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to all
our friends
and relatives
to all
our friends
and relatives
Mr. & Mrs.
Abe Bienenstock & Family
Earl K. Bogrow, D.D.S.
& Staff
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Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
Bobbi, Ron, Kim, Aimee & Randy Blackman
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Kal & Ada Bandalene
& Family
Zee & Ray Bernstein
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Michael, Barbara,
Robin & Debbie Berger
Harold, Janet &
Avi Friedman
May the coming
May the coming
year be filled
year be filled
with health and
with health and
happiness for
happiness for
all our family
all our family
and friends
and friends
Dorothy & Harold
Haber
Jimmy & Florence
Kovacs & Family
Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
lzrael, Lilly & Nancy Besser
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To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity
Rosa, George, Mark &
Elana Chessler
The Gartners, Arnold &
Diane, Jessica & Joseph
PRRIEFAC51
KEREIREI
May the New Year Bring
May the New Year Bring
To All Our Friends
To All Our\Friends
and Family
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To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity
Health,
and Family Health,
Joy, Prosperity
Joy, Prosperity
and Everything
and Everything
Good in Life
Good in Life
The Baumhafts - Robt, Helen,
David, Shelley, Michael & Sandy
Cherna (Celia) & Nathan Goldin
NEWS
Bar-Ilan: New
And Traditional
BY JEFF BLACK
In the large modern syna-
gogue on the campus of Bar-Ilan
University, the Ner Tamid
(everlasting light) suspended
over the Ark will soon be oper-
ated by a laser beam. This
synthesis of the religious and
the ultra-modern is the
hallmark of the 30-year-old uni-
versity, situated on the outskirts
of Tel Aviv.
The story goes that when Dr.
Pinhas Churgin, the president of
the Mizrachi Organization of
America decided to establish a
university that would combine
religious studies within a secu-
lar degree framework, he went
to see both David Ben-Gurion
and the leading rabbis of Israel.
From the two sides he got the
same response: "Why do you
need a religious university? For
those who want degrees there's
a university and for those who
want to study Judaism, there's a
Yeshiva world." In spite of the
lack of encouragement received
within Israel, Churgin believed
that there was a need for ex-
tending and diversifying higher
education in Israel, so launched
a drive to establish Bar-Ilan, Is-
rael's first and only religious
university.
Since August 1955, when the
university was founded, the stu-
dent body has grown from 80 to
over 12,000, and these days it is
not uncommon for a faculty to
find that it has 2,000 perspec-
tive students vying for one of
the 150 available place.
Bar-Ilan is not only open to
religious students: the ratio be-
tween religious and non-
religious students is approx-
imately 60/40.
to
Professor
According
Michael Albeck, the present re-
ctor and future president of the
University, secular students
come to Bar-Ilan for two major
reasons: "The first is the high
standards of our departments
over all the range of academic
disciplines and the second is
that these students, especially if
they are older, want to gain the
opportunity of learning more
about their Jewish heritage."
In fact, no student of Bar-Ilan
can avoid studying their heri-
tage.
Every student, no matter
what degree course he takes,
has also to devote an extra 25
percent of his time-table to
'Limudei Y'sod Yahadut', a
course of Jewish studies which
includes Bible courses, Jewish
philosophy, Talmud and
Holocaust studies among a
variety of other options. In Pro-
fessor Albeck's eyes, this is what
helps to make Bar-Ilan a unique
institution, for "You can feel the
uniqueness of Bar-Ilan in the
modesty and the seriousness of
the students. You don't see re-
bellion here, for the people who
come, come to learn and to learn
how to live with one another. It
is the only place in the Jewish
world where the religious and
non-religious are sitting to-
gether and learning together
and this is particularly impor-
tant in the context of present-
,