Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 148 of the 1958 volume:

i ' v on the cench AnniV6K5AK5j Of clie SCACe Of ISRAEL Che cLass Of pResencs-. Yeshiva University Larry Friedlander, EDITOR ' wm i7As come w vsdvi aubAh - ' -- • ;.-• -J5 We declare that, with effect from the mo- ment of the termination of the Mandate, being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th lyar, 5708 ( 15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in ac- cordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October, 1948, the People ' s Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People ' s Ad- ministration, shall be the Provisional Govern- ment of the Jewish State, to be called Israel . This is the tenth year of the lion, the final year in the decade of thunder and promise. The first childhood of Israel is over, an era has ended. It is with mixed feelings that we view this new, unaccustomed maturity. Childhood is a won- derfully gay but equally dangerous period and a prayer should surely be offered in thanks now that Israel has emerged from it so magnificently triumphant. It would be an impertinence to assume that we could capture or report in any real way what has been happening in Israel in the pages of this book. It is only as a gesture of appreciation and pride that we, the students of Yeshiva, choose this anniversary as the, theme of our book: apprecia- tion and pride and the light touch of destiny on our shoulder. For Israel is the future, of our people, of our religion, of all that we believe in, and hope for. Mr. Daniel Block A man ' s courage is tested in many, ways: on the battlefield, in the stone wastes of the desert, in the loneliness of a man ' s soul. It took a fierce courage to battle the hungry sands of the Negev, and this menorah, erected with hasty pride, proclaims in silence a people ' s spirit. Ow.[ liCrW XmJL citLL lA djl j laJjL There is also a different order of courage, the kind that leads men to devote the promise of their lives to their fellow men. This is the teacher ' s courage, this is his battle and his triumph. This year, six en who possessed tnis order of courage have died. They were all men who v burned with hard brilliance, great scientists, scholars, financiers, and they gave of their brilliance with a lavish hand to the students of Yeshiva University. They have gone too soon; they had so much more to give, and we, we still lack so much. Yet, in a sense, these men have not truly left us. During their lives they granted us so much of their knowledge and wisdom, so much of their very being, that we possess them, irretrievably, within ourselves. We would be poor indeed could we not offer these men who have served us with such valor and love some monument. But it must not be of marble or brass, objects finished and dead. Rather, we the students must serve as their monument, for it is in us that these men shall live on. We must tend the seeds planted within us to insure an eternal re-birth in the face of death and a new flowering after the cruel winter. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE LAND MtMt After the years Dedication In Memoriam The Men Who Lead FACULTY Around the School Activities Clubs .-. Sports — Our Intellectual Life Literature Our Sabras Faces Of The People THE MEN VHO LEAD The year April 1958 to May 1959 — lyar 5718 to lyar 5719 in the Jewish calendar — will be a year of na- tional celebration in Israel, marking the completion of the first decade of Israel ' s restored independence. I invite all our friends to visit us in Israel during our tenth year of independence. Izhak Ben-Tsvi, President of Israel Our hearts are filled to overflowing with praise and thanksgiving to the Rock of Israel. But let us not delude ourselves that our work is finished. We are still at the beginning. The road stretching ahead is long and hard, and there are still many obstacles in our way . . . The sword is still girded round our loins; let us not boast as men who have taken it off. On our festive day let us review in joy and thanksgiving the mighty deeds of the past and let us resolve to apply ourselves with all our might and all our heart to the new efforts of the future. David Ben Gurion Today I have founded the Jewish State. Today many would laugh at these words, but in five years more — certainly in 50 years — everyone will understand this. 1897 Tlieodor Herd Behind me stood nothing. But eighty generations and thousands of years spoke out of my mouth. To that voice the world ' s hard and practical statesmen hearl ened. 1923 Dr. Cluiini Weizimmn A State is not created by a declaration. It is built day after day, by endless toil and tile labor of years, even of generations. 1948 ' DavitI Ben-Giirion FACULTY Every graduating class of Yeshiva College leaves our institution with the blessings of its teachers and the prayerful hope that it will meet the challenges of our age. At no prior period, however, were these expressions more applicable than today. You, who terminate your undergraduate education at Yeshiva College in the class of ' 58, enter the arena of adult life when the world is at the crossroads of its very existence. I am sure that you are readily aware that the acquisition of knowledge alone was not the overriding philosophy repre- sented at our University. For if mere know- ledge were sufficient to create a better life, then the tensions besetting the world today would have been long eliminated. Man, how- ever, requires insight, he needs understanding, he strives to find the purpose of life itself. Yeshiva College, through the fusion of the spiritual and moral teachings of the Torah with the understanding of our universe and the peoples among whom we live, has sought to provide you with an appreciation of your heritage, to give a spiritual purpose to the human knowledge which you acquire here. Rabbi Doctor Samuel Belkin, President of Yeshiva University As the future leaders of our community, you bear the fearful responsibility of representing the ideals of that community in the noblest light. It is now your obligation to translate the teach- ings of the Torah into the manifold experiences that await you. Use your knowledge to just end l fTsecrate your lives in the service of the Almighty and for the benefit of humanity; up- -WSld your faith and traditions with dignity and honor. I am confident that the inspiration derived at your alma mater will be treasured by you in all the years to come. May the Almighty grant you a dedicated life, a life of peace, of blessing and of sustenance. a-« - -wv XQ.Q- t: ' -. . Professor Morris Silverman, Regisfrar and Assistant Professor of History Rabbi David Mirsky, Assistant Registrar and Assistant Professor of Hebrew Social Sciences A moment in the sun, . . . the tangled shadows of a net, . . . two men fishing on a stony beach. Caught thus beneath the afternoon sky, they work in a simple harmony of movement, feeling the coarseness of raw hemp, the liquid heat of sun on bronzed flesh, the consciousness of each others presence. Here on the coast of Elat, one step of a universal dance, the dance of humanity, is being performed. The intricate patterns of that dance, however, reach out much further than this beach, than these people, — they spread to the narrow canyons of the city, to the mute world of a baby ' s eyes, to the saddened pomp of a funeral. There are men who have dedicated their lives to trace the patterns of this whirling, ceaseless dance, who have dedicated their minds to reveal order in chaos, to create eternal beauty out of a moment in the sun. If their ' s seems a hopeless task, let the greatness of their failure testify to the daring of their attempt, and let the extent of their success testify to the valiance of the human spirit. Dr. Nathan Goldberg, Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Alexander Brody, Professor of History and Economics Mr. Steven Jaffe, Visiling Assl. Librarian Dr. Alexander Litman, Professor of Philosophy Dr. Aaron Margolith, Prof, of Political Science t Dr. Sidney Pleskin, Assi. Prof, of Educatior] Dr. Abraham B. Hurwitz Professor of Physical Education •-ttC - Mr. Israel Young, Asst. Prof, of Guidance Mr. Solomon Zeides, Assistant Librarian 15 We are the people of the book. Ours is a heritage of countless centuries, an immeasurable heritage of learning and wisdom. We are peo- ple fixed in the intricate web of the past, creating new traditions from the silk still contained in our core. We are the silk spinners and the myth makers. And it is the book, the accumulated lore of ages, that guides and directs us. Therefore, when the impulse to speak throbs within and our lips are filled with song, when the words come out clear and hard with quiet, in- tense beauty, thdn we must be gladdened at the miracle of language and pay our small tribute to the men who have taught us to cherish it. : Dr. Herman Wouk, Visiting Prof, of English. Dr. Irving Linn, Prof, of English Rabbi Maurice Wohlgelernfer, Instructor in English Dr. David B. Flei sher, Prof, of English Mr. Seymour Lainoff, Instructor iruEnglish languages :ir U ftlAL«« kk- Dr. Ralph Rosenberg, Prof, of German Dr. Herbert S. Robinson, Visiting Professor of English Dr. Louis H. Feldman, Assf. Prof, of Classics Dr. Maurice Chernowitz, Associate Prof, of french Mr. Arthur Imerfi, Instructor in Speech Mr. Frank O ' Neill, Instructor Dr. Sidney Braun, Pro of French Dr. Adolf Anderson, Visifing Asst. Prof, of Chemisfry s L Ij Y 1 i A Dr. Eli M. Levine, Prof, of Chemisfry Dr. Samuel Soloveichik, Instructor in Chemisfry Dr. Moses L. Isaacs, Professor of Chemisfry Mrs. Charlette Spanier, Tufor in Chemisfry Mrs. Ida Dobkin, Tufor in Chemisfry Mr. Abraham Kasser, Chemistry Stockroom NATURAl Mr. Perez Posen, Instructor in Physics Dr. Bruno Z. Kisch, Prof, of Philosophy and fiislory of Science Dr. Shelly R. Saphire, Prof, of Biology Dr. Eli Sar, Instrucior of Hyg ene Mr. Jonah Mann, Insirucior in Mafhematics SCIENCES Dr. Arnold Lowan, At a time when great technical competence in dealing with new sources of energy has been achieved, there exists a danger that the underlying and supporting theoretical knowledge will be lost. That system of education which involves deep study of basic principles and a concentration on basic concepts and problems remains our only, assurance that such will not be the case, that there will be significant progress in scientific thought. Moreover, our faculty at Yeshiva, be- cause of their awareness and understanding of the religious person- ality, can supply a subtle perspective of the spirit to the cruder out- lines of such thought, and transform what might have been a technical exercise into a human art. Dr. Meyer Atlas, Prof, of Biology 19 Dr. Henry Lisman, Assoc. Prof, of Mathematics Studies Dr. Moshe Reguer, Insirucior in Bible Rabbi Asher Siev, Instructor in Bible and Hebrew The haunting sounds of these long, twisting shofrot echo in the Judean hills in a solemn salute on Independence Day. The faces of the men standing on these hills are subtly alike, yet strangely different. The bearded Yemenite, the dark-eyed Morrocan, the uniformed European, these faces, these men should all stand out, framed against the sky in their uncompromising individuality, yet they remain fused, somehow, in one image: an Israeli mosaic. A great experiment is being attempted in Israel: the flint-like cast- offs of the world ' s cultures are being forged in the fires of a new idealism, in the hope of producing a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. There is great promise and great danger in this experiment: the promise is of a new spirit and vitality which will set ablaze the cooling embers of Jewish thought; the danger is of a neglect of the wisdom and the traditions of the past. Without roots we cannot grow; without a respected past we can have no significant future. Study of our heritage and of those things we hold as holy will provide us with the knowledge, the confidence and the faith needed to advance into our destiny. Rabbi Harry W ohlberg, Asst. Prof, of Bible Dr. Samuel L. Sar, Deon of Men and Prof, of Bible Rabbi Michael Katz Insirucfor in Bible Dr. Sidney B. Hoenig, Professor of Jewish History Dr. Irving A. Agus, , Prof, of Jewish Hisfory Dr. Hymen B. Grinstein, Prof, of Jewisfi Hisfory Dr. Gershon Churgin, Professor of Hebrew Dr. Milton Arfo, Assisiar)t Prof, of Hebrew Dr. Leo Jung, Prof, of Ethics Mrs. Kamiat, College Office Mrs. Epstein, Co ege Office Mrs. Fischel, Co ege Office The Powers behind the throne. Mrs. Stein, Office of Assisianf Dean Mrs. Shapiro, Student ActivHies and Guidance Office 22 WsM ' ' this is the SENIOR . . . a creature of many moods SOPHISTIC 24 he can be gay . . . s ift for in spite of 4 years life is still difficult 26 27 for the important things and FRIENDS and a quiet moment by the river Though he is leaving 30 the half-empty lounge the help the hole in the 4th floor ceiling and the ne crop of students . . . NO [pARKmei will remain when he is long gone. 32 OUR ACTIVITIES And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say; This land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden. Ezekiel ch. 36, verses 34-35 The Hirsch-Snyder Registar Corporation talking over busi- ness problems (Sophomore play). The Dci n and Mrs. Guterman arrive, in spite of the snow. Big Ben Turner sheds rabbinical guise to reveal true colors (Junior play). r Dean ' s The Sophomore Cast engages in that de- lightful pastime: applauding themselves for a fine performance. • l The discovery of an important relic sets off a hot feud between the Messiah and a latter-day Julius Ceasar (Sophomore play). Tunneling their way through the deep snow, 400 people attended Yeshiva ' s social event of the year — The Dean ' s Re- ception, at the Joan of Arc High School. The tradition of presenting class plays was continued for its third successive year and second snowstorm. The class of ' 60 started the evening with their play. Pleasure Island, written and acted by half of that class. Any resemblance of the em- ployees of the Book of Knowledge Co. (Murky, Brainoff, Fleld- mous, etc.) to living characters was purely coincidental. 36 Blacky (Jules Rosenbcri;) and Whilcy Snow (Eli Berlingcr) battle for control of the Ballaiiim. But all ' s well that ends well (Junior play). Reception Counsels for the defense. Matisyahu Weisenberg and Mandell Ganchrow, watch prosecutor Jeremiah Wohlberg deliver his summation (Senior play). The Senior class play, Human Errors All, written by Simon Gluck and Ephraim Zimand, was a courtroom drama dealing with the execution of an innocent man during the Israeli-Arab war on charge of treason. The play was written in conjunction with the theme of Masinid. When the snowstorm prevented Joseph Chervin ' s appearance as prosecutor, Mendy Ganchrow showed an excellent command of that role as the substitute. Other outstanding performances were given by Abe Shapiro as defendant Col. Rosen, Larry Friedlander as witness Richard Reynolds-Walker, and Jerry Wohlberg as a defense attorney. Herman Stone directed. The play that won the Simeon Giiierman Award was Eli Berlinger ' s, Whitey Snow and the Seven Sages. This is the sec- ond successive year that the ' 59 class has received that coveted award. Even though Whitey Snow was snowed-out, the junior class ably presented their plea for a society of Batlans as author Ber- linger substituted. Irv Goldsmith demonstrated his talmudic sagacity when he discussed the complicated story of the goose and the . . . donkey. 37 JEREMIAH WOHLBERG, Presidenf It is difficult to review a year as complicated in its details and as far-reaching in its results as this one has been. The vantage point of a president is a peculiar one: it is at once more intimate and more confused than the ordinary student ' s for he is so close he sometimes mistakes the forest for the trees. Therefore, in spite of personal disappointment, I think much has been achieved. Most important, I think this year has seen a significant breakthrough in student-administration relations, our most perennial problem. The fore- most indication of this move forward is the revamping of the faculty-student relations committee which allows, for the first time in our history, a real student participation and effective channels for mutual understanding. Stu- dents have now been granted equal voting power and a chance to chair the meetings. The Fleisher committee has recently endorsed and submitted for approval a new and broad program which outlines a basic philosophy of student duties and privileges. I was extremely pleased with their findings which tended to allow our government freer movement of activity and thougfit than we have recently known. I hope for the eventual good of the entire school that the administra- tion receives it with the enthusiasm it deserves. The alumni organization has come to realize this year the absolute necessity for close contact with the students and the need to establish some real and permanent basis of mutual cooperation. Let them only remember that what we need so very badly are not luncheons but guidance programs, not talks but understanding. Our relations with the administration could have been, to speak gently, more amicable. I hope that, if a new philosophy of student government will be adopted, the administration ' s attitudes will change accordingly. If they do not, then future friction is inevitable and the greatest loser will be, not the student government per se, but the school as a whole. This year has been a time of transition; the future is uncertain. I can only hope that it turns out to be all that it can be. Jeremiah Wohlberg ALAN M. GREENSPAN, Vice-President ROBERT HIRT, Secrefory-Treosurer 38 CLASS OFFICERS Presidents, 1 si row: Freshmen, Joel Meyers; Sophomores, Benjamin Hirsch; Juniors, Mordecai Gersiein; Seniors; Sidney Kwesfel. Vice-Presidenfs, 2nd row: Freshmen, Joseph D. Lifschifz; Sophomores, Sfeven Riskin; Juniors, Abraham Mann (missing); Seniors, Tsvi Nussbaum. Representatives, 3rd row: Freshmen, Harris Guedalia; Sophomores, Robert Schectman; Juniors, Jacl Prince; Seniors, Herbert A. Friedman. Moses Berlin makes a point at a meeting. 2:30 A.M. — and it ' s all over. 39 The beginning of the school year saw the Co- op stores experiment with a new checkout system which was fortunately soon checked out. Like prisioners, the customers were required to march in through one door and file out past the cash register eagerly awaiting them at the other door. The only consolation prizes for this embarrassing feat were the large paper bags accompanying every purchase — no matter how small. The Co-op managers - Charles Patt ' 58 and Izzy Bick ' 59 — soon gave up their file and bag notions and, instead, settled down to the actual task of man- agement. The first warning sign of this change came as a huge caveat, emptor poster was placed at the now-one entrance to the store. Fortunately, Mr. Patt was unable to read this new sign — for he had not studied the classical languages — and it was pos- sible to do business with him . . . and beat him. Through the efforts of Mr. Bick, the Co-op ' s hi-fi set was sold and the money was invested in stamps. Surprisingly enough, there was a record sale of music discs as many a customer exchanged the shirt on his back for the latest Rock-and-Roll Modziter record. This led the manager to expand the store by selling shirts, shoes, socks, hats, and fin- ally, even pants. Deciding to sell absolutely necessary articles as well, the Co-op is now stocked with pillows bearing the Y. U. emblem, Y. U. ashtrays for mooched cigarettes, and dogs with Y. U. collars advertised as Chanuka presents for the Rebbi. Co-op managers, Charles Patt and Israel Bick The dominant policy of the Co-op has been to imitate the philosophy of Yeshiva . . . expansion and more expansion. The result is that the Co-op has never been so well stocked, and it will probably take years before the merchandise will be disposed of. One positive aspect to be encouraged is the silent contract between the students and the Co-op requiring that the textbooks should not be ready at the start of the term. This is beneficial to all since it means a vacation for the teachers, the students, and — of course — the Co-op! Co-op Staff: 1st row, Judah Landau, Israel Bick, Myron Thurm. 2nd roy , Eliezer Kirshblum, Edward Rosen- Charles Patt, Matisyah Weisenberg, Baruch Rapaport, baum, Herman Stone, Daniel Rich. There must be a way I can get some of this money! V1 .Rabbi Kolbach s.ngs • Student activities ranged far and wide this year, but, in spite of our strenuous efforts, the school still stands. One lark of a somewhat serious nature was the G.R.E. (General Rioting against Exams) which went off with a bang, with several bangs in fact. The traditional chagigas were held and the tra- ditional spirit was maintained, as the students sang, danced, and talked with their visitors. ,nd Mr. Nussbaun eats. FJ.A.i. Basfille Day, July Ufb ' ijf- ' I ' -MHHS SSrI S OUR CLUBS clubs The major obstacle facing the club program this year was an excess of clubs and a limited amount of Thursdays. For example, at least six Thursdays of the fall term were unavailable for club meetings on account of holidays. This situation resulted in times such as Thurs- day, November 14th, 1957, when, in one afternoon, the Sociology Society, The Biology Society and the IRS invited noted speakers to address the members of their clubs, while the Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics Societies presented a highly interest- ing film. The students, viewing this chaos, reacted in two different ways: Some, though anxious to participate, couldn ' t decide which club to attend — and, therefore, attended none; the others wouldn ' t attend a club anyway. Even Rabbi Lessin ' s mussar club, meeting in the Holy of Holies on the second floor, lacked its usual attendance; the minyan problem had finally reached the Mashgiach ' s office. SOCIOLOGY ClUB seated: S ' imcha Cluck; B back row: Samuel Fro Chaint Najman; Meyei Marshall Weinlroob. ernard Silv nk; Morloi ■ Berg as; erslein; Joel Dor n Minc ienberg; Morton Rosenbi Mi ?rg; Jer, cha Lo ' Y Woh bergj Oppenbeim; uis Raymon; TALENT CLUB aled: David Winter; Micha Oppenheim; William Klein; Jay Friedman ick row: Joseph Lilschitz; Edward Rosenbaum; Meyer Berglas; Ben o in Turner, president; Jerry Wohlberg; Abe Shapiro; Joseph Deitcher CHESS CLUB seo ed: David Winter; Edward Rosenbaum; Abe Shapiro: back row: Tsvi Nussboum; Mathyohu Weisertberg: Jay Friedman; Joshua Corfter. LITERARY SOCIETY seafed: Benjantiit Hirsch, vice president; tarry Friedlartder, pr ident. stonding: Herman Mike Frank; Benjamin Richler. Of the clubs which were able to accomplish something, the LITERARY SOCIETY is surely out- standing. At least it talked more than any other club. The ostensible function of this long-haired society is to disseminate the higher influence of literature. This task was well performed by its mem- bers, as they disseminated the seeds of knowledge over broad but thinly populated areas of students. Its real function is to give the members a chance to shoot the breeze about the sundry and the silly. Discussions, vociferous and prolonged, were held on the problems of realism in fiction, on the effect of pocket books on the general morals, and on the need for the Literary Society. Surprisingly enough, the society stopped talking long enough to listen to records, Shaw ' s Don Juan in Hell in particular — a fitting play for our in- stitution. At this meeting it was decided, after due deliberation, that Charles Boyer should learn how to speak English correctly, that Charles Laughton was a poor devil, and that Shaw should be placed on the Dean ' s subversive list. The members of the Lit- erary Society have since been placed high on that same list. The SOCIOLOGY SOCIETY was rocked by political conflict: Bernard Silverstein ' 58, in a bitter civil war, contested the votes that had elected Simon Gluck ' 58 to the presidency. A compromise was soon arrived at whereby these two became the sole mem- bers of a Presidium. The only person duly elected without politics or conflicts was the secretary- treasurer, Joel Daner ' 60. The first meeting was well attended as eager Yeshiva boys came to listen to, or to look at — Miss Frieda Mowshowitz and Miss Martha Lewis, both of the New York City Youth Board, who dis- cussed. Horizons in Social Work. At another meet- ing, the Sociology Society broke all attendance records when over one hundred students flocked to a meeting to be informed by the Reverend W. A. Matthews, chief rabbi of the Hebrew-Ethiopian Congregation of America, that we are all of negroid blood, that ducks are not kosher because of their split toes, and that there are one hundred thousand Black Jews in America. Our own Assistant Dean, Rabbi M. Tendler, lectured on The Jewish Concep- tion of Marriage. However, he spoke mostly on contraception, which was, no doubt, his pre- rogative. Under the leadership of the Sociology Society ' s faculty advisor. Prof. N. Goldberg, the members of the urban sociology class gave up their Election Day vacation to visit the model, planned city of Radburne. It was discovered, however that Radburne was neither a model, nor planned, nor a city. The Sociology Society also exhibited a display of pictures, articles, and reports on the Negro Jews. The modest members of the old Hobby Club finally changed the name of their conclave to the TALENT CLUB. Reasons for this change were not PSYCHOLOGY CLUB AND PSI CHI sealed: Matisyohu Weisenberg, vice president of Psi Chi; Edward Berger, president of Psi Chi and Psychology Club; Jerome Wolicki, vice president of Psychology Club, middle row: Henry Boot; Abe Siege mon; Sheldon Hirsch; Charles Pott; Joshua Gorl er. bocic row: Tsvi Mossboum; Benjamin Hirsch; Avery Harris: Abner Groff; David Winter. YOUNG DEMOCRATS Speolring Mandell Canchrow, president; front seated: Nathan Meiselman; Beniamin Hirsch; Saul Gronchrow; Alfred Chaikin; Oscar Kranz; David Rolhner; back row: Jerry Wohlberg; Benia- min Turner; Elliatt Ginsberg; Allan Greenspan. given, but it is suspected that the earlier name sounded too much like the Hobo Club. The Pelvis Pretzley of Yeshiva, Benjamin J. Turner ' 59, gyrated himself to the position of presi- dent, using his guitar as a new advertising medium. Still pulling rabbits out of professors ' skull caps, Doc Greenspan, ' 58 amused his club and class with his prestidigitarian feats. Due to the clubs increasing search for talent, Yeshiva has been privileged to hear the newest answer to Gene Krupa. His name is Allan Mandell ' 61, whose drumming has been perfected through 46 years of practice on wastepaper baskets and desk- tops. He is accompanied by the gypsy strings of Gerard Marx and his violin. Daniel Sklar, by the excellence of his imitations of various administrators at Yeshiva, has gained the position of No. 1 panto- mimist of the talent troupe. Doc Hurwitz, an expert magician on his own, is the club ' s advisor and arranged, during the year, club performances in hospitals, Jewish centers, and women ' s organizations throughout the country. Triumphantly regaining a position lost some three years ago, Louis Taubenblat ' 58, assumed the presidency of the CHESS CLUB. Charlie Patt ' 58, mathematical wizard, won his way to the vice-presi- dency. Jack Finkelstein, the club ' s secretary, has ' CHEMISTRY CLUB front seale d: Mordecai Koeni igsberg. vice pre. sident; Herbert Fi ■ledmar I, president ; Norm, an Zobr. owsky, secretary; r niddle row; Tsvi Ni jssbaum; William Klein; Alien Schu Iman: Joseph RHk ind; No Itali Frie dman. back row: Norm in Ruttner; Murray Laulicht; Paul Uebfrman; Judah Landau; H, srman Stone; Ab raham been following Mr. Patt ' s every move, hoping to grasp his coveted knowledge (Patt plays chess with the aid of laws of probability), as well as Mr. Tau- benblat ' s position, by next year. The highlight on the team ' s agenda was the visit of the International Grand Master, Samuel Reshevsky, on March H . He participated in a simul- taneous exhibition in which 30 players took part . . . and were soundly beaten. The match was made pos- sible through the American Chess Foundation. Mr. Reshevsky was presented with a list of schools by the foundation and he selected Yeshiva College as 47 the school he would like most to beat. The PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, as well as its more selective Indian club (ooh, that hurt!), PSI- CHI, was headed by Edward Berger ' 58. The time- worn proposal that all its members submit to a series of psychological tests was again rejected. This, of course, shifted responsibility to our hibernating Guidance Department which lies safely in the base- ment under the protection of the brawny Athletic Office. The highlight of the year, for both the clubs, was a discussion led by Mr. Nelson Storch, a doctoral candidate at Y.U., on the Applications of Hypnosis in Psychology. By the end of this discussion, Mr. Storch, discovering a few students in a hypnotic sleep, proceeded to demonstrate that the hand could be made insensitive to fire by holding a lit match to his fingers. This new form of hot-foot was applauded by the audience, and the Talent Club re- quested Mr. Storch ' s address. With all the objectors in hypnotic sleep, it was quite simple to elect Matisyahu Weisenberg, ' 58, vice-president, and Israel Perlmutter, secretary- treasurer of Psi-Chi. Its avowed aim being to keep the student body well informed in the various fields of medicine and medical education, the PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY, under the leadership of Joseph Singer ' 58, president, and William P. Klein ' 58, vice-president, invited many speakers to address the future pill-pushers. PHYSICS ClUB Lecturing: Professor towon; sealed: Louis Roymon; Joshua Schu- chalowilz; Edward Rosenbaum; Nallali Friedman Paul Liberman: Jack Prince: back row: Michael Creenbaum,- Larry Greenfield: Meyer Berg os; Jack Safra; Morris Kalz; Judah Levine; Millon Pine. The society concerned itself with the same problems plaguing the pre-med student in Yeshiva . . . how to get accepted into medical school. Its first meeting had the advisor, Dr. Shelly Saphire, discuss the problems involved in applying to these schools. Using the facilities of our sister school (can that be the right term?), the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Pre-Med Society invited Dr. Abraham White, associate dean of the college, to lead an informal discussion on the unique education in the first medical college under Jewish auspices. Similarly, Dr. Lester Schwartz, instructor of psychiatry at the medical school and director of the In-Patient Depart- ment of the Bronx Municipal Hospital, was invited to discuss the various aspects of psychiatric treat- ment. Those students who were impressed by such sonorous terms as dementia praecox, triskaideka phobia and megalomania decided to abandon the society in favor of the Psychology Club. Those students who expected a sales talk on Lilly cups at the second meeting of the society were instead surprised with a film on the activities of the Lilly Pharmaceutical Company. The conscientious work of its president, Herbert Friedman ' 58, has been instrumental in bringing about the improvements in the CHEMISTRY SOCIETY this past year. The level of lectures, talks, and films was lowered enough to make them inter- esting and understandable even to those students who major in chemistry. BIOLOGY SOCIETY seafed: Abraham Finkel, secretary; Sandy Kalz, president; Gerald Friederwilzer; back row: She don Hirsch; Samuel Kaye; Raphael Levine; William Klein; Samuel Rosenthal; Robert Klein; Sholom Landsman. Another scientific club was the BIOLOGY SOCIETY, led by wrestler Killer Katz. The club was more successful than its leader has been on the wrestling mat, especially with the help given by Abe Finkel ' 59, the secretary-treasurer. A large number of students attended a lecture by Dr. Eli Goldsmith, Coordinator of Research at N. Y. U. Dr. Goldsmith spoke of the advances that have been made in the field of research, and was hopeful that some students at Yeshiva might put to use their Talmudic acumen in developing this field. Another interesting meeting took place when the club presented a film on the efficiency of anti- bodies. The first meeting, however, was devoted to the goddess, Tachlis, as Dr. Levine discussed the various opportunities in chemistry. At a later meeting Dr. Seymour Lewin of New York University spoke on Chemical Instrumentation, attempting to prove that instruments can take the place of professors. Stirred by patriotic fervor and an understand- able desire for fame, the club is seeking to join a national chemistry fraternity and receive accredita- tion by the American Chemical Society. Led by governor Mendy Ganchrow ' 58, the AFFILIATED YOUNG DEMOCRATS were easily as successful in their program as was Adlai Steven- son in the presidential election. Like Platonic Amen sayers (Dr. Litman take note), the Young Dems passed a resolution, in an election-meeting, calling for a yes vote on the six amendments listed on the ballot. Another yes was proposed in connection with the question of a con- stitutional convention. Unfortunately, the state was not impressed and the prophetic powers of the PRE MED SOCIETY dilated- Samuel Rosenthal; William Klein, vice president; Joseph Singer, presi- dent; Samuel Kaye. middle row: Raphael tevine; Keifh Harvey: Lester Pollock; Joel Meyers; Joel Kaplan; Malhan Meiselman; Mendy Ganchrow; Jacob Nus- faacher. back row: Ralph Carmel; Alan Bronstein; Alfred Chaikin; Herman Stone; Oscar Kranz. MATH CLUB seofed: Marshall Weintraub; Edward Rosenbaum; Charles Pall, president. Jack Prince, vice presidenl; Jo. ' hua Schuchafowitz; Richord Barfh; bocit Jerry Blan; Milton Pine; Meyer Berglas; Gerald Frankel; Harvey Senler, Louis Raymon; Michael Greenbaum; Marvin Wiener. 50 Young Dems were severely questioned. The high- light of the year was the loudest Amen of all: a resolution lauding Governor A. Harriman. It is believed that Sidney Kwestel ' 58, the vice-president of the club, was instrumental in formulating the policies of the club, basing them on the many phil- osophy courses Mr. Kwestel has attended. That such a club as the Young Dems exists at Yeshiva was revealed at a pre-election assembly, when Mr. Ganchrow invited Mrs. Anna Cross to address his club. P. S. She never did. Moving from the humanities to the sciences, we come to Dr. Arnold N. Lowan ' s PHYSICS CLUB. This club has only recently reappeared, after an absence of quite a few years. If things had turned out differently, we might have stated that the club was better left unrevived. However, its extraordinary achievements deprive us of this opportunity. During the first term, the club was effective even though it did not elect any formal officers ... a peculiar contrast to Yeshiva. In con- junction with the Chemistry Society, the club pre- sented the televised movie The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, a Disney-like film dealing with the building blocks of matter. A number of discussions were led by Dr. Lowan on the significance of Einstein ' s transformation equation E=mc% on the implication of the cosmic rays, and on other selected topics which only Prof. Lowan fully understood. To bring the talks down to the level of the mem- bers ' understanding, the Physics Club invited a speaker from the U. S. Civil Service to discuss the opportunities in government work. Most students INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SOCIETY sealed David Winfer; Mkha Oppen ieim; Jay Friedman, presiden Gluck, secretary and treasurer; bacfc row: Allan Greenspan; Meye Murray Laulicht; Tsvi Ingber. PRE-LAW SOCIETY Lecturing: Jerry Wholberg; seated: Bernard Sllverslein; Abe Shapiri Friedman: Simcha Cluck; back row: Allan Greenspan: Ben amin 1 Edward Rosenbaum; Joseph Lilschitz; Murray Laulicht; EltioH Ginsberg. 51 CHUG LURI seated: Mattsyohu Weisenberg, vice pre president; Gerald Blidstein, secretary; Yaged; Joshua Gortler; Naftali Friedma Winter; Jerry Biau; back row: Abe Shapi Jay Friedman. ident; Robert Klein middle row: Mosh ; Tsvi Klein; Davi o; Albert Hornblass were convinced that the only work possible with a federal agency — based on the education acquired at Yeshiva — would be a job as a private in the U. S. Army. Some members doubted even that. A companion group to the Physics Club is our MATH CLUB. It is headed by Charles Patt ' 59, whose incredibly swift computations at Co-op ' s cash register have brought him great renown. In recognition of the eminent position occupied by the Department of Mathematics of Yeshiva Uni- versity throughout the world — (even the public relations posters say so) — the club devoted this year to the technical problems of requirements, condi- tions for Sabbath observers, and desirable courses in graduate schools. This was accomplished by in- viting former Yeshiva students, now in graduate schools, to address the club. These speakers pointed to a wide gap between the mathematics education acquired in college and the more difficult work to be done in graduate school. These speakers also proclaimed that there are many schools whose depart- ments are worse than Yeshiva ' s. In line with almost evejy other club, speakers from the New York State and Civil Service Com- missions were invited to sell their wares to the prac- tical-minded mathematics students. It seems that only Charlie Patt, with his job as Co-op manager, is in a fairly secure position. PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB seated: Howard Goldberg; Morris Sapersiein, president; Leonard Berlinsky; back row: Steven Nison; Witliam Kanforowifz; Allan Renkaff; Aaron Segal. FRENCH CLUB AND PI DELTA PHI Herman Klein; William Klein, secretary and treasurer; Joseph Deitcher, president; Leonard Shapiro, vice president; Max Lew; David Winter. MUSIC APPRECIATION CLUB seated: Williom Go ub; Mike Frank, president; San Ben ami ' n Rkhler; Benjamin Hirsch; H Allen Greenspan. I Kaye; back row Stone; Allan Bronstein The INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SO- CIETY decided to remain national by stressing the advances made by the Negroes in the United States. The Little Rock crisis stimulated some of the dis- cussions led by the club ' s recently married president, Jay Friedman ' 58. Other officers of the club were Bernard Silverstein ' 58, vice-president, and Simon Gluck ' 58, secretary-treasurer. The club ' s main attraction was a speaker from the N.A.A.C.P. who was very optimistic about the future of the American Negro. The sounds of music reverberating through the halls of the college floor were no longer heard after the Co-op sold its hi-fi set. In order to fill this void, The MUSIC APPRECIATION CLUB made an all- out effort to keep music alive, at least on Thursday afternoons from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. The members of this club let down their long hair to listen to operas, concertos and sonatas. To attract the crew-cutted Yeshiva student, the club varied its program by introducing rock ' n roll, jazz and folk music. Even the long-haired college secre- taries became interested in this club. An experiment performed a few years ago has become an established institution of the club. The Musiquiz is welcomed by the students as an addi- tional source of income. Another intellectual society is the Latin-Greek ETA SIGMA PHI, ably led by Saul J. Berman ' 59 and Israel Bick ' 59. 53 ART CLUB y Kloner, president; Will ' ia Larry Friedtande: Colub; Allan Greenspan. The Gamma Delta chapter of the Sigma Phi, national honorary classical society, presented its members with various lectures synthesizing the classical and Jewish subjects. Israel Perlmutter ' 58, for example, discussed the Books of the Apocrypha to an audience of students still unfamiliar with the Bible. On another occasion, Doctor Louis H. Feld- man, the club ' s advisor, taking time off from reading assignments to his students, addressed the club on The Greek and Jewish Ethics. It was unanimously agreed at this meeting that Doctor Feldman ' s long reading assignments and difficult tests were definitely unethical — from the Jewish as well as the Greek point of view. An interesting discussion took place when Pro- fessor Konrad Gries of Queens College spoke on the topic Why Latin? Inspired by the words of Pro- fessor Gries, the Eta Sigma Phi sponsored a contest in the Yeshiva High Schools in order to encourage the students to continue the study of Latin. The FRENCH CLUB and the PHI DELTA PHI, with the active help of Dr. Sidney Braun, faculty advisor, had an interesting and profitable year. The Raconter, the only foreign-language paper in the school, was once again published and plans are well under way for another issue of the prize- winning Flambeau, the French scholarly magazine. Under the leadership of Joseph Deitcher, presi- dent of the French club, and Jay Braverman, presi- dent of Phi Delta Phi, many meetings were held of general French interest, and eminent men were in- vited to speak on French literature. Sessions in French conversation were held, giving the boys a chance for practical experience in the language. 54 OUR SPORTS If - ' ,-n« i fc ... In the summer of 1955. Norman Palefski. class of ' 58 died in a tragic automobile accident. Because Norman was one of the most promising young athletes this school has seen, we wish to dedicate the sports section of this magazine to his memory. Because he was also, above and beyond his athletic prowess, an impressive human being, we will always treasure that same memory. Norman achieved in a brief time, with almost effort- less ease, that fusion of strength and easy brilliance which remains the highest goal of human life. He will remain an inspiration to all those who knew him. Even basketball stars must study FENCING Hey, we ' re winnin :C I L •1 11 T- I 1 ' I I • J I i_zr 1 , I . i „.i j: I I I I nzr 1. ' I 1 T 7 rnrn Getting to the heart of the matter ■J ■ m ' r -.7 y i Q V ( 1 ' ( .:i ' T.?r ' :- T ' im ' : hAr. Bernord Sarachek Basketball Coach The 1957-58 sports year came in like a lamb and stayed that way for most of the season. A great deal of reorganization went on, with the teams, crip- pled by the departure of experienced members, care- fully laying the foundations for future and, we hope, sucessful seasons. This was especially true of our basketball squad, which was considerably weakened by the absence of such players as: Irwin Blumenreich, Mr. Basket- ball ; Al Heifer; Herbert Schlussel. Coach Bernard Sarachek, celebrating his thirteenth year at Yeshiva, was almost literally forced to start from scratch. Con- sidering the youth of the team, the record for the year is quite good. All regretted, however, that Red ' s bar-mitzvah season could not have been more uniformly successful. The wrestling team, hardly emerged from the diaper period (this was their second year in inter- collegiate competition), was still wrestling with a difficult problem: finding enough good men to put up an effective showing. The team, hampered by numerous injuries and insufficient time to really get into shape (a problem facing all our teams), was unable to win a match. The team, however, remains one of the most popular and colorful attractions on the Y.U. sport ' s scene, and the hopes for next year, with the able Hank Wittenberg in charge, are high. The Greeks may win out, someday. Thanks are due to the Lord for our fencing team, and for having supplied us with the services of that mentor par excellence, Arthur Tauber. Though there have been whispers in the corridors that it is monotonous to win so continuously, we are regis- tering no complaints. The Y.U. swordsmen swept through a victorious season, and the prospects for fair weather for the next few years, at least, seem assured. This magazine goes to press before the tennis season, unfortunately, has progressed far in any di- rection. It is clear, however, that coach Eli Epstein has lost some of his most experienced players via the graduation route and must begin to develop some new netmen to fill their place. Chances for a good season seem fairly bright, with a few hard-hitting seniors leading the team. Sport seasons seem to run in cycles, and if last year was the culmination of one such cycle, this season seems to have been the beginning of a new one. Nothing very flashy happened, there were no Madison Square Garden ' s, but a lot of constructive ground work was laid for the future. There is prom- ising young material in almost every team, always a healthy situation, and we can surely look forward to seasons which shall roar like a lion from beginning to end. 58 wHL sByJ 59 Coa ch Bernie Sarachek, beginning his bar- mitzvah season, found himself with a basket- ball team that lacked a seasoned big man with rebounding ability. His problem was com- pounded by the loss of Red Blumenreich, Herb Schlussel, and Al Helfa from last year ' s team. In the first two games of the season, the in- experienced squad faced its two toughest opponents of the season: St. Francis and Army. The mites fell by the scores 85-67 and 98-67, respectively. The team finally broke into the win column with a resounding 72-63 victory over favored L. I. U. One of the most controversial and exciting games of the season was the Kings College con- test. Apparently feeling that they wanted their opponents to have a fair chance, the mites decided to play the last few moments with only three men (the rest had fouled out). But Kings wasn ' t that bad and they managed to beat us by one point, 81-80. Faced with the possibility of a disastrous record, the mighty mites stormed back to win 4 consecutive games before finally bowing to Brooklyn in the season ' s final, 91-79. The team ' s record for the season was 9-13. The team was led by Irv Bader, 6 ' 1 for- ward, who sank 364 points for a 17.3 average. Following close on his heels was Sandy Ader with 362 points and a 17.2 average. He also was the team ' s leading rebounder, with a total of 208 or 9.9 per game. The rookie of the year was Nissim Wernick. The former Y.U.H.S. star talHed 199 points and garnered 167 rebounds. His 20 rebounds against Kings was high for the season. Bill Goldstein, third leading scorer, was a solid, consistent ballplayer throughout the season. With the whole team returning next year ex- cept for Captain Ira Steinmetz, the chances for a winning season are fairly brighter. Fronf— Coach Bernie Sarachek, Irving Bader, Ira Steinmetz, Herbert Grossman, Louis Korngold, Steve Jacobs, Manager. Rear— Stuart Badian, Gary Baum, Gary Sarinsky, Sanford Ader, Nissim Wernick. 61 FENCING The school ' s most consistent winning team, the fencing squad, swept through an impressive season. Coach Arthur Tauber had lost 10 seniors via the ' gradu- ation route. He only had 3 seniors returning, Lenny the redhead Shapiro, Captain Jack Chinitz, and Doc Green- span. The rest of the team consisted of juniors and sopho- mores. In fact, all three saber squad members were sopho- mores. But the team responded to their coach ' s tutelage and moved through their first 3 matches with comparative ease. They suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of Columbia by a score of 20-7. There was no stigma attached to this defeat; Columbia later went on to win the Eastern championship. The team snapped back to win their next four before being upset by Pace College, 12-15. The most exciting match of the season was played against Drew College. After 26 bouts, the score was tied 13 to 13. Up stepped the hero of the evening, Lenny Shapiro, for the final match. With easy skill he vanquished his Drew opponent 5-2, and gave Yeshiva a narrow 14-13 margin. The team, ended the season with an impressive 9-2 record. Notice that form! Yeshiva fencers show their form during a practice session in the gym. 64 r f ' f f € Front Row, L. to R.: Alan Greenspan, Jack Chinitz and Leonard Shapiro. Back Row, L. to R.: Abraham Aronson, Jack Nussbacher, Raphael Levine, Kenneth Klein, Jules Rosenberg, Jay Dykeman, Joel Goldberg, Jack Finkelstein, Aaron Liebowitz. FENCING TEAM ' S RECORD FOR YEAR OPPONENT YESHIVA Adelphi 10 17 Queens College 8 16 St. Peter ' s 12 15 Columbia 20 7 Drew 13 14 Fairleigh Dickin son 11 16 Brooklyn 12 15 Brooklyn Poly 12 15 Pace 15 12 Rutgers 12 15 Cooper Union 12 15 RECORD 9-2 They don ' t like you. All Faced with repeated injuries and an inexperienced squad, the wrestUng team was unable to win a single match. At the beginning of the year, the new coach, Hank Wittenberg, former U. S. Olympic champion, thought the team would-be able to hold its own in many matches. And it is true, the team was never shut out — even against such top teams as N. Y. U., Albany State Teacher ' s College, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Acad- emy. However, the team ' s inexperience was unfor- tunately evident. In the next-to-the-last match of the season ( against Rutgers of Newark), the team put forth its best show- ing — although they bowed 28-10. Mel Lehman ' 60, who had just recovered from a dislocated shoulder, pinned his man in the second period. In the heavy- weight division. Benny Hirsh ' 60, using his weight judiciously, bowled over his opponent, pinning him in the first period. Captain Jonas Prager ' 59, who has two pins to his credit, Mel Caplan ' 59, Eddie Rosenbaum ' 60, Harvey Rosin ' 58, and Marvin Weiner ' 60, were other out- standing members of the team. V RESTLING WRESTLING RECORD- -(66-67) OPPONENT YESHIVA 1 Albany State 33 5 C. W. Post 35 5 N. Y. U. 36 Long Island A. and T. 37 2 U. S. Merchant Marine 38 Columbia 35 5 Rutgers 28 10 Orange County 27 3 r 66 TENNIS RECORD OF TENNIS TEAM (Incomplete) OPPONENT New York Maritime 8 Webb College 2 L. 1. U. 2 YESHIVA 1 3 7 The Y.U. tennis team, ably coached by Mr. Eli Epstein, and led by Jerry Quint, seems destined for an unusually good season. Although this magazine goes to press too early to report tennis news, informed opinion seems to point to a resurgence of the team ' s strength, with the help of a first squad armed with experience, and with a very promising group of newcomers. We centainly hope so. 67 RECORD OF CHESS i TEAM (Incomplete) OPPONENT YESHIVA St. Peter ' s of N. S. 8 St. Peter ' s of N. S. l ' 2 41 2 Fordham University 3 ' 2 l ' 2 Cooper Union 2 3 Newark Coll. of Eng. 2 3 ■ir ' Total Record: 4 victories, 7 defeai You do not have to be tall, fall into a specific weight class, or be able to press 150 pounds to play chess. The only require- ment is an ability to think. This year, the chess team, led by Sheldon Freedman ' 59, team captain, and Louis Taubenblatt ' 58, chess club president by following the above formula, achieved success. In their first match of the season, they scored a resounding 8-0 victory over St. Peters. Another highlight of the season was the simultaneous exhibition given by Samuel Reshevsky against thirty of our best pawnpushers. Team members other than those mentioned above are Emanuel Hartman, a very promising freshman, Joel H. Kaplan ' 58, Charles Patt ' 58, Ralph Carmel ' 59, and Wolfe Saffrin ' 60. RECORDS OF PLAYERS A Rosenberg 20-1 1 Nusbacher 15-14 Chinitz 15-13 Farkas 3-3 Berger 1-2 Brunswick 0-3 Levine 1-2 Josepher 17-1 1 Rhine 20-8 Dycktnan 12-17 Kobrin 3-2 Feinerman 0-3 Lando 0-3 Finkelstein 18-9 Shapiro 13-13 Aronson 1 1-13 Rosenthal 3-1 Shulman 0-3 Greenspan 4-3 Goldstein 2-1 Hornblass 0-3 THE INTELLECTUAL l; - .i. ' : ' r .v jCitemture v ch , ?! 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Yeshiv -He lanb t w Vice also ivesl tV %h ' ' ' beng - T tev iacibtie. °ei l na ' lantbro-. ' ' rmembet o . University pist and w ,va oi Trustees J tte ;Va- ior = ;,; founders oJ %i,vcb 1953, beiore con.pleted- Qoldstebv J i Jatbaniel i- ' c 4e V J ' General or (,3 Attornert ' g; .,.„an oi th=„ ,,. oi overseer- . ,v ■JVledvr ' ' won ' A -president or - ■ fl there - oi 1 ' ' „t tbe chairman ot Larry Friedlander, feature editor — fall term Arthur Eidelman, sports editor — fall term Bernard Silverstein, bus ' mess manager Yehudi M. Felman, copy editor ent 01 ' Vice l ' -dental serves on School. ,- Editor papet- o « as Jvi ' Jg ' Court- ■th ' t , Scholar - uievTibers iety- YesbW ■noin = Yeibr. ■er o ' I Sto ' MveBoot 0 perauve g Vinners ip Dental  c j. OOO se NVeyet Norrrian Bloom, feature editor — fall term Jack Prince, sports editor — fall term This year The Commentator embarked on a program of experimentation and modernization. The groundwork was laid for The Commentator to appear weekly next year. In addition to the increasing number of issues of The Commentator this year, two special supplements were pub- lished. The first spotlighted the role of student activities and student government as exemplified by the Student Coun- cil, while the second dealt with the tenth anniversary of Israel. Articles written by staff correspondents in Israel were published, as was a special series by the Feature Editor, who visited Israel this year. The Commentator continued its vigorous editorial pol- icy of serving as one of the consciences of the University. A front-page editorial dealt with the problem of_ synthesis at Yeshiva. The editorial column attacked personalities re- sponsible for ill will between the students and the adminis- tration. A regular Maybe I ' m Wrong letters column was inaugurated, and the Editor-in-Chief wrote a regular column, Let ' s Discuss, which dealt with vital problems both within and without Yeshiva. The traditional Purim Commentator was revived after a one year hiatus. This year ' s issue harked back to the ban on last year ' s Purim issue, and poked good natured fun at everyone — including The Commentator itself. Some of the many technical innovations went unnoticed by the student body, but they all contributed to the better- ment of the newspaper. The slick paper used in the past was dropped in favor of newsprint which gave The Com- mentator a more professional appearance and enabled more issues to be published without an increase in costs. The editorial page was completely redesigned in line with modem typographical principles. Flush left headlines were intro- duced for the same reason. Harvey Lieber, managing editor I _I: !1B A_ X ' T1 TCj [S DC!Xj±i ' J. ' jl The Yeshiva Debating Society successfully concluded one of its most exciting seasons. To insure the growth and efficiency of the team, the president, Joseph Cher- vin, obtained at the start of the year a record-high budget, a new office, and a pri- vate telephone. Who could ask for anything more? Another first for this year ' s team was the incorporation of the Student Lecture Bureau as an integral part of the society. The highlights of the year were the debate against the University of Toronto, an extremely amusing affair, the debating tours, an extremely triumphant affair, and the Intercollegiate Debating Tournament sponsored by Yeshiva, an extremely prestigeous affair. DEBATING SOCIETY AMSTERDAM AVENUE NEW VORK 33, ; ND 186TH N. V. FORUMS TO yRNAMENTS DEBATES LECTU JOSEPH CHERVIN PRESIOENT ABRAHAM SHAPIRO GENERAL MANAGER VASHAR HIRSHA J CAMPUS MAN . ;,BRAHAM GAFNl SECRETARY MARTIN GORDON TREASURER ,ACOB FINKELSTEIN ' ' PUBU.CTV CHAIRMAN FRAUD BLIDSTEIN DAVID FUEISHER FACULTY ADV.SOR 1J5EM.0 ' TO Date: subject- TUe Header jfra ' -f represent . i t Uv ' ' . ftkid, « =f TeSin t„ S B « «... sta ° _.nenM- for tieW s ? Larry Friedlander, editor-in-chief 76 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Yashar Hirshhaut, Managing Jacob Nusbacher, Activities Aaron I. Segal, Photography Alfred Becker, managing editor Shimon Kwestel, Elliot A. Ginsberg, business managers mon Gluck, activities editor Jay Braverman, Matisyahu Weisenberg, theme editors THEME STAFF Saul Berman Samson Helfgott ACTIVITIES STAFF Murray 3. Laulicht Joel H. Meyers Benjamin Hirsch William P. Klein, Herbert Friedman, typing editors TYPING STAFF Michael Greenebaum Alvin R. Golub Eugene Zaveloff Howard Z. Goldberg Michael B. Feinerman Mrs. Rose Winkler SPORT STAFF Naftali Friedman Sheldon Friedman Bernard H. Kaplan William Lerer Standford Goldman 77 Our students literary ability is quite a joke. Dr. Herman Wouk, visiting professor of Eng- lish, confers with Jeremiah Wohlberg at an assembly which Dr. Wouk addressed. There ' s no time off for good behavior? Mrs. Anna Kross, Commissioner of Correc- tion, hears with amazement the inside dope about Yeshiva ' s penal system at the election assembly. Our assembly program was sparked this year by many addresses on subjects of topical interest, indicating a trend towards a concern with contemporary problems. Of special interest was the pre-election assembly, with Democrat and Republican representatives battling it out on the stage, an address by Dr. Wouk on Conservatism (not the religious kind), and an assembly in honor of the tenth anniversary of Israel. Fireside chats were also held, and addresses by the Dean and other prominent men in the school were heard. Frankly, I would argue that Plato was not Jewish. Dr. Feldman speaks at a Fireside Chat. 78 •?3K , ' i ' -I ' J ' Tf ' - ' i!: fh ( ■ THE MIND AND THE MEN Our Literature pemLous encovnceFi L 1 Larry Friedlander This is the second essay to have won the EPHRAIM FLEISHER MEMORIAL AWARD. The award is granted annually for the best essay expressing an original reaction to a prophetic book. Habakkuk is one of the few prophetic books that deal in any central, determined manner with the problem of G-D: How may we know Him? What is His nature? Is He really good? True, all the prophetic books deal in some way with G-D, their pictures of the Divine, of course, and their conceptions of His nature varying enormously. The differ- ence between them and Habakkuk lies in the perspective in which the story is told: In most books, G-D searches for man, for Israel — the Absolute hungers after and seeks to define the ambiguous; in Habbakkuk, it is the prophet who is in quest of G-D, absolute man seeking to define an ambiguous deity. Take Amos as an example and as a measure of com- parison. The two things this book possesses which Habakkuk does not possess are a definite historical context and a definite view of G-D. Amos begins: The word of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah . . . two years before the earth- quake. And the conception of G-D is as clear as the historical con- text. The G-D of Amos is the G-D of social justice, the G-D who avenges oppression and rewards goodness. Habakkuk, on the other hand, begins: The burden (of prophecy) which Habakkuk the prophet did see. Nothing more. And the G-D of this prophet is equally enigmatic. The book, suitably enough, begins with a question which asks, in essence, what sort of something is G-D. The particular historical context of a prophet determines his particular view of G-D. Traditional commentators, seek- ing to explain how it is that true prophets can differ among themselves as to the nature of G-D, explain that G-D chooses to reveal that aspect of His nature which is demanded by the exigencies of the time. The important word here is reveal; G-D, responding to a need of Israel, comes to the prophet, reveals to the prophet what He thinks is necessary, but remains otherwise hidden and aloof. The prophetic books are essentially 80 vf% contemporary messages offering hope or rebuke to Israel, and the prophet is but the messenger, who while his per- sonality is in some way involved, moves as a national symbol rather than as a personal figure. The prophet is the suffering or sinful Israel, and G-D, speaking to him, addresses the entire nation. In such a case, it is G-D who seeks out the prophet. (In Hosea, for example, we read: The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea. ) The prophet accepts the message (willingly or unwillingly) and becomes the transmitting device by which G-D ' s word is spread. The spirit of G-D enters into him and speaks through him. The shape and contour of the man ' s mind will influence, to be sure, the eventual shape of G-d ' s message, just as wine must accept Bi «i--v ' ' ' r ; i| i - ' the shape of a cup. But the man speaks essentially that BBHup ' r. ' f ' ' which has been revealed to him. He is, one might almost say, the merely passive medium of G-D ' s communication with Israel. ' ' vTC In Habakkuk, G-D and prophet confront each other. The book is not the transcript of a message, but the record of a conflict. It is Habakkuk the man who seeks G-D, it is he who demands, it is he who questions, and it is he who ' . ' - - ■• ■. ' ' ' ■ ' J ' i finally learns. Habakkuk is an extremely personal book; it is the book of Job stripped of its story, clothed alone in the solitary grandeur of its intense thought. The book is a ,-iii id:i, spiritual diary, kept in a sort of spiritual shorthand, which P) ' r ' makes for its difficulty and its fascination. Habakkuk is a very slender work, comprising only three brief chapters. They deal with but a single question posed by the prophet, yei this is a question of such magnitude and complexity that the brevity of the treatment renders com- prehension difficult. Related difficulties arise from the am- biguity of the language and metaphors and from the frag- mentary character of the narration. We hear the voices of Habakkuk and the Lord engaged in a bewildering dialogue, and we are never certain who is speaking at a given moment. Questions are brought up that are never dealt with, and answers or responses are offered which seem to have no connection with anything previously mentioned. Here is what happens. Habakkuk begins with a question, hurled at G-D by an anguished prophet: What sort of G-D are you that you allow evil to exist and to triumph? O Lord, he exclaims, how long shall I cry And Thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto Thee of violence, And Thou wilt not save. The problem is a central one in religious thought: the paradox of the good G-D who permits, or creates, evil. The problem is philosophical one, that is to say that it arises after we have reached some intellectual conclusion about the nature of G-D which the realities of life fail to support. Habakkuk cries out, Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, And canst not look on mischief, (yet) . . . Thou holdest Thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up The man more righteous than he. He has a view of G-D, rationally arrived at and supported by tradition, which never- theless seems quite false. The prophet therefore doubts, not the existence of the Lord, but the accepted view of his nature. He demands to be told what G-D is really like. In his capacity of rational ' i? being, with all the pride and fierceness of reason, the prophet seeks to know, to understand the Absolute. G-D answers him, but the answer has no relation, seemingly, to the question! He tells the prophet that in the near future G-D will raise up the Chaldeans, a powerful and terrible race, who will spread over the face of the earth with the force of an east wind and will devour nations with the bloodthirstiness of a vulture. Nothing will be able to resist them. Having said this, G-D departs. But what He has said hardly answers the question of Habakkuk; He has in fact given point to the question by revealing a new evil soon to be unleashed on the earth by His direct command: For, lo, will raise up the Chaldeans. Habakkuk is shocked, almost angry. That he dares to challenge G-D is a sign of his stature and of his uncom- promising insistence on learning the truth. He almost scorn- fully reminds G-D of the traditional virtues ascribed to Him and of the traditional explanation of His actions. And Thou, O Rock, hast established them (evils, or possibly the Chal- deans) for correction. Everyone had been taught that G-D uses evil to reprove and purify His people. Habakkuk is pleading with G-D to give him this answer, the classic answer, the easy answer, the one we all use. But G-D refuses him. He does not speak of morals or of justice; He merely parades before the frightened gaze of the prophet a vision of new terrors with a bland equanimity and with an absence of explanation. The prophet ' s indignation and his terror mount. Surely, G-D will not allow His people to be like the fish of the sea that have no ruler! Surely, G-D will not withdraw the principle of justice and retribution, leaving behind cruel anarchy. He ends on a tone of mixed despair and reproof. Shall they (the oppressors) not spare to slay the nations continually? With this question, the first chapter, and one third of the book, closes. Habakkuk has not been answered. Or has he? Is not silence an answer? Is not G-D ' s in- sistence on evading the question some sort of response? Silence is in fact the only possible way G-D can answer. For Habakkuk has asked for reason, for an explanation. And there is no reason in G-D, there is no explanation in G-D. G-D is above the understanding of man. Habakkuk does not wish to accept this limitation, he refuses to be merely huma n. He begs G-D not to conceal His ways. He begs G-D to justify Himself, to prove what man needs so des- perately to believe: that G-D is good. G-D answers with disdain: I am G-D. I will raise the Chaldeans. I am the creator of evil. You ask me to relieve the persecution of the Israeli, yet I will bring upon them a plague unequaled in the memory of man. Why? That you may not ask. You may only know my actions, my deeds, but you can never know me. Habakkuk has approached G-D with a personal quest and need: Teach me what you are. But G-D is action, He is beyond words, and His motives are beyond our imagin- ing. And if we move toward G-D, we must expect to meet the irrational, the mysterious, the terrible. The prophet understands this, perhaps, but he knows that he cannot bring such knowledge to the people. True, G-D is dread and awe, wildly incomprehensible, unknowable in His essence, enigmatic — if not arbitrary — in his actions. But we cannot accept such a G-D for the world; the world needs a G-D of order and saving simplicity, a G-D of rules and morals, a support in chaos. G-D is a social necessity, and needed is a different sort of G-D than the one who has revealed Himself to the prophet. The world needs David ' s G-D, the kindly shepherd, and Michelangelo ' s G-D, the stern bearded patriarch. When Habakkuk pleaded as an individual, and asked, O Lord, how long will I cry? G-D answered, Forever. Re- member, I am the creator of good and evil, I am the author of all, of everything you see, everything you feel, everything you hate. Accept me as I am, without reason, without know- ing. Accept me in horror and love, — or reject me. But do not expect me to dissect my mystery for you, to fit my truth to your mind, to bend my being to your reason. And Habakkuk is willing to do so. But the people, they cannot be left helpless and bewildered. G.D. must become a father, at least for their sake. 82 So, at the beginning of chapter two, the prophet, with magnificent stubbornness, demands an answer. I will stand upon my watch. And set me upon the tower. And will look out to see what He will speaic by me. And what I shall bring back concerning my reproof. The man is not to be denied, so G-D brings him a message for the people. Write a vision, and make it plain upon the tables. That a man may read it swiftly. This communication is, in other words, intended for prom ul- gation. G-D wants man to know that as long as the righteous c f Aj f ' ' ? in their faith or, better yet, in their stead- fastness, they will survive. G-D, to be sure, does not say that He will do the destroying. Rather, it is in the nature of things: the wicked are proud and raise up against them- selves many powerful enemies, who, seeking revenge, will eventually destroy them. This is the result of the will of G-D, but is not due to His direct intervention. For the earth will be full with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters of the sea. The mere knowledge of His presence will cause peace and order, and the rational frame- work of the world will be preserved. G-D has, therefore, assured the world that the dis- tinction between right and wrong will be maintained. He has granted an absolute to the wavering outlines of social reality, the absolute of a divinely ordained moral scheme. But what of man and G-D? What of the persistent, willed encounter of the human and the Divine? What of Habakkuk ' s lonely seach? Habakkuk has surely learned nothing, at least nothing that can be comprehended in the formal categories of knowledge, nothing about which a book can be written. Indeed. Habakkuk hasn ' t really written a book; it is more of a ship ' s log: the objective record of a long and perilous journey, a record of experiences rather than explanations. Habakkuk only reports the most tense, most fruitful, moments of his journey to G-D, and these he reports without com- ment. He cannot comment on these encounters because they lie beyond the threshold of logical analysis, because they lie in the realm of action and not thought. This is not to say that he has not gained greatly from this ordeal; but what he has gained is intrinsically uncom- municable. The only thing he can report is his inability to do this very reporting. He will never know the nature of G-D, yet he is content. The second chapter ends with this sentence: But the Lord is in His holy temple; Let all the earth keep silence before Him. Let us approach the Lord in humble, fearful quiet. What thought Habakkuk has to offer is pretty well completed in the first two chapters. The third and last chapter is the poetical expression of the knowledge he has thus far gained. It is intense action translated into deeply felt symbol, and it is a stirring witness to poetry ' s ability to communicate truth. It begins: O Lord, I have heard the report of Thee, and am afraid. Fear is the first approach to G-D. Traditionally D cl ' , the fear of the Lord, comes before ' ' ,t j r n c . love of G-D. Man cannot approach the Lord without dread in his heart; if he does, then it is not G-D but some namby picture-book illustration he has been wooing. And this fear of G-D seizes the prophet. He has heard of the Lord and now with burning clarity he sees His coming. The divine presence is concealed behind a brightness and a flash of lightning. The Lord is unknown. but the prophet sees the pestilence that goes before Him and the fiery bolts that issue forth from His feet. G-D moves like an all-consuming fire, and the world cannot stand the heat of His presence. He standeth and shaketh the earth. He beholdeth, and maketh the nations tremble; And the everlasting mountains are dashed into pieces. Is not this the symbolic retelling of the truth that he, the prophet, had discovered in his previous dialogue with G-D — that the world could not survive the true knowledge of the Lord? Habukkuk cries out: Is it that Thine anger is kindled against the rivers. Or Thy wrath against the sea? In verses of anguished loveliness, Habakkuk describes the might and terror of the Lord. Nature cannot bear His presence, and neither can man. Man is drained of strength in his encounter with the Divinity. There is a blind, searing glory, a sickness in the knees, and a weakness in the bowels. When 1 heard, mine inward parts trembled. My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entered into my bones. And I tremble where I stand. The presence of G-D exacts a severe penalty. Nothing sur- vives before Him, for nothing is strong or pure or real enough to withstand His reahty. The land is blasted with holiness: For though the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail And the fields shall yield no food. And yet there is a joy and wonder behind the terror and destruction, there is a glory in the prophet ' s virtual self- immolation in G-D. He is removed far above the reasoning, questioning, hesitant faith of his former self. Here, in an intense blaze of feeling, he finds faith in face of rejection, hope in spite of evil, knowledge in spite of rejection, G-D in spite of G-D. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will exult in the G-D of my salvation. G-D, the Lord, is my strength. And He maketh my feet like hind ' s feet. And He maketh me walk upon my high places. A NOTE ON THE STRUCTURE On first reading Habakkuk, one will be immediately struck by the extreme ambiguity that characterizes the book. The author seems reluctant to tell us who is doing the speak- ing at any special moment, and many verses may be in- terpreted either way without much straining of the text. I must admit that I have adopted certain interpretations with an almost arbitrary willfulness. There are two defenses I can offer: first, where all interpretations are doubtful, it may be legitimate to employ my own. Secondly, and more centrally, I feel that it does not make too much of a difference. This ambiguity and the fragmentary nature of the work derive from the very essence of Habakkuk ' s thought. The prophet encounters G-D in the way the beach receives the sea: there is a passionate moment of embrace when sand and water are so intermingled that they merge, while each, however, remains distinct and separate. Habakkuk and the Lord somehow become one when they meet at the brink of the unknowable, and though G-D may be speaking Habakkuk speaks with Him. 84 X 9x .rjL£vjL and the Qalut Abba Eban has now, in addition to the numerous other honors ac- corded to him in the course of his distinguished career, the unique pleasure of being a Yeshiva alumnus {if he will forgive us). Whether or not Mr. Eban realized the enormous implications involved in his accepting an honorary degree from our institution, we shall seize upon them with glee. Therefore, we proudly present an article, taken from a speech de- livered at the dinner honoring Rabbi Mirsky, by the most outstanding mem- ber of the graduating class. We predict a brilliant future for its author. (PORTION OF AN ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR EBBA EBAN OF ISRAEL AT YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, JANUARY 12, 1957.) ' i {w y The teachers who are to be trained here to inculcate and to promote a knowledge of the Hebrew tradition, inheritance, and future, will face many grave and fundamental problems in determining their mission in life. One of the problems is, of course, the relationship between the Jewish community in this country and the resurgent and sovereign Jewish community in Israel. Those of you who have recently been in Israel will, I think, have noticed the ferment which has arisen on these problems, which is only part of a general intellectual effervescence. Within a single month, during my last visit home, there were some tang- ible occasions which brought this to mind. There were various gatherings which focused upon themselves the intellectual interest of the country and of the Jewish world. There was first the conference on Biblical Archeology with special emphasis on the new documents, fragments, and relics revealed m this miraculous decade of archeological discovery. Then there was the conference on the structure of the atom held under the Nuclear Physics De- partment of the Institute of Science at Rechovot. In between these two there was the discussion on a subject much more occult than Biblical guotes and much more explosive than atomic energy, namely the guestion of Zionism and the problem of its continuing validity in the history of our times. Per- haps this latter subject, the interrelationship between Israel and American Jewry deserves a few observations (in a personal capacity before we dis- perse). There are clearly two aspects to this problem. What will be the rela- tionship of American Jews to Israel and how will the Israel community look upon American Jews? It is not for me to say much about the first subject, nor do I have any fund- amental anxieties on that score. I do not doubt for a single moment that Israel ' s revival will continue in ever increasing measure to be the central content of Jewish life in this country. And Jewish life is now so focused upon Israel in her past and in her future that the guestion arises whether if Israel didn ' t exist the Jewish people in the dispersion would have to create her, and in- deed this is exactly that which happened. I am persuaded that Diaspora Jewry created Israel not only for Israel ' s sake but also because the inner necessi- ties of its own spiritual existence reguired the establishment of such a focus for its pride and prestige :and its latent creativity. I do not fear for a single mo- ment that some other preoccupation, some other interest, will inherit Israel ' s place as the center of the intellectual, spiritual, and even social cohesion of American Jewry. And therefore everything that flows to Israel from this cen- trality of her position in the life of American Jewry will continue to accrjae. Assistance in the development of our economy, support for our basic and legitimate political objectives, and the great atmosphere of fraternity with which the Jews of the United States surround us at all times. But the other question is perhaps much more interesting and of far more original fascination at this time. The question of how well will Israel, and especially the newly arriving generation within her, look upon Jews in the countries of their dispersion? I confess here to the existence of a deep-rooted difficulty which has not ben overcome. We inherit an ideology which is based frankly on a negation, which holds as a central creed the inevitability of Jewish extinction outside Israel, which looks with something of reproach 86 upon the very fact and circumstances that the Jew exists at all. Which in its more moderate and realistic moments is prepared to reconcile itself to your existence as a temporary phase of history destined to be liquidated. And here come the hard-headed realists who say that, whereas Diaspora Jewry should philosophically not exisit at all, since and while it does exist, it is the better part of prudence to draw something of its surplus resources. But what is truly fundamentally a philoso- phy of negation, perhaps mitigated by an inter- mediate expediency, the question in my mind which I put before you and which I will leave with you fundamentally unanswered, is whether you can have a trustful, affirmative and creative relationship between two entities one of which assumes the negation of the other. Can Jewish- Israel relations be founded on a unilateral love, a love flowing from Diaspora Jewry to Israel and requited by a skepticism from Israel as to the very right of existence of Jews abroad? The difficulty is extreme because I am not prepared to solve it by any surrender of our tactical position about the primacy of Israel in the pattern of Jewish life. There is nothing funda- mentally wrong with the doctrine which holds that only in union with the land of Israel, with its languages and with its tradition, can a fully organic Jewish life flourish. It is only there, that there is stability, equilibrium, and symmetry in the etiquette of Jewish life. And yet any student of historic causes must acknowledge that irre- spective of our ideology the Jews of the United States will continue to exist. No ideological con- ference, in Jerusalem even, can generate such power in the trumpets of its oratory as to cause your walls to crumble like those of Jericho of old. And, therefore, the philosophies which negate your existence will not cause you to cease to exist. The historic compulsions which -have rooted a Jewish community in America and which to our regret prevent its spontaneous migration to Israel, these forces, and these com- pulsions stand as almost immutable fact. I, there- fore, reach the conclusion that Diaspora Jewry will endure and the question is not its existence but rather the nature of its existence. The choice is between whether it shall exist in a conscious, affirmative partnership of spirit with Israel or whether it shall exist amidst the paralysis of its spiritual memories in a continuing wave of alienation, of ignorance, and of isolation. And surely if that is the choice, then Israel for its own future and that of our universal history can only. think and act in one direction. We must prefer a Diaspora Jewry which is articulate and coherent in its Jewish disciplines and in its Jew- ish disciplines and in its Hebrew loyalties as against the Diaspora which is a withered and paralyzed arm. The very existence of American Jewry, I think, is inherent in the evolution of democratic life. The broadening liberalism which now sweeps over all democratic societies is another assurance, not only for its existence, but for the potentialities of a cultural autonomy within the American scene. Institutions, such as those which we establish today, are a further assurance that this community will not die. Paradoxically, Israel ' s existence itself is perhaps the greatest of all factors in perpetuating the Jewish identity of the Diaspora, because Israel gives a reason and a focus for Jews wanting to 87 continue to exist as Jews. This is the great para- dox of the negation of the Galut. Israel ' s ex- istence makes the disappearance of a con- sciously Jewish Galut perhaps even less possible than it ever was before. In this situa- tion, I believe, that there is need not of a single conference but of a constant and permanent effort to evolve a system of ideas which will suit this relationship. The lesson for the citizen of Israel to me is evident and plain. He, and especially those in future generations after the generation of transition, will have two choices before him. One, and this is advocated some- times with profound respectable authority, is that he should live entirely within his geog- raphy, regard as significant only his immediate environment and those episodes of Jewish history which were unfolded within the soil of Israel, alienate himself from that which occurs today outside Israeli Jewish life and even from those episodes of Jewish history which have not held the land of Israel as their central arena. The second alternative is that he should live within his history and that he should hold cherished and dear everything that the col- lective capacity of the Jewish people has created in an authentic Jewish spirit, most of all that which was created, of course, under conditions of national freedom but also that which was created during the long march of exile. I cannot see anything fruitful or broadening in the per- spective of an Israel which will deliberately con- fine itself to its geography and ignore the much broader vistas of its history. I cannot, I think, identify myself with the philosophy of history which insists on the essential Hebraism of Joshua ben Nun and wipes out Maimonides and the poets and philosophers of the Spanish period by reason of their exile from the original sources of our revelation. I plead, therefore, for a univer- sality in the outlook on Jewish life and for an emphasis on history rather than on geography 88 as the determinant of our spiritual frontiers. If all this is to be accepted, then we reach a some- what dramatic conclusion that Israel does not have a residuary or beneficiary interest in your fruitful and creative survival, but that your fruit- ful survival is something worthy of Israel ' s ac- tive endorsement and support, the support of our mind and the endorsement of our spirit. And thus the establishment of a new fortress of the Hebrew spirit in this country becomes a re- inforcement of Israel ' s capacity of survival. We have that interest not in the purely self-interjested sense, not only because the benefits that we receive from you will only derive from a consciously Hebraic-American Jewry, but also because your existence con- forms with this concept of Israel as a universal and historic civilization. What we need is an ideology or a system of ideas which is free of negation and which will establish the primacy of Israel within a broad universal doctrine of Israel not as a geographical fact but as a historic idea, as a universal civilization with its main citadel in an independent Israel but with its subsidiary fortresses scattered throughout the world. 89 fi Vec M ,SMiI tv If Last night 1 saw Elath, Israel: tents stretched taut on brown, desert sands; 2 long lengths of pipe buried in shallow ditches; young boys talking excitedly, guns on their shoulders; a restless sea beating against the shore. Last night I saw Elath-on a television screen. First, there was the map, ' dark shadowing for Arab countries, white for Israel. On the screen, Israel was L small and white, bulging in the southern section, pinched tightly in waist. I There was a dot at Elath with a large black arrow pointing at it. The commen- ; tator was speaking about this spot, about the hopes centered on it, about the i precious oil Israel hoped would soon flow through its pipe lines, about a dreamed-of port to be built in this sandy wasteland. Then, film came on and for a few moments the dot was transformed into living reality. Waves, lines, arrows disappeared. On the screen I saw Eloth as it was. For a few minutes I crossed almost impassible barriers. Words, pictures, diagrams, merged into life. For a few minutes, 1 was in Israel. But the film ended, Elath flashed off, Israel was gone - resolved once more into words, maps, reports. V It is good to be able to turn on your set, walk into a movie, look at a paper, and learn of Israel. But it is not enough, not for anyone who wishes to really know what the country is, not for anyone who wishes to understand. I believe that Israel, more than any other land, must be known through direct contact, through a start- ling, seizing, flow of impressions, through an immediate apprehension of its being. Israel, beyond its land and borders, rivers and deserts, people and cities, is a subtle, hard-to-grasp, creation of the spirit. It is a feel- ing, an outlook, a promise. It is an individual and per- sonal geist, yet it is the possession of the nation; and one can only meet it there, in the land itself. Perhaps the first thing gained in visiting a country is the abrupt reolization of its reality. The tenuous, lazy, half-formed, thoughts of Israel floating in our minds suddenly harden, they plummet into daylight conscious- ness with the force of a comet. Once they enter, they ore there to stay. They can no longer be dismissed, shoved off into some dusty corner to lie o-moldering. This reality impinges on our dreams and brings us a richer, deeper, and truer experience. The people, they are of primary importance. Before you study the topography and industry, the sea-ports and the climate, you must gain an intimate contact with people. Israel is great in only that one thing. Israel must be experienced. A blind man cannot understand the word red, we too cannot understand a people without seeing them. In Tel-Aviv on a summer night, the air has caught and stored the heat of the day. The people gather on the streets, talking, laughing, fighting. Bearded, excited intelligentiza, refugees from the universities of Europe, argue politics with tanned, dark-eyed Sabras. Black-robed Hasidim mingle with exotic-looking Yemen- ites. Down the street, in a cafe, someone sings a sod, Arabic song. This is the Israel I have read about. But the need to be there, to walk the streets myself, to argue with a professor, to hear that song, that need haunts me. For I am sure that beneath the beards, the tan, and the exotic dress there is a certain quality which unites all these people and makes them Israeli. Such a thing is not easily discovered, not really understood, and too easily forgotten. To live two months in Israel means two months to uncover that veil, to peer and probe into that inner sanctuary of spirit. I want to work side by side with boys and girls of my age, hear their daily, routine, conversations, partake in their small laughs, their petty fights, their great hopes. I want to form friendships with individuals, warm personal relationships, i don ' t want to sit in the distance and admire a country; 1 wont to be there, and know and love its people. At the same time, I need to know what these people are doing. Israel is a terribly active land. Nowhere that I know of are so many plans being constantly made; nowhere that I know of are they so consistently carried out. In the few years of its existence, the Israelites have exhibited a diversity of talents which is amazing and slightly bewildering. From fishing to mining to peanut growing to automobile manufacturing, the country runs the gamut of all conceivable fields. It is in this willing- ness to tackle all and any tasks, this courage in face of baffling odds and paralyzing inexperience, that the secret of Israel is to be found. She is young, still flexing her muscles, readying herself for the giant step into the world. She has a cocky air and a steady persistence which enables her to turn her great dreams into fact. So if one wants to know her, one must go down to her mines, inspect her factories, help harvt: peanuts in her fields. There is more involved here than a statistical knowledge of her economy. The character of the people rests in their productiveness. The people who founded Israel had a great respect and love for honest labor for the sweat of a man ' s brow. This is an essential ingredient of their psychology. I want to study not only the industries but the land that shapes them. It is a true saying that while men may mold a land, the land quite often molds the people. The geography, as if to reflect the diversity of people and of industry, is enormously varied. In the hilly, wet, north-country, lakes lie in abundance; land is at a premium; marshes are drained. The air is wet, and a little foggy. The trees grow tall and straight. Men catch fish, set out nets, or set out to the sea in ships. In the dreary stretches of the Negeb, the country has turned to stone, bleak craggy rocks bursting through sifting layers of sand. This is a thirsty land, with no water, little rain. Here the men know the heat of the sun, and the cold of a desert night. Yet, here men dream of fertile green fields and of riches lying beneath the stone, precious black oil waiting to be tapped. Between these extremes lie the hilly ranges of Jerusalem, the beaches of Tel-Aviv. Each part of the country has an excitement about it for each part contains so much life and promise. There is still so much to be learned and done about them. When one knows these terrains, when one has walked the deserts and swum the lakes, then the an- swer to what is Israel becomes a little easier. Yet, I must confess that there ore other motives behind my wish to explore the land. The past is never far behind in this country, and a dull desert town of a few tents and a mud house receives a dazzling bright- ness when its name is mentioned and a memory stirs suddenly. Why this is the place where ... I A thousand associations crowd one ' s mind: a name in the Bible, a battle fbught in Talmudic times, the home of a scholar. Israel can never be free from its past, and she is in- finitely richer because of it. I don ' t think anyone can ever read the Bible with the same complacency after a trip to Israel. Solomon mined copper, the book tells us. Why, you saw the place yourself! The Romans burned Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple. Why, you remember Jerusalem, high and proud against a summer sky! Each hill, each valley, each brook, is clothed in a very special aura. Each wears its age with a quiet beauty. This is the land of my forefathers. I want to re- turn to it. A well-known phrase terms Israel the Fortress of Democracy in the Middle-East . So she is. There are, however, many ways in which she differs from our own government. Her party system is different, her Knesset is not our congress, her judicial system does not resemble ours completely. Yet, we are more like her than perhaps any other nation. She has inherited from us, and from her ancestors, a deep and abiding faith in the dignity of man and in the basic rights of the individual and in the need for a compassionate and love-filled brother- hood of man. Her relations with her Arab citizens are the acid test of this faith. She has provided for complete equality for the Arab in her basic doctrines. Has this equality been achieved? I doubt if it has been completely, for her time has been short and hu manity ' s vices have been around a long time. Yet, I am sure there is a determined battle being fought, a battle for the preservation and 92 ► - realization of this ideal, a battle in which I am intensely interested. I want to speak to these Arabs for they may provide the answer some day to the most permanent disability of Israel; her discord with her Arab neighbors. I want to know how the Arabs think and act. I would like to see how friendship has been attained, how it is being maintained. I want to attend a meeting of the Knesset, go to a court, find out how the country is being managed. Our democratic system is very important to us in America. We may have things to contribute to Israel- she may very well have something to give to us. I would like to visit the borders. A friend of mine, back recently from Israel, was telling me of a night she had spent in a high watch-tower along the Syrian boundary line. Throughout the long description, full of guns, and danger, and snipers, not once did I hear the word fear. I asked her if they are not afraid over there. She looked at me and said she didn ' t remember being afraid as one is afraid here in America. All she could tell me was, It is different in Israel. I don ' t un- derstand that, I don ' t think I can till I have been there. What is there in a young kibbutznick ' s mind as he waits high in a windy tower in a night full of noises? If there is no fear, what is there? I would like to know! I have spent some time in a meandering journey through the welter of reasons which crowd my pen. But, if I search now for some summation, I could say simply that I want to be in Israel for a summer so that whenever I see a small white map on television 1 should not need movie film to bring it alive. My mind and heart should do that for me. San- CI- Va4 by Alfred Becker The Jerome Robins Short Storv Contest is held every year in honor of Jerome Rol ins. a jormer Yeshira student who died in World War Two. Mr. Becker is the 193R winner. NCE again she dusted the old candelahrum. It hail almost become an obsession these days. Some- how, the sparkle of tlie polished lamp seemed out of place in the small room with its dark furniture. She threw a hopeful glance at the ancient pendulum clock, ticking endless time away. She was aware of the move- ment of her eyes to the face of the timepiece. Unlike so many other things in her life, it met the coming moments buoyantly and looked promisingly to the future. Then, too, didn ' t she sometimes hear it say ' Bav-El-Vad. Bav-El-Vad, and was comforted. Just about ten more minutes, she thought, ten minutes before he would be home to share the lone- liness of their lives. On the back porch, father-in-law rocked himself to sleep over an .open book despite the buzzing most(uitoes, which had finally braved the heat to come out in the open. The old man, it seemed, could sleep under all conditions. The deep, hollow gong of the clock announced that time, in its endless passage, had reached the seven o ' clock point. Shalom. Shmuel, how are you? She ran to- wards him, and. as she opened the door, the sharp odors of helba from their neighbor ' s yard penetrated into the room. These Yemenites always reek from helba. Shalom, Buba ' le. After all these years of marriage he still called her Buba ' le. But now his voice was tired and broken. Then, the usual How is Abba? And the equally usual, Oh, he is asleep on the back porch. Shmuel seated himself next to the old-fashioned kitchen table. As if trying to anticipate the inevitable question before she would ask it, he in- quired, Anything new? No, nothing much. Gveret Kuminsky came in today. She wanted to borrow a cup of sugar. She said that the landlord may put new covers on the garbage can. The old man had now entered the room unnoticed. It was he who broke the silence anew with a warm Shalom. The dejected response did not seem to bother him. Well, Dvorah, I could certainly use some of that cold rhubarb soup. He said this with an almost cheery air, like a well-fed man who is expecting a favorite food he has not eaten in years. Dvorah went to the ice box without a word and took out the soup left over from the previous day. She had heard that rhubarb was cheap in the market-place near Jaffa, and they had subsisted almost completely on rhubarb since Thursday. Next door there arose again the moaning of the litllc Yemenite i)oy in whose hovel there was no food, only tlic odor ol liclha. greedily eaten long since. Poor child, she thought. What an awful thing. No food in a home filled with children. Her thoughts suddenly gave a start. Who are the more pathetic, those who still have children to worry about or those, like hei-, who no longer have? She had not cried for many years. Even when that terrible telegram had arrived, she had not cried. She had really known before the telegram had even come. That last letter of her son had forboded the end. But it had to lie, and she dared ask no questions. In a sense. she had almost liccii proud of it. Hannaniah had writ- ten, Ima, no matter what happens, please keep in mind that the names of everyone who fights at Bav-El- Vad will be remembered forever. I am but a link in a great chain of people. Wliatever happens, Ima, I have lived. I have lived for a cause, for something good. This had not been like the other letters. These were not the paraphrased words of some of f icer ' s last encourag- ing remarks before the battle. These were her son ' s own words, his own feelings. He knew he was fighting for a 95 new world, a new order of things. Only the old man had always remained unimpressed. He would give a sad smile, walk out to the porch, and fall asleep on the rocking chair. But at that time, she had known that her son had died for a new life, for a new. . . . Her thoughts were suddenly brought back to the present. It was the old man ' s voice. Well, what did the Ministry say today? Shmuel looked away from his father. The usual. Dvorah suddenly pounced on her husband, Well, don ' t they see you don ' t have the money to get that charter from the Union! Tiat do they want! Did anybody come into the store today? She was desperate, at bay like a lioness who had lost her cubs. Why don ' t they understand? H only they would let him sell the old store, extend him a small loan! H only the Union wouldn ' t interfere! If only. . . . A strange gleam came into the old man ' s eyes, sad, cynical, even slightly sarcastic. How she dreaded that look. It was the same look that had appeared when she had read so proudly Hannaniah ' s letter aloud, the one before the telegram. Why, the old man had had that ex- pression in his eyes even when the Lieutenant had delivered the last rites. Hannaniah knew what he was dying for— a land in which oppression of Jews would be unknown. Yes, the Jewish people would never forget Bav-El-Vad and its heroic fighters. And the old man had remained unmoved. She got up and brought the hard, dark bread that Gveret Kuminsky had given her in exchange for the sugar. It was a fair exchange. The dark sugar had be- come clumpy from the moisture it had been exposed to. In this way the grocer could charge an extra sum for the weight of moisture in the sugar. Pity this Gveret Kumin- sky! She used to be so talkative before they had jailed Yosef for libel. It ' s true that he had no right to say those things about the Union. But after the way they had de- manded another twenty five pounds for the Defense Fund, who could blame him. Only the stars above were unaware of the choking chamsin winds below. Every night people would try to escape the heat by going out on the porch. But tonight Dvorah was too restless. Her nerves had also been jarred by the fact that today there were no customers in the old store and that the Ministry again had refused a request to start a new business without a Union Chart. She went to bed, and as perspiration drenched her pillow, she tossed and turned. Her ears were hot, her feet cold. She knew she was feverish. And that old man! He doesn ' t do any work; just sits around reading and thinking. But it was not that which bothered her about the old man. It was his ability to sleep despite heat and mosquitoes. She could never sleep when it was hot and mosquitoes bothered her. Then, too, the officials at the Ministry! Yet, the old man could always sleep. And that strange gleam in his eyes. Peculiar personality. They say he had once been a very handsome man. Loved his wife the way few men ever loved. Then, after the Cossacks had killed her, he had turned Com- munist. They say he used to make fiery speeches on how wonderful everything would be after the overthrow of the Czar. Once she had even found an old leaflet, A New World-After the Great Revolution. It had been the only time she had ever seen anger in his eyes, when she had shown him the old leaflet. But it had only been a flash of anger, lasting a fraction of a second. Then he had smiled weakly and said, Those were in the days I was young. Yes, he had changed. He had become old. No one knew when or why. It was just that one day after the Revolution he had escaped from Russia and settled in some small village in Poland. They say the Communists were furious at his sudden departure. Strange, how he never complains, never be- comes excited. It bothered her that the old man was not proud of his grandson ' s heroic deeds. From across the yard, she grew aware of the voice of the Silberbaum ' s boy, Uzie, breaking the stillness of the night. Luckily, this family had escaped Hitler ' s persecutions before the War had started. They would soon move out of this neighborhood into a new area near the beach. It ' s nice how Mr. Silberbaum had worked himself up in the Union. When you are under- standing the basic principles of our system, you not can go wrong. He had never mastered Hebrew completely. Perhaps Mrs. Silberbaum had by now come in with a warm glass of milk, for Uzie had stopped crying. She comforted her son with a song full of pathos. Po ani omed, nizav Vyad haderech. ' ' Why, that song is ' Bav-El-Vad ' , Dvorak said almost aloud. Mrs. Silberbaum continued, Bav-El-Vad, forever remember, thee, our names; Bav-El-Vad, on the way to the town. Ima, what ' s Bav-El-Vad? Uzie ' s voice interrupted. Never mind, dear, go to sleep. It ' s late. But I want to know what Bav-El-Vad is. I don ' t know. It ' s some place where they fought, I think. I remember reading something about it. Now please, dear, get your sleep. Dvorah got up and sat next to tlie old man. She heard the clock ticking away. THE GOLDEN HARVEST Our Seniors Behold, they went silently and their steps are lost, In the darkness of the night among the hills — Bless them . . . for the time has come. GIVE YOUR BLESSINGS by Haim Guri CLASS HISTORY INTRODUCTION TO CLASS HISTORY Entering college is like getting married, drinking one ' s first Bloody Mary , playing poker: it makes one lose one ' s perspective. How high the ceiling was that first day! and the zodiac in the entrance hall seemed to mutter angrily as we walked across Virgo and Cap- ricorn. The speeches, in the great, empty auditorium, impressed us to the core of our youthful souls, as we listened to the Dean say: In four years Yeshiva will be larger than Columbia, than Yale, than Harvard! And we believed him. Now, four years later, we ask ourselves whether we were fools, whether time has not proven us wrong? The answer is both yes and no. Surely, we are not larger than Harvard, not even than Columbia, but, then, Yeshiva remains, despite all, larger to us, — in our memories, our tears and our laughter. The incidents we here recall are maitily the luunorous ones. It is true we have not forgotten the bitter-sweet, bright structure of our early dreams. It is a cruel and hard thing, however, to retrace those dreams and the paths of their decay. Revisiting the sites where youth was conquered step by step by the cruder realities of life, we flinch and call on humor to shield us. That is why this history is fearfully light, dancing over the past, never stopping to touch too deeply any moment in these long four years. We are afraid of a violent outburst of truth, and of the im- passioned force and the warm memories of times too precious and naive to recall. We are frankly ashamed and, perhaps, a little jealous of these memories; we wish to preserve them for ourselves in a private citadel. We, therefore, here present only the crazy, ramshackle , structure of those, our youth-times, — in the confidence that your mind and, we blush to say it, your heart will supply the rest. September 1954 seemed an auspicious time; we entered the school, hollow-eyed and staring; a new caterer began his career at Yeshiva, serving glatt kosher meat to glatt kosher students; Senior Freshman Guidance was instituted; and, last but not least, Yeshiva went co-ed. Stem College opened, duly separated from the Golden Domes by one hundred fifty streets of Manhattan real estate, a modern mechitza in depth. No sooner had we settled in blissful content when clouds began to struggle over the golden domes. First registration, whose horrors are still classified information, th en a speech test, which all Williamsburg boys flunked, and a comprehensive exam designed to determine our relative standing and readiness for college curriculum. The Dean, a sophomore at the time, announced that Gradu- ate Exams may be required of seniors. This exam will be given with an eye toward curriculum improvement, he stated. It seemed that the dean had the same dire suspicion we did, namely that we would not learn too much in the next four years. Feeling the need to be heard in the Councils of the mighty, we elected our class officers. Lenny Shapiro was chosen president, and Stone, vice president. Our confidence in these two gentlemen was so firm, that we didn ' t bother electing a representative-at-large. Our future Pulitzers padded off to the padded office of Commie. Doc Green span be came the photography staff in its entirety, while Abe Shapiro joined the news staff, and Moe Berlin went the way of all little Cannbns — the sport staff, of course. In the dormitory, we freshmen were quartered at the highest level, the fifth floor of the old dorm. An attempt to create order out of chaos was made by the establishment of a dormitory council, deriving its power from the just consent of nobody in particular. Going through the motions of a democratic society, we elected Patt, Weisenberg, and Weiss as delegates. Rabbi Abraham Pelberg arrived as a sort of father image to us boys. We were made aware of one of Y.C. ' s most pressing problems, the 10 minutes between periods. Believing that 1 hour =50 minutes at Yeshiva, we demanded (requested? . . . begged?) our ten precious minutes. With equal logic, the faculty felt that 50 minutes=l hour and just let the matter drop. Influenced, no doubt, by our arrival. Rabbi Tendler called upon himself to discuss the goals of Yeshiva educa- 100 tion. Consequently, a religious guidance committee was formed, including a number of Roshei Yeshiva and Rabbi Tendler. Meanwhile, back at the dorm, an indignant electorate declared the dorm council illegal, whereupon it voted itself out of existence. As a reward for our acute political aware- ness, the administration announced that we would soon move to a new million-dollar dormitory. It seemed a good note on which to end our first term at Yeshiva. So, we all started packing. Exhibiting our physical and intellectual superiority, we soundly defeated the other classes and won the intramural basketball championship. Having proved ourself so early in our career, we felt it unnecessary to boast of our prowess by winning any games in the future. Ganchrow, Singer, and Abe Shapiro bossed the pre-varsity debating team. Moe gave a portent of the role he was to play by writing a glowing biography of Red Sarachek. On March 3, we were treated to the company of a few seniors plus what was left of the beer and pretzels. The beer intoxicated more by its presence than by its alcoholic content, and we caught a glimpse of the seniors with their hair let-down, an uninspiring sight, to say the least. Shapiro won the presidency again, Joe Chervin and Becker were elected vice-president and representative-at- large. Jack Chinitz and Moe Berlin moved up to the Asso- ciate Board of Commentator. Matt Weisenberg took a good look at the state of Yeshiva, and left for a long visit to the State of Israel. Returning for round two after a too-short summer, we learned that Joe Kaplan had gone to work on the Com- mentator Associate Board, Abe Shapiro and the Governor got special assignments, and Schreiber and Quint made the tennis team. We also learned that the Pre-Med Organic lab was scheduled at Stem College. The natives, who were known to be friendly, were kept under wraps unfortunately. The dean, having survived his sophomoric year, promptly announced a new grading policy, a down-grad- ing policy. Just as promptly. Dr. Alexander Freed folded his pents like the Arabs and noisily stole away. Another milestone on the long road to completion of the new dorm was passed when the ground breaking ceremonies were held. We felt it would not be long before the dorm would be ready for occupancy. Shimmy Kwestel became secretary of S.A.C., Green- span became Commie photo-editor, and A. Shapiro assistant news editor. Bill Klein was elected secretary-treasurer to the Dormitory Council. An athletic rally was held, which was well attended by at least the various teams involved. Yeshiva ' s newly revived wrestling team proceeded to lose their first match. We took it philosophically. Then again, we didn ' t have much choice. The annual anti-noise campaign was instituted in the dormitory. It got a hearty, though somewhat noisy reception. Once again, we took it philosophically. The second semester began with the stirrings of con- troversy and rumors of a strike by the RIETS faculty. Dr. Belkin announced the birth of J.S.P., The Jewish Studies Program, or the Juvenile Sporting Profession, depending on one ' s point of view. To keep the balance of power intact, T.A., T.I. and RIETS merged under the protection of Abrams and Grinstein, and Rabbi Tendler was grafted on to the scholarship committee. Commentator suggested that Tendler boss JSP, which was applauded by the student body. With a state of civil war all but declared, a compulsory insurance plan for all students was announced, which went the way of all flesh. The wrestling squad managed to win their first match. Flushed with victory, Coach Cassius announced, We ' ll win our next five matches! A study of the student body revealed a startling in- crease in the number of science majors, which was uni- versally deplored (this was before Sputnik). To correct this imbalance, improvement of the other departments was suggested. The other departments, however, indignantly stated that no improvements were possible. The plan was dropped. The rental for the new dorm was announced and we promptly objected. The objection was half-hearted, for we knew there is no power greater than the cling of change in the Bursar ' s pocket. Anyway, we felt sure it would not be long before the dorm would be ready for occupancy. Our Thespian talents were meager, but we managed to present a reasonable facsimile of a play at the Dean ' s Reception. It was an adult western, a whodunit with Indians. The highlight of the evening was the symbolic lynching of a pair of black pants (Shades of Freud!). The adminis- tration apparently considering the mind twice as important as the body, charged us seven hundred dollars for College, and three hundred dollars for Dorm. Those of us who re- ceived permission, signed up for 18 credits at bargain rates. The Yeshiva radio station awaited final approval. (As we go to press it is still waiting). A new final exam policy was announced and was enforced, over the objec- tions and dead bodies of students and faculty alike. Election time came around again. Mendy Ganchrow, the Governor, was elected secretary-treasurer of Council. Greenspan made Athletic Manager. Moe Berlin, running on the It ' s time for a change platform, defeated Shapiro for our class presidency. Becker and Tokayer were chosen vice president and representative-at-large. Kaplan, Abe Shapiro and Berlin became managing, news, and sports editors of Commie, respectively. And, with a touch of our youthful spirit still remaining, we finished second in in- tramural basketball. 102 Senior Council seated: Abraham Shapiro; Emanuel Stern- berg; Louis Taubenblat; Elliot Ginsburg; Standing: Simcha Gluck Our junior year, affectionately termed The Year They Abolished Piirim, opened with the appointment of Rabbi Tendler as assistant dean, an appointment which was ac- knowledged as gratifying. Rabbi Tendler announced that the dormitory would open January 15, and we would be charged 50c for identification cards. Other sources, less optimistic, announced that D-day would be sometime in February. We felt that in any event, the long-awaited day could not be too far off. So, we held our Junior Jamboree and whooped it up. Patt and Weisenberg took managerial positions in Co-op. Shapiro made vice president of IRS, and Bernard Silverstein, secretary-treasurer. Rubin became vice-presi- dent of the Photography Club without knowing how to load a camera. Braverman, Friedlander and Patt officered the French Club. Chervin, Wohlberg and Shapiro (Abe) took over the Pre-Law Society ' s management. Joe Singer vceped the Pre-Med Society. Pcrlmutter chugged into Ivri, as its president. And, last but not least, Moishc Tokayer re- signed his council job to accept the presidency of the Stu- dent Council of the Teacher ' s Institute. Jerry Wohlberg was elected to the office. We assured ourselves that we had not done too badly. The college announced an engineering program and as an expression of confidence in this step forward, Becker advised us all to get under cover (insurance coverage, that is). Prophetic words, for we watched, in grim helpless- ness, as an Israeli team defeated Yeshiva in, of all things, basketball, — at, of all places, Madison Square Garden. Purim came and went, and the Commie Purim issue was conspicuous by its absence. Recriminations and counter- charges disturbed the habitual quiet of the Bais-Medrish. By Passover, we became resigned to the fact that Commie would not give us the opportunity to have a few good- natured lighthearted laughs at the people we trembled be- fore during the whole year. It was all good, clean, fun, but we decided to wait till next year. In the process of becoming urbane, sophisticated Yeshiva Leaguers, our tastes became somewhat jaded. Yet, we did get a full measure of excitement and suspense from the tale of two dormitories. Not knowing which of the dates given us by the powers that be would actually turn up as Moving Day, we speculated whether the new dorm would 103 be ready before the old one was wrecked. We knew that the frantic efforts of the administration to ready the dorm (new) were exceeded only by the antics of the dorm residents (old) determined to demolish their home away from home before the term ' s end, if not sooner. Of course, they don ' t build buildings like they used to, and we managed to last out the year. Elections were upon us again, and we dusted off our franchises and gave them their annual exercise. The race for Student Council president was complicated by the ap- pearance of a dark horse when we had just about decided on one of two choices. The campaign was highlighted by the miraculous production of a modified campaign train. Actually, a Chevrolet, covered with crepe paper streamers (as though it had been driven through a wild party), took up a strategic position on Amsterdam Avenue and threatened to run over anyone who wouldn ' t vote the right way. Jerry Wohlberg was elected President of Student Council, and Doc Greenspan, vice-president. Our class officers were Sidney Kwestel, president, Tsvi Nussbaum, vice-president, and Herby Friedman, representative. Abe Shapiro realized his ambition, became Editor of Commie, and suspended publication of the Eppess. Silverstein became business manager of Commie, Steinmetz and Chinitz captained our varsity basketball and fencing teams respectively. Our Senior year — and with it a feeling of top dog ism. Moe wrote a letter to Commie containing our final thoughts upon the final question, including the Graduate Record Exam. Larry Friedlander began his soUtary work as Masmid Editor. The Dean started his second go-round, but Chaver closed his career at Yeshiva with ours. And we slowly became aware that, after learning the ropes so well, we would be pulling them for the last time. We resolved that we must leave some monument to our collective memory. Abe Shapiro revised the format of Commentator, cutting printing costs in order to publish every week. We changed the Masmid election rules, in an unsuccessful scheme to entice lower classmen into doing our work for us. Student Council announced the results of the curriculum questionnaire, and many a faculty member was muffed at his Trendex. Sic transit gloria mundi. And speaking of glory, Herman Stone and Shep Levine finished one-two in New York City on the Dental Scholarship exam. We began our tours of duty on the more respectable end of Senior-Freshman Guidance. As our version of Freshman Orientation, we taught the boys how to finish a keg of beer without keeling over. However, feeling our efforts were not sufficient, a tutoring committee was formed at the college. We were glad to note that enrollment at Yeshiva reached an all-time high. We, of course, were the most select group numbering an exclusive eighty-one (4.5 times chai ). The expansion brought with it a number of prob- lems, summed up by Commie in an editorial Synthetic Synthesis . R.I.E.T.S. introduced the system of written examina- tions to supplement the oral bechinot. Written tests had already been adopted in the Smicha program and like Hoover ' s prosperity, just trickled down. WE surveyed the scene and, in between bomb scares, we felt there had been some changes made. We went to see The Music Man as we celebrated our last Theater party at Yeshiva. Needless to say, it was a smash hit and we got our money ' s worth. The Dean ' s Reception was held at Joan of Arc High School on February 16th and we kept intact our winless record in the play competition. Our courtroom drama was tried and found wanting. Undaunted, we set to work on the Senior-Varsity Show. The Red Cross paid their annual visit to Yeshiva and, with the collaboration of Silverstein and company, man- aged to bleed us dry. We won the Metropolitan Blood Drive Championship (the lower classmen deserve some share of the credit) and Silverstein made the morning paper, accepting the trophy on our behalf. Oh, yes, we moved into the new dormitory. The elevator worked very nicely, and, though we never could get it out of the shaft, the tricks we could make it do more than satisfied our innate scientific curiosity. The cafeteria opened with Mr. Parker, formerly of Stern College, running the show. The new, modern furniture was more comfortable and presentable, even after we got through with it. We did, however, bring the old problems with us — namely, minyan attendance, noise, and the dormitory council. As we go to press, only the remnants of the year are left. There are, it is true, grand, climactic moments still to come: The Senior Dinner, Commencement, etc., but there is a sadness and a finality about them which makes us glad that we must not report them. We have tried to bring you the patterns and the whirling life of almost four years. Let us, then, call a halt right here before the curtain comes down — and we must all go our own separate ways. FACES OF THE PEOPLE mm HERSHEL Y. ALLERHAND Brooklyn, N. Y. Political Science Junior Varsity Basketball; Pre-Law Society ABRAHAM ATIK Brooklyn, N. Y. English Chug Ivri ALFRED BECKER Syracuse, N. Y. Pre-Med MASMID, managing editor; Junior Class, vice president; Sophomore class reresentative-at-large; Beth Yitz- chak; Pre-Medical Society; Debating Society; Biology Society; Committees: Health, Library; Student Residence Hall Court. EDWARD BERGER Bronx, N. Y. Psychology Psychology Club, president; Co-op, assistant manager; Raconter; NIR, editor 106 MOSES M. BERLIN Brooklyn, N. Y. Mathematics Junior Class, president; Commenta- tor, sports editor; Dean ' s rece ption, 1957, chairman; Mathematics Club, secretary-treasurer; Dramatics Club; Scripta Mathematica; Fencing Team; Junior Play, 1957, co-author JAY BRAVERMAN Bronx, N. Y. Hisfory MASMID, theme editor; Commenta- tor; French Club, president; I.R.S.; Chug Ivri; Pi Delta Phi, president if ALFRED CHAIKIN Bronx, N. Y. Pre-Med Varsity Basketball; Varsity Soccer; Pre-Medical Society -r-T U JOSEPH CHERVIN j i Spring Valley, N. Y. English j Pre-Law Society, president; Debat- t ] ing Society, president; Delegate to ( i National Students Association; Sopho- more Class, vice president; I.R.S. Building Repairs Committee, chair- man; Dean ' s Reception; Senior Varsity Show; Junior Class Council; Can- vassing Committee, co-chairman; So- cial Events Committee, chairman 107 JACK CHINITZ Newark, N. J. Pre-Med Fencing Team, captain; Choral So- ciety, vice president; Commentator, typing editor; Pre-Medical Society; Student Residence Hall Court; Senior Council; Senior-Freshman Guidance; Dean ' s Reception MDNIS DACHMAN Washington, D. C. Pre-Med Pre-Medical Society; Debating So- ciety; Commentator; Scroll; MASMID; Dormitory Executive Committe, co- chairman; Freshman Council; Sopho- more Council; Junior Council; Taf, chairman NDRMAN DICKER Brooklyn, N. Y. English Music Club; Basketball ALAN ENGLART Jersey City, N. J. Sociology Sociology Club; Pre-Law Society; Used Book Exchange; Associate Board, Commentator 108 GERALD M. FRIEDERWITZER Bronx, N. Y. Biology Biology Society, secretary; Psychol- ogy Club, secretary; Tennis; Hame- litz; Student Activities Committee; Co- op LARRY FRIEDLANDER Brooklyn, N. Y. English MASMID, editor-in-chief; Scroll, edi- tor-in-chief; Commenfotor, feature editor; Raconfer, feature editor; Liter- ary Society, president; French Club, vice president; Pi Delta Phi, vice presi- dent; Dean ' s reception; Eranos; Eta Sigma Phi; Student Residence Hall Court; Senior-Freshman Tutoring HERBERT FRIEDMAN Brooklyn, N. Y. Chemistry Chemistry Society, president; Photography Club, secretary-treas- urer; Choral Society; MASMID, co-typ- ing editor; Commentator; Building Re- pairs Committee, chairman; Clean Up Committee; S.A.C.; Senior-Freshman Guidance; Senior Class, representa- tive-at-large JAY FRIEDMAN Astoria, N. Y. Political Science I.R.S., president; Pre-Law Society; Curriculum Committee, chairman; Sen- ior Varsity Show, author; Dean ' s Re- ception; Basketball 109 NAFTALI FRIEDMAN New York City Chemisfry MASMID; Commentator; Music Club; Chemistry Society JEROME FUCHS Brooklyn, N. Y. Sociology Chug Ivri, secretary; Choral Society; Zionist Organization of Yeshiva; French Club -r-T U MANDELL ISAAC GANCHRDW Brooklyn, N. Y. Pre-Med Young Democrats, president; Stu dent Council, secretary-treasurer; I.R.S., secretary; Pre -Medical Society; Photography Club; Commentator; Co- op, governing board; Senior Varsity Show; Senior Council; Y.U.A.A.; Com- mittees: Medical, Finance, Dorm, Awards; Debating Society ;;i_t: no HARDLD GENAUER Seattle, Washington Economies Chug Ivri ELLIOTT A. GINSBERG Far Rockaway, N. Y. Economics MASMID, business manager; Com- mentator; Wrestling; I.R.S.; Pre-Law Society; Chug Ivri; Senior-Freshman Guidance; Co-op; Senior Varsity; Senior Council SIMDN GLUCK Brooldyn, N. Y. Sociology Sociology Club, presicient; Pre-law Society; Psychology Club; Jewish Philosophy Club; I.R.S., secretary; MASMID, activities editor; Commenta- tor; Senior-Freshman Guidance; Fenc- ing; Dean ' s Reception MICHAEL L. GOLDBERG Boston, Moss. English Commentator, circulation manager; Pre-Law Society; S.A.C.; Audio-Visual, chairman; Committees: Building Re- pairs, Clean Up; Co-op; Dean ' s Recep- tion 111 JOSHUA H. GORTLER Phoenix, Ariz. Psychology Y.U. Drive, chairman; MASMID; Hamelit z; Soccer; Psychology Club; Sociology Club; Hebrevt Club; Dean ' s Reception ALAN MARSHALL GREENSPAN Bridgeport, Conn. English Student Council, vice president; MASMID; photography editor; Com- mentator, photography editor; Ath- letic Manager; Fencing; Dean ' s Recep- tion; Photography Club; Hobby Club; Art Club; Pre-Law Society; I.R.S. MANUEL HENZEL Brooklyn, N. Y. Economics Photography Club, president; Ten- nis Team, manager; Co-op bookkeeper TSVI HARRY INGBER Valley Stream, N. Y. Hebrew French Club; Fencing; Wrestling SEYMOUR JDTKDWITZ Brooklyn, N. Y. Pre-Med National Student Association, dele- gate; Commentator; Chemistry So- ciety; Pre-Medical Society; Tennis 112 JOEL HOWARD KAPLAN Far Rockaway, N. Y. Pre-Med MASMID, sports editor; Commenta- tor, managing editor; Tennis; Chess; Basketball; Pre-Medicol Society; Chess Club; Senior-Freshman Guidance; Freshman Council; Sophomore Coun- cil; Junior Council ALEXANDER I. J. KATZ Brooklyn, N. Y. Pre-Dental Biology Society, president; Assist- ant Athletic Manager; Wrestling; Pre- Medical Society; Commentotor; Com- mittees: Building Repairs, Clean Up, Food SAMUEL KAYE Jersey City, N.J. Pre-Med Co-op, canteen manager; Pre-Medi- col Society; Biology Society; Commit- tees: Building ELI KIRSHBLUM Brooklyn, N. Y. Sociology Tennis; Pre-Law Society; Sociology Club 113 ROBERT KLEIN Brooklyn, N. Y. Biology Biology Society; Music Club; Chug Ivri; Zionist Organization of Yeshiva; Committees: Food, Clean Up; Fencing WILLIAM PAUL KLEIN Brooklyn, N. Y. Pre-Med Pre-Medical Society, vice president; French Club, secretary-treasurer; MAS- MID, co-typing editor; Commentator; Tennis Team, manager; Choral So- ciety; Student Resident Organization, secretary-treasurer; Senior-Freshman Guidance; Y.U.A.A.; Freshman Coun- cil; Sophomore Council; Committees: Building and Repairs; Senior Varsity Show; Biology Society JAY L. KDRN New York, N. Y. Pre-Med Pre-Medical Society; Chemistry So- ciety; Chess Club, secretary-treasurer; Commentator; Fencing; Committees: Library DBCAR J. KRANZ Bronx, N. Y. Pre-Med Pre-Medical Society; Young Demo- crats, secretary; Soccer Team; French Club 114 SHIMON KWE5TEL Brooklyn, N. Y. Chemistry S.A.C., chairman ' 56- ' 57; Senior Freshman Guidance; Senior Class, president; MASMID, business man- ager; Used Book Exchange, chairman; Chemistry Society; Swimming Instruc- tor; Young Democrats; Senior Advisor to S.A.C. ' 57- ' 58; Committees: Student Faculty, Awards, chairman, Building and Repairs, Canvassing. ARNDLD ABRAHAM LAMM Bronx, N. V. Hebrew FREDERIC LASSER New York, N. Y. Zlasical Languages Nir, editor; Eranos; Eta Sigma Phi; Soccer SHEPPARD M. LEVINE Brooklyn, N. Y. Pre-Dental MASMID, literary editor; Student Residence Organization Court; Junior Council; De an ' s Reception; Co-op; Scroll associate feature editor; Pre- Medlcol Society; Biology Society; Com- mittees: Food, Library 115 PAUL LIEBERMAN Bronx, N. Y. Chemistry Chemistry Society; Physics Club NATHAN MEISELMAN Bronx, N. Y. Pre-Denfal Basketball; Young Democrats, vice president; Physics Club; Pre-Medical Society; Commentator; S.A.C., produc- tion manager; Blood Drive, co-chair- man; Senior Council; Committees: Awards, Senior Dinner, Canvassing, co-chairman CHAIN NAJMAN Bronx, N. Y. English Commenfator; MASMID; Choral So- ciety 116 TSVI NUSSBAUM New York, N. Y. Pre-Med Pre-Medical Society; Chemistry So- ciety; MASMID; Senior Class, vice president MICHA FALK DPPENHEIM New York, N. Y. Sociology I.R.S.; Sociology Club; Choral So- ciety; Senior Varsity Show CHARLES PATT Brooklyn, N. Y. Mafh Mathematics Club, president; Chess Club, vice president; Chess Team, cap- tain; Co-op, manager; Commentafor; MASMID; Committees: Canvassing, Publicity LESTER PDLLAK Bronx, N. Y. Pre-Med Pre-Medical Society JEROME PDMERANTZ Bronx, N. Y. History 117 JERRY QUINT Liberty, N. Y. Pre-Med Tennis Team, captain; Student Resi- dent Organization, secretary-treasur- er; Student Court; Senior Varsity Show; Pre-Medical Society; Dormitory Executive Committee, cliairman DANIEL MDRDECAI RICH New York, N. Y. Psychology Psychology Club; Co-op; Dean ' s Re- ception; Committees: Building and Repairs HARVEY RDSEN Bronx, N. Y. Pre-Denial Blood Drive, co-chairman; Basket- ball; Wrestling; Pre-Medical Society; Young Democrats 118 i JOSEPH RDTHBERGER Astoria, N. Y. Hebrew Hebrew Club; Sociology Club; Choral Society, president LED RUBIN Brooklyn, N. Y. Pre-Med Pre-Medlcal Society; Photography Club, vice presiden t; MASMID; Senior Council; Dean ' s Reception; Commit- tees: Food MAIER C. SADWIN Mattapan, Mass. Mafh Tennis Team, Varsity manager; Mathematics Club; Choral Society; Commentator JACOB JOCHANAN SAFRA Miami Beach, Fla. Physics 119 ANSHEL SCHACHTER New York, N. Y. Pre-Dental Soccer Team, captain; MASMID; Commentator; Senior Freshman Gui- dance; Co-op; Biology Society; Chem- istry Society; Committees: Library, Publicity SIMEON SCHREIBER New York, N. Y. English Tennis; MASMID; Commentator; Co- op, mail order manager; Senior-Fresh- man Guidance; Pre-Medical Society MDRTDN DAVID SEEWALD Brooklyn, N. Y. Economics Co-op; Commenfafor; Pre-Medical Society; Chess; Fencing; Bowling HARVEY Z. SENTER Brooklyn, N. Y. Math Mathematics Club ABRAHAM SHAPIRO Brooklyn, N. Y. Political Science I.R.S., president; Commentator, edi- tor-in-chief; you The Student, editor; Young Democrats, treasurer; Pre-Law Society, secret ary-treasurer; Student Resident Organization; Debating So- ciety, general manager, secretary- treasurer; Committees: Building and Repairs, Clean Up 120 LEONARD ZELIG SHAPIRO Brooklyn, N. Y. Pre-Med Pre-Medical Society; Fencing; Fresh- man Class, president; Sophomore Class, president; French Club, vice president; S.A.C., club coordinator; co- op; Dean ' s Reception; Basketball; Com- mittees: Food, chairman JOSEPH A. SINGER Brooklyn, N. Y. Pre-Med Pre-Medical Society, president; Dean ' s Reception; Senior Varsity Show, co-author; Biology Society; Pre- Varsity Debating Society, president; S.A.C., co-chairman; Commentator; Tennis; Sophomore Council JACOB E. STEINHORN Bronx, N. Y. Hebrew Basketball Team, assistant man- ager; Eaos; Jewish Philosophy So- ciety; Choral Society; Eta Sigma Phi 121 IRA STEINMETZ Brooklyn, N. Y. Sociology Basketball Team, captain; Sociol- ogy Club JOSEPH B. STERN Israel Political Science i.R.S.; Zionist Organization of Yesh- iva; Sociology Club HERMAN STDNE New York, N. Y. Pre-Dental Athletic Manager, Senior class; Co- op; Committees: Library, chairman; MASMID; Pre-Medical Society; Mathe- matics Club; Chemistry Society; Bowl- ing; Basketball LOUIS TAUBENBLAT Brooklyn, N. Y. Psychology Y.U. Drive, co-chairman; Chess Club, president; Chess Team, captain; Committees: Lost and Found, chair- man. Canvassing, chairman. Building and Repairs; Raconfer, co-editor; French Club; Psychology Club MARVIN TOKAYER Miami, Fla. Philosophy Tennis Team, assistant manager; Pre-Medical Society; Photography Club; Commentator 122 MATISYOHU WEISENBERG Worcester, Mass. Psychology MASMID, theme coordinator; Co- op, manager; Senior Advisor ' 57- ' 58; Dean ' s Reception; Soccer; Chug Ivri; Psi Chi; Senior-Freshman Guidance; Committees: Canvassing DAVID M. WINTER Brooklyn, N. Y. History Senior-Freshman Guidance; Com- mittees: Canvassing; Soccer; Chess Club; French Club JEREMIAH WDHLBERG Brooklyn, N. Y. English Student Council, president; Pre-Law Society, vice president; I.R.S., vice president; Pre-Varsity Debating Team; Dramatics Club; Zionist Organization of Yeshiva; Commentator; Commit- tees: Library, circulation; Junior Class, representative - at - large; Sophomore Council; Basketball; Dean ' s Reception MARVIN YAGED Brooklyn, N. Y. Hebrew Chug Ivri; Jewish Philosophy So- ciety; Scroll, feature editor; Hamelitz; MASMID 123 EPHRAIM I. ZIMAND Bronx, N. Y. English MASMID; Dean ' s Reception; Senior- Freshman Guidance; Pre-Law Society; Sociology Club; Jewish Philosophy Society; Basketball SIDNEY ZIMELMAN Portand, Me. English Eta Sigma Phi; Choral Society, president; Chug Ivri BERNARD SILVERSTEIN New York, N. Y. Sociology Sociology Club, president; I.R.S., vice president; Pre-Law; Society; Commentator, business manager; Blood Drive, chairman SHELDON SDCDL Brooklyn, N. Y. Political Science Pre-Law Society; I.R.S. 124 EMANUEL STERNBERG Brooklyn, N. Y. 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