COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

Brandeis Gets Sakharov Archives

Bonner,

letters, the original manu-
script of Mr. Sakharov's
memoirs, diaries and more
than 1,000 photographs.
Earlier this month, Mrs.
Bonner announced the
donation at a
ceremony at
Brandeis,
where she
was joined by
her daugh-
ter, Tatiana
Yankelevich,
and former
Soviet dissi-
dent Natan
Sharansky.
Mr. Sak-
harov was
the Soviet
Union's top
nuclear sci-
entist and
father of the
Soviet hydro-
gen bomb.
He also was a leading
activist in the campaign
for Soviet human rights,
working side-by-side with
his Jewish wife, Elena
Bonner.

widow of 1975
Nobel Peace Prize
winner Andrei Sakharov,
will donate her husband's
archives to Brandeis
University.
The papers, to
be housed
both at Bran-
deis and in
Moscow (with
copies from
the latter
available at
Brandeis)
include his
scientific
research and
personal doc-
uments.
The late
Mr. Sakha-
rov's writings
on human
rights — in-
cluding how
the West aided or ignored
the cause — also will be
included in the Brandeis
collection.
The collection spans
1978-1984 and features

Elena

Women's Center To Be Built In Efrat

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he Ohr Rivka
Institutions of Israel
are launching a $10
million campaign to build
on one campus a junior
high, senior high school
and colle-
giate and
postgrad-
•
uate pro-
grams.
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Rivka is
the only
institu-
tion in
Israel
sanctioned to train
women to argue in the
religious courts, and is
alone in creating integrat-
ed programs of national
service with religious stu-
dents for young women.
Torah study is at the core
of all the programs.
"Our goal is to educate
the best and brightest

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Jewish women from
around the world in the
legal and spiritual her-
itage of our people, and to
develop a cadre of dynam-
ic, powerful, sensitive
modern
Jewish
women
who have
been
//- trained in
Halachah,
women
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I who can
and will
foster a
quiet revolution in the
thinking and behavior of
the Jewish people," said
Leonard Shaykin, chair-
man of the Ohr Rivka
board.
For information, con-
tact Ohr Rivka, Suite
1401, 375 Park Ave., New
York, NY 10152, or call
(212) 319-3217.

Historical Society May The Force Be With You
Offers Prize
ou know all about chapters in California,

he American Jewish
Historical Society is
offering the $100 Leo
Wasserman Foundation
Prize for the best student
essay on any aspect of
American Jewish history.
Contestants must be
undergraduate or graduate
students.
Essays should be 20-30
pages and have appropri-
ate citations and bibliogra-
phy. Include five copies of
the essay. The deadline is
Jan. 15, 1994.
Send entries to Leonard
Dinnerstein, department
of history, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ
85721.
The winner will be noti-
fied by May 15.

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This Definitely
Is Not Hip

T

he next time you're
off to see the Tigers
or the Lions in
action, try to come up with
something other than
"Hip, hip, hooray" when
it's victory time. Unless,
that is, you're interested in
cheering for the destruc-
tion of the Jewish people.
Author M. Hirsh
Goldberg writes in The
Jewish Connection: The
Amazing Book of Jewish
Achievements that the
famous "hip" cheer is actu-
ally anti-Semitic. He cites
Brewer's Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable's refer-
ence to "hip" or "hep" as
the first letters of the
Latin expression
Hierosolyma Est Perdita,
or "Jerusalem is de-
stroyed."
During the Middle Ages,
German knights shouted
"Hip! Hip!" at Jews, while
the Crusaders used the cry
on their march to
Jerusalem. The anti-
Semitic Hep movement,
founded in 1819 in
Germany, also made fre-
quent use of the call.

this Jewish commit-
tee and that Jewish
conference and you're cer-
tain, absolutely certain,
that there can't be a sin-
gle one you've never
heard of, right?
Well, here's an
interesting group
that just may
challenge that
notion.
Celebrating its
35th birthday
this year is the
National
Conference of
Shomrim
Societies, a New
York-based
group comprising
Jewish men and
women employed
full time in the
various fields of
public safety. It
includes state
attorneys general, district
attorneys and public pros-
ecutors, judges, court
clerks, policemen, fire-
men, parole and correc-
tion officers.
The organization has

Maryland, Ohio, Florida
and Texas, all of which
have a minimum of 10
members.
The conference goals
are promotion of "the reli-
gious spirit" of
its members,
defending the
Constitution and
the government
of the United
States and
improving the
community's
image of those
involved in pub-
lic safety.
The National
Conference of
Shomrim
Societies is coor-
dinating efforts
by local affiliates
to recruit Jewish
applicants for
public-safety
positions. For informa-
tion, contact the confer-
ence at Room 604, 45 E.
33rd St., New York, NY
10016, or call (212) 689-
2015.

An 89-Year-Old 'Secret'

I

t probably isn't in any
of the tourist books,
but it's certainly an
in
unusual
spot
Washington, D.C.
For the past 89 years,
the capital city has been
home to the First
Tabernacle Beth El, a pre-
dominately black congre-
gation that labels itself
"prophetic."
"They believe in the
laws of biblical Judaism as
opposed to rabbinical
Judaism," according to
Washington Jewish Week
reporter Laurie Solomon.
They also believe in the
teachings of Jesus, she
says, though they insist he
was not the messiah. In
the words of the congrega-
tion's shammash, "There
was nothing Christian
about Jesus."

A member of the Church
of God and Saints of
Christ chain, the First
Tabernacle (which the
labels
Jewish Week
"D.C.'s well-kept secret,"
because few in the city
have even heard of it) has
stood on the same
Washington street corner
since 1904. Members cele-
brate all Jewish holidays
and traditions cited in the
Bible. They have b'nai
mitzvah, keep kosher and
pray three times daily.
Women and men are seat-
ed separately during reli-
gious services, and First
Tabernacle congregants
observe the Sabbath from
Friday sundown through
Saturday night. Their
prayer books include the
Sh'ma, Kaddish and
Amidah.

