Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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A message from Mr. Norman B. Abrams Registrar ln a recent talk to the students, Dr. Samuel Belkin, our president said: The jewish community in the non-jewish world must be one that works togetner wit.i its neighbors, but realizes its separate function and preserves its heritage and separation. In tliis brief sentence, one can find the embodiment of time pnilosophy of jewish survival in the diaspora. Throughout our history, a tremendous force was exerted on jews to intermingle and to integrate with the non-jewish world, thus tending to lose our heritage and separation. This was particularly true when jews were dispersed or when alien governments, Persian, Syrian, Greek or Roman held sway over the jewish commonwealth. Think of the force for Hellenization during the Maccabbean period, the Romanization as exemplified by Josephus, the Ameri- canizationu of our own assimilation. Unfortunately, only when our people were con- fined to ghettos, as in Eastern Europe, did true jewish life and Torah learning fiourish to the utmost. On the other hand, with the rise of democracy and the period of en- lightenment, with the granting to us of equal rights and more ample secular educa- tional opportunities, as was done in the western hemisphere, jews were prone to veer to assimilation or to a false Americanization, the major phase of which was the exclusion of the jewish way of life. To counteract this evil, the Yeshiva movement in the United States of America has taken a leading role. Its growth, in the last three decades, has been phenomenal. ln the twenties there was only one complete all day jewish high school fT.A.j. Today, there are hundreds of elementary Yeshivas and many Yeshiva High Schools throughout the land. During the past ten to twelve years, in Yeshiva K'tanos and in our own Yeshiva, you graduates have also been living in an atmosphere and have been breathing the pure air which spelled the duality advised by Dr. Belkin, Your educational journey has been a rich one, mentally, physically and spiritually. You have learned to combine the highest level of non-jewish studies with Torah learning. It has been my happy duty and privilege to help guide you. In your well-rounded growt hand development, in our ability to co-exist, nay, to synthesize Torah with the Hnest ideals of Americanism, I deeply rejoice. However, this educational structure, so well wrought, is as yet, unfinished. Only the elementary and secondary segments have been completed. The highest, the most vital, the crowning glory, the collegiate phase of your edifice is still to be erected. All the more pity if this noble creation in which you invested approximately twelve years of your precious life, remained unfinished. Only by continuing your studies at Yeshiva University, in the ensuing four years, can fruition of the above ideals be attained. Only then will you be enabled to poin the nable ranks of those who carry forth the best traditions of Torah and Judaism to the next generation. Only thus will you prepare yourselves for the leadership which shall so greatly need in the trying times ahead of us. Accept my heartiest felicitations on this happy occasion - graduation. Accept also my best wishes for a successful continuation of your dual educational journey. NORMAN B. ABRAMS Regirtmr

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