43 in 1967-68 and 18 stu-
dents in 1966-67. Of this year's
students. 14 are from abroad and
j there are a total of 33 new enrol-
, ments.
j New research techniques are
now being developed at the insti-
tute's records center which col-
lects source material on represen-
tative Jewish organizations and
committees throughout the world,
and the oral history division, the
purpose of which is to augment
available written records through

interviews with selected individ-
uals who helped shape contem-
porary Jewish life and whose
knowledge and experience would
not otherwise be preserved.
At a meeting of the international
committee of the institute held in
Jerusalem (November 1967), Prof.
Nathan Rotenstreich, then rector
of the university, laid down the
credo of the institute:
". . . By its very conception the
institute is called to respond to
what preoccupies the mind of the
modern Jew . . . What we are
actually interested in are the vari
ous facets of the interdependence
of Jewish communities ... We are
aware of our Jewishness, of our
Judaism, or whatever we call it.
We have to make a step forward
—from awareness to knowledge
. . . We are concerned here to
bring these two aspects, two lay-
ers, if I may put it this way, into
harmony, into an integration of
one's personality as an individual
and as a member of a group."

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HAIFA (ZINS)—Now that the
Suez Canal is out of action, Israel
provides an alternate route of link-
ing the Mediterranean and Red
Sea.

According to Israel press re-
ports many foreign companies are
giving serious consideration to this
new transportation program. The
Kedem Corp. is offering to provide
In December, a vessel, loading overland transportation for 100,000
in Mombasa, Uganda, and carry- tons of freight annually from Eilat
to the Mediterranean ports of
ing a consignment of coffee des- Israel.
tined for Romania, arrived at the
Israel port of Eilat. The shipment
was conveyed overland to the Is-
rael port of Ashdod, and from
Official
Agency
there loaded on vessels sailing for
Europe.

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