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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...
...swamped with applicants for membership. By now it has signed up some 1,400 psychiatrists (more than 10% of all those practicing in the U.S.), 600 ministers, 200 organizations (seminaries, medical schools, convents, monasteries, mental-health agencies), has organized religion-psychiatry curriculums at three universities-Harvard, Loyola (Chicago) and Yeshiva (New York City...
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...
...study will be aimed at developing a curriculum in religion and mental health which may be used in Protestant theological schools. Similar studies will be carried on at Loyola University in Chicago and Yeshiva University in New York, all supported by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare...