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...awaited response to born-again Bok's call for a complete overhaul of the Core curriculum "to provide a Christian education at Harvard, like it was always meant to be." Before hundreds of screaming supporters at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, Rosovsky calls for the formation of an autonomous Harvard Yeshiva...
Begin's last stop was a four-day visit to New York. An overflow crowd greeted him at an Israeli Bonds luncheon, where individual pledges of $25,000 to $50,000 were made and a total contribution of $20 million was promised. At Yeshiva University he received another honorary degree. Jack Weiler, an Israeli Bonds national treasurer, told Begin: "Israel needs p.r. desperately, and you're doing beautifully...
Settlers at government-backed communities in the Sinai, like Yamit, are a mixed lot: many recent immigrants to Israel, some religious, some not. Pioneers living at Shiloh are more mystical and more determined. Says Abraham Strauss, a 20-year-old yeshiva student: "God gave us this land, not Menachem Begin or anyone else. And no one, including Begin, can take this gift away from...
...YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
...Jesus Christ," he would say, eying me as if I had developed a recent liking for Martin Luther, "Harvard doesn't have a religion department--you might just as well be going to Yeshiva or someplace like that." (Ignatius had done graduate work in mathematics at Yeshiva and had never recovered from the shock.) Worse than that, though, Harvard didn't have discipline--no more parietals, no compulsory chapel at 6 a.m. And to top it all off, Harvard had women. The path to damnation was opening wider and wider in Ignatius's eyes...