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New Age Of Scholarship
Followed The Holocaust
RABBI RICHARD C. HERTZ
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ne of many tragic re-
sults of the Holocaust
was the extermina-
tion of all yeshivas, libraries
and most of the scholars who
had created a Wisenschaft des
Judentums in Central and
Eastern Europe. The lamps of
Jewish scholarship were ex-
tinguished. Only - in America
were there institutions to train
scholars and rabbis to carry on
Jewish research.
The Torah portion this week
never imagined that the pat-
riarch Jacob — when he lay
dying in Egypt and wanted to
bless the sons of Joseph —
would one day find his descen-
dants in a land where Jewish
scholarship would flourish,
where a new golden age never
equaled either in Spain or
Alexandria would be found.
A byproduct of Uncle Sam's
GI Bill of Rights was to offer
free education for returning
veterans. A host of Jewish
young men, drawn to higher
education, earned their Ph.D.s
at outstanding universities.
When the expansion of colleges
and universities exploded in
the '50s and '60s and the need
for competent, qualified pro-
fessors became obvious, scores
of Jewish professors were
available, trained in academic
disciples and especially in the
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Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli
officials expressed outrage
last week over the reported
"execution" of three Lebanese
Jews held hostage by an ex-
tremist Shiite group.
The hostages were identi-
fied as Yehuda Youssef
Benesti, 33, Henri Men, and
Elie Srour, 68. Benesti, kid-
napped from his home on
May 11, 1985, was the bro-
ther of Ibrahim Benesti, kid-
napped the same month, who
was found shot to death last
February 15.
Srour, an electrical engin-
eer, was kidnapped on March
28, 1985. There was no infor-
mation available on men
whose name is not on the list
of nine Jews kidnapped in
Beirut last year, four of
whom, including Benesti's
brother, were killed over a
year ago.
The Shiite group which
claimed responsibility for the
latest hostage murders identi-
fied itself as "The Organiza-
tion of the Oppressed on
Earth."
It is believed to be linked to
Hezbullah (Army of God), a
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social sciences. They intro-
duced a new discipline to the
academic curriculum: Jewish
studies.
Today, there isn't a major
college or university that
doesn't offer Jewish Studies as
an elective. A new cadre of
Jewish scholars and educated
Jews has arisen, lay people,
Shabbat Vayigash:
Genesis
44:18-47:27;
Ezekiel
37:15-28
educated about Jews and
Jewish life. Not a few rabbis
have turned away from the
congregational rabbinate to
become professors.
Even as the Patriarch Jacob
saw his own past fused with the
hopes for the future, the bless-
ing which Jacob bestowed on
his grandchildren was the
blessing of Abraham, which
Isaac had bestowed on Jacob
and which now Jacob was to
pass down to his children's
children.
We today are the inheritors
of that blessing. The Jewish
professors in colleges today,
though they modestly would
not claim it, have lived up to
the blessing of Jacob. They in
turn are the bearers of blessing
through their scholarship and
through their influence on to-
day's college youth, in making
our people "the people of the
Book."
Israel Outraged By
Lebanese Jews' Deaths
ALL SIZES ARE
PRE-WASHED
Friday, January 9, 1987
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pro-Iranian Shiite terrorist
gang.
It announced the killings in
a note delivered to a Beirut
newspaper and said they were
in retaliation for an Israeli
shelling of a Shiite village in
south Lebanon.
No bodies have been found
by Beirut police. The gang set
conditions for return of the
bodies which include "release
of all struggles in Zionist
prisons" and "complete with-
drawal" by Israel "from the
border enclave in southern
Lebanon." Israeli officials
have refused to respond.
Baseball, Softball,
Registration Opens
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Softball For Youth will hold
registration for 1987, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday and Jan. 21, at
North Farmington High
School cafeteria.
Registration is open to boys,
ages eight to 16 as of July 31,
1987 and girls, ages eight to 16
as of Aug. 31, 1987.