Word: yeshiva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yeshiva University Jonas E. Salk, physician, developer of polio vaccine L.H.D...
...down with him last week to celebrate with a banquet. But Don Shapiro is the only member of the original group left. He has seen his rabbi's reputation grow: universities everywhere turn to Rabbi Guterman for interpretation of difficult passages in the Law; Manhattan's Yeshiva University conferred an honorary doctorate of divinity on him last year...
Fraiman's miserly motivation was simple enough. He wanted to help Jewish boys get the learning in school that he had wrested by himself from his Bible and unabridged dictionary. Some 20 years ago, he made a special trip to New York City's Yeshiva University to walk the halls of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and to talk hesitantly with the scholars...
Last month, 74 and alone, Junkman Fraiman died in Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital of coronary thrombosis. Last week Yeshiva officials blinked at the totally unexpected news that he had left the university some $250,000. Try as they might, no one could remember the little man who had paid Yeshiva a visit two decades...
Died. Jekuthiel Ginsburg, 68, gentle, absent-minded Polish-Jewish emigre professor of mathematics at Yeshiva University, founder (1932) and editor of the quarterly Scripta Mathematica, onetime child prodigy (he tutored university students when he was 16), author (Numbers and Numerals); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...