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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Boris Smolar's
`Between You
. . . and Me'
Yeshiva University Sanctum Youth Institute
'
NEW YORK — Dor Hem-
Named for Samuel
shech, the youth develop-
ment arm of the World
NEW YORK — Yeshiva
Zionist Organization, held
University has dedicated
its first weekend institute
Yad Samuel Belkin, a
in Boston in December.
scholar's sanctum in the
Editor-in-Chief
Twenty-five youth par-
university's Mendel Got-
Emeritus, JTA
ticipated in the first semi-
tesman Library at the main
t (Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
nar,
which will be part of a
center in Manhattan's
two-session series.
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY AT 25: The Bar-Ilan Washington Heights, in
The two sessions cover
University is different from the other universities and memory of the educator and
Zionist history and ideology
administrator who was
schools of higher learning in Israel not just because it is the
and leadership training.
president of the institution
only religious university in the country integrating Jewish
for 32 years and was the
education with general education. It is different also be- driving force behind the
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cause of its affinity with the United States.
modern-day Yeshiva Uni-
The university was established in 1955 in Ramat-Gan,
versity.
near Tel Aviv, under a charter granted by the New York
The specially constructed
State Board of Regents. Its founder and first president was memorial contains pictorial
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DR. SAMUEL BELKIN
Churgin of New York. Its chancellor had been for years the of the more than three de-
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prominent American rabbi, Dr. Joseph Lookstein, who died
Medicine; Yahrzeit serv-
cades of Dr. Belkin's
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in this country a few weeks ago. Its president now is the
ices each year feature a
pioneering administration.
well-known American rabbi, Dr. Emanuel Rackman of
distinguished speaker;
The university will pub-
New York. The chairman of its board of trustees is Phillip lish a Festschrift in memory
and Yeshiva University
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Stollman of Detroit, who has been a pillar of the university of Dr. Belkin, which will in-
alumni have planted a
since its establishment. Mrs. Jerome Stern of New York is clude contributions from a memorial forest in Israel.
located in Barresi Salon,
president of its American Board of Overseers.
Dr. Belkin was a well-
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number of scholars and col-
The United States government is directly interested in leagues.
known Philonic scholar,
West Bloomfield Plaza,
some of the programs of Bar-Ilan, notably in its unique
Yad Samuel Belkin is and his last work on the sub-
computer project. It gives grants to the university for this
ject
is
being
edited
for
fu-
one of a number of
visa
mastercharge
program which is considered in Washington "a most ex- memorials to the late ture publication.
traordinary project." The project involves the computeriza-
president initiated by
tion, for use in research, of a great mass of material con- Yeshiva University since
tained in the Hebrew Response — the replies of scholars his death in 1976. Out-
and rabbis to problems on human relationships, over the
standing under-
last 1,700 years. Some 500,000 Responsa were written by graduates and Jewish
Jewish authorities in Asia, Africa and Europe, primarily in high school students are
Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic.
deemed Dr. Samuel Be-
Legal authorities in the U.S. look upon the com- lkin Scholars; Memorial
puterized Responsa as "a record in detail of the oldest Professorships have
applied legal tradition in the Western World."
been established in his
BAR ILAN ACHIEVEMENTS: Bar-Ilan University name in Judaic Studies,
has grown from a student body of 70, when it was estab- Law, and Medicine; Dr.
lished 25 years ago, to more than 8,000 including 1,000
Belkin Memorial Lec-
foreign students and several hundred Israeli Arabs. The tures are held each year
university offers a total of 1,080 courses in natural sciences, at the University's Albert .
social sciences, humanities and Jewish studies. It has a Einstein College of
You are cordially invited
faculty of about 800 full-time and part-time members.
to select from our collection
Bachelor's and master's degree courses are offered in Jewish Activists
26 departments, and PhD courses in most of them. The Invade Meeting
Service and quality
university library contains some 250,000 volumes and re-
is our business
of New Right
ceives 3,500 current periodicals.
PARIS (JTA) — Some 100
BAR ILAN PERSONALITIES: One cannot speak
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members of a self-styled
about Bar-Ilan University without referring to the ex-
Transitional and luxurious
traordinary devotion — in time, energy and money — of "Jewish Defense Organiza-
tion" attacked a symposium
Phillip Stollman, a leading figure in the American Jewish
dresses and coordinates
community and in his own community of Detroit. To me, organized by France's "New
and to many others who observed him in his dedication to Right."
Open:
More than 20 of the 1,000
the university, he is "Mr. Bar-Ilan." Not only was he one of
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existence, he was the most active person in bringing about and Study Group for a New
its expansion. All his thoughts went in the direction of European Civilization"
making Bar-Han bigger and better. In the history of the were injured, four of them
seriously according to
university he will figure very prominently.
police. Eleven of the Jewish
A modest man and a great
activists were also injured
philanthropist in a quiet
in the violent clash which
way, he gives for Jewish
took place Dec. 9, but none
purposes much more than
of them was reported to
the 10 percent of his income,
have sought first aid at any
as prescribed by the Bible.
of the city hospitals.
He is a substantial con-
The New Right is a loose
tributor not only to Bar-
movement of right wing in-
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Ilan, but also to various
tellectuals and senior gov-
other institutions in Israel,
ernment aides which advo-
in addition to his contribu- cates a return to "Aryan
tions to the United Jewish
sources and purity" and
Appeal, to the Jewish Na-
promotes an elitist view of
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Detroit. But his great favo-
profess pro-Israel views.
rite is Bar-Ilan, which he
visits
several times a year.
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PHILLIP STOLLMAN
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MANISCHEWITZ
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Standing conspicuously on the Bar-Ilan campus is the
modern, beautiful Stollman Building— erected by him, his Immigration to Israel dou-
bled this year, from 21,000
brother Max, and the latter's wife, Frieda — housing the
in 1978 to approximately
university's administrative offices and offices of faculty
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40,000.
members. This is only one of the major contributions made
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by the Stollman family to the university. Last year, Phillip
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20,000
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announced a family contribution of $1 million at a dinner of
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sian olim.
the American Friends of Bar-Han.
Israel, however, is facing
Phillip Stollman gives and inspires others to give. The
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housing
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for
the
donors come not exclusively from Orthodox ranks. I was
immigrants and 18,000 are
present at a.ceremony at the Bar-Ilan University in Israel
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