Word: center
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With that, Jimmy Carter wiggled his fingers at the 2,000 cheering Democrats who last week Attended a $100-a-plate dinner in Baltimore's Civic Center. Carter was on hand to give a boost to Harry Hughes, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Maryland, but the President was also putting in a well-deserved plug for himself. As the 95th Congress came to a tumultuous close after passing 189 bills in its final week, Carter had reason to be pleased. Said the President: "We have a firm grip now on the fiscal management of our Government...
...Center will also sponsor several colloquia, symposia and publications. Its purpose, Weinstock said, is to expose the contributions of the Hebrew and Jewish cultures to our civilization...
...University's Judaica collection in Widener Library will add to its present store of 150,000 volumes, making it the largest non-secular Judaica collection the country, Gerard Weinstock '39, Chairman of the Program for the Center, said yesterday...
Isadore Twersky '51, director of the Center and Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, said the Center "should have repercussions for Jewish Scholarship throughout this country and beyond...
Krister Stendahl, Dean of the Divinity School, said the establishment of the Center "will have very special importance" for Jewish-Christian relations. The Center will help to make Jewish Studies "a part of our view of history," he said...