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"TO ISRAEL WITH HEBREW"
A Television Course in Functional Hebrew
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1972, JTA loc.)
GRADUATION REFLECTIONS: Jews who are pessimistic about
the future of Judaism in this country should have attended the gradua-
tion exercises last week of the schools of higher Jewish learning.
I was attracted primarily by the graduation exercises of Yeshiva
University in New York-the oldest and largest Jewish university
with a broad range of undergraduate, graduate and professional
schools and curricula leading to bachelors, masters and doctoral
degrees. It was fascinating to witness about 950 graduate students
receiving their diplomas in a festive atmosphere.
What attracted me most were the 230 girls among the graduates.
They were students of the Stern College and of the Teachers Insti-
tute for Women-two sections for women students interested in the
field of Jewish education. There were also girl students among the
graduates of the university's other schools, like the school of human-
ities and social sciences and the college of medicine. But those aspir-
ing to engage in teaching and in social work interested me most.
Here they were standing in their gaps and gowns, happy with
their achievement in receiving a higher Jewish education and to be
able to impart it to thousands of Jewish youngsters. They will go out
into the field to strengthen Jewish feelings and Jewish knowledge
in the younger generation.
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THE NEGATIVE ASPECT:
There is, however, also a negative
aspect noticeable in some of the institutions of higher Jewish learn-
ing. One hears too often the complaint that these institutions, in spite
of the fact that their objective is to spread Jewish culture, are dis-
playing an attitude of disregard toward men who create Jewish culture.
Take, for instance, their policy of granting each year honorary
degrees. Only during the recent years-and in some cases under
pressure-have some of these institutions begun to include Yiddish
and Hebrew authors in the list of their recipients of honorary degrees.
Politicians-even non-Jews-and big money-givers are the foremost
recipients, for some reason or another.
Yeshiva University is among the main sinners in this respect. At
its graduation ceremony last week, the university bestowed an award
on Samuel I.. Haber who distinguished himself as the executive vice-
chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee and conferred honorary
doctorates on people like Rabbi Herschel Schachter. Dr. Milton Non-
vitz and Professor Yuval Ne'ernan. This is to he saluted. It also con.
(erred honorary degrees on a number of publicans At the same time.
Jewish men of the pen were completely ignored.
It reminds me of the time when I intervened, a few years ago-
through one of the top men at Yeshiva University-asking that the
university include in its list of honorary degree recipients also Harry
Rogoff, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the largest Jewish news-
pap•r in the world, which has played and is still playing a tremendous
role in American Jewish life. Rogoff - it may he interesting for many
to know was one of the first students of the Isaac Elhanan Yes_
hied which has crown to become the Yeshiva l'Imersitv Ixecords
show that he w as also the best student.
It stands to reasen that yeshiva Unisersity could only have
reneftted in httn.trint_; tine of its first find best students who had reached
the height of het•itoting an twist:m(11m' editor. molder of ',Milli. (mutton.
author of a number of hooks including book, on American historx
and who W;1, considered "the Jewish Walter Lippman - in the world
.if journalism
Itot:off was nit aware of lily intervention Ile did not need any
honorary digitt. he had recei,ed his setiolarlx degree many ea r
he graduated (rum the ('its CitIle,:e of New York. where he-
excelled in the study if !•t.:ie. He died last sear. and the Yeshiva
IThiversity missed the opportunity to give Lint recognition as the best
man in the .lowish press a matter which reflects nevitt,c1) on it •
otherwise very fine record
48-Friday, June 23, 1972
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LESSON 7
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SPIRIT OF JUDAISM:
The spirit of Judaism also was strongly
felt among the hundreds of young men of Yeshiva University's grad-
uate class. The "glat kosher" cafe-houses in the neighborhood of the
university were full of them after the graduation ceremony. They were
sitting in their "yarmulkes," chatting over refreshments and sharing
impressions_
This demonstrative spirit of Jewish belonging and of dedication
to Jewish traditions was displayed not only by students of Judaic sub-
jects, but also by those who graduated into the fields of science and
medicine. There were among them many who previously obtained
their bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degrees at Harvard,
Columbia, Yale, Cornell and other universities of great renote.
Considering that Yeshiva University is but one of the Jewish
institutions of higher learning granting scholarly degrees. and taking
also into account the number of students graduating each year from
other institutions, one must come to the conclusion that the outlook
for Judaism in this country is not as dark as some try to picture it.
Cadres and cadres of Jewishly-trained young people with academic
knowledge are being added each year with every graduation cere-
mony. Out of their ranks grows the so-called Jewish civil service
system, providing well-trained and highly-qualified personnel Tor
Jewish organizations and institutions, for Jewish social work, for
Jewish educational activities, for the various needs of the ever-grow-
ing organized Jewish communal life in the country.
There are many graduates who, for some reasons. do not find their
place in Jewish communal work and drift into non-Jewish fields. But
even with them their Jewish learning is not lost. "Girso D'Yankuso
IA) Mishlakho" says an Aramaic proverb-what is being studied at a
young age is never forgotten. I know of quite a number of American-
horn Jewish young men in high positions-even in government posi-
tions-who are only too eager to indicate their knowledge in Judaica.
Some of them eat kosher only and abstain trom their work on Jewish
holidays. It is their education in Jewish institutions of higher learning
that implanted in them their devotion to the Jewish way of life. -
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