Community Plans
Anniversary Events

The Jewish community will
commemorate the 500th an-
niversary of the expulsion of
approximately 400,000 Jews
from Spain in 1492, with
Sephard '92, educational and
cultural events about the
Sephardic Jews.
There will be a community-
wide music program March
31 at Temple Israel. The con-
cert will feature an original
work, commissioned by six
Jewish communities across
the country.
Other events will be a
Sephardic seder for families,
cultural and educational pro-
gramming for children and
an exhibit of Sephardic ar-
tifacts at the Jewish Com-
munity Center in West
Bloomfield.
The committee (in forma-
tion), chaired by Rayna

Kogan and Beverly Liss, will
be comprised by represen-
tatives from the Agency for
Jewish Education, the
American Jewish Committee,
the Jewish Community
Center, the Jewish Communi-
ty Council, the Jewish
Federation and the Sephardic
Community of Metropolitan
Detroit.
To help plan these pro-
grams, call Adele Silver,
661-1000, Ext. 293.

Temple Israel
Sets Torah Study

Temple Israel is hosting a
weekly Torah study session
led by Bernice Berlin
12:30-1:30 p.m. Wednesdays
at the temple.
For information, call the
temple, 661-5700.

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27, 1991

THE JEWISH NEWS

CAMP DIRECTORY

ISSUE DATES: FRIDAY, JANUARY 10
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Yeshiva Closing

Continued from Page 7

The Commentator, Dr.
Lamm has turned down
several financial offers to
save Revel, saying that he
would not accept anything
less than a signed guarantee
for $1.5 million over five
years. According to YU's fi-
nancial statements, its
operating budget for this
year is over $297 million.
Outside of YU, the issue
has prompted several organ-
izations to call for reversal of
the decision. The Associ-
ation of Jewish Studies, a
national organization of
Jewish scholars, passed a
resolution at its convention
last week in Boston saying
the closing of Revel would
have "extremely negative
consequences for the entire
field of Jewish studies" and
called "upon the president
and board of trustees of
Yeshiva University to re-
verse this decision."
The executive committee
of the Educators Council of
America, a fellowship of Or-
thodox Jewish Educators,
unanimously passed a simi-
lar resolution.
The YU administration,
however, contend that the
restructuring of Revel "is
both academically justified
and financially prudent."
The central changes in the
proposed restructuring
would do away with gran-
ting academic degrees and
would eliminate most major
courses of study. What
would remain, according to

university documents, are
studies in Jewish Thought
that will award graduates a
certificate. Meanwhile, the
board of trustees authorized
"an immediate suspension of
admissions" into the school.
Student leaders believe
that the restructuring is
really a death sentence. In
their petition to Dr. Lamm,
they wrote that students
must have a place "to in-
tegrate Jewish studies with
the best ideas of modern
scholarship . . . It allows
women who do not have the
possibility of learning for
Semicha (ordination) to con-
tinue their Jewish edu-
cation. It allows Semicha
students to broaden their vi-
sion beyond Gemara. Final-
ly, it reflects the values that
make our institution unique.
Any substitute program
lacking the quality of Revel
professors and the incentive
of degrees cannot possibly
meet these needs. We,
therefore, request that you
reconsider your decision."
Revel's four full-time and
four part-time professors
stand to lose their jobs,
though the tenured full-
timers would be paid their
salary next year.
Students are concerned
that Revel may not be the
last branch of YU to be cut.
There are rumors that
Yeshiva's separate boys' and
girls' high schools in the
New York metropolitan area
may be the next to go.

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