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...seriously," insists Co-Author Michael Strassfeld, 26, son of a Boston Conservative rabbi. Reviving Faith. The Catalog is in fact an expression of a reviving faith among Jewish young people, many of whom are gathering together in new communal groups they call havurot, from the Hebrew word for fellowship. Each such group-there are now hundreds all over the U.S.-is a close-knit community that meets for prayer sessions, meals, classes and discussions on Judaism. While havurah members do not necessarily live together or pool their finances, they share an intense commitment to making religion part of everyday living...
From its unlikely beginning at what became known as the Haystack Prayer Meeting, the U.S. Protestant missionary movement has depended on collegiate enthusiasm, and that enthusiasm is increasing at a remarkable rate. Last week, as the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship held its eleventh triennial Missionary Convention, a record 16,000 vacationing collegians flocked to the frozen University of Illinois campus to investigate foreign mission careers. Inter-Varsity, an Evangelical group that began in England and now has chapters on 600 U.S. campuses, had to turn away thousands of others because the university's domed Assembly Hall could hold...
...next academic year, Radcliffe will officially split the Institute's fellowship and seminar programs into two separate college divisions. The two programs are already effectively split--the seminar program recently moved from their joint quarters to a new separate building...
...Nieman Advisory committee recently rejected an informal invitation from Saudi Arabia for 13 American fellows to travel there this year, because the committee wishes to limit foreign travel during the 35-week fellowship...
...went to America in 1949 as a young engineer and later in 1954, when I was a director at the Turkish State Water Works Department, through an Eisenhower exchange fellowship. I was deeply impressed by the creative and revolutionary methods evolved in America in the fields of management and technology. My own personal experience in life led me to understand the importance of social mobility, providing full opportunities to all citizens regardless of birth, origin and creed, and thus ensuring a full development of individual talents and initiatives. I met Americans from every walk of life. I was impressed...