Friday, April 4, 1980

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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Israel's Bar-Ilan Is Maturing at Age 25

With almost 1,000 of its
students coming from
A quarter-of-a-century abroad, study at Bar-Ilan is
ago the founders of the Bar- often the first step towards
Ilan University, led by Prof. aliya: it is there they forge
Pinchas Churgin, the identification with their
envisioned a school provid- land and their people which
ing a viable academic later many translate into
framework for Israel's reli- personal settlement.
gious youth, one where
In addition to its campus
modern liberal arts and
of 250 acres, set within the
sciences would be combined
"green belt" of greater
with love and study of To- Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan also has
rah. Today, however, the three branches: in Ashke-
school does far more than lon, Safed and Zemach (the
merely serve religious Jordan Valley). They are
outh. Half of its student geared for those living in
population of 8,000 comes the communal settlements
from the non-religious sec- and development towns of
tor of society drawn by the those areas. These exten-
university's outstanding sion students can fulfill BA
academic reputation.
requirements by participat-
Bar-Ilan serves as a ing in the seminars, lec-
bridge between the two sec- tures and tutorials of their
tors. Unfortunately, due to final year at the Ramat-Gan
the highly polarized nature campus.
of Israel society, the reli-
Bar-Ilan has also opened
gious and non-observant its doors to the community
sectors of the population at large with a new program
have only limited contact. for senior citizens. Estab-
They do not meet at school lished by Bar-Ilan and the
in their early years for Is- Brookdale Foundation of
rael has two trends — state New York, this program for
education and state-- older citizens is the first of
religious education.
its kind in an Israeli institu-
In their teens, some have tion. The retirees audit reg-
their own youth groups, ular classes as well as
their own activities. The attend special courses or-
army is an excellent mixer ganized for them in the var-
but nevertheless there is ious faculties.
danger of each group de-
The program, termed
veloping a stereotyped pic-
by
Prof. Emanuel
ture of the other, with un-
healthy consequences for Rackman, president of
the society as a whole and the university as "highly
for the individuals them- successful exercises in
inter-generational com-
selves.
At Bar-Han the two sec- munications," is being
tors meet — naturally carefully watched by
and easily. We don't asa other universities as a
rule 'turn religious,' " model to serve interested
said one non-observant senior citizens.
Bar-Ilan has come a long
student, "but__we do gain
a greater understanding way from a small school of
for our past, for our 70 students to one of 8,000
people and for those who with 800 full and part-time
obey the command- faculties. "Yet, in the be-
ments." For many it may ginning," recalls the chan-
be their first exposure to cellor, Rabbi Joseph Looks-
Judaic studies in depth, tein, "the founding fathers
for all students, no matter met with opposition on all
their major, are required sides. The one great univer-
to take courses in Bible, sity at the time felt that one
Talmud, philosophy and university for Israel was
enough . Some of our
Jewish history.

By RUTH SELIGMAN

World Zionist Organization

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The Bar-Han campus at Ramat-Gan.

ton, D.C.
Prof.
Meanwhile,
Stephen A. Whitfield of
Brandeis University will
present the first Harry A.
Elson Memorial Lecture on
May 3 during the annual
meeting of the society which
will be held in Pittsburgh.
A panel discussion on the
experience of local Jewish
history will highlight the
meeting.

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WALTHAM, Mass: —
Prof. Melvin I. Urofsky of
Virginia Commonwealth
University is the new
chairman of the academic
council of the American
Jewish Historical Society.
Urofsky succeeds Prof.
Lawrence H. Fuchs of
Brandeis University who
has become director of the
select commission on immi-
gration policy in Washing-

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still some who are not con-
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