Talking Torah

Rosh Yeshivah shares his vigor for learning through Torah.

and established the Vaad Hatzalah (res-
cue committee) to help rescue European
Jews from the Nazis. Then he turned to
the task of rescuing the Jewish spirit.
he dean of the world's largest
In an effort to rebuild the infra-
institution of Torah learning
structure of Torah learning in the post-
— Beth Medrash Govoha —
Holocaust era, Rav Kotler started Beth
recounted the Mideast crisis
Medrash Govoha with 13 stu-
and tied Torah study to secur-
dents.
ing the strength and glory of
The Kollel Institute of Greater
Israel in a local visit Feb. 5.
Detroit
in Oak Park is one of 20
Rabbi Yeruchim Olshin,
branches
of the Lakewood
rosh yeshivah (dean) of the
yeshivah in North America.
Lakewood, N.J., school,
Rabbis Moshe Schwab and
addressed an audience of near-
Shmuel Irons, the heads of the
ly 100 at the Oak Park home
Detroit Kollel:are both former
of Rabbi Yosef and Raizy
Rabbi
Olshin
Lakewood students, as are most
Nusbaum.
of the Kollel's fellows.
Torah study is the essence of
The
Detroit-Lakewood connection is
Beth Medrash Govoha, a post-graduate
strong with 300 Detroit alumni and 75
yeshivah serving 3,000 advanced talmu-
current students from Detroit.
dic students who learn in three huge
The Nusbaums, as a case in point,
batei medresh (study halls). Graduates
have one son who learned in Lakewood,
become rabbis, teachers, Torah com-
another who will begin there in the
mentators, authors and community
spring and three sons-in-law now learn-
leaders throughout the world.
ing there. "It's a wonderful place for
The yeshivah was established in 1943
young
married couples to live," says
by the Lithuanian Torah sage, Rabbi.
Raizy Nusbaum. "It's the center of the
Aharon Kotler. Escaping Europe via
Torah world today."
Japan, he arrived in America in 1941

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Temple Beth El's Glazer Institute

Dr. Michael Cook will be scholar-in-res-
idence for Temple Beth El's 59th annual
Rabbi B. Benedict and Ada S. Glazer
Institute on Judaism for the Christian,
Eastern Orthodox, Muslim
and Protestant clergy on
Friday, Feb. 23.
As the Sol and Arelene
Bronstein- professor of Judaeo-
Christian Studies at the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in
Cincinnati, Cook is a student
of Jewish-Christian relations.
He serves on the advisory
boards of the Institute for
Michael
Jewish-Christian
Understanding, Muhlenberg
College; the Institute for Christian-
Jewish Studies, Baltimore; and the Joint
Commission on Interreligious Affairs of
the Central Conference of American

Rabbis, Union of American Hebrew
Congregations and HUC-JIR He is the
recipient of the Greater Cincinnati
Consortium of Colleges and
Universities' Excellence in
Teaching Award.
The author of "Mark's
Treatment of Jewish
Leaders," Cook is working
on "Removing the Veil:
Modern Jews and the New -
Testament." He has spoken
at the Southern Baptist
Convention and before
Episcopalian Presiding
Bishop's Advisory Committee
Cook.
on Christian-Jewish Relations;
he has served as textbook con-
sultant for the Archdiocese of
Louisville and was a visiting professor

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