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MASMID
1961
"TIME ON EARTH
IS A PATTERN OF WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS -
AND ON EACH OF THE WHEELS
JUDAISM HAS SET ITS STAMP."
THIS IS MY G-D
HERMAN WOUK
Man is a creature who, by his very nature, aspires
to progress. The world has left the age of steel and elec-
tricity; it has entered the age of space and the atom.
Man is faced with a great choice: he has the tools with
which he can eradicate pain, hunger, and disease; how-
ever, with these same tools he can also destroy him-
self and his earth.
But material progress without a concurrent devel-
opment in moral and spiritual values is extremely
dangerous. Mechanism knows no right or wrong. If
man is to profit by technical progress, he must be
guided by an ethical code of values. The ideal of Juda-
ism is the preservation and growth of these ethical prin-
ciples—principles that will guide material prosperity.
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Dr. Seymour Lainoff
Assistant Professor of English
The purpose of a college education is two-fold; first,
it prepares the individual for independent thought and
action and, perhaps more important, it enables him to
recognize his own intellectual limitations. In carrying
out this program, education, faced with these seemingly
contradictory goals, must mold the student by blending
pride in himself with consideration for the opinions of
others. In short, education must instill not only individ-
ualism but humility. .
Dr Seymour Lainoff is particularly successful m
applying the two aspects of this program. We can remem-
ber many pleasant, stimulating hours of exchange of ideas
in his classes. He would never curtly dismiss a students
comment or question; he was always willing to explore
the opinions of others. We feel that he uniquely symbol-
izes the successful blending of initiative and humility.
Often the quiet, soft-spoken person is overshadowed
by his more aggressive associates. Eventually, however,
the deserving individual receives his due recognition. It
is, therefore, with deep appreciation that we dedicate
this Masmid to Dr. Seymour Lainoff.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Faculty
Seniors
Activities
Literature
Advertisements
Senior Directory
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FACULTY
We were the seed; our school, the soil; our
teachers, the cultivators. It was by their efforts that we thrived; by
their toil that we grew; by their labor that we were dedicated to truth.
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Dr. Samuel Belkin
President, Yeshiva University
"It seems to me that there are four major dimensions into which all human knowledge
naturally falls. These four dimensions may be called the four studies of man. The first of
these is a study of the world into which we are born. The second dimension of human knowl-
edge we may characterize as the study of the peoples among whom we are born. The third
phase of knowledge, we may designate as the study of man himself.
"For our moral purposes in life we are entirely dependent upon our spiritual heritage
and religious experiences, upon the things which we classify as Divine Law rather than
as the Laws of Nature. Recognition of the unalterable fact that the moral law is as binding
on us as human beings as the laws of nature are on the cosmos, is of paramount importance
for the survival of mankind. This moral and spiritual purpose of life in no way conflicts with
the three branches of knowledge discussed above. On the contrary, it complements and
supplements the knowledge man has acquired through centuries of living and thinking.
It affords an end and ideal purpose for all the inventions and discoveries of the human mind.
Only after we succeed in integrating the four phases of knowledge, can we hope to build a
peace-loving society."
Dr. Samuel Belkin
"The Four Dimensions of Higher Education"
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Registrar of RIETS
RELIGIOUS
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Dr. Hyman B. Grinstein
Director of Teacliers Institute
ADMINISTRATION
Rabbi Morris Besdin
Chairman of Jewish Studies Program
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Dr. Isaac Bacon
Dean, Yeshiva College
You are the thirtieth graduating class of Yeshiva College and thus join
the ranks of the ever-growing number of Yeshiva men who are making impor-
tant contributions in every area of American and Jewish life and are playing a
particularly significant role in shaping the destiny of the American Jewish
community.
I should like to think that you who are now leaving these hallowed halls of
learning have not been solely on the receiving end in the institutional partner-
ship that exists between faculty, student body, and administration. I should
like to think that when in years ahead your contributions to the growth of the
college will be judged in terms of positive and negative aspects, the positive
will dwarf the negative ones.
I should like to think that as you leave the relatively sheltered life of
Yeshiva College and come to grips with the sometimes cruel realities of life
you will as Torah-true men, instilled with religious, ethical, and moral prin-
ciples, draw upon the strength imparted to you at Yeshiva in building a
meaningful and purposeful life.
I wish each and every one of you who are graduating with the class of
1961 farewell in the sense that you may truly fare well.
YESHIVA
COLLEGE
Professor Morris Silverman
Registrar
Rabbi Ralph Schuchalter
Assistant Registrar
Rabbi Jerry Hochbaum
Assistant Director of Admissions
Rabbi David Mirsky
Director of Admissions
Dr. Moshe Carmilly
Assistant Professor of Bible
Dr. Moshe Reguer
Instructor in Bible
JEWISH STUDIES
Rabbi Michael Katz
Assistant Professor of Bible
Mr. Hayim Leaf
Assistant Professor of Hebrew
Dr. Gershon Churgin
Professor of Hebrew
Dr. Asher Siev
Assistant Professor of Hebrew
Rabbi Harry Wohlberg
Assistant Professor of Bible
Dr. Milton Arfa
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew
Dr. Irving Agus
Professor of Jewish History
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Dr. Alexander Litman
Professor of Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY
Rabbi Joshua Shmidman
Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy
Dr. Arthur Hyman
Associate Professor of Philosophy
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Dr. Alexander Brody
Professor of History and Economics
SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Dr. Irving Greenberg
Assistant Professor of History
Mr. Nathan Goldberg
Professor of Sociology
Dr. Emanuel Rackman
Associate Professor of Political Science
Mr. James O'Connor
Instructor in Economics
Dr. Werner J. Cahnman
Lecturer in Sociology
Dr. Aaron M. Margalith
Professor of Political Science
Dr. Nathan Lander
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein
Professor of Sociology
Dr. Maurice Wohlgelernter
Instructor in English
LITERATURE
and SPEECH
Dr. Seymour Lainoff
Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Registrar
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Dr. Irving Linn
Professor of English
Dr. Stanley Weintraub
Visiting Assistant Professor of Speech
Dr. David Fleisher
Professor of Englisli
Dr. Herberts. Robinson
Visiting Professor of English
Mr. Lewis Palter
Instructor in Speech
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Dr. Helmut E. Adier
Associate Professor of Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY
and EDUCATION
Dr. Tobias Wagner
Lecturer in Education
Dr. Burton Milenbach
Lecturer in Psychology
LANGUAGE
and ART
Professor Louis H. Feldman
Assistant Professor of Classical History
Dr. Sidney D. Braun
Professor of French
Dr. Nina Syniawska
Lecturer in Russian
IVIr. Murray H. Feder
Lecturer in German
Dr. Maurice E. Chernowitz
Professor of Fine Arts
Dr. Nathan Susskind
Visiting Associate Professor of Yiddish
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Dr. Ralph P. Rosenberg
Professor of German
Dr. Louis F. Sas
Visiting Professor of Spanish
Dr. Karl Adier
Professor of IVIusic
Dr. Eli M. Levine
Professor of Chemistry
CHEMISTRY
Mr. Abraham Kasser
Laboratory Assistant
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Dr. Arnold Lowan
Professor of Physics
PHYSICS
Dr. Joel Lebowitz
Associate Professor of Physics
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Dr. Leon F. Landovitz
Assistant Professor of Physics
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Rabbi Perez Posen
Assistant Professor of Physics
Dr. David Finkelstein
Associate Professor of Physics
MATH
Rabbi Jonah Mann
Instructor in Mathematics
Mr. Charles Patt
Teaching Fellow in Mathematics
Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mr. Harvey Z. Senter
Teaching Fellow in Mathematics
Dr. Harry E. Rauch
Professor of Mathematics
Dr. Leon Ehrenpreis
Associate Professor of IVlathematics
Dr. Henry Lisman
Professor of Mathematics
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Dr. Moses D. Tendler
Associate Professor of Biology
Dr. Meyer Atlas
Professor of Biology
BIOLO
Dr. Herman DIugatz
Instructor in Biology
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Assistant Professor of Biology
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Dr. Menachem M. Brayer
Consultant Psychologist
Mr. Israel Young
Assistant Professor of Guidance
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Mr. Abraham Hurwitz
Professor of Physical Education
Director of Student Services
GUIDANCE
Dr. Eli Sar, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Hygiene
Dr. Samuel Sar
Dean of Men
Dr. Bruno Z. Kisch, M.D.
Professor of The History
and Philosophy of Science
Medical Director
Mr. Solomon Zeides
Librarian
LIBRARY
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Mr. Aaron Gursky
Mr. Joseph Shapiro
SECRETARIES
SENIORS
Indeed, our residence at Yeshiva exposed us
to a double portion. We, the students, bridging two worlds — the secular
and the religious — synthesized these and, like young shoots that
thrive best when supplied with both sunshine and water, we flourished,
deriving our strength from the rays of Torah and the wells of science.
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TZVI ABUSCH
PHILIP ALTER
HERBERT AMSTER
History Tl— Bernard Revel
English RIETS
History RIETS
Eranos
Pi Delta Phi
Tennis Team
French Club
S.O.Y. Representative
Literary Club
Jewish Forum Club
Psychology Club
Seforim Exchange
ISIDOR Wl. APTERBACH
ROBERT ASCH
English RIETS
Psychology RIETS
MASM ID— Literary Editor
Commentator — Circulation Staff
Chess Team
Swimming Team
Literary Society — President
Emergency Car Pool
Chess Club— President
Ice Skating Club
Senior Varsity Show
Basketball Intramural Team
Psychology Club
ALAN BALSAM
Pre-Medical RIETS
Pre-Med Society
Biology Club
Y.U. Drive
PHILIP BALSAM
Psychology Tl
Commentator — Business Staff
T.I. Student Council
Blood Drive Committee
Psychology Club
Sociology Club
Basketball Intramural Team
RICHARD BARTH
Mathematics RIETS
MASMID— Typing Editor
Student Court Justice
Math Club— Vice President
Tennis Team
Math Club
Physics Club
French Club
Pi Mu Epsilon-
-Vice President
GARY BAUM
Pre-Dental JSP
Varsity Basketball Team
Commentator — Sports Staff
Pre-Med Society
Senior — Freshman Guidance
SHAEL BELLOWS
Sociology RIETS
Pre-Law Society — President
Sociology Club — Vice President
Dorm Council
Chairman — Dorm Repairs Committee
Blood Drive Committee
Senior Varsity Show
MEYER BERGLAS
IVlathematics RIETS
Commentator— Associate Board
Pre-Varsity Debating
Math Club
HERBERT BIALIK
Pre-Dental Tl
T.I. Student Council
Co-op Staff
Biology Club
Psychology Club
Pre-Med Society
Physics Club
Jewish Forum Club
ALVIN BLUMENFELD
Political Science Tl
Pre-Law Society — Vice President
Co-op Staff
Blood Drive Committee
Basketball Intramural Team
ISRAEL BRAFMAN
Biology RIETS
Chairman— Club Coordinating Committee
Sopiiomore Class Council
Biology Club— President
Biological Review— Editor
Basketball Intramural Team
RONALD K. BURKE
HERSCHEL G. COHEN
PERRY ECK
Biology JSP
IVlathematics RIETS
Pre-Medical Tl
MASM ID— Literary Staff
■ Chairman — Tutoring Committee
Commentator — Circulation Staff
Chief Justice— Student Court
Senior Class Vice President
Commentator— News Staff
Debating Society— General Manager
Y.U. Varsity Debating Team
Pre-Med Society
Pre-Med Society— Secretary
Pi Delta Phi
Tennis Team
Student Activities Committee
Biology Society
Examinations Committee
Math Club
MARVIN EDELMAN
J. MICHAEL EPSTEIN
Biology Tl
History Tl — Cantorial Training Inst.
Nir— Editor
Senior — Fresiiman Guidance
Co-captain Soccer Squad
Dean's Reception
Biology Society
Choral Society— Vice President
French Club
Economics Club
International Relations Society
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MARTIN EPSTEIN
Mathematics Tl
Debating Team— Manager
Basketball Team — Manager
Co-op Staff
Math Club
Basketball Intramural Team
Swimming Instructor
HERSHEL FARKAS
Mathematics RIETS
President of Sophomore Class
Commentator — Circulation Manager
Alumni — Student Faculty Committee
Canvassing Committee
Pi Mu Epsilon
Math Club
Fencing Team
SAMUEL FEDER
Pre-Dental Tl
Co-op Staff
Tours Committee
Tennis Team
Pre-Med Society
Basketball Intramural Team
JACK FEIN
Pre-Medical Tl
Hebrew Literary Society
— Co-chairman
Tzohar— Editor-in-Chief
Pre-Medical Journal— Editor-in-Chief
Biological Journal— Associate Editor
Pre-Med Society— Vice President
Commentator Staff
Blood Drive Committee
AZRIEL FEINER
Economics Tl
T.I. Class President
Co-op Staff
Economics Club
Zionist Club
HARVEY FELSEN
Political Science
Tl
Manager of Co-op
Blood Drive
International Relations Society
Pre-Law Society
Basketball Intramural Team
NATHAN FINKIEL
English RIETS
Dean's Reception Committee
Tours Committee
GERALD STEPHEN FOGELMAN
SAMUEL FRANK
PHILIP FRIEDMAN
IVIathematics RIETS
English RIETS
Pre-Medical RIETS
Hamodea— Editor
Kol— Editor-in-Chief
Pre-Med Society
Open Road Club— President
MASMID— Literary Staff
Chemistry Club
R.I.E.T.S. Class President
Student Court Justice
Tennis Team — Co-manager
Literary Club— President
French Club— President
Eranos— Vice President
Pi Delta Phi
Dormitory Council
Senior — Freshman Guidance
DANIEL FRIMMER
Pre-Medical Tl
MASM ID— Co-Sports Editor
Commentator
—Assistant Sports Editor
Yavneh — Vice President
Literary Society— Secretary
Blood Drive — Class Chairman
Tennis Team— Co-captain
Senior Varsity Show
—Business Manager
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AARON FRUCHTER
Mathematics RIETS
Freshman Newspaper— Editor
Hebrew Literary Magazine
— Co-editor
Pi Mu Epsilon
S.O.Y. Coaching
SAUL GANCHROW
English RIETS
Dean's Reception— Chairman
Young Democrats— Vice President
Pre-Law Society— Vice President
Audio-Visual Committee— Co-chairman
Senior Varsity Show
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MURRAY GELLER
English RIETS
President of Student Council
President of Junior Class
Commentator— Assistant Copy Editor
S.O.Y. Delegate
Author— Director of Class Plays
Religious Guidance Committee
— Chairman
Building Repairs Committee
Chemistry Club
Awards Committee
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JONATHAN I. GINSBERG
Mathematics RIETS
Commentator— Rewrite Editor
Tennis Team
Math Team
Tutoring Committee
HOWARD ZEV GOLDBERG
Economics Tl
MASMID— Business Manager
MASMID— Typing Staff
Student Discount Committee
— Chairman
Freshman— Senior Smoker
— Chairman
Photography Club— Vice President
Senior Varsity Show
EMANUEL GOLDBLUM
Psychology-Education
Chavrusa Committee
ARTHUR GOLDMAN
Pre-Dental JSP
Basketball Team— Manager
Co-op Staff
Pre-Med Society
STANFORD MILTON GOLDMAN
Pre-Medical Tl
MASMID— Copy Editor
Fencing Team
Manager of Canteen
Commentator— Assistant Copy Editor
T.l. Student Council
Publicity Committee
Chemistry Club
Pre-Med Society
Sociology Club
CALVIN GOLDSCHEIDER
Sociology Tl
Commentator— Assistant Copy Editor
Curriculum Evaluation Committee
— Chairman
Dormitory Arrangements Committee
— Chairman
Sociology Club
Senior — Freshman Guidance
Senior Varsity Show
ALVIN RUBINOFF GOLUB
English JSP
Dormitory Committee
Pre-Varsity Debating
Choral Society
Senior Varsity Show
Literary Society
Political Science Club
French Club
Zionist Club
GERALD GOLUB
Sociology Tl
Dormitory Council
Wrestling Team— Manager
Wrestling Team
Co-op Staff
Blood Drive Committee
Mail Committee
Ring Committee
Hebrew Club
WILLIAM GOLUB
Hebrew RIETS
Hebrew Club
Chavrusa Committee
STANLEY L. GREENBAUM
Biology RIETS
MASMID— Activities Editor
Vocational Guidance Committee
— President
Biology Society — President
Pre-Med Society
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MICHAEL GREENEBAUM
Physics RIETS
MASMID— Copy Editor
Physics Club— President
Math Club
Pi Mu Epsilon
Alumni-
Student Vocational Guidance
Committee
Senior— Freshman Guidance
Chavrusa Committee
LAWRENCE GREENFIELD
Psychology Tl
Chess Team
Tzohar— Copy Editor
Psychology Club— Vice President
Physics Club
Vocational Guidance Committee
Curriculum Evaluation Committee
RAYMOND GRODNER
Sociology RIETS
S.O.Y. Representative
Y.U. Drive Collector
Chabura Committee
S.O.Y. Awards Committee — Chairman
Matzo and Wine Committee
Choral Society
AVERY GROSS
Mathematics RIETS
President of Senior Class
MASMID— Photography Editor
Senior — Freshman Guidance Committee
— Chairman
N.S.A. Delegate
Canvassing Committee
— Associate Chairman
Dormitory Committee
Awards Committee— Chairman
MARK GROSS
Pre-Medical Tl
Nir— Feature Editor
Pre-Med Society
Biology Club
Chemistry Club
AARON GUTMAN
Pre-Dental JSP
J.S.P. Student Council
Biology Journal
Biology Club
JAMES JOSEPH MAIN
Pre-Dental RIETS
Fencing Team
S.O.Y. Delegate
Blood Drive Committee
Biology Club
KEITH WILLIAM HARVIE
Pre-Medical JSP
Wrestling Team— Assistant Manager
MASM ID— Typing Staff
Student Discount Committee
Alumni-Faculty Committee
Biology Club
Chemistry Club
Pre-Med Society
MICHAEL HAUER
Economics RIETS
Fencing Team
Ctiess Team
CIness Club— President
iVllCHAEL HECHT
English RIETS
MASM ID— Associate Editor
S.O.Y.— President
Junior Class— Vice President
Literary Society-Vice President
Medical Committee— Chairman
Freshman Paper— Sports Editor
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HOWARD STEPHEN JOSEPH
Mathematics RIETS
Executive Dormitory Committee
Co-op— Record ryianager
Tennis Team
Math Club
WILLIAM KANTROWITZ
Mathematics Tl
Vice President of Student Council
MASM ID— Photography Editor
Commentator — Photography Editor
Class Newspaper— Editor
Mathematics Club— President
Public Relations Committee of
Student Council— Chairman
Author — Director of Class Plays
Commentator— Typing Editor
Pi Mu Epsilon— President
BERNARD H. KAPLAN
Hebrew Tl
Commentator— Managing Editor
Tennis Team— Captain
Varsity Debating Society
Pre-Law Society
MASM ID— Literary Staff
MASM ID— Sports Staff
Basketball Intramural Team
KENNETH KLEIN
English Tl— Bernard Revel
MASIVIID— Literary Staff
Pre-Varsity Debating
Raconter
T.I. Class Representative
Distribution Committee— Chairman
Pre-Law Society
Literary Club
LOUIS KORNGOLD
Pre-Medical Tl
MASIVIID— Sports Editor
Basketball Team — Captain
Commentator — Sports Staff
Pre-IVIed Society
Biology Club
Senior — Freshman Smoker
LAWRENCE KRANES
Psychology Ti
Varsity Basketball Team
Co-op Staff
Psychology Club
FRED KRAUSE
Psychology RIETS
Wrestling Team
Psychology Club
Sociology Club
Basketball Intramural Team
STANLEY KUPINSKY
Sociology RIETS
Commentator— Circulation Staff
Sociology Club— Vice President
Psychology Club
Canvassing Committee — Chairman
Curriculum Evaluation Committee
Blood Drive
Basketball Intramural Team
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MURRAY LAULICHT
Chemistry RIETS
Commentator— Editor-in-Chief
Debating Society— President
Yavneh Society— President
Commentator— News Editor
Sophomore Class Delegate-at-large
Freshman Paper— Editor-in-Chief
International Relations Society
—Vice President
Faculty— Student Examinations
Committee— Head Student Delegate
Chemistry Club
RIETS
MASM ID— Literary Staff
Student Court Justice
Chess Team
Psychology Club— President
Sociology Journal — Editor
Curriculum Evaluation Committee
— Co-chairman
Dean's Reception
MAX LEW
English RIETS
Kol— Editor-in-Chief
Chess Team
Class Newspaper— Copy Editor
Literary Club— Vice President
French Club— Secretary-Treasurer
Jewish Historical Society
—Secretary-Treasurer
Senior— Freshman Guidance
Food Committee
JOSEPH LIFSCHITZ
Political Science
RIETS
MASM ID— Activities Editor
Student Activities Committee
— Chairman
Commentator— Circulation Manager
Club Co-ordinator
Dean's Reception — Co-chairman
Zionist Club — President
Pre-Law Society
Freshman Class — Vice President
Pre-Varsity Debating
LESLIE LINDENBERG
Pre-Medical JSP
Pre-Med Society
Biology Club
Open Road Club
Instrumental Group
ALLEN L. MANDEL
Psychology-Education R
Class M.C.
Senior— Freshman Smoker
Hobby Club
EDWARD ALAN MARON
Pre-Medical Tl
Commentator — Photography Staff
Varsity Fencing Team
IVledical Committee — Chairman
Photography Club — Secretary
BERNARD MATUS
Pre-Medical Tl
Photography Club— President
Pre-Med Society
Chemistry Club
SHELDON MEINER
Mathematics RIETS
Physical Facilities Committee
— Chairman
Canvassing Committee
Senior— Freshman Guidance
Math Club
Sociology Club
Basketball Intramural Team
JACK MERKIN
English Tl
Wrestling Team
Dramatics Society
Senior— Freshman Smoker
Dean's Reception Committee
Senior Varsity Show
Ushers Committee
Basketball Intramural Team
MORTON MINCHENBERG
History RIETS
Chess Team— Captain
Y.U. Drive— Chairman
Chess Club— President
International Relations Society
— President
Jewish Historical Society
— Vice President
S.O.Y. Delegate
Pi Delta Phi
Co-op Staff
Student— Faculty-Judiciary Committee
FREDERICK NATHAN
History Tl
Y.U. Drive
Freshman and Sophomore Class
Newspapers
Chug Ivri
STEVEN ALAN NISON
Economics Tl
Fencing Team— Manager
New York Times Representative
Co-op Staff
Senior— Freshman Guidance
Dormitory Mail Committee
Photography Club
GENE POTTER
Pre-Medical JSP
J.S.P. Student Council
—Class Representative
J.S.P. Publication— Editor-in-Chief
Co-op Staff
Medical Committe of Student Council
—Chairman
Bowling Team— Manager
Bowling Instructor
MARK PRESS
Chemistry RIETS
S.O.Y.— Vice President
Dormitory Committee
Chemistry Club
BERNARD RACHELLE
English Tl
Dramatics Society
Tours Committee
MICHAEL REICH
Chemistry RIETS
Soccer Squad— Captain
Swimming Team
Pre-Med Society
Chemistry Club
Chess Club
Biology Club
JOSEPH S. REISS
Pre-Medical RIETS
Pre-Med Society— President
Biology Club
ALLAN D. RENKOFF
Pre-Medical JSP
Y.U. Drive Committee
Pre-IVled Society
Biology Club
Photography Club
Swimming Instructor
JOSEPH RIFKIND
Chemistry RIETS
Chemistry Journal — Co-editor
S.O.Y. Representative
Dean's Reception Committee
Chemistry Society — Secretary-Treasurer
Physics Club
EUGENE ROSHWALB
Sociology RIETS
Commentator — Business Manager
Blood Drive Chairman
Co-op— Assistant Manager
TOBIAS ROTH
Psychology RIETS
Wrestling Team
Wrestling Team — Manager
Co-op— Assistant Manager
Commentator Staff
Psychology Club
WILLIAM HARVEY ROTHCHILD
Sociology JSP
Student Court Justice
Wrestling Team
Sociology Club — President
Student Council Mail Committee
Dormitory Oneg Shabbat Committee
Senior Varsity Show
DAVID ARNOLD ROTHNER
Pre-Medical RIETS
MASMID— Business Manager
Junior Class Student Council
—Representative
Chairman— Executive Council
— College Dorm
Dean's Reception Committee
Tutoring Committee
Tours Committee
JESSE S. SALSBERG
Psychology Tl
TJ. Student Council
Co-op Staff
Psychology Club
Sociology Club
ARNOLD SCHEINBERG
English RIETS
Jewish Historical Society
International Relations Society
Eranos
Dean's Reception Play
Basketball Intramural Team
RICHARD SCHLIFSTEIN
Psychology, History Tl
Eranos— President
Eta Sigma Phi— President
Social Welfare Club— President
Open Road Club— President
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MARVIN SCHNEIDER
Sociology RIETS
S.O.Y. Delegate
Bedikas T'fillin Committee
English Club
MATTHEW SHATZKES
Mathematics RIETS
DAVID SHEINKIN
Pre-Medical Tl-
-Bernard Revel
Athletic Manager
Varsity Fencing Team— Captain
Basketball Intramural Team
Y.U. Drive
Fencing Team
Pre-Med Society
WILLIAM LOEB SHIMANSKY
English Tl
Co-op Staff
Student Emergency Car Pool
Literary Society
Basketball Intramural Team
BENJAMIN M. SILVERBERG
Mathematics RIETS
Food Committee— Chairman
Matzoh Committee — Chairman
Canvassing Committee
Halachah Committee
First Aid Committee
Math Club
Physics Club
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SHERMAN SIMANOWITZ
Chemistry RIETS
Chemistry Society— President
Commentator— Art Editor
Chemistry Journal— Co-editor
Basketball Intramural Team
Class Newspapers — Sports Editor
Sergeant-at-Arms — Student Council
Dean's Reception
Senior — Freshman Guidance
Physics Club
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MELVIN STERN
JOSHUA L STERNBERG
H. NORMAN STRICKMAN
Pre-Medical RIETS
Pre-Medical RIETS
History RIETS
MASM ID— Associate Editor
Raconter
Jewish Historical Society— President
Commentator — Associate Editor
Kol
International Relations Society
Commentator — Copy Editor
Pre-Med Society
— Secretary-Treasurer
Chemistry Club
French Society
Sociology Club
Pre-Med Society
Commentator — Circulation Staff
Senior — Freshman Guidance
Food Committee
S.O.Y. Delegate
JOSEPH TUCHMAN
Physics RIETS
Commentator — Circulation Manager
Co-op Manager
Bowling Team — Captain
Math Club— Secretary
Pi Mu Epsilon
Physics Club
RICHARD HARVEY VIENER
Political Science RIETS
Commentator — Circulation Staff
Student Activities Committee
Dean's Reception Committee
Assembly Committee
Ushers Committee
Zionist Club
Pre-Law Society
Basketball Intramural Team
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Senior — Freshman Guidance
Chemistry Club
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Chess Club
Basketball Intramural Team
SAUL WOHLBERG
English RIETS
Fireside Chats Committee
Literary Club
Music Appreciation Club
Senior Varsity Show
ILAN ZAMIR-HALPERN
Pre-Medical Tl
Nir— Co-editor
Tzohar — Associate Editor
Biology Society— Secretary-Treasurer
Guidance Committee
Chess Club
Pre-Med Society
MORRIS ZAUDERER
Economics RIETS
Economics Journal — Editor
Commentator— News Staff
Dormitory Council Representative
Economics Club — President
Audio-Visual Committee — Chairman
SAUL EISENBUD
YITZCHAK FRANK
JACK SOLOMON GOLDBERG
STEPHEN LEONARD HERMELE
BERNARD MEYER ZAZULA
Pre-Medical RIETS
MASM I D— Editor-i n-Chief
Tzohar— Associate Editor
Sophomore Class Paper
— Associate Editor
Pre-Med Society— Secretary
Fireside Chats Committee— Chairman
Hebrew Club— Co-chairman
Biology Club
Senior— Freshman Guidance
SENIOR DINNER
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Mr. President
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The Last Mile
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Our Grand Marshall
Dr. Barnaby C. Keeney
President, Brown University
Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman
Doctor of Divinity, Honoris Causa
ACTIVITIES
And so, the inner self was formed: Jew, American,
IVlodern. We sent forth exploring tendrils into the nooks and crannies,
secured a firmer foothold, and thus, balanced against all winds, we
stood. It was by our participation in those functions outside of the
academic field that we gained the experience and the practical
strength to weather the storms of life.
CLUBS
A recent bulletin from Yeshiva's Department of
Public Relations takes note of the fact that "a wide
range of social, cultural and athletic activities offers
the student unlimited opportunities for intellectual stim-
ulation and character growth." As yearly chroniclers
of student activities of Yeshiva, here is MASMID's de-
scription of these activities, the raw facts of "The Club
Story."
Starting with the Literary Society, a fitting club for
the People of the Book, the highlight of the year was
Dr. Linn's speech on "The Writer and Neuroses," a
subject dear to the hearts of every student. This club
also had a panel discussion on the topic "Is 'Lady
Chatterley's Lover' Obscene?", a subject even dearer
to our hearts. After a careful search, the words "physical
contact" were found 417 times which makes the book
automatically "asur".
The Pre-Med Society, taking up where the Literary
Society left off, featured numerous films on a wide
variety of topics, e.g. "Natural Childbirth," "Childbirth
With Complications," and "Birth Control" (in that order).
Also shown were the films "Brain Surgery in Ten Easy
Lessons" and "Infectious Diseases and Their Relation
to Exams." That the Pre-Med Society continues to sur-
vive although so few of our students are pre-med majors
(most of them majoring in Rabbinics) never fails to
surprise us. However, this is not our concern at present.
Continuing where we left off, the members attended a
demonstration of microscopes, extremely useful in lo-
cating such minute items as Socol's Scholarships and
Parker's Portions.
The Biology Club put out a number of profound
writings. One paper proved that Weissman's classical
experiment (in which mice whose tails had been cut off
gave birth to mice with tails) was completely unneces-
sary. All he had to do was to look at the Jews, and the
law of "Bris Milah." Dr. Tendler spoke on Evolution and
advanced the radical proposal that man evolved from
dust and not from apes. If this be so, there are whole
hordes of future generations under our dorm beds. Dr.
Belkin also contributed a monograph on marine biology
entitled, "A Philosophy of Porpoise."
The Chemistry Society, not to be outdone, devoted
itself to distinguishing, by chemical procedure, between
milchig and fleishig ions. It was unanimously decided
that the hydrogen ion concentration of pure water
should be batel b'rov, a decision to be included in the
Club's first publication, "A Halachic Approach to Chem-
istry."
In the Electronics Club, the big news is station
WZKPZ (whatever zounds kood please zend). These de-
votees of blips, buzzes, and flashing lights are starting
their own radio station right in Yeshiva Residence Hall.
Open Road Club
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The International Relations Society, in true demo-
cratic spirit, gave equal time to a speaker from "the
opposing side" for a talk on "Arabs and Israel" ("Why
don't they believe us when we tell them that Israel
doesn't exist?"). Ranging far and wide globally, the
following talks were on "A Free and Independent Bul-
garia" (a satellite seeking enough escape velocity for
free flight) and "The Cuban Situation," appropriately
scheduled during sephira.
Max Lew, Editor of The Kol,
publication of the Literary Society.
Michael Greenebauni
President, Physics Society.
Stephen Goldberg, President,
Music Appreciation Club.
Barry Silber, Vice-President, Young Dems.
Shael Bellows, President, Pre-Law Society.
from left to right; William Kantrowitz, President, Math-
ematics Society; Professor J. S. Frame, Minnesota State
University; Professor H. Lisman; at installation of Soci-
ety into Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary Fraternity.
The Physics Club, tackling the topic from its point
of view, produced the following equations:
1. The Length (L) in cm. of a pair of tzitzis is directly
portional to the size of a shirt (S) and inversely
proportional to the temperature (K). All this is multi-
plied by the factor R, known as the Rebbe's constant
(a variable). Thus
L- R(S).
2. The boldness of the color scheme (S) of a Yeshiva
boy's yarmulka is equal to the product of the Ego
Quotient (E) of the wearer times the color of the wool
available at Macy's at the time (M)- divided by the
degree of affection of the girlfriend who made it {°A).
This figure is then changed to light wavelengths by a
conversion factor equal to the square of the gematria
value of shatnes. Thus
EM
=A
'-'- X (shatnes)-
The Math Society had an eventful year. They had
the pleasure of joining a National Mathematics Hono-
rary Fraternity. An initiation ritual was immediately
set up which included having to determine the square
root of a matzoh (which is no mean feat in view of the
shape of some matzohs). Stan Boylan delivered a talk
on "Previously Puzzling Putnam Problems," after which
it became downright impossible. William Kantrowitz
spoke on "Computer Programming For Fun and Profit,"
while Benjy Volk lectured on "Operators," which sounds
pretty suspicious, if you ask us.
The Open Road Club (no connection with Jack
Kerouac's organization) devoted itself to the improve-
ment of the "Yeshiva look," and took as its motto: "4-D,
but not 4-F!" Following Horace Greeley's advice to "Go
West," the club had a Lag Ba-Omer Hike along the New
Jersey Palisades. A Faculty-Student Picnic and a snow-
ball fight were also listed among the activities. Bicycle
trips were scheduled and many of the campus wheels
made their appearance. And, of course, who can forget
the early, early minyan? Probably most of us.
Also taking to the open road, the Chess Society ini-
tiated a series of tournament tours, matching the De-
bating Society pawn for rebuttal up and down the land.
At home, two exhibition matches were held. Pal Benko,
wearing a jacket designed by Sheldon Socol, took 29
out of 30 games. Lisa Lane, in her first encounter with
Yeshiva hours, found her game slipping somewhat by
3:00 AM and retired, finally, down 9 games. The woman's
chess queen checked out at 4:00 AM, but the Society
felt it was a good night and didn't feel rooked.
The French Club, dedicated to the principle that
the Montmartre has more to offer than Amsterdam Ave-
nue, heard a talk by Dr. Braun on "Paris — 1960." Dr.
Chernowitz' showing of French slides was not quite
what the boys had in mind, but the cover of "Raconteur"
more than made up for it.
Pi Delta Phi, the French honor society, held its
initiation in the spring. Twelve boys became members.
After an impressive secret ritual, refreshments were
served and music was supplied by the accomplished
piano playing of M. Mickey Posnick. It was a real blast,
champagne and all!
This concludes our look at the social, cultural, and
athletic activities at Yeshiva — the true story of what
goes on during that delightful period fondly known as
"Club Hour."
from left to right: Calvin Goldscheider; William Roth-
child, President, Sociology Club; Shael Bellows.
Morton Minchenberg, President,
International Relations Society.
Abe Sofaer, President, History Club.
The Beginning
STUDENT COUNCIL
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL— from left to right: Teddy Ber-
man, Secretary; Murray Geller, President; William Kan-
trowitz, Vice-President.
"I'll refer it to a committee"
Student Council is one of the most misunderstood
organizations at the College. Many consider it as merely
a forum where the school politicians can vent their dis-
pleasure at the Administration.
Many did not realize that Student Council is much
more than that, that advancing the point of view of the
student body to the Administration, though albeit an
important function of Council, is not the exclusive one.
Student Council serves as the sponsor of projects
that are both student initiated and student operated.
Prime examples are the Dramatics Society, the Co-op,
and the Electronics Club, to name but a few. One of
the boasts of this year's Student Council was that we
would finance any reasonable project advanced by the
student body.
The nature of Student Council is such that it
changes as the times necessitate the revision of its
policies. The direction of such change is, in a large
measure, determined by the students involved in its
functioning. Student Council is what the student body
wants it to be.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF STUDENT COUNCIL 1960-61
1. Improvement of living facilities in the senior dormitory.
2. Inclusion of the Debating and Chess Societies as organs of
Student Council.
3. Passage of the Fleisher Report.
4. Formation of a Reading Society.
5. Acceptance of the Mathematics Honor Society.
6. Acceptance of the National Debating Forensic Honor Society.
7. Record-breaking blood drive.
8. Publication of the 25th anniversary issue of The Commen-
tator.
9. First year of the functioning of the Dramatics Society that
sponsored both the Dean's Reception and the Freshman Play.
10. First Activities Calendar sponsored by S.C.
11. First open-budget meeting in recent history.
12. Record-breaking publication of The Kol, the S. C. literary
magazine.
13. Passage of a Student Court statute.
14. Publication of "With Malice Towards None."
15. Sponsorship of a free non-sectarian tutoring service for junior
high school students in the neighborhood.
SENIOR CLASS COUNCIL— from left to right: Avery
Gross, Jack Goldberg, Hershel Cohen.
JUNIOR CLASS COUNCIL— from left to right: Dave Lew,
Levi Rothkoff, Joshua Muss.
SOPHOMORE CLASS COUNCIL— from left to right: Ja-
son Rosenblatt, Ephrem Hecht, Mordy Paru.
FRESHMAN CLASS COUNCIL— from left to right: Alan
Shapiro, Melvin Meier, Irwin Ruderfer.
A few words in closing.
Bernard M. Zazula
MASMID
EDITORIAL BOARD
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief— Bernard Zazula
Associate Editors — IVlichael Hecht, IVlelvin Stern
Art Editor— Jack Ness
Photography Editors — Avery Gross, William Kantrowitz
Literary Editor — Isidor Apterbach
Business iVIanagers — Howard Goldberg, David Rothner
Typing Editor — Richard Barth
Sports Editors — Danny Primmer, Louis Korngold
Copy Editors — Stanford Goldman, Michael Greenebaum
Activities Editors — Stanley Greenbaum, Joe Lifschitz
Art — Aaron Gutman, Pred Nathan, Barry Winet
Business — Charles Maurer
Literary — Zev Leifer, Eli Leiter, Charles Persky
Photography — Barry Gottleib, Aaron Levine, Irv Klavan,
C. I.Waxman, Robert Pransky
Typing — Keith Harvie
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Howard Wohl Associates
IVlr. George Rubens
Public Relations — Yeshiva University
Miss Sara Zimmerman
Mr. Baruch Kahana
Mr. Martin Schneider
and especially Howie Begel who tried to sleep through it all
Avery Gross
William Kantrowit7
Mel Stern, Jack Ness
Richard Barth
Michael Hecht, Isidor Apterbach
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Circulation Staff
THE COMMENTATOR
Murray Laulicht, Editor-in-Chief
This year, the 26th in its history, The Commentator
led a resolute although varied course.
Under the guiding hand of its editor-in-chief, the
newspaper printed more pages throughout the entire
year than it has done in a long time and ended off by
copping its 14th consecutive first class rating.
Among the highlights of the year must be included
the silver anniversary issue which focused reader at-
tention on 25 years of conscientious reporting, featured
the history of The Commentator, the various athletic
teams, reports from an Austrian concentration camp,
the Jewish community of Bombay as well as a vehement
plea for the assumption of a single standard by the
Gedolai Hador in regard to matters affecting the welfare
of the Jewish State.
Following this excursion into the distant ports of the
world. The Commentator settled down to its avowed task
of the year — that of arousing the student body and the
Administration to the dire need of improving the cur-
riculum in the religious divisions of the University.
In an editorial entitled "With Malice Towards None",
these divisions were scored on their failure to provide
an adequate spiritual guidance program for the students
and different plans were suggested. Unfortunately, al-
though the editorial provoked wide controversy, not
much was done this year to further this goal.
In other fields of news reporting the students were
kept abreast of the latest developments. Features in-
cluded reviews of various theatrical and television pro-
ductions, analyses of Student Council and its activities,
reports from other college newspapers, articles on prob-
lems confronting the student body such as penalties
for overcutting and the bechina system, as well as the
regular features containing a timely peg.
A three part series on "synthesis" was printed and a
regular column by the editor-in-chief was reinstated.
The sports staff spotlighted various members of the
athletic team and to further the cause of Zionism at
Yeshiva an article on Israel was included in every issue.
The Commentator succeeded in arousing student,
faculty, alumni, and administration response and scores
of letters from these sources were printed.
Otherwise, Commentator was its usual self mixing
humor and praise with wit and sarcasm — as the occa-
sion arose.
GOVERNING BOARD— from left to right: Murray Lau-
licht, Joshua Muss, Bill Strauss, Charles Persky, Herb
Bloom, Eugene Roshwalb, Murray Geller, Dave Segal.
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CO-OP
The Cooperative Stores of Yeshiva, located in a suite
of rooms on the fourth floor in the main building, is
Student Council's link with the business world. Many
articles, including shavers, records and books, are of-
fered here for sale at discount prices.
Also part of the Co-op setup is the canteen. From its
machines come the candy and soft drinks that enliven
many an otherwise boring class.
Book Store Manager — Herbert Bloom
General Store Manager — Harvey Felsen
Canteen Manager — Joseph Tuchman
DEBATING TEAM
Amid sounds of distress and SOS signals, the
debating season got under way. Early in January
the Society learned that it, together with the Inter-
national Relations Society, would be given an op-
portunity to represent Israel at the forthcoming
University Model United Nations in Montreal.
Thus, the debaters had fulfilled one of their oldest
hopes.
The seven tours in i-'ebruary and March pro-
duced a winning record, much to the surprise of
everyone in the school, especially the debaters
themselves.
President Murray Laulicht and Secretary Ray
Bloch dropped two quick debates at Houston (to
Rice) and San Francisco (to California) before
knocking over the University of San Francisco,
Stanford, UCLA, Loyola of Los Angeles, USC, and
the United States Air Force Academy.
Bernard Kaplan and Murray Geller defeated
Florida State University and the University of Flo-
rida, following a defeat at the hands of Morehouse
State. This duo also defeated a team of Miami
lawyers who had postulated the abolition of the
Electoral College.
Other victories were recorded over Carnegie
Tech, University of Chicago, Massachusetts, Trin-
ity, Northeastern, and the Naval Academy.
One month after compiling their 16-10 record,
the orators were inducted into Tau Kappa Alpha,
the national honorary forensic fraternity, culminat-
ing a four-year effort at membership.
The final event of the year (aside from the an-
nual debates known jokingly as elections) was the
fifth annual Yeshiva University Debating Tourna-
ment which saw New York University gain perma-
nent possession of the Metropolitan Debate
Plaque.
All in all, the orators enjoyed a fine year, one
which, it is hoped, will be duplicated in terms of
further expansion and further achievement.
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standing, from left to right: Mel Granatstein, Bernard
Kaplan, Murray Laulicht, President; Murray Geller, Dave
Epstein.
Seated, from left to right: Mitchel Wolf, Shep Melzer,
Abe Sofaer, Campus Manager, Ronald Burke, Ray Bloch.
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DEAN'S RECEPTION
The Yeshiva College Dramatics Society launched
its first season of existence this year with three suc-
cessful productions.
Co-ordinating all undergraduate dramatics, the So-
ciety produced the annual Dean's Reception in an im-
proved and polished form. In addition, it presented
revivals of the Broadway plays, "No Time For Sergeants"
and "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial," the latter as the
Freshman Play.
OFFICERS OF DRAMATICS SOCIETY
President — William Zeitz
Vice-President — Teddy Berman
Financial Secretary — Harold Basch
Co-ordinator of Plays — Murray Mednick
SOPHOMORE CLASS PLAY
"The Year They Launched Atlas"
JUNIOR CLASS PLAY
"In Pursuit of Gelt"
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TEAM'S RECORD
Yeshiva Opponent
53
CCNY
47
62
Quinnipiac
71
55
Hunter
66
88
Patterson State
70
78
Hartwick
83
57
Fairleigh
Dickinson
74
65
Bridgeport
106
66
Adelphi
88
55
LIU
77
70
Pace
50
65
Rider
72
50
Pratt
59
68
St. Francis
91
70
C. W. Post
88
68
NYU
108
71
Brooklyn
77
50
Fairfield
65
76
Stewart Air
Force Base
65
Coach Bernie "Red" Sarachek
BASKETBALL
Battle under the boards
The age-old problem at Yeshiva — lack of time to
get into condition coupled with lack of experienced
players and inadequate practice facilities proved to be
an insurmountable obstacle for the Yeshiva Basketball
Team this year.
The Mighty Mites went into a gruelling campaign
of 18 games and emerged with a sorrowful 4-14 record.
But although there weren't many victories, there
were plenty of thrills. In the first game of the season,
the inexperienced squad turned in a thrilling 53-47 vic-
tory over CCNY which raised everybody's hopes for a
successful season, but in the ensuing games, the Mites
were often outclassed but not out-hustled.
One of the toughest opponents which the Mites
faced this season, was nationally ranked N.Y.U.
The seniors on the team were Lou Korngold, cap-
tain and playmaker and a former basketball star of
Yeshiva University High School of Manhattan, and Gary
Baum, rebounder and scorer, both veterans of four sea-
sons. Both regretted that their last season could not
have been more successful.
High scorer of the team this year was Sam Gross-
man who sank 363 points for a 21.3 average earning
him a berth on the All-East Small College Conference
Team.
INDIVIDUAL RECORDS
Games
Total Points
Average
Baum
17
180
10.5
Garmise
17
13
0,7
Goldstein
10
87
8.7
Grossman
17
363
21.3
Korngold
16
79
4.6
Kranes
11
17
1.6
Wieder
17
52
3i0
Jacobson
17
50
2.9
Podhurst
17
181
10.6
Aaron
7
67
9.5
Slaughter in the Bronx
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Gary Baum
from left to right: first row— Larry Kranes, Lenny Pincus,
Shelley Wieder, Philip Burson. second row— Mike Wise,
Howard Cohen, Lou Korngold, Kenny Jacobson, Stanley
Labovitch. third row— Coach "Red" Sarachek, Sam
Grossman, Mike Garmeise, Bob Podhurst. Marv Gold-
stein, Gary Baum.
Coach Arthur Tauber
FENCING
Displaying tine traditional form and skilled expres-
sion of yesteryear's Taubermen, Yeshiva's fencers com-
pleted their season with an 8-4 record.
Pre-season forecasts foresaw Yeshiva finishing the
1960-61 tour at the .500 mark. Early losses to Columbia,
Rutgers of Newark and Brooklyn College would have
corroborated such a premature choice had it not been
for the accomplishments of the epee and saber teams.
Yeshiva's fencers, although suffering from early
losses and a lack of veteran aspirants began to move
after their third defeat, and turned back Fordham Uni-
versity. This turning point proved decisive, as the saber-
men slashed to victories over Brooklyn Poly, University
of Connecticut, St. Peters and Patterson State among
others.
Following its six consecutive victories, Yeshiva
dropped a closely fought battle at Drew's New Jersey
campus 14-13 and then went on to complete its 1960-61
campaign by defeating Cooper Union 14-13.
from left to right: Steve Nison, Manager, Warren Enker,
Captain 1961-62, Coach Arthur Tauber, Matthew Shatz-
kes, Captain 1960-61.
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You fenced brilliantly!
TEAM'S RECORD
Yeshiva Oppone
6
Columbia
21
19
Farleigh
Dickinson
8
11
Rutgers-
Newark
16
13
Brooklyn
College
14
15
Fordham
12
16
Jersey State
Teachers
11
16
Brooklyn Poly
11
15
St. Peters
12
16
U. of Conn.
11
14
Patterson State
13
13
Drew
14
14
Cooper Union
13
INDIVIDUAL
RECORDS
Foil
Farkas 17-14
Shatzkes 19-12
Sheinkin 17-14
Sabre
Enker 23-8
Nusbacfier 18-6
Wasserman 13-10
Epee
Konovitch 13-13
Silber 8-9
Hain 11-13
from left to right: Warren Enker, Manny Wasserman,
Noel Nussbacher, David Sheinkin, Matthew Shatzkes,
Barry Konovitch, Jimmy Hain, Steven Rothman, Billy
Silber.
INDIVIDUAL
RECORDS
win
loss
tp
Fred Lieber
3
7
13
George Brown
2
8
10
Benjy Liefer
5
5
11
Joe Rapaport
1
5
5
Phil Keehn
2
7
8
Bob Schwell
7
3
27
Jack Merkin
8
1
38
Warren Klein
5
5
23
Dave Lew
0
1
0
Mike Gross
0
3
0
Jack Deitsch
0
1
0
Phil Hirshenfeld
0
1
0
WRESTLING
Getting acquainted
The "Cinderella Team" of pre-season predictions
did not fully materialize, but Yeshiva's Grapplers very
nearly lived up to these optimistic predictions. That
they did not, does not constitute failure, but rather
serves to illuminate a hope for the coming season.
The team, consisting of five two-year "veterans"
and three rookies, in finishing with a 3-5-2 record com-
piled a better record than any previous Yeshiva Wres-
tling Team.
The team was led by co-captains Jack Merkin and
Bob Schwell whose 8-1 and 7-3 individual records,
respectively, topped a previous individual 6-4 record
set last year.
Under the expert mentorship of Henry Wittenberg,
the young Wrestling Team has arrived at the point
where it can begin to hold its own in intercollegiate
competition.
The team returns next year at full strength with
no losses due to graduation.
strategy
Final countdown
TEAM'S RECORDS
Team
Y.U.
Montclair
25
3
Orange Community
15
16
Columbia
21
15
King's Point
26
8
C.W. Post
13
23
Fairleigh Dickinson
16
18
Albany State
24
8
Long Island
18
18
Newark Rutgers
15
19
Brooklyn Poiy
17
15
from left to right, standing: Jerry Golub, Dave Lew, War-
ren Klein, Jack Merken, Bob Schwell, Coach Hank Witten-
berg. Sitting: Fred Lieber, George Brown, Benjy Leifer,
Mike Gross, Joe Rapaport, Jack Deitsch, Phil Keehn.
SEASON'S RECORD
Yeshiva
Pratt 5
Opponent
4
lona 1
Pace 3
Brooklyn Poly 3
Brooklyn (non league) 0
Hunter 4
8
6
6
9
5
Long Island University 4
5
TENNIS
Coach Eli Epstein
Attempting to rebound from last
year's losing season, Yesliiva's netmen
faced the task of replacing five of last
year's varsity members.
This year's team was led by Senior
Co-Captains Daniel Primmer and Bernard
Kaplan. The remainder of the starting
team included Joshua Muss — Junior,
Jesse Hordes — Sophomore, and three
capable Freshman — Ezra Goodman,
Edw/ard Schlussel, and Jeff Tillman. Se-
niors Herb Amster, Jonathan Ginsberg,
and Ronald Burke joined the rest to make
this year's team a well balanced one.
In the absence of Eli Epstein, the
varsity was coached by George Samet
('60). Yeshiva is a member of the Metro-
politan College Tennis Conference and
competed in six league games.
left to right, standing: Jess Hordes, Edward Schlussel,
George Samet, assistant coach. Josh Muss, Danny
Primmer.
Sitting: Dave Gordon, Ezra Goodman, Maurice Reifman,
Jeff Tillman
Bishop to King three
CHESS
Won
Lost
J. Grossman
41/2
11/2
B. Frankel
4
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S. Boylan
21/2
11/2
B. Goldstein
3
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IVI. Hauer
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M. Minchenberg
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Chess has been revived and invigor-
ated with enthusiasm at Yeshiva this
year.
Early in the season the combined
forces of the "A" and "B" teams defeated
the cadets of West Point 7-1, for the
first time in Yeshiva history.
This year Yeshiva College's Chess
Team joined the Metropolitan Intercolle-
giate Chess League.
Leading the "A" team this year were
Joel Grossman, Barry Frankel, Stan Boy-
lan, and Bob Goldstein. IVlarty Rossman,
Joe Rappaport and iVlark Diskind played
excellently for the "B" team.
Senior members of the team were
IVlorton Minchenberg, Lawrence Green-
field, and Isidor Apterbach.
THE MIGHTY KNIGHTS— left to right, standing: Joel
Grossman, Joe Rapaport, Barry Frankel, Al Maimon, Mark
Diskind, Max Lew. Sitting: Martin Rossman, Morton
Minchenberg, Captain, Willy Goldstein.
SENIOR LIFE
Which way to the dormitory?
We met the floor washer
the keeper of the keys
and the boss.
We soon discovered the hazards of the old dorm
and we prayed for deliverance.
Instead they modernized the mailboxes
and the beds.
So we decided to hang it all and have a good old water
fight . . .
...BUT WE DID STUDY
..AND PLAY
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LITERATURE
This was our background — a background rich and var-
ied, that fostered our total development. It enriched us and we, nur-
tured by the wisdom of the ages, stretched forth our limbs, heavy with
budding life, into the sun, and there bore fruits of various kind. In a
sense this literature section, the expression of our creativity, rep-
resents the culmination of our development.
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FAITH, AMBIGUITY and REBELLION
Some Aspects of the
Book of Jonah
by Syd Goldenberg
Winner of the Ephraim Fleisher Memorial Prize
The most forceful element of the Book of Jonah is at
once the most haunting and disturbing. It is the fact that the
agonizing dialectic of Jonah's religious experience, proceed-
ing from rebellion to faith to rebellion, is never fully resolved.
If we say with Maimonides that before man may encounter
G-D as his prophet, he must possess a fine, philosophical in-
telligence, surely we must be disturbed when we read that
"Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of
the Lord." And even more disturbing is Jonah's later outcry:
"... I know that Thou art a gracious G-D, and com-
passionate, Therefore . . . take, I beseech Thee, my life
from me."
The problem formulates itself: How are we to respond
to the compelling tale of a man who sought to "flee unto Tar-
shish" from the presence of G-D? How are we to cope with
the anguish of a man who recoils at the thought of G-D's
compassion, who finds G-D's mercy unbearable, who wishes
to die because of G-D's love? In short, how are we to inter-
pret the terrible paradox of the odyssey of Jonah?
I
Before approaching the text, I would like to clarify cer-
tain general ideas which constitute the core of the present
inquiry.
It seems to me that Jonah's story is primarily a recon-
struction of man's religious experience, conceived as a tensile
alternation between faith and rebellion. The key to this dia-
lectical tension is the inherently paradoxical nature of reli-
gious experience— for it consists in the encounter of man with
G-D, of the finite with the Infinite. Yet because the two poles
in this encounter are irreducibly incommensurable, because
man, in the last analysis, can never truly accommodate the
infinite G-D within the constricted sphere of his finite experi-
ence, there remains always a fundamental ambiguity in the
religious encounter.
I wish to suggest that this notion of the intrinsic polarity
of man's relation to G-D, a polarity which issues in an im-
penetrable ambiguity, is the key to the cumulative spiral of
rebellion and faith that constitutes the Book of Jonah.
This idea^ may be clarified if we consider that man,
finite and fallible, can never have perfect understanding; his
comprehension of the totality of things is irremediably limited
by the intrinsic partiality of his nature. Thus, in the intricate
but unbreakable order of existence, man, the part, cannot
possibly encompass the whole. Yet it is only in terms of his
relation to the whole that man's significance may be assessed.
Here then is the crux of the religious predicament, for man
is vitally, earnestly concerned with the significance of his
existence. By his very nature, he must seek to know the
whole; but, by his very nature he cannot comprehend it.
To put this idea more carefully, one might say that
man, by nature, makes two kinds of judgments: judgments
of relevance- and judgments of significance. The first type
of judgment is made in the context of science; the second in
the context of religion. The first judgment establishes the
connections between things in a coherent order (e.g. the
connection between fire and oxygen) ; the second establishes
the value of things in a gradual scale (where love outranks
gambling). The first must assume the uniformity of nature
(so that relationships discovered here and now will hold for
the future and throughout the universe) ; the second must
assume an immutable order beyond the empirical world. The
first judgment derives from man's intelligence and his quest
for understanding; the second derives from man's freedom
and his quest for self -justification. Our present inquiry is
concerned with the nature of this religious quest, the process
by which man is led to the Infinite.
Our first point is that man is aware that he can affect
by his judgment the actions open to him; his understanding
and its decisions may condition his choices. Man is conscious
that, if his actions are only the outcome of a cumulative
series of past events, his own reason, which understands his
situation uncoerced by those events, is an irreducible factor
in this series.
Now "freedom" for man does not mean undetermined
action, but self-determined action: and man is conscious of
such self-determination when he affects his actions through
rational judgment and decision. For if man is conditioned
by his past, he knows that he is conditioned; and in this
knowing he is liberated. His actions are then not imposed
by external coercion, but deliberated and chosen by un-
hampered reason.
Because man possesses rational choice, he must be re-
sponsible to himself; because he chooses always from among
opposing alternatives, he must establish that his final choice
has value. And since, for man, life itself is an option, since
he takes it upon himself by deliberate, rational choice, he
must also establish the significance of his very existence. For
man alone, life is not given, but chosen; for man alone,
existence must have value.
But the significance of life, once agreed upon, does not
stand as a discrete, self-contained fact. Value is not a dis-
connected term but a relation; a thing is valuable or signifi-
cant only as related to a larger context, (e.g. Since man is
sociable, friendship is good.) But if this larger context
changes, all the relationships and values anchored in it will
be radically dislocated. In a mutable context, values are in
jeopardy; and such transitory, hazardous significance is not
adequate for man. On the contrary, man requires a signifi-
cance for his existence from which other values can be de-
rived, which he can rely on throughout his life. Otherwise,
all dedication is futile, all hard decision and suffering retro-
spectively absurd and existence pointless. But all that is finite
is mutable and the mutable jeopardizes value. Thus any finite
context for man's existence cannot yield him enduring values;
he therefore seeks to relate himself to a context which over-
comes all "finitude", to an infinite Order, impervious to time,
which alone can serve as an adequate ground for enduring
values.
Thus for value to be adequate for the duration of man's
finitude, it must transcend that very finitude.
And thus for value to be reliable for a lifetime it must
be immutable for eternity.
To summarize, one might say that man's finite life
possesses meaning only if rooted in the context of an absolute'
Order, a system of reference which is eternal, and immutable
and intrinsically significant. It is man's critical finitude,
which, coupled with rational choice and the quest for value,
paradoxically leads him to the Infinite. This is so because
finite human life has only extrinsic or relational significance
(related to a larger context). Not so the absolute, which, in
its self-sufficient immutability, confers value on the partial,
but requires none. All other instrumental values may then
be put into hierarchical perspective in ratio to their use in
achieving maximum alignment of one's life with the immuta-
ble structure of things. In sum, human life, inherently finite,
seeks significance. The absolute Order, inherently infinite,
confers significance.* And the one finds redemption in terms
of the other.
Thus, if we transpose Biblical religious doctrine into
these categories, though we realize that it is not exhausted
by them, we might say that man's salvation is rootedness in
the Eternal; his life thus acquires imperishable value which
overcomes its finitude, being identified with the laws of G-D,
immutable, eternal, intrinsically good. As for sin, may not
every instance of it, in the last analysis, be reduced to idolatry
— the deification of the partial, the absolutization of the rela-
tive? To relate one's life to mutable ends and to magnify
them to an absolute is to perish in a vicious circle of un-
redeemed finitude and to violate G-D's claim upon man.
I am suggesting that religion is man's attempt to over-
come the transitory futility of a purely partial existence by
relating himself to an infinite Scheme, impervious to time, in
the context of which his life has significance.
The magnitude of man's faith now begins to grow clear;
we see that his faith is essentially his struggle against his
own finitude. Such a struggle must bear the burden of both
maximum risk and maximum courage. For the Infinite which
man seeks is only accessible to him through his own finite
psyche. For this reason, faith must always act in the absence
of certainty and the object of faith must remain incompre-
hensible to the believer. For man, transcending his finitude
by faith in the Infinite, is still finite.
This, then, is the full measure of the religious paradox-
man, caught in the ambiguity of his relative experience, must
stand against the Absolute.
His two responses to this condition are faith and re-
bellion. Either way, he must endure the turmoil and face
the risk of his predicament. Either way he has only his
courage to sustain him across the abyss between the poles
of his existence. To express the insurmountable nature of the
chasm between man and G-D in religious experience, we
shall call it "radical polarity."
Faith attempts to bridge this chasm; rebellion defies it.^
II
With these notions in mind, we shall attempt to clarify
Jonah's experience. It seems that the prophet's rebellion
occurs in two phases and on two different levels. The first
phase is resolved in the belly of "the great fish"; the second
climaxes in G-D's rebuke to Jonah for protesting the wither-
ing of the gourd and the redemption of Nineveh. The present
inquiry is an attempt to differentiate these rebellions and
relate them to the idea of radical polarity.
Jonah's first rebellion occurs the instant G-D confronts
him with his mission. When "the word of the Lord came
unto Jonah" demanding that he "proclaim their wickedness"
to the people of Nineveh, Jonah sought to flee his Creator.
We are told that G-D pursued this prophet and cast him into
adversity and despair, at which point Jonah returned to faith.
If we bear in mind the radical polarity of Jonah's en-
counter with G-D and the circumstances of his final return,
we might interpret this rebellion as a fundamental refusal
to yield dominion to G-D, to accept G-D's sovereignty on His
own terms. For Jonah is confronted, when G-D breaks in
upon him, with the incomprehensible Infinite demanding
unquestionable authority over man.
I wish to suggest that Jonah's flight is a refusal to
acquiesce to the supremacy of the unintelligible.
To be sure, the incommensurability of the Biblical G-D
is not unqualified — and the word "unintelligible" applied to
Jonah's G-D must certainly be sharply distinguished from the
totally arational G-D of the modern "existentialist" whose
faith "by virtue of the absurd" culminates in Kierkegaard's
antithesis between faith and reason, religion and ethics. On
the contrary, the Biblical G-D, though his Nature is not in-
telligible to man, is thoroughly consistent in His relation
to him, and existence is a coherent scheme, a natural-moral
order for which G-D is the final and absolute guarantee.
But if not absurdity, a subtler ambiguity insinuates itself
into the encounter of man with the Biblical G-D, an ambiguity,
as it were, within the framework of G-D's consistent relation
to man. For Jonah's difficulty as a finite man relating to G-D
is not that G-D is inconsistent, but that he is infinite and that
partial man cannot encompass the overall structure of things.
Indeed, the universal G-D in whom all particular contradic-
tions are reconciled, when viewed by man, himself particular,
may appear to contradict Himself. That is, certain value-
conflicts within G-D's consistent order may appear irreduci-
ble. The outcome of this insurmountable irony is that man
is often brought up hard against the blank wall of the in-
scrutable. A paradox which in G-D's view is resolved may
remain for limited man a hard, inexplicable surd. Thus
value-conflicts may intrude, to a degree, into the ordered
framework of existence under the living G-D and upset the
placid current of religious certainty with the nagging under-
tow of paradox.
Now if we examine Jonah's situation, we find that his
refusal to surrender to his Creator may be considered to stem
from this margin of ambiguity inherent in the encounter
with G-D. For the essence of this encounter consisted in G-D's
unfathomable demand that Jonah offer mercy to Nineveh by
warning it to repent before the Lord. The prophet was thus
confronted with the paradox that the G-D of justice is also
the G-D of mercy. But Jonah is affronted by the notion of
offering mercy to the wicked while the righteous suffer; for
the characteristic of human judgments is to limit — at a cer-
tain point; justice and mercy become mutually exclusive, or
one cannot survive the other. For man, there is "a time to
love and a time to hate" ; there is a point at which one cannot
forgive — one must destroy. But for the G-D of infinite justice
and infinite love, there can be no hard disjunction between
the two; at all times they are co-involved in Him and He
sustains man with love even as He judges him.
But for Jonah, no such fusion of justice and mercy is
possible within the partiality of human moral judgments.
Over against G-D, he asserts the independence and supremacy
of human finitude and its standards of intelligibility and he
rejects any moral order or authority which is not accessible
to those standards. And if G-D refuses to shrink for man,
Jonah will shrink from G-D. Thus, unable to heal the split
or comprehend it, Jonah rebels.
But though he refuses to accept G-D, Jonah cannot escape
his need for Him; by his very nature, he must transcend his
finitude to attain significance for it, and rest, by faith, in an
immutable Order. Jonah must, therefore, seek a substitute for
G-D. And, indeed, there is an order, infinite and eternal, yet
amenable to human intelligence and in fact, the condition for
intelligibility as such — the order of Nature.
Jonah does not reject belief in G-D — he tells the sailors
squarely that "I am a Hebrew and I fear the Lord." But it is
the "G-D of Heaven, who made the sea and the dry land"
that Jonah chiefly fears; essentially he has attempted to re-
duce G-D from Hashem to Elokim/' to retain G-D only inso-
far as He may be identified with the order of Nature and the
hard sequences of justice, but excluding the personal Re-
deemer Who loves and forgives, Who succors and sustains
his creatures.
But if the Biblical G-D is infinitely remote from the un-
intelligible "absurd" of the existentialist, He is equally re-
moved from the impersonal though intelligible Order of the
naturalist. The G-D of Israel is Hashem-Elokim, the Principle
of universal order, but also a Person who loves man and
relates to him in Buber's terms, a Thou, not an It. Nature (for
that is ^vhat Elokim without Hashem becomes) may be devoid
of her ambiguity of the universal yet personal G-D, but the
G-D of Israel is far more than an order, and what finally
determines man's choice of one or the other is not just its
intelligibility, but the way in which it grips his being. And
Jonah's choice is inescapable — for the prophet, Elokim is
not enough. Driven to the edge of despair, he utters the
moving cry of his atonement:
"I called out of mine affliction
Unto the Lord, and He answered me;
Out of the belly of the netherworld
cried I,
And Thou heardst my voice . . .
The deep was round about me;
The weeds were wrapped about my head.
I went down to the bottoms of the
mountains . . .
Yet hast thou brought up my life
from the pit,
0 Lord my G-D.
When my soul fainted within me
1 remembered the Lord."
Only when his soul faints, when he is driven to the
periphery of despair, bankrupt of all idolatrous substitutes,
naked and alone before G-D. does Jonah remember the
Lord. Thus a further dimension of the polarity of man's
encounter with G-D is disclosed — only man at his lowest
point, devoid of false securities, when the chasm between
man and G-D is greatest, is it most effectively closed.
Be that as it may, the return of Jonah is complete: once
again he stands as a son of Israel, under the covenant with
his Creator, and once again he calls, with the intimacy of a
trusting child, upon the Redeemer of Israel. Hashem-Elokim,
"0 Lord my G-D."
If the first phase of Jonah's rebellion was impelled by the
difficulty of accepting G-D, the final phase is impelled by the
greater difficulty of living with Him.
Jonah, after successfully carrying G-D"s warning to the
people of Nineveh and saving them from punishment through
teshuvah, is bitter and sullen and wishes to die. He complains
that G-D's mercy and forgiveness are unbearable.
It appears that Jonah now feels the full force, in a con-
crete situation, not just an intellectual apprehension, of the
paradox of G-D's absolute justice and absolute love. His
problem is essentially the problem of evil, transposed through
the genius of the prophet into the problem of love. For G-D's
love being universal, sustaining His whole creation as such,
is undifferentiated. It supports all men, even when, according
to human, moral judgment, they no longer deserve it. It
seems that G-D's love for man refuses to abide by the par-
ticular moral distinctions which alone enable men to do His
Will.
It is this last point which leads us to the center of the
problem; to define it precisely, we may say that the religious
paradox consists in the fact that the G-D who relates to man
with undifferentiated, universal love, irreconcilable with
man's particular moral judgments, is the same G-D who
reveals Himself to man through particular love, in the pro-
phetic encounter which legislates those judgments.
Jonah clearly sees, with a brilliance he is not aware of,
that it is the incommensurability of G-D's universal love and
man's particular love which is at the bottom of the problem
of evil.
Thus G-D's own prophet is forced into the agonizing
position of conveying G-D's moral distinctions to those who
violate them — only to see that G-D seems to pay no regard,
but grants blessedness to the wicked in a moment of teshuvah
on their part while the righteous suffer.
How does G-D answer the challenge of the prophet? He
answers through the parable of the gourd: He exposes to
Jonah the fact that the inconsistency does not lie with G-D
but with His prophet. While Jonah sat brooding in the des-
ert east of the city, G-D caused a gourd to grow and shield
him from the heat; but "when the morning rose" G-D pre-
pared a worm "and it smote the gourd that it withered."
Jonah fainted in the sun. Again he was angered at G-D
and wished to die. In the magnificent reply which closes the
Book, G-D says to Jonah, in eiTect: "How can you expect Me
to treat Nineveh as Elokim and you as Hashem?"' You have
demanded that I treat Nineveh solely with order and justice,
and yet when I allow natural law and justice to take their
course, the gourd to wither and your impudence to be justly
crushed, you are furious. I treat you as a G-D of natural —
moral order and you protest, as if you deserved mercy, com-
passion, forgiveness. And did you cry out from the bowels
of the earth to the G-D of order? Did you turn from the
limits of despair to the G-D of justice? You surely did not
wish Me to decree immediate and exact justice upon you
when you rebelled, but to sustain you with love in spite of
your infidelity, to wait patiently for your teshuvah, and to
accept you without condition when you returned.
"But how can you dare demand that I violate my own
unity? How can I treat you as Hashem, with the love that
mitigates justice, if I do not the same for all my creatures?"
For the living G-D, Hashem-Elokim, there can be no
partiality; and Jonah is shamed into silence.
Ill
How may we summarize the teaching of this magnificent
Book? It appears that the Biblical narrative illuminates a
double failure on the part of Jonah and in so doing, provides
a penetrating, unflinching anatomy of man's religious ex-
perience.
It seems that Jonah had failed to understand the nature
of G-D's love and the full implications of the polarity of the
encounter between man and G-D. Jonah did not understand
that the ambiguity and paradox of man's relation to G-D
is indispensable for the survival of man. Indeed, it is precisely
because G-D loves man that He shields him from full under-
standing. If it were not for the ambiguity inherent in the
encounter, finite man could not possibly withstand the in-
finite majesty of G-D breaking forth into the world. He could
not possibly retain his identity and freedom, and be addressed
as a separate person by G-D, but would surely be swept into
the Infinite, his finite selfhood ineffably dissolved, his will
and his response totally coerced. Therefore G-D addresses
to man only finite imperatives which conserve his identity
but jar with G-D's undisclosed infinity. But it is only to pro-
tect man's identity from being consumed by the touch of
the Divine that G-D mitigates His glory with a veil of
ambiguity; only because He sustains finite man in love, does
G-D remain hidden even as He is revealed.*
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And it is the same Divine love which produces, in turn,
the paradox of the continuing relation of G-D to man, the
problem of evil. If by "love" we mean the action taken with-
out any personal benefit, to sustain the individuality and
allow for the fulfillment of another, this time-worn religious
analogy surely stands. For it is only because of the undif-
ferentiated love of G-D, which supports his creatures without
regard for the distinctions which inhere in the particularity
of man's condition, that the problem of evil exists. And yet
without this, in a world governed solely by justice, man, as
the Midrash points out, could not endure. But in the nature
of things, F-D's vision is unalterably polar to man's, and
must be, if man is to survive. The dichotomy is irreducible;
and the problem of reward and punishment, in which G-D's
universal decrees and man's particular deserts are reconciled,
is a problem not solved in this world.
Joanah had also failed to understand the true nature of
the polarity between G-D and man. Had he understood, he
would have realized that the dichotomy in G-D's relation to
man is the necessary concomitant of the dichotomy in man
himself; it is only because man is finite, yet seeking the
Infinite, driven to struggle with that which he cannot behold,
that G-D must remain ambiguous to him. The truth is that
man must find a paradox in G-D because of the paradox
in man: only a G-D both of justice and mercy could sustain
finite man, grappling with the Infinite he cannot withstand.
Jonah, in rebelling against the paradox of G-D, had only
evaded the paradox of man. He had not understood that the
root of the problem of suffering is not that G-D is too infinite
but that man is too finite, not that G-D does not differentiate,
but that man cannot help doing so. Jonah had not understood
that the root of the problem of evil is that while man cannot
love the whole unless he loves the individual, G-D cannot love
any individual unless he loves the whole. '^ But neither can
man find significance as an individual, which alone can re-
deem his finitude, he transcends himself and confronts the
whole. In other words, if we cannot reconcile the Universal
and the particular, neither can we separate them. Thus he
who reaches a full religious awareness will understand tha*
to fully accept the condition of man is also to accept the
dominion of G-D.
Thus the vision of the Book of Jonah is a vision of the
inexpungable polarity of religious existence in which man
must endure a chasm with paradox on either side; devoid of
certainty but forced to act, his only alternatives are rebellion
or faith.
And as we conclude our analysis we are also in a position
to understand that the pivot of the Book of Jonah is teshuvah.
For it is teshuvah which constitutes the essence of man's
relation to G-D as the G-D of love and mercy, as the personal
Redeemer of His creation. Teshuvah has no place in an im-
personal Order of existence; Spinoza declared that atonement
is unbefitting a rational man. Without teshuvah, however, the
spiral of rebellion and faith in Jonah could never occur; the
first rebellion would be the last, justice would descend upon
the rebel and the inexorable order of things would indiffer-
ently grind all error into ashes. But the G-D of Jonah will not
be reduced to justice alone; the personal G-D of infinite
love sustains even His creatures who violate His Name. And
the Book of Jonah declares that it is teshuvah alone which
supports the unyielding struggle between man and his G-D.
It is fully granted that the above interpretation is no
more than an individual response to an inexhaustible, enig-
matic allegory. It takes the Book of Jonah, not only as an
attempt to justify G-D's ways to man, but also to explore the
gap between them. I have taken Jonah to focus on the rhythm
of man's successive responses to the radical polarity of his
existence, alternately issuing in the yearning struggle to
unify the poles, expressed in faith, and the futility of such
union, expressed in rebellion.
The Book seems to proclaim in the unfinished silence of
its ending that the antithetical tension of Jonah is the per-
manent condition of man, and that it is precisely in his
struggle to integrate this antithesis that man is delivered of
the vision and impelled to the faith which redeem his life.
Jonah relentlessly proclaims that the greatness of man
is the relentlessness of spirit, that this is intrinsic to G-D's
order and the human situation, that it is an irreducible
tension which yields no facile solution, and will suffer neither
the humanist displacement of G-D nor the scholastic sub-
mergence of man.
On the contrary, man must accept that, as a limited
human, he can only know the absolute by the peril of faith —
it must be by peril because he is limited, but it must be
absolute because he is human. And finally. Jonah declares
that, though we may face this unyielding tension with acqui-
escence or rebellion, the restlessness of man shall never end.
FOOTNOTES
iJn the following discussion, I shall alternately consider
religion in general and religion involving a personal G-D.
The former I call "religion", the latter, "Biblical religion".
Also, in the discussion of the former I shall use impersonal
concepts such as "Order" or "Structure", in the latter, the
concept of G-D. I am attempting, in this way, to develop
universal concepts of the nature of religion as such, in order
to illuminate particular religions ( in this case Biblical Juda-
ism). I would also like to point out that many of the ideas
in the ensuing discussion I owe to my teacher. Prof. A.
Litman.
-The phrase is Dr. Litman's.
•''By "Absolute" throughout the essay I mean "Impervious to
time" (i.e. external and immutable self-sufficient and intrin-
sically significant ) . The "Absolute" means the total structure
of things, a structure impervious to time. (The definition is
Dr. Litman's.)
■^The definition is from Will Herberg, Judaism and Modern
Man, Meridian Books, New York, 1959.
"cf. Dostoevsky's formulation of the nihilistic viewpoint:
"I shall persist in- utter metaphysical defiance, infinitely
lovely, supported only by my moral insight. I shall offer
absolute resistance to the ultimate principle and shall
despise it."
Quoted by E. Frank, Philosophical Understanding and Re-
ligious Faith. New York, 1945. p. 38.
•''This key idea of Jonah's dichotomy between Hashem and
Elokim and the inconsistency of this dichotomy, I received
from my teacher. Rabbi Moses Tendler.
"Again, I wish to note that this interpretation originated with
Rabbi Tendler.
*cf. The article by Emil L. Fackenheim, "The Dilemma of
Liberal Judaism," in Commentary, Oct.. 1960.
^cf. Article by Sam Ajzinstat, "Religion and Rebellion in
Judaism" in Reflections, Toronto Hillel Organization, 1960.
A PERIOD
OF CHANGE
by Martin Mantel
Winner of the Jerome Rabbins Memorial Prize
for best short story.
Pierre Mwambe stirred, feeling the corrugated surface
of the tin sidings chill his back. Slowly his eyes grew ac-
customed to the sickly dawn glow filtering past the cracks
and he began to wonder what he was doing beneath the tin
shack. Then, seeing the even, surrounding carpet of grey
dust, he was easy. Thinking seemed to depend on seeing for
Pierre. Lying on his back and staring wide-eyed at the
dirty, plank floor overhead he began to remember . . .
Pierre had Ilonga blood according to his mother but he
could never be sure; she, with her half-sister, had left the
tribe early to find servant work with the whites. His mother
was twelve then, but by the time Pierre was born she was
twenty-eight and an old hag with swollen spittle-colored gums
that emerged sickeningly from between her few teeth as
she grinned (he supposed now that she was happy with the
whining bundle that sucked at her shriveled teats — that
was always the way with her between the babies ) . Pierre
thought: "If she couldn't remember how many of them she
buried, then how could she remember her tribe?" And
then you had to add the fact that she left when she was only
twelve. Time makes everything dim. That is why he couldn't
picture his father, who ran off when Pierre was eight to find
work in a distant factory.
But his mother continued to have babies nonetheless with
an indefinite succession of transient workers whom she re-
ferred to as "mes bonhommes" all with her open mouthed
good-humor. Pierre recalled the grin well as he did the way
her thin and slack breasts hung limply against her chest.
"She is a wicked witch," he thought, and two years after
his father ran away he followed suit, leaving behind a noisy
brood of children and the last clinging bundle that seemed
to glow from the sallow flesh drawn taut across his mother's
scrawny frame.
A sudden shiver made the muscles of his face twitch and
he shifted fitfully from his position. "Why do these thoughts
haunt me?" He relived the bitter days spent straying in the
village gnawed by hunger until he collapsed senseless in the
dusty filth paving the dirt gutter, days of his quivering vision
yearning desperately after the delirious images that floated
by unconcernedly. Those few days of starving desolation,
of ravenous searching through the stinking garbage heaps
were more to Pierre than events to be remembered. They
were part of his identity. They had made him practical.
Such was Pierre's condition that when a group of French
travelling missionaries caught sight of the child's bloated
form drawing thin gasps of stale gutter air and rescued him
from sure death, the boy was too weary, too hungry to know
the compassionate hands that laid him gently on the back of
the motor lorry, too hurt also to feel thankful for his miracu-
lous salvation. But Pierre was obedient if not grateful, and in
the course of two or three weeks he learned the rudiments of
being a good houseboy to Pere Moriot and M. Reyne. The
Pere in turn allowed him to become a member of the party
and was civil enough. Once, in fact, during a short and pain-
ful interview Moriot questioned Pierre about his family and
home but he turned away and didn't answer.
"It's quite obvious," said Reyne. "that he is content with
his most recent adventure, the young scamp. I'm not sure we
do right in keeping him along."
Pierre had kept facing the wall, for all his childish impu-
dence; there was a murderous threat he imagined, an omen
of something terrible emerging from the shallow blue pools
sunk in M. Reyne's face.
Even when he grew older, leaving the priests to serve the
families which took him in for short periods, Pierre could
not rid himself of these earliest traces of terror. In the class-
rooms, too, where, on occasion, because of overcrowded
schools the boy was allowed to sit in the back and discovered
that he was superior in his studies to many of the colonist
children — even as he learned to hate the chattering mass of
fair-skinned Europeans — the same mysterious awe lurked
within him, damming back the hot-tempered outbursts he
might have blurted out against the injustices he endured.
Here the boy ironically succeeded, for his tense restraint was
taken by everyone for stupid docility. So convincing was
Pierre's air of dull servility that his instructors never both-
ered to probe his sensitive intelligence although they were
continuously amazed by the quality of his work. Instead, they
tacitly assumed that he received help from the other students
although he wasn't popular, it being additionally puzzling
that inferior students could supply him with perfectly done
assignments.
When he was eighteen and through with the government
school, Pierre was turned down for an opportunity to attend
a European University on a scholarship. "The boy is too
sullen," they all agreed, "an academic freak." A week after
graduation he joined the guards.
Someone above was awake now and Pierre cut short his
reflecting to listen better. Dust had thoroughly caulked what-
ever cracks once made it possible to see between the planks,
but it didn't shut out sound. A bed was creaking and a body
twisting resentfully to its edge. Two feet made contact with
the wood near Pierre, leaving the boards in quivers as they
reacted to the pressure above. Rustlings, the sound of clothes
removed, clothes donned. He wondered whether it was a man
or a woman and decided, after listening longer, that he
couldn't tell. Again the boards sagged; this time in a steady
sequence like piano keys. He or she was leaving, giving
Pierre at last the chance to stretch his aching limbs. Inclining
his way towards a thin slit of yellow, he found the opening
of the night before.
Pushing a rock aside, he craned his neck viewing either
side of the alley, seeing nothing move but a woman's receding
outline. Retreating, he surveyed the ground for any posses-
sions he might have dropped and, struck by a frantic fear,
reached wildly for his holster. The gun was still there. He
sighed relieved, removed the ancient revolver and inspected
the chambers carefully. The empty part from the shot he had
fired yesterday evening emitted a faintly acrid odor. Reaching
for his belt, Pierre removed one cartridge and loaded the
groove, snapping the barrel smoothly into its position. Then,
returning the gun to its leather shield, he grabbed forth his
cork helmet and scraped his way past the opening.
Pierre winced at the blinding inundation of morning sun,
swaying weakly for some steps until his feet accepted the
reality of the dust-packed alley and began to carry him away
from the already indistinguishable shack, in a direction away
from the woman. He didn't want to pass the marching ground
though, being afraid, and, therefore, wove through a maze of
miserable hovels towards the road that led away from Kasala.
Approaching the outskirts of town, Pierre could smell the
green dew-beaten grass and the thick brown soil of the newly
plowed fields. He could hear the creakings and rustlings of
people being roused and the actions of dressing. He sensed
the noise accelerating with the start of an infant's howling
cries that mingled with the animal noises in a cacophony of
sounds. Hastening pace, he began to count the houses re-
maining before the last one closest to the road. He knew the
sign would say — "Gelea — 69 Kilometers." He had passed
it many times before.
Suddenly a civil worker in a white shirt gave Pierre a
start by crossing his path just as he neared the pebbled road-
side. The short man was walking at a brisk clip whistling an
incoherent melody that rose and fell with his labored breath.
In his haste, he paid no regard to the dishevelled guard
member who hurried past him and scampered for the shallow
camouflage bordering the quiet road. Pierre didn't have to be
afraid of being seen. It was not unusual for the local police
guards to patrol the village, especially on the day after a
demonstration.
Once seated on the soft cushion of earth. Pierre became
aware of his thumping heart. He strained nervously to see
the marching ground in the distance. It was empty. The rau-
cous shrieking of the wild birds joined the jungle croakings
in frantic counterpoint. Somewhere the hoarse coughing of
a car starting mingled with the general confusion. His body
swayed grudgingly to the rhythm, "Why did I leave the vil-
lage?". . . Pierre lurched forward pressing his eyes against
the balls of his hands in a vain effort to shut out the rising
flood of panic that tormented his imagination. He groaned
aloud, unable any longer to submerge the writhing images
of the evening before.
He saw himself again at the head of the marching ground
before the Supervisor's office and felt the tension of his grip
on the butt of his revolver. He shuddered at the incarnation
of the brutal mob violently waving their clenched fists and
placards in the dimming light. Like a horrible beast the in-
furiated crowd roared, striking fear into his heart. It began
to converge upon the whitewashed wooden building hurling
vile curses, shouting "Kill the Whites!" and "Death to the
traitors!" It made as if to rip Pierre limb from limb. He was
retreating erratically, his knees working wildly. The other
guards were nearby, infected with the same fear of immediate
destruction. They shouted frantically "Stay back!", "Don't
move!", "We'll shoot!!" and brandished their guns with
jerking movements, pointing them in all directions. Never
before had there been such an outbreak in Kasala. There were
mild demonstrations, yes — the captain of the guards had
even warned his company that signs of new violence were
developing, but nothing could have made him imagine this.
Two of the guards threw down their guns and ran, one of them
joining the crowd. Then, as a great wound opens, the crowd
gushed towards the remnants of the company with a deadly
vengeance. The captain began firing into the mob. The crisp
crack of the first shot lost itself in the chaos and was soon
joined by the firing of many bullets, into the air, the crowd,
everywhere.
For Pierre the first was like hearing a chain snapped.
The next moment was minutes long during which he
forgot his identity and could only think of his mother's
idiotic grin, her weary frame, and the terror he felt for the
Whites. Like pincers, the fear and shame tore away at his
reserve, at the mold imprisoning him, and reeling blindly
from the confusion and panic that racked his quaking body,
he felt an overpowering animal oneness with the gaping
monster that swallowed him alive. His open eyes, unseeing,
saw him numbly draw the revolver. "I can throw it away!"
he thought shocked. Behind him the captain roared "Shoot ! ! "
and Pierre froze completely, his finger paralyzed on the thin
and worn trigger. In an instant's vision he saw an old crone
in line with his barrel, lighted by a nearby torch. She was
being pushed forward by the crest of the mob. She blazed
like an apparition in Mwambe's eyes. Her breasts were bare
and corroded, her toothless mouth contorted with murder —
the image of his mother! Sinking into an ocean of despair,
Pierre knew at once with the crowd the overwhelming misery,
both his and theirs. He knew, he knew. Then, within him
something evil and foul, that had festered over a lifetime,
over generations, for time immemorial — contracted. And
the chamber exploded thrusting its projectile like a plow into
the chest of the woman and she slumped, slowly, almost
gracefully to the ground.
The others were still firing into the crowd when the
dazed Pierre ran . . .
"Where can I go?" he wondered. A voice said,
"Report for duty as if nothing happened," but that was
senseless.
A lone cloud stared dully at him from the cobalt sky com-
manding him to rise. He shuffled some meters, paused, and
looked eastward, away from the road. "The Ilonga's camp
is about forty kilometers from here." Mwambe's feet moved
noisily over the underbrush, but the noise was masked by
the approving screeches of the birds.
On the Thirteenth
Year of the State
by IsiDOR Apterbach
Alone, alone
An unheard moan
A lark that flew too high
To sing and trill
Above the hill
And in a lonely sky
What can be said to years of toil,
To sombre Truth, in words of song?
What need of hammer has our gong?
With every breeze the tired tunes
O shrouded time reverberate
And heavy numbers, soon and late,
Bow our laden souls with further grief.
Nay, glorious was our time of seed
And ours, my people, every deed
The world names lightly: good;
For who are we but Amram's son? '
And yet we cannot sing of joy
When all about, in bated breath.
We hear the Gentile's sentence: 'death, to death'
Halevi's rhyme with lance transpierced
And holy Meir's unshrieved end
And every Jewish garment rent
For bitter loss of martyred kin;
Our eye is blinded by a sea of wailing blood.
The sun, drowned in a scarlet flood,
Beams not with white, but, inflamed spears
And in that plague of constant night,
Dimmed with tears, the Jewish light
That only mothers' eyes express
Th' unvoiced questions pierce the ear
"What horrid crime from birth to bear.
My little babe, to be a Jew.
My little one that's dead, 1 ask.
Was this your G-D appointed task?"
II
"And can the tide refuse to flow
When bidden by th' unseen power?
Or can the opening flower
Say 'Nay I'll but be plucked by jealous maids'?
'Twas ours to grow and spread huge limbs
That, stretching to the very rims
Of heaven, shade the evil race of man;
And ours, so close to G-d were we, to burn
For every heathen's sin until he learn
From us the ways of G-d."
Ill
No drop, no single wail of stricken child
But belies these shameless words
And rips the fragile chords
Connecting heart with brain
And mad we go into a world
Or madly are we thither hurled
If this be our unenvied lot.
Away, away, philosopher.
Not human thoughts, artificer.
Are these — but dead men speak so.
Cans't seek eternity in grains
Of sand or tear the veil from time?
But know that yours', a soul in crime
More evil does than ever Torquemada
'Tis ours to live, to laugh and sing.
And not exult the private sting
Our race is heir to.
Alas, why rouse what numbness sealed
And pluck at wounds when yet unhealed
The heart, of every nerve the seat.
What can be said to years of toil,
To sombre Truth, in song?
IV
But sing a new and wanton strength
For ours, the last in heavy chains
Enclosed; and first tha' in manly freedom strains
Of spirits that our fathers lacked —
Of angry pride and swelling shout
That drain the swamps and, un'strained, rout.
Barbarian-like, the very elements
That seek our death. Once more by tents
The Southern desert's filled;
Again the heady cry of life
From lusty throat in healthy strife.
Is heard above a land thought dear.
The right to live and that do die
'Bove all, the greatest right — to try —
Is ours.
Symphony ofjCife
by Arnold Sheinberg
A rose is plucked
A note is struck
A wave is lulled into endless oblivion
A child dies
And the Maestro conducts the eternal symphony of Life
Never ceasing, always leading
The crescendo of Wars
End in the calm, calm melody of Peace
Sweet, beautiful Ecstasy
Mortal and G-dly music in Harmony
you am' t SO sweet
siveet potato as t/a think
you am
by Richard Schlifstein
Oh. little yam
I know what you am
You are a potato, full of starch.
What keeps my belly on the march.
You make me fat !
You dirty rat!
Scram,
Yam!
MBMh
Zhe KevolutloH of the Potato
by Richard Schlifstein
Why die as your brothers and sisters have died?
Boiled in oil, and become french-fried.
Or wake up one morning to a horrible scene
That you've gone through the guillotine.
You find your head all in a mash
Or you're in a Mulligan Stew, or part of a hash
Then you might as well be dead —
For what is life if you can't get a-head?
From your homes you're uprooted, you're sent overseas,
Or skinned alive during kitchen K.P.s
Yes, I admit to you it is no life
Without any children or a wife.
Here is a plan for you to do
Follow the instructions that I tell you :
Take your first letter, which is a "p"
Cross it out. and make it a "t"
Then take the first letter out of "me"
And change il for the first letter of "thee"
Now the last step, Mr. Potato
Put on rouge, and you're a t-o-m-alo !
As we leave Yeshiva, ready to go along our many ways, the University
is in the throes of a massive building program. Across the street from the
new dorm, now beginning to wax ancient, a new building is rising — a class-
room-administration building ready to house the planners of future under-
takings. And in midtown plans are being prepared for other edifices to house
an evergrowing student body.
And so it goes on and on, the same old story of expansion and progress.
But for what purpose? Is it just to increase Yeshiva's prestige, and through
it that of American Jewry, in the academic community?
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Perhaps this is what some people are hoping for
— another Harvard out of a divinity school, with no
religious division to speak of.
But this is not Yeshiva's purpose, nor that of its
administrators. Rabbi Dr. Menachem Kasher, director
of the University's project to publish the Gaon of Ro-
gashov's commentaries on two milleniums of Jewish
thought and Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman, religious
leader and Professor of Political Science, are given
places of honor. And while the JSP student and many
of his fellow comrades in the other religious divisions
may still not be able to understand the synthesis that
is Yeshiva University — a University which requires
the learning of Talmud as well as secular science — it
is there. It exists in every individual. ,;rS
Jjl
When Yeshiva expands, it does so with a purpose.
Progress is important in any institution, but here at Ye-
shiva it is progress rooted in tradition that counts.
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WHOLESALE MILK & MILK PRODUCTS
524-532 West 29th Street New York
Congratulations to Our Nephew and Cousin
SHERMAN On His Graduation
From the
FUCHS FAMILY
Mazel Tov to Our Grandson
SHERMAN SIMANOWITZ
On His Graduation
GRANDMA & ZEIDE
SHOP AT PIONEER
2521 Broadway (between 93rd & 94th St.)
N. Y. C.
Compliments of
EASTERN VENDING COMPANY
(Leon Holtzer)
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Congratulations to RICHARD SCHLIFSTEIN
From
A FRIEND
Congratulations to RICHARD
MR. & MRS. LOUIS SCHLIFSTEIN
AND SISTER DORI
Congratulations to
RICHARD SCHLIFSTEIN
Mazel Tov and Best Wishes to Our Cousin
JOSEPH REISS On His Graduation
SAM & MOLLY
Congratulations to Our Son ARNOLD
On His Graduation
MR. & MRS. SCHEINBERG
Compliments of
DR. MURRAY STRONGIN and FAMILY
Congratulations to the Graduating Class
of 1961 From
THE ROSHWALB FAMILY
VESTED INCOME PLANS INC.
26 Broadway
New York 5, N. Y.
Best Wishes to CHAIM NACHUM
On His Graduation
MR. & MRS. BEN STRICKMAN
Congratulations and Best Wishes
to WILLIAM KANTROWITZ From
MR. & MRS. MORRIS KAPUSTIN &
FAMILY
Congratulations to WILLIAIVl KANTROWITZ
From His Uncle and His Aunt
RABBI & MRS. DAVID KAPUSTIN
Philadelphia 49, Pa.
Mazel Tov and Best Wishes fo' Future Success
to My Son WILLIAM KANTROWITZ
Upon His Graduation
MRS. ROSE KANTROWITZ
Congratulations to FRED KRAUSE
On His Graduation
MR. & MRS. AARON ROSENBAUM & FAMILY
Best Wishes to MEYER BERGLASS
On His Graduation
MR. AND MRS. DAVID J. COHEN
Congratulations to
LARRY GREENFIELD
MOTHER, JUDY& RUTH
Mazel Tov to MORTY on his Graduation
From
Father, Mother, Sister Judy, and Uncle Dave,
Aunt Gertie, Cousins Alex, Joel and Jackie
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CONGRATULATIONS TO
STANLEY GREENEBAUM
My Nephew & Cousin Jack Merkin From Mrs. Samuel
Baron & Her Son Jerome
Our Son Jack From Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Merkin
Brother Steven From Francine Nison
Steven Nison From the Myerowitz Family
Avi Blumenfeld From Marlene & Shalome
Larry Kranes
Simon Wiener
COMPLIMENTS OF . . .
Emjay Photographers 201 E. Broadway, N. Y. C.
Nat Kaplan's Men's Shop, 41 Main Street, Spring
Valley, N. Y.
Louis Bogopulsky
Atlas Welding & Boiler Co., Inc., 1104 Webster Ave.,
Bronx, N. Y.
Mr. Hyman Lerman
Mr. & Mrs. Ben Nisson
Progress Fuel Oil Co., 720 New Lots Ave., B'klyn, N. Y.
Sol Schwartz & Sons, Jamaica, N. Y.
Andrews Barber Shop, 1499 St. Nicholas
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Nierman
Northern Pharmacy, 5009 Broadway
Mr. Moses Gordon & Daughter
Judith Goldman
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Greenberg & Son
Heights Theater, 150 Wadworth Ave.
Heights Firestone Store, 502 W. 181st Street
Avon Luncheonette Supplies, 407 W. 13th St., N. Y. C.
Victors Dry Cleaners, 519 W. 181st Street
(10% Student Discount)
Save-On-Servicecenter, Inc., 2470 Amsterdam Ave.
(183rd Street)
Mel & Grace Stern
SK Coffee Company, 101 E. Second Street, N. Y. C.
William Leinwand Wholesale Hardware, 93 Reade
St., N. Y. C.
Simon S. Panush, 401 Broadway, N. Y. C.
Parkside Caterers, 199 a Parkside Ave., B'klyn
IN 9-0355
Webster Plumbing Supply, 1758 Webster Ave., Bronx
CONGRATULATIONS TO
MORTON MICHENBERG
Mrs. Helen Klappholz
My Nephew Morton Michenberg Mr. Meyer Diamond
Samuel Frank — From Etta Arams & Toby & Ellen
Lifshitz
Samuel Frank From A Friend
Eli Leiter From Rabbi Gordon
Our Son Max From Rabbi & Mrs. Abram Lew & Family
Stanley Kupinsky From Thrifty Fuel, 24 New Ave.,
Yonkers, N. Y.
Our Brother Max From Paulette & Maurice, Ellen &
Maurice
Herbert Bialik From Mom, Dad & Brothers
Tzvi Abusch From A Friend
Tzvi Abusch From Sam & Minnie Plotnick
Mr. & Mrs. Sam Blumenfeld
COMPLIMENTS OF . . .
Keshnar Poultry, 1351 39th St., B'klyn, N. Y.
Paramount Calendar & Novelty Co.
A Friend of Herbert Bialik
Mr. & Mrs. I. Becker In Memory of Our Son Larry
Kinor David Kosher Provisions Corp., 4708 13th Ave.,
B'klyn
Dave's Foodtown, 483 Belmont Ave., Springfield, Mass.
Schneiders Meat Market, Strictly Kosher, 2035 Grand
Ave., Bronx
Mr. & Mrs. Ira Bernstein, Springfield, Mass.
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Wernick, Longmeadow, Mass.
Dr. Lowell Bellin, Springfield, Mass.
Nathan Goldstein, Springfield, Mass.
Artistic Cleaners & Dyers, 1729 University Ave., Bronx
Padawer & Steigman Inc.
Mr. Irving Greenberg, Springfield, Mass.
Mr. & Mrs. Murray Burke, Springfield, Mass.
Mr. Ben Swirsky of Springfield, Mass.
A Friend of Gerald Fogelman
C. B. Snyder Organizations Realties, 61 Newark Street,
Hoboken, N. J.
Victor Laulicht
A Friend of Herb Bialik
A Friend of Stanley Kupinsky
Morris Horovitz
Nissim Hizme, Hebrew Jewelry Inc.
Security Fuel Corp., 838 Morton Street, Dorchester
Henry Dolinsky
Inwood Meat Market Inc., 565 W. 207th St.
Kramash & Mattisson, 1420 College Ave.
Millinery Manufacturing Corp., 214 Main Street,
Holyoke, Mass.
Winfield Hats, Inc., Holyoke, Mass.
A Friend
Hallmark Cards, 1426 St. Nicholas Ave.
Starlight Laundry, 2077 Washington Ave.
Atlantic Interiors, Inc., 977 Flatbush Ave., B'klyn, N.Y.
College Luncheonette, Across from Main Building
S. Hellman & Sons (Strictly Kosher Meat & Poultry)
52 Main St., Spring Valley
Joe's Barber Shop
Liberty Fashion Clothing Co., 68 E. Broadway
Mr. & Mrs. Ben Strickman
Dr. Ernest Spillinger, 2125 Cruger Ave., Pelham Park-
way Sta,, Bronx, N. Y.
Mr. & Mrs. Israel Reiss
Tredeasy-Rugby Shoe Shop, 5005 Church Ave., B'klyn
3, N. Y.
Silberts Kosher Market, Washington
Gilbert & Katkin Kosher Delicatessen & Restaurant,
1446 St. Nicholas
Babka Pastries, 2525 B'way, N. Y. C.
Larry Bernath
Graham Distributors, Inc., 53 Graham Ave., B'klyn, N. Y.
J & G Superette, 2045 Grand Ave.
Compliments of
MR. and MRS.
REUBEN E. GROSS AND FAMILY
WHERE TO FIND US:
Tzvi Abusch
808 Adee Avenue
Bronx 67, New York
Philip Alter
15 Ciaxton Blvd.
Toronto, Canada
Herbert Amster
713 East 175th St.
Bronx, New York
Isldor M. Apterbach
325 West 93rd St.
New York, New York
Robert Asch
83 West 33rd St.
Bayonne, New Jersey
Alan Balsam
101-28 97th St.
Ozone Park 16, N. Y.
Philip Balsam
1262 Stratford Ave.
Bronx 72, N. Y.
Richard Barth
1705 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford 17, Conn.
Gary Baum
65-17 Parsons Blvd.
Flushing 67, N. Y.
Sbael Bellows
6041 N. Lawndale Ave.
Chicago, Illinois
Meyer Bergias
58 South Madison Avenue
Spring Valley, N. Y.
Herbert Bialik
415 Grand Street
New York, N. Y.
Alvin Blumenfeld
1711 Morris Ave.
Bronx, N. Y.
Israel Brafman
736 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn 13, N. Y.
Ronald K. Burke
361 Belmont Avenue
Springfield 8, Mass.
Herschel G. Cohen
92 Pleasant St.
Brookline 46, Mass.
Perry Eck
300 Riverside Drive
New York, N. Y.
Marvin Edelman
321 West 90th St.
New York, N. Y.
Saul Eisenbud
437 Morris Park Ave.
Bronx 60, N. Y.
J. Michael Epstein
1236 49th St.
Brooklyn 19, N. Y.
Martin Epstein
241 Crystal Terrace
Hillside, New Jersey
Hershel Farkas
777 Foster Ave.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Samuel Feder
2230 Washington Ave.
Silver Springs, Md.
Jack Fein
1319 51st St.
Brooklyn 19, N. Y.
Azriel Feiner
9720 Kings Highway
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Harvey Feisen
102-43 68th Avenue
Forest Hills 75, N. Y.
Nathan FInkiel
325 Legion St.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Gerald Stephen Fogelman
1312 N. 13fhSt.
Reading, Pa.
Samuel Frank
155 Wellington Hill
Mattapan, Mass.
Yitzchak Frank
8 Ingalls St.
Worcester 4, Mass.
Philip Freidman
1095 Ralph Avenue
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Daniel Frimmer
868 50th Street
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Aaron Fruchter
1126-51 Street
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Saul Ganchrow
239 Remsen Avenue
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Murray Geller
1430 Seagirt Blvd.
Far Rockaway 91, L. I.
Jonathan I. Ginsberg
110-36 67 Road
Forest Hills 75, N. Y.
Howard Zev Goldberg
18 Jeffrey Place
Monsey, N. Y.
Jack Solomon Goldberg
5372 Prince of Wales
Montreal, Canada
Emanuel Goldblum
144 Isabella Ave.
Newark, New Jersey
Arthur Goldman
30 Dongan Place
New York 40, N. Y.
Stanford Milton Goldman
2143 N. 59th Street
Philadelphia 31, Pa.
Calvin Goldscheider
3706 Barrington Rd.
Baltimore 15, Md.
Alvin Rubinoff Golub
110 High Street
Perth Amboy, N. J.
Gerald Golub
510 West State St.
Trenton 8, New Jersey
William Golub
568 Bristol St.
Brooklyn 12, N. Y.
Stanley L. Greenbaum
119 Rodney St.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Michael Greenebaum
1241-55th St.
Brooklyn 19, N. Y.
Lawrence Greenfield
1450-49 Street
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Raymond Grodner
785 East 181 Street
Bronx, New York
Avery Gross
11 Belmont Terrace
Staten Island 1, N. Y.
Mark Gross
200 West 86 Street
New York, N. Y.
Israel Grossberg
881 Washington Ave.
Brooklyn 25, N. Y.
Aaron Gutman
37 College Dr.
Jersey City, N. J.
James Joseph Hain
206 Robertson Ave.
Danville, Va.
Keith William Harvey
59 Lloyd Lane
Monticello, N. Y.
Michael Hauer
95 S. 9th Street
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Michael Hecht
1495 Morris Avenue
Bronx, N. Y.
Stephen Leonard Hermele
245-62 62nd Avenue
Douglaston 62, N. Y.
Howard Stephen Joseph
1148 Beach 12th St.
Far Rockaway 91, N. Y.
William Kantrowitz
217 Henry Street
New York, N. Y.
Bernard H. Kaplan
1037 Neilson Avenue
Far Rockaway, N. Y.
Kenneth Klein
1918 East 18 Street
Brooklyn 29, N. Y.
Louis Korngold
300 West 109th St.
New York 25, N. Y.
Lawrence Kranes
2005 Monterey Ave.
Bronx, N. Y.
Fred Krause
323-53 Street
West New York, N.J.
Stanley Kupinsky
460 East 181 Street
Bronx 57, N. Y.
Murray Laulicht
822 Emerson Ave.
Elizabeth, N. J.
Eli Lelter
603 Beach Terrace
Bronx, N. Y.
Max Lew
5835 Kings Highway
Brooklyn3, N. Y.
Joseph Lifschitz
398 Crown St,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Leslie Lindenberg
1110 Boulevard
West Hartford, Conn.
Allen L. Mandel
5121 -17th Ave.
Brooklyn 4, N. Y.
Edward Alan Maron
8793-21 Avenue
Brooklyn 14, N. Y.
Bernard Matus
1555 Grand Concourse
Bronx 52. N. Y.
Sheldon Meiner
268 East Broadway
New York 2, N. Y.
Jack Merkin
112 Westbourne Pkwy.
Hartford, Conn.
Morton Minchenberg
229 Goldsmith Ave.
Newark 12, N.J.
Frederick Nathan
1414 - 45 Street
Brooklyn 19, N. Y.
Steven Alan Nison
Crane Road
Ellington, Conn.
Gene Potter
195 Bay 29 Street
Brooklyn 14, N. Y.
Mark Press
1753 53 Street
Brooklyn4, N. Y.
Bernard Rachelle
65 Hillside Ave.
New York, N. Y,
Michael Reich
73 Arlosonoff St.
Haifa, Israel
Joseph S. Reiss
130 Hooper St.
Brooklyn 11, N. Y.
Allen D. Renkoff
Old Pecos Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Joseph Rifkin
2180 Holland Ave.
Bronx, N. Y.
Eugene Roshwalb
504 Grand St.
New York, N. Y.
Tobias Roth
383 M. Grand St.
New York, N. Y.
David Arnold Rothner
4911 No. Central Park Ave,
Chicago 25, Illinois
William Harvey Rothchild
34 Vadnais St.
Holyoke, Mass.
Jesse S. Salsberg
129 West End Ave.
Pompton Plains, N. J.
Arnold Scheinberg
122 Brightwater Court
Brooklyn 35, N.Y.
Richard Schlifstein
2232 Brigham Street
Brooklyn 29, N.Y.
Marvin Schneider
74 - 16th Street
Fall River, Mass.
Matthew Shatzkes
1711 University Ave.
Bronx 53, N. Y.
David Sheinkin
616 East 17th St.
Brooklyrt25, N.Y.
William Loeb Shimansky
502 East 95th St.
Brooklyn 12, N. Y.
Benjamin M. Silverberg
180 East 40th Street
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sherman Simanowltz
500 A-Grand St.
New York 2, N. Y.
Melvin Stern
141-32 70th Road
Kew Garden Hills 67, N.Y.
Joshua L. Sternberg
504 Grand Street
New York 2, N.Y.
H. Norman Strlckman
195 Kingston Ave.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Joseph Tuchman
857 New Lots Avenue
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Richard Harvey Viener
731 WhittierSt, N. W.
Washington 12, D. C.
Simon Weiner
1467 Taylor Ave.
Bronx 60, N. Y.
Saul Wohlberg
5402 15 Avenue
Brooklyn 19, N. Y.
Ilan Zamir-Halpern
Haifa, Israel
Morris Zauderer
410 Crown St.
Brooklyn 25, N. Y.
Bernard Meyer Zazula
57 St. Paul's Place
Brooklyn, New York
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