Word: yeshiva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant will receive an honorary LL.D. degree Friday at the graduation exercises of Yeshiva University in New York City. He is also scheduled to deliver the college's commencement address...
...Manhattan last week, 85 young rabbis, from pulpits all over the U.S., were assembled for the biggest S'micha in the history of U.S. Judaism. All were graduates of the theological seminary at Manhattan's green-turreted Yeshiva University, the only Jewish university in the U.S. Yeshiva's seminary was also celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding. Before an audience of 1,200 distinguished Orthodox scholars, educators and laymen, the black-capped musmachim (mostly in their 20s) rose briefly as their names were called...
...Yeshiva's handsome, young (35) president, Dr. Samuel Belkin, seized the special occasion to take exception to some of the methods used by "misguided zealots" to improve understanding between Jews and Christians. "The world today," he declared, "suffers from a laxity of faith and the great need of this moment is not so much the 'watering down' of particular religious beliefs but rather a greater and firmer conviction of one's own religion...
Head of a Yeshiva (seminary) in Tsarist Russia, Joseph Schneersohn tried to keep religious Judaism alive under the Bolsheviks, was arrested and sentenced to death in 1927. He was released at the behest of Senator Borah, other potent outsiders. Rabbi Schneersohn moved to Riga, then to Warsaw, where he became Chief Rabbi and founded ten Polish Yeshivoth. He was still in Warsaw when the German bombers came over last autumn. He left the building he had lived in for six weeks just before a direct hit demolished it. The Germans let him leave Poland, but the bombing left the Rabbi...