--:y411 4.77,7 0. 711.= • $ 148 Friday, September 13, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 13.11D11 ralz riltn varon 111113 ‘13`2 to all our friends and relatives to all our friends and relatives Mr. & Mrs. Abe Bienenstock & Family Earl K. Bogrow, D.D.S. & Staff 7:42FFC 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 4 r 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 Ig' 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- ,