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

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From Mr. Abrams Graduation 1960! What thoughts arise on contemplating this vital event in the life of a student! In my association with Yeshiva, there have been many such occasions. Yet each one is a new experience with new feelings, new thoughts. Une cannot help comparing world conditions in mid-twentieth century with those of an earlier period, when I graduated from what was then Talmudical Academy. The present scientific and highly mechanized world, with its tremendously constructive as well as destructive potentialities, has been greatly expanded, while physical distances between nations - nations poles apart - have been vastly contracted. Israel in the middle east, China in the far east, the U.S.S.A. in eastern Europe, have become our veritable next door neighbors. The jet plane and the radio assured this proximity. Withal, the world has been divided - in less than a decade - into two diametrically opposite ideological camps, with intense, almost mortal strife between them, engulfing all nations, great or small, threatening us with fatal annihilation. We Jews, in particular, are in the very midst of this struggle, and, unfor- tunately, in both camps. Diaspora saw to that. Because we are scattered all over the world, in all lands, and because we naturally follow and adhere to the ancient dictum, The law of the land is they law, we are even engaged in fighting - brother against brother. The jew, at best, has found from age-long experience that even in peace, he can survive only in a democratic world where liberty, freedom, and tolerance are the rule. You, members of the 1960 graduating class, are spending your formulative years in the post-World War II period, in a world straining under the load of impending disaster. In a few brief years, you will be called upon to take over the reins of this unsettled world. You will be called upon to help resolve life- and-death problems. It is, therefore, incumbent upon you to make the most of the opportunities offered to you in collegiate life, so that, with the help of God, you will do a better job. You will assist in building a better world for jews in particular, and for humanity in general. Good luck to you. Norman B. Abrams, Registrar

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