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Abraham Joshua Twerski, 28, graduated from medical school this week. It was no mean feat, for Twerski is a Jewish rabbi like his father, two uncles, father-in-law, two older brothers and (when they finish their studies) two younger twin brothers. And to keep the Torah as an Orthodox Jew for six years of studies in Milwaukee's Roman Catholic Marquette University was something like running a sack race, an egg race and an army obstacle course at the same time...
Hillel provides several informal courses on aspects of Jewish culture and traditions. "Hillel, therefore, should help the students understand themselves as Jews." Rabbi Gold said. "We can hope that the Jewish part of the Judeo-Christian tradition will become a larger part of university curricula, but for the time being it is Hillel which assumes responsibility...
...Rabbi Gold emphasized several times that a student can take or leave his Jewish tradition once he knows what it is. "It is difficult to take or leave something one doesn't know...
...packaging problem" of making the Hillel program attractive. If he interests one of the "non-committed" Jews into coming in for a folk-sing, shiriyah, a lasting attachment to Hillel may be formed. "It means a casual program among friends; you come to think of Hillel House as 'the rabbi's house,'" Wexler says. If no contact with Jewish tradition is made, the student neither identifies with or rebels against Judaism. When you start with nothing you can have no rebellion
...community that Harvard and Radcliffe students are generally equal in their interest in religion and in their degree of belief or disbelief. The Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, notes further that a proportionate number of men and women students attend Sunday services at Memorial Church. The rabbi and ministers in the community also report that, of the students who come to them with problems, the number of girls is proportional to the colleges' enrollments...