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Bitton explained that devout youth may join the Hesder, a program that sponsors a year of training in a Yeshiva in return for two years of military service...
None of this really surprised Hack. The brother of a Yale grad, he knew the campus was no yeshiva. So he proposed a simple solution: live off campus. Trouble is, like many private colleges, Yale requires frosh to live in those steamy dorms. Administrators say dorms are a crucial part of the education; students learn to cope with one another's differences. "At Yale," says Dean Richard Brodhead, "students live and learn together...
...same time, it seems unfair that in order for these five students to accommodate their beliefs, they should go to a yeshiva or an institution that is more understanding; after all, they claim to be simply following what they believe. And living at home seems harmless enough. But the principle Yale is defending is that in a changing society, where religious beliefs may no longer coincide with community and acceptance, religion must take a back seat. Affirming such a principle is Yale's prerogative. It is also the prerogative of the Yale Five not to apply to Yale...
...that there is an underutilized option offensive to none of the parties: improved education. A group called the National Jewish Outreach Program has tutored more than 100,000 marginally Jewish adults. But the best hope may lie in serving youth. The Orthodox have always had an extensive system of Yeshiva day schools; Reform and Conservative are expanding their smaller networks. Sprinkled around the country are high schools sponsored by members of all three branches. It is intriguing to imagine what would happen if more sprang up: instead of saddening her parents by arriving at Seder with a nice Catholic...
Roth has frequently celebrated his once predominantly Jewish alma mater as something like a yeshiva of assimilation. Swede, so called for his tall, blond, blue-eyed good looks, is built for a speedy launch into the American mainstream. His luck seems endless. He joins the Marines as World War II is ending; he returns from service to prepare to take over Newark Maid, his father's successful glove factory; and he marries the former Mary Dawn Dwyer, Miss New Jersey...