Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 144 of the 1961 volume:

MASMID 1961 TIME ON EARTH IS A PATTERN OF WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS - AND ON EACH OF THE WHEELS JUDAISM HAS SET ITS STAMP. ' THIS IS MY G-D HERMAN WOUK Man is a creature who, by his very nature, aspires to progress. The world has left the age of steel and elec- tricity; it has entered the age of space and the atom. Man is faced with a great choice: he has the tools with which he can eradicate pain, hunger, and disease; how- ever, with these same tools he can also destroy him- self and his earth. But material progress without a concurrent devel- opment in moral and spiritual values is extremely dangerous. Mechanism knows no right or wrong. If man is to profit by technical progress, he must be guided by an ethical code of values. The ideal of Juda- ism is the preservation and growth of these ethical prin- ciples — principles that will guide material prosperity. DEDICATION r Tf ----- 1 ■ ■ Dr. Seymour Lainoff Assistant Professor of English The purpose of a college education is two-fold: first, it prepares the individual for independent thought and action and, perhaps more important, it enables him to recognize his own intellectual limitations. In carrying out this program, education, faced with these seemingly contradictory goals, must mold the student by blending pride in himself with consideration for the opinions of others. In short, education must instill not only individ- ualism but humility. Dr. Seymour Lainoff is particularly successful in applying the two aspects of this program. We can remem- ber many pleasant, stimulating hours of exchange of ideas in his classes. He would never curtly dismiss a student ' s comment or question; he was always willing to explore the opinions of others. We feel that he uniquely symbol- izes the successful blending of initiative and humility. Often the quiet, soft-spoken person is overshadowed by his more aggressive associates. Eventually, however, the deserving individual receives his due recognition. It is, therefore, with deep appreciation that we dedicate this Masmid to Dr. Seymour Lainoff. •t HVtn T nVr TABLE OF CONTENTS Faculty Seni ors Activities Literature Advertisements Senior Directory 6 38 70 102 119 136 FACULTY We were the seed; our school, the soil; our teachers, the cultivators. It was by their efforts that we thrived; by their toil that we grew; by their labor that we were dedicated to truth. Or. Samuel Belkin President. Yeshiva University It seems to me that there are four major dimensions into which all human knowledge naturally falls. These four dimensions may be called the four studies of man. The first of these is a study of the world into which we are born. The second dimension of human knowl- edge we may characterize as the study of the peoples among whom we are born. The third phase of knowledge, we may designate as the study of man himself. For our moral purposes in life we are entirely dependent upon our spiritual heritage and religious experiences, upon the things which we classify as Divine Law rather than as the Laws of Nature. Recognition of the unalterable fact that the moral law is as binding on us as human beings as the laws of nature are on the cosmos, is of paramount importance for the survival of mankind. This moral and spiritual purpose of life in no way conflicts with the three branches of knowledge discussed above. On the contrary, it comolements and supplements the knowledge man has acquired through centuries of living and thinking. It affords an end and ideal purpose for all the inventions and discoveries of the human mind. Only after we succeed in integrating the four phases of knowledge, can we hope to build a peace-loving society. Dr. Samuel Belkin The Four Dimensions of Higher Education Mr. Norman B. Abrams Registrar of RIETS RELIGIOUS STUDIES Dr. Hyman B. Grinstein Director of Teachers Institute ADMINISTRATION Rabbi Morris Besdin Chairman of Jewish Studies Program RIETS 10 WLir i! lilt IVWTA TEACHERS INSTITUTE J s p : Dr. Isaac Bacon Dean, Yeshiva College You are the thirtieth graduating class of Yeshiva College and thus join the ranks of the ever-growing number of Yeshiva men who are making impor- tant contributions in every area of American and Jewish life and are playing a particularly significant role in shaping the destiny of the American Jewish community. I should like to think that you who are now leaving these hallowed halls of learning have not been solely on the receiving end in the institutional partner- ship that exists between faculty, student body, and administration. I should like to think that when in years ahead your contributions to the growth of the college will be judged in terms of positive and negative aspects, the positive will dwarf the negative ones. I should like to think that as you leave the relatively sheltered life of Yeshiva College and come to grips with the sometimes cruel realities of life you will as Torah-true men, instilled with religious, ethical, and moral prin- ciples, draw upon the strength imparted to you at Yeshiva in building a meaningful and purposeful life. I wish each and every one of you who are graduating with the class of 1961 farewell in the sense that you may truly fare well. YESHIVA COLLEGE Professor Morris Silverman Registrar Rabbi Ralph Schuchalter Assistant Registrar Rabbi Jerry Hochbaum Assistant Director of Admissions Rabbi David Mirsky Director of Admissions ' = Dr. Moshe Carmilly Assistant Professor of Bible Dr. Moshe Reguer Instructor in Bible JEWISH STUDIES Rabbi Michael Katz Assistant Professor of Bible Mr. Hayim Leaf Assistant Professor of Hebrew Dr. Gershon Churgin Professor of Hebrew Dr. Asher Siev Assistant Professor of Hebrew linr Rabbi Harry Wohlberg Assistant Professor of Bible Dr. Milton Arfa Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew ' - ■B ' ■■1 J? ; f i Yt . ft 18 Dr. Irving Agus Professor of Jewish History J I ' - Dr. Alexander Litman Professor of Philosophy PHILOSOPHY Rabbi Joshua Shmidman Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy Dr. Arthur Hyman Associate Professor of Philosophy Dr. Alexander Brody Professor of History and Economics SOCIAL SCIENCES Dr. Irving Greenberg Assistant Professor of History Mr. Nathan Goldberg Professor of Sociology Dr. Emanuel Rackman Associate Professor of Political Science Mr. James O ' Connor Instructor in Economics Dr. Werner J. Cahnman Lecturer in Sociology Dr. Aaron M. Margalith Professor of Political Science Dr. Nathan Lander Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein Professor of Sociology Dr. Maurice Wohlgelernter Instructor in English LITERATURE and SPEECH Dr. Seymour Lainoff Assistant Professor of English Assistant Registrar Dr. Irving Linn Professor of English 22 Dr. Stanley Weintraub Visiting Assistant Professor of Speech Dr. David Fleisher Professor of English Dr. Herberts. Robinson Visiting Professor of English Mr. Lewis Palter Instructor in Speech ::• Dr. Helmu t E. Adler Associate Professor of Psychology PSYCHOLOGY and EDUCATION Dr. Tobias Wagner Lecturer in Education Dr. Burton Milenbach Lecturer in Psychology o LANGUAGE and ART Professor Louis H. Feldman Assistant Professor of Classical History Dr. Sidney D. Braun Professor of French Dr. Nina Syniawska Lecturer in Russian Mr. Murray H. Feder Lecturer in German Dr. Maurice E. Chernowitz Professor of Fine Arts Dr. Nathan Susskind Visiting Associate Professor of Yiddish Dr. Ralph P. Rosenberg Professor of German Dr. Karl Adler Professor of Music Dr. Louis F. Sas Visiting Professor of Spanish Dr. Eli M. Levine Professor of Chemistry CHEMISTRY Mr. Abraham Kasser Laboratory Assistant 28 Dr. Arnold Lowan Professor of Physics PHYSICS Dr. Joel Lebowitz Associate Professor of Physics 30 Rabbi Perez Posen Assistant Professor of Physics Dr. Leon F. Landovitz Assistant Professor of Physics Dr. David Finkelstein Associate Professor of Physics 2 MATH Rabbi Jonah Mann Instructor in Mathematics Mr. Charles Patt Teaching Fellow in Mathematics Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Mr. Harvey Z. Senter Teaching Fellow in Mathematics Si m l • Dr. Harry E. Rauch Professor of Mathematics Dr. Leon Ehrenpreis Associate Professor of Mathematics Dr. Henry Lisman Professor of Mathematics :•: Dr. Moses D. Tendler Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Meyer Atlas Professor of Biology Dr. Herman Dlugatz Instructor in Biology Dr. Fred Goodman Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Menachem M. Brayer Consultant Psychologist Mr. Israel Young Assistant Professor of Guidance Mr. Abraham Hurwitz Professor of Physical Education Director of Student Services GUIDANCE Dr. Eli Sar, M.D. Assistant Professor of Hygiene Dr. Samuel Sar Dean of Men Dr. Bruno Z. Kisch. M.D. Professor of The History and Philosophy of Science Medical Director :■; Mr. Solomon Zeides Librarian K ' ft . m ■ ■ ■m m b LIBRARY Mr. Aaron Gursky Mr. Joseph Shapiro SECRETARIES SENIORS Indeed, our residence at Yeshiva exposed us to a double portion. We, the students, bridging two worlds — the secular and the religious — synthesized these and, like young shoots that thrive best when supplied with both sunshine and water, we flourished, deriving our strength from the rays of Torah and the wells of science. 38 i W A I TZVI ABUSCH History Tl— Bernard Revel Eranos PHILIP ALTER English RIETS Pi Delta Phi French Club Literary Club HERBERT AMSTER History RIETS Tennis Team S.O.Y. Representative Jewish Forum Club Psychology Club Seforim Exchange ISIDOR M. APTERBACH English RIETS MASMID— Literary Editor Chess Team Literary Society — President Chess Club— President ROBERT ASCH Psychology RIETS Commentator— Circulation Staff Swimming Team Emergency Car Pool Ice Skating Club Senior Varsity Show Basketball Intramural Team Psychology Club ALAN BALSAM Pre-Medical RIETS Pre-Med Society Biology Club Y.U. Drive PHILIP BALSAM RICHARD BARTH GARY BAUM Psychology Tl Mathematics RIETS Pre-Dental JSP Commentator— Business Staff MASMID— Typing Editor Varsity Basketball Team T.I. Student Council Student Court Justice Commentator — Sports Staff Blood Drive Committee Math Club— Vice President Pre-Med Society Psychology Club Tennis Team Sociology Club Math Club Basketball Intramural Team Physics Club French Club Pi Mu Epsilon — Vice President Senior — Freshman Guidance SHAEL BELLOWS Sociology RIETS Pre-Law Society — President Sociology Club — Vice President Dorm Council Chairman— Dorm Repairs Committee Blood Drive Committee Senior Varsity Show MEYER BERGLAS Mathematics RIETS Commentator— Associate Board Pre-Varsity Debating Math Club HERBERT BIALIK Pre-Dental Tl T.I. Student Council Co-op Staff Biology Club Psychology Club Pre-Med Society Physics Club Jewish Forum Club ALVIN BLUMENFELD Political Science Tl Pre-Law Society — Vice President Co-op Staff Blood Drive Committee Basketball Intramural Team ISRAEL BRAFMAN Biology RIETS Chairman— Club Coordinating Committee Sophomore Class Council Biology Club— President Biological Review— Editor Basketball Intramural Team RONALD K. BURKE Biology JSP MASMID— Literary Staff Chief Justice— Student Court Debating Society— General Manager Pre-Med Society — Secretary Tennis Team Biology Society HERSCHEL G. COHEN Mathematics RIETS Chairman— Tutoring Committee Senior Class Vice President Y.U. Varsity Debating Team Pi Delta Phi Student Activities Committee Examinations Committee Math Club PERRY ECK Pre-Medical Tl Commentator — Circulation Staff Commentator — News Staff Pre-Med Society MARVIN EDELMAN Biology Tl Nir— Editor Co-captain Soccer Squad Biology Society J. MICHAEL EPSTEIN History Tl— Cantorial Training Inst. Senior — Freshman Guidance Dean ' s Reception Choral Society— Vice President French Club Economics Club International Relations Society MARTIN EPSTEIN Mathematics Tl Debating Team— Manager Basketball Team— Manager Co-op Staff Math Club Basketball Intramural Team Swimming Instructor HERSHEL FARKAS SAMUEL FEDER JACK FEIN Mathematics RIETS Pre-Dental Tl Pre-Medical Tl President of Sophomore Class Co-op Staff Hebrew Literary Society Commentator— Circulation Manager Tours Committee —Co-chairman Alumni— Student Faculty Committee Tennis Team Tzohar— Editor-in-Chief Canvassing Committee Pre-Med Society Pre-Medical Journal— Editor-in-Chief Pi Mu Epsilon Basketball Intramural Team Biological Journal— Associate Editor Math Club Pre-Med Society— Vice President Fencing Team Commentator Staff Blood Drive Committee AZRIEL FEINER HARVEY FELSEN Economics Tl Political Science Tl T.I. Class President Manager of Co-op Co-op Staff Blood Drive Economics Club International Relations Society Zionist Club Pre-Law Society Basketball Intramural Team -: NATHAN FINKIEL English RIETS Dean ' s Reception Committee Tours Committee GERALD STEPHEN FOGELMAN SAMUEL FRANK PHILIP FRIEDMAN Mathematics RIETS English RIETS Pre-Medical RIETS Hamodea— Editor Kol— Editor-in-Chief Pre-Med Society Open Road Club— President MASMID— Literary Staff Chemistry Club R.I.E.T.S. Class President Student Court Justice Tennis Team — Co-manager Literary Club — President French Club — President Eranos — Vice President Pi Delta Phi Dormitory Council Senior— Freshman Guidance DANIEL FRIMMER Pre-Medical Tl MASMID— Co-Sports Editor Commentator —Assistant Sports Editor Yavneh— Vice President Literary Society — Secretary Blood Drive— Class Chairman Tennis Team— Co-captain Senior Varsity Show —Business Manager AARON FRUCHTER Mathematics RIETS Freshman Newspaper— Editor Hebrew Literary Magazine —Co-editor Pi Mu Epsilon S.O.Y. Coaching SAUL GANCHROW English RIETS Dean ' s Reception— Chairman Young Democrats — Vice President Pre-Law Society— Vice President Audio-Visual Committee — Co-chairman Senior Varsity Show MURRAY GELLER English RIETS President of Student Council President of Junior ; Commentator— Assistant Copy Editor S.O.Y. Delegate Author — Director of Class r Religious Guidance Committee — Chairman Building Repairs Comr Chemistry Club Awards Committee JONATHAN I. GINSBERG Mathematics RIETS Commentator— Rewrite Editor Tennis Team Math Team Tutoring Committee HOWARD ZEV GOLDBERG Economics Tl MASMID— Business Manager MASMID— Typing Staff Student Discount Committee —Chairman Freshman — Senior Smoker — Chairman Photography Club— Vice President Senior Varsity Show EMANUEL GOLDBLUM Psychology-Education Chavrusa Committee RIETS ARTHUR GOLDMAN Pre-Dental JSP Basketball Team— Manager Co-op Staff Pre-Med Society STANFORD MILTON GOLDMAN Pre-Medical Tl MASMID-Copy Editor Fencing Team Manager of Canteen Commentator— Assistant Copy Editor T.I. Student Council Publicity Committee Chemistry Club Pre-Med Society ■ Sociology Club CALVIN GOLDSCHEIDER Sociology Tl Commentator— Assistant Copy Editor Curriculum Evaluation Committee — Chairman Dormitory Arrangements Committee — Chairman Sociology Club Senior— Freshman Guidance Senior Varsity Show ALVIN RUBINOFF GOLUB English JSP Dormitory Committee Pre-Varsity Debating Choral Society Senior Varsity Show Literary Society Political Science Club French Club Zionist Club GERALD GOLUB Sociology Tl Dormitory Council Wrestling Team— Manager Wrestling Team Co-op Staff Blood Drive Committee Mail Committee Ring Committee Hebrew Club WILLIAM GOLUB Hebrew RIETS Hebrew Club Chavrusa Committee STANLEY L. GREENBAUM Biology RIETS MASM ID— Activities Editor Vocational Guidance Committee — President Biology Society— President Pre-Med Society MICHAEL GREENEBAUM Physics RIETS MASMID— Copy Editor Physics Club — President Math Club Pi Mu Epsilon Alumni- Student Vocational Guidance Committee Senior— Freshman Guidance Chavrusa Committee LAWRENCE GREENFIELD Psychology Tl Chess Team Tzohar— Copy Editor Psychology Club— Vice President Physics Club Vocational Guidance Committee Curriculum Evaluation Committee RAYMOND GRODNER AVERY GROSS Sociology RIETS Mathematics RIETS S.O.Y. Representative President of Senior Class Y.U. Drive Collector MASMID— Photography Editor Chabura Committee Senior— Freshman Guidance Committee S.O.Y. Awards Committee— Chairman — Chairman Matzo and Wine Committee N.S.A. Delegate Choral Society Canvassing Committee — Associate Chairman Dormitory Committee Awards Committee— Chairman 50 • E Ml : L MARK GROSS Pre-Medical Tl Nir— Feature Editor Pre-Med Sc. Biology Club Chemistry Club AARON GUTMAN Pre-Dental JSP JAMES JOSEPH HAIN KEITH WILLIAM HARVIE Pre-Medical JSP J.S.P. Student Council Biology Journal Biology Club Pre-Dental RIETS Wrestling Team — Assistant Manager Fencing Team MASMID— Typing Staff S.O.Y. Delegate Student Discount Committee Blood Drive Committee Alumni-Faculty Comrr tl Biology Club Biology Club Chemistry Club Pre-Med Society MICHAEL HAUER Economics RIETS Fencing Team Chess Team Chess Club — President MICHAEL HECHT English RIETS MASMID— Associate Editor S.O.Y.— President Junior Class— Vice President Literary Society— Vice President Medical Committee— Chairman Freshman Paper— Sports Editor HOWARD STEPHEN JOSEPH Mathematics RIETS Executive Dormitory Committee Co-op— Record Manager Tennis Team Math Club WILLIAM KANTROWITZ Mathematics Tl Vice President of Student Council MASMID— Photography Editor Commentator — Photography Editor Class Newspaper— Editor Mathematics Club— President Public Relations Committee of Student Council — Chairman Author — Director of Class Plays Commentator— Typing Editor Pi Mu Epsilon— President BERNARD H. KAPLAN Hebrew Tl Commentator— Managing Editor Tennis Team— Captain Varsity Debating Society Pre-Law Society MASMID— Literary Staff MASMID— Sports Staff Basketball Intramural Team KENNETH KLEIN LOUIS KORNGOLD LAWRENCE KRANES English Tl— Bernard Revel Pre-Medical Tl Psychology Tl MASMID— Literary Staff MASMID— Sports Editor Varsity Basketball Team Pre-Varsity Debating Basketball Team — Captain Co-op Staff Raconter Commentator — Sports Staff Psychology Club T.I. Class Representative Pre-Med Society Distribution Committee— Chairman Biology Club Pre-Law Society Senior — Freshman Smoker Literary Club FRED KRAUSE Psychology RIETS Wrestling Team Psychology Club Sociology Club Basketball Intramural Team STANLEY KUPINSKY Sociology RIETS Commentator— Circulation Staff Sociology Club— Vice President Psychology Club Canvassing Committee — Chairman Curriculum Evaluation Committee Blood Drive Basketball Intramural Team MURRAY LAULICHT Chemistry RIETS Commentator — Editor-in-Chief Debating Society— President Yavneh Society— President Commentator — News Editor Sophomore Class Delegate-at-large Freshman Paper — Editor-in-Chief International Relations Society — Vice President Faculty — Student Examinations Committee— Head Student Delegate Chemistry Club ELI LEITER MAX LEW JOSEPH LIFSCHITZ Psychology RIETS English RIETS Political Science RIETS MASM ID— Literary Staff Kol— Editor-in-Chief MASMID— Activities Editor Student Court Justice Chess Team Student Activities Committee Chess Team Class Newspaper— Copy Editor — Chairman Psychology Club— President Literary Club— Vice President Commentator— Circulation Manager Sociology Journal — Editor French Club— Secretary-Treasurer Club Co-ordinator Curriculum Evaluation Committee Jewish Historical Society Dean ' s Reception — Co-chairman — Co-chairman —Secretary-Treasurer Zionist Club— President Dean ' s Reception Senior— Freshman Guidance Pre-Law Society Food Committee Freshman Class— Vice President Pre-Varsity Debating A LESLIE LINDENBERG Pre-Medical JSP Pre-Med Society Biology Club Open Road Club Instrumental Group ALLEN L. MANDEL Psychology-Education RIETS Class M.C. Senior — Freshman Smoker Hobby Club 5; EDWARD ALAN MARON Pre-Medical Tl Commentator — Photography Staff Varsity Fencing Team Medical Committee— Chairman Photography Club— Secretary BERNARD MATUS Pre-Medical Tl Photography Club — President Pre-Med Society Chemistry Club SHELDON MEINER Mathematics RIETS Physical Facilities Committee — Chairman Canvassing Committee Senior — Freshman Guidance Math Club Sociology Club Basketball Intramural Team JACK MERKIN English Tl Wrestling Team Dramatics Society Senior— Freshman Smoker Dean ' s Reception Committee Senior Varsity Show Ushers Committee Basketball Intramural Team 56 MORTON MINCHENBERG History RIETS Chess Team— Captain Y.U. Drive— Chairman Chess Club— President International Relations Society —President Jewish Historical Society —Vice President S.O.Y. Delegate Pi Delta Phi Co-op Staff Student— Faculty-Judiciary Committee FREDERICK NATHAN History Tl Y.U. Drive Freshman and Sophomore Class Newspapers Chug Ivri 1 I STEVEN ALAN NISON Economics Tl Fencing Team— Manager New York Times Representative Co-op Staff Senior— Freshman Guidance Dormitory Mail Committee Photography Club GENE POTTER Pre-Medical JSP J.S.P. Student Council — Class Represent ' J.S.P. Publication— Editor-in-Chief Co-op Staff Medical Committe of Student Council — Chairman Bowling Team — Manager Bowling Instructor : MARK PRESS Chemistry RIETS S.O.Y.— Vice President Dormitory Committee Chemistry Club BERNARD RACHELLE English Tl Dramatics Society Tours Committee MICHAEL REICH JOSEPH S. REISS Chemistry RIETS Pre-Medical RIETS Soccer Squad— Captain Pre-Med Society— President Swimming Team Biology Club Pre-Med Society Chemistry Club Chess Club Biology Club 58 ALLAN D. RENKOFF Pre-Medical JSP Y.U. Drive Committee Pre-Med Society Biology Club Photography Club Swimming Instructor JOSEPH RIFKIND Chemistry RIETS Chemistry Journal— Co-editor S.O.Y. Representative Dean ' s Reception Committee Chemistry Society— Secretary-Treasurer Physics Club EUGENE ROSHWALB Sociology RIETS Commentator— Business Manager Blood Drive Chairman Co-op— Assistant Manager TOBIAS ROTH Psychology RIETS Wrestling Team Wrestling Team — Manager Co-op — Assistant Manager Commentator Staff Psychology Club WILLIAM HARVEY ROTHCHILD Sociology JSP Student Court Justice Wrestling Team Sociology Club — President Student Council Mail Committee Dormitory Oneg Shabbat Committee Senior Varsity Show ; : DAVID ARNOLD ROTHNER JESSE S. SALSBERG Pre-Medical RIETS Psychology Tl MASMID — Business Manager TJ. Student Council Junior Class Student Council Co-op Staff — Representative Psychology Club Chairman— Executive Council Sociology Club —College Dorm Dean ' s Reception Committee Tutoring Committee Tours Committee ARNOLD SCHEINBERG English RIETS Jewish Historical Society International Relations Society Eranos Dean ' s Reception Play Basketball Intramural Team RICHARD SCHLIFSTEIN Psychology, History Tl Eranos— President Eta Sigma Phi — President Social Welfare Club— President Open Road Club— President 60 MARVIN SCHNEIDER Sociology RIETS S.O.Y. Delegate Bedikas T ' fillin Committee English Club MATTHEW SHATZKES Mathematics RIETS DAVID SHEINKIN Pre-Medical Tl — Bernard Revel Athletic Manager Varsity Fencing Team — Captain Basketball Intramural Team Y.U. Drive Fencing Team Pre-Med Society WILLIAM LOEB SHIMANSKY BENJAMIN M. SILVERBERG English Tl Mathematics RIETS Co-op Staff Food Committee — Chairman Student Emergency Car Pool Matzoh Committee— Chairman Literary Society Canvassing Committee Basketball Intramural Team Halachah Committee First Aid Committee Math Club Physics Club SHERMAN SIMANOWITZ Chemistry RIETS Chemistry Society— President Commentator— Art Editor Chemistry Journal— Co-editor Basketball Intramural Team Class Newspapers — Sports Editor Sergeant-at-Arms— Student Council Dean ' s Reception Senior — Freshman Guidance Physics Club 62 MELVIN STERN JOSHUA L. STERNBERG H. NORMAN STRICKMAN Pre-Medical RIETS Pre-Medical RIETS History RIETS MASM ID— Associate Editor Raconter Jewish Historical Society— President Commentator— Associate Editor Kol International Relations Society Commentator— Copy Editor Pre-Med Society —Secretary-Treasurer Chemistry Club French Society Sociology Club Pre-Med Society Commentator— Circulation Staff Senior— Freshman Guidance Food Committee S.O.Y. Delegate JOSEPH TUCHMAN Physics RIETS Commentator — Circulation Manager Co-op Manager Bowling Team — Captain Math Club— Secretary Pi Mu Epsilon Physics Club RICHARD HARVEY VIENER Political Science RIETS Commentator — Circ 2: : Student Activities C : Dean ' s Reception Committee Assembly Committee Ushers Committee Zionist Club Pre-Law Society Basketball Intramura Team SIMON WEINER Biology Tl Commentator Staff Senior — Freshman Guidance Chemistry Club Biology Club Chess Club Basketball Intramural Team SAUL WOHLBERG English RIETS Fireside Chats Committee Literary Club Music Appreciation Club Senior Varsity Show ILAN ZAMIR-HALPERN Pre-Medical Tl Nir— Co-editor Tzohar— Associate Editor Biology Society— Secretary-Treasurer Guidance Committee Chess Club Pre-Med Society MORRIS ZAUDERER Economics RIETS Economics Journal— Editor Commentator— News Staff Dormitory Council Representative Economics Club— President Audio-Visual Committee— Chairman SAUL EISENBUO YITZCHAK FRANK JACK SOLOMON GOLDBERG STEPHEN LEONARD HERMELE BERNARD MEYER ZAZULA Pre-Medical RIETS MASMID— Editor-in-Chief Tzohar — Associate Editor Sophomore Class Paper — Associate Editor Pre-Med Society— Secretary Fireside Chats Committee— Ch; Hebrew Club — Co-chairman Biology Club Senior — Freshman Guidance : ' : SENIOR DINNER Dr., ah, ah, Rabbi Dr. Belkin Mr. President 66 •5 ,1 J«S Remember, this is not for journalism! As a token of our appreciation : and friends GRADUATION Anyone have a needle? The Last Mile 68 ' mi ' .Mini r i.ir.li.ill V Dr. Barnaby C. Keeney President, Brown University Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman Doctor of Divinity, Honoris Causa ■ «r ACTIVITIES And so, the inner self was formed: Jew, American, Modern. We sent forth exploring tendrils into the nooks and crannies, secured a firmer foothold, and thus, balanced against all winds, we stood. It was by our participation in those functions outside of the academic field that we gained the experience and the practical strength to weather the storms of life. CLUBS • s ' «•« ... • t ■  U a. Bb ilH . its ■■ I ena an A recent bulletin from Yeshiva ' s Department of Public Relations takes note of the fact that a wide range of social, cultural and athletic activities offers the student unlimited opportunities for intellectual stim- ulation and character growth. As yearly chroniclers of student activities of Yeshiva, here is MASMID ' s de- scription of these activities, the raw facts of The Club Story. Starting with the Literary Society, a fitting club for the People of the Book, the highlight of the year was Dr. Linn ' s speech on The Writer and Neuroses, a subject dear to the hearts of every student. This club also had a panel discussion on the topic Is ' Lady Chatterley ' s Lover ' Obscene? , a subject even dearer to our hearts. After a careful search, the words physical contact were found 417 times which makes the book automatically asur . The Pre-Med Society, taking up where the Literary Society left off, featured numerous films on a wide variety of topics, e.g. Natural Childbirth, Childbirth With Complications, and Birth Control (in that order). Also shown were the films Brain Surgery in Ten Easy Lessons and Infectious Diseases and Their Relation to Exams. That the Pre-Med Society continues to sur- vive although so few of our students are pre-med majors (most of them majoring in Rabbinics) never fails to surprise us. However, this is not our concern at present. Continuing where we left off, the members attended a demonstration of microscopes, extremely useful in lo- cating such minute items as Socol ' s Scholarships and Parker ' s Portions. The Biology Club put out a number of profound writings. One paper proved that Weissman ' s classical experiment (in which mice whose tails had been cut off gave birth to mice with tails) was completely unneces- sary. All he had to do was to look at the Jews, and the law of Bris Milan. Dr. Tendler spoke on Evolution and advanced the radical proposal that man evolved from dust and not from apes. If this be so, there are whole hordes of future generations under our dorm beds. Dr. Belkin also contributed a monograph on marine biology entitled, A Philosophy of Porpoise. The Chemistry Society, not to be outdone, devoted itself to distinguishing, by chemical procedure, between milchig and fleishig ions. It was unanimously decided that the hydrogen ion concentration of pure water should be batel b ' rov, a decision to be included in the Club ' s first publication, A Halachic Approach to Chem- istry. In the Electronics Club, the big news is station WZKPZ (whatever zounds kood please zend). These de- votees of blips, buzzes, and flashing lights are starting their own radio station right in Yeshiva Residence Hall. Open Road Club Max Lew, Editor of The Kol, publication of the Literary Society. The International Relations Society, in true demo- cratic spirit, gave equal tin opposing side for a talk on Arabs and Isr; don ' t they believe us when we tell tl doesn ' t exist? ). Ranging h following talks were on A Free and Independent Bul- garia (a satellite seeking enough es ' u -. : fiii ' .ht) and The Cuban Situation, appropriately v hi dull d durin;; sephira. % s . X tt ' i- Michael Greenebaum President, Physics Society. Stephen Goldberg, President, Music Appreciation Club. Barry Silber, Vice-President, Young Dems. Shael Bellows, President, Pre-Law Society. from left to right: William Kantrowitz, President, Math- ematics Society; Professor J. S. Frame, Minnesota State University; Professor H. Lisman; at installation of Soci- ety into Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary Fraternity. The Physics Club, tackling the topic from its point of view, produced the following equations: 1. The Length (L) in cm. of a pair of tzitzis is directly portional to the size of a shirt (S) and inversely proportional to the temperature (K). All this is multi- plied by the factor R, known as the Rebbe ' s constant (a variable). Thus L=R(|). 2. The boldness of the color scheme (S) of a Yeshiva boy ' s yarmulka is equal to the product of the Ego Quotient (E) of the wearer times the color of the wool available at Macy ' s at the time (M)- divided by the degree of affection of the girlfriend who made it (°A). This figure is then changed to light wavelengths by a conversion factor equal to the square of the gematria value of shatnes. Thus S = -|M. x (shatnes)- The Math Society had an eventful year. They had the pleasure of joining a National Mathematics Hono- rary Fraternity. An initiation ritual was immediately set up which included having to determine the square root of a matzoh (which is no mean feat in view of the shape of some matzohs). Stan Boylan delivered a talk on Previously Puzzling Putnam Problems, after which it became downright impossible. William Kantrowitz spoke on Computer Programming For Fun and Profit, while Benjy Volk lectured on Operators, which sounds pretty suspicious, if you ask us. The Open Road Club (no connection with Jack Kerouac ' s organization) devoted itself to the improve- ment of the Yeshiva look, and took as its motto: 4-D, but not 4-F! Following Horace Greeley ' s advice to Go West, the club had a Lag Ba-Omer Hike along the New Jersey Palisades. A Faculty-Student Picnic and a snow- ball fight were also listed among the activities. Bicycle trips were scheduled and many of the campus wheels made their appearance. And, of course, who can forget the early, early minyan? Probably most of us. Also taking to the open road, the Chess Society ini- tiated a series of tournament tours, matching the De- bating Society pawn for rebuttal up and down the land. At home, two exhibition matches were held. Pal Benko, wearing a jacket designed by Sheldon Socol, took 29 out of 30 games. Lisa Lane, in her first encounter with Yeshiva hours, found her game slipping somewhat by 3:00 AM and retired, finally, down 9 games. The woman ' s chess queen checked out at 4:00 AM, but the Society felt it was a good night and didn ' t feel rooked. The French Club, dedicated to the principle that the Montmartre has more to offer than Amsterdam Ave- nue, heard a talk by Dr. Braun on Paris — 1960. Dr. Chernowitz ' showing of French slides was not quite what the boys had in mind, but the cover of Raconteur more than made up for it. Pi Delta Phi, the French honor society, held its initiation in the spring. Twelve boys became members. After an impressive secret ritual, refreshments were served and music was supplied by the accomplished piano playing of M. Mickey Posnick. It was a real blast, champagne and all! This concludes our look at the social, cultural, and athletic activities at Yeshiva — the true story of what goes on during that delightful period fondly known as Club Hour. % K r tfL -A 4WVV 1 U . • jl from left to right: Calvin Goldscheider; William Roth- child, President, Sociology Club; Shael Bellows. Morton Minchenberg, President, International Relations Society. 75 Abe Sofaer, President, History Club. The Beginning STUDENT COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL— from left to right: Teddy Ber- man, Secretary: Murray Geller, President; William Kan- trowitz, Vice-President. I ' ll refer it to a committee Student Council is one of the most misunderstood organizations at the College. Many consider it as merely a forum where the school politicians can vent their dis- pleasure at the Administration. Many did not realize that Student Council is much more than that, that advancing the point of view of the student body to the Administration, though albeit an important function of Council, is not the exclusive one. Student Council serves as the sponsor of projects that are both student initiated and student operated. Prime examples are the Dramatics Society, the Co-op, and the Electronics Club, to name but a few. One of the boasts of this year ' s Student Council was that we would finance any reasonable project advanced by the student body. The nature of Student Council is such that it changes as the times necessitate the revision of its policies. The direction of such change is, in a large measure, determined by the students involved in its functioning. Student Council is what the student body wants it to be. ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF STUDENT COUNCIL 1960-61 1. Improvement of living facilities in the senior dormitory. 2. Inclusion of the Debating and Chess Societies as organs of Student Council. 3. Passage of the Fleisher Report. 4. Formation of a Reading Society. 5. Acceptance of the Mathematics Honor Society. 6. Acceptance of the National Debating Forensic Honor Society. 7. Record-breaking blood drive. 8. Publication of the 25th anniversary issue of The Commen- tator. 9. First year of the functioning of the Dramatics Society that sponsored both the Dean ' s Reception and the Freshman Play. 10. First Activities Calendar sponsored by S.C. 11. First open-budget meeting in recent history. 12. Record-breaking publication of The Kol, the S. C. literary magazine. 13. Passage of a Student Court statute. 14. Publication of With Malice Towards None. 15. Sponsorship of a free non-sectarian tutoring service for junior high school students in the neighborhood. SENIOR CLASS COUNCIL -from left to right: Avery Gross, Jack Goldberg, Hershel Cohen. JUNIOR CLASS COUNCIL-from left to right: Dave Lew, Levi Rothkoff, Joshua Muss. SOPHOMORE CLASS COUNCIL— from left to right: Ja- son Rosenblatt, Ephrem Hecht, Mordy Paru. ; FRESHMAN CLASS COUNCIL— from left to right: Alan Shapiro, Melvin Meier, Irwin Ruderfer. Bernard M. Zazula MASMID EDITORIAL BOARD STAFF Editor-in-Chief— Bernard Zazula Associate Editors— Michael Hecht, Melvin Stern Art Editor— Jack Ness Photography Editors— Avery Gross, William Kantrowitz Literary Editor— Isidor Apterbach Business Managers— Howard Goldberg, David Rothner Typing Editor— Richard Barth Sports Editors— Danny Frimmer, Louis Korngold Copy Editors— Stanford Goldman, Michael Greenebaum Activities Editors— Stanley Greenbaum, Joe Lifschitz Art— Aaron Gutman, Fred Nathan, Barry Winet Business— Charles Maurer Literary— Zev Leifer, Eli Leiter, Charles Persky Photography— Barry Gottleib, Aaron Levine, Irv Klavan, C. l.Waxman, Robert Pransky Typing— Keith Harvie SPECIAL THANKS TO: Howard Wohl Associates Mr. George Rubens Public Relations— Yeshiva University Miss Sara Zimmerman Mr. Baruch Kahana Mr. Martin Schneider and especially Howie Begel who tried to sleep through it all Avery Gross William Kantrowit7 Mel Stern, Jack Ness Richard Barth Michael Hecht, Isidor Apterbach Circulation Staff THE COMMENTATOR Murray Laulicht, Editor-in-Chief 60 This year, the 26th in its history, The Commentator led a resolute although varied course. Under the guiding hand of its editor-in-chief, the newspaper printed more pages throughout the entire year than it has done in a long time and ended off by copping its 14th consecutive first class rating. Among the highlights of the year must be included the silver anniversary issue which focused reader at- tention on 25 years of conscientious reporting, featured the history of The Commentator, the various athletic teams, reports from an Austrian concentration camp, the Jewish community of Bombay as well as a vehement plea for the assumption of a single standard by the Gedolai Hador in regard to matters affecting the welfare of the Jewish State. Following this excursion into the distant ports of the world, The Commentator settled down to its avowed task of the year — that of arousing the student body and the Administration to the dire need of improving the cur- riculum in the religious divisions of the University. In an editorial entitled With Malice Towards None , these divisions were scored on their failure to provide an adequate spiritual guidance program for the students and different plans were suggested. Unfortunately, al- though the editorial provoked wide controversy, not much was done this year to further this goal. In other fields of news reporting the students were kept abreast of the latest developments. Features in- cluded reviews of various theatrical and television pro- ductions, analyses of Student Council and its activities, reports from other college newspapers, articles on prob- lems confronting the student body such as penalties for overcutting and the bechina system, as well as the regular features containing a timely peg. A three part series on synthesis was printed and a regular column by the editor-in-chief was reinstated. The sports staff spotlighted various members of the athletic team and to further the cause of Zionism at Yeshiva an article on Israel was included in every issue. The Commentator succeeded in arousing student, faculty, alumni, and administration response and scores of letters from these sources were printed. Otherwise, Commentator was its usual self mixing humor and praise with wit and sarcasm — as the occa- sion arose. GOVERNING BOARD— from left to right: Murray Lau- licht, Joshua Muss, Bill Strauss, Charles Persky. Herb Bloom, Eugene Roshwalb, Murray Geller, Dave Segal. E CO-OP The Cooperative Stores of Yeshiva, located in a suite of rooms on the fourth floor in the main building, is Student Council ' s link with the business world. Many articles, including shavers, records and books, are of- fered here for sale at discount prices. Also part of the Co-op setup is the canteen. From its machines come the candy and soft drinks that enliven many an otherwise boring class. Book Store Manager — Herbert Bloom General Store Manager — Harvey Felsen Canteen Manager — Joseph Tuchman 82 DEBATING TEAM Amid sounds of distress and SOS signals, the debating season got under way. Early in January the Society learned that it, together with the Inter- national Relations Society, would be given an op- portunity to represent Israel at the forthcoming University Model United Nations in Montreal. Thus, the debaters had fulfilled one of their oldest hopes. The seven tours in February and March pro- duced a winning record, much to the surprise of everyone in the school, especially the debaters themselves. President Murray Laulicht and Secretary Ray Bloch dropped two quick debates at Houston (to Rice) and San Francisco (to California) before knocking over the University of San Francisco Stanford, UCLA, Loyola of Los Angeles, USC, and the United States Air Force Academy. Bernard Kaplan and Murray Geller defeated Florida State University and the University of Flo- rida, following a defeat at the hands of Morehouse State. This duo also defeated a team of Miami lawyers who had postulated the abolition of the Electoral College. Other victories were recorded over Carnegie Tech, University of Chicago, Massachusetts, Trin- ity, Northeastern, and the Naval Academy. One month after compiling their 16-10 record, the orators were inducted into Tau Kappa Alpha, the national honorary forensic fraternity, culminat- ing a four-year effort at membership. The final event of the year (aside from the an- nual debates known jokingly as elections) was the fifth annual Yeshiva University Debating Tourna- ment which saw New York University gain perma- nent possession of the Metropolitan Debate Plaque. All in all, the orators enjoyed a fine year, one which, it is hoped, will be duplicated in terms of further expansion and further achievement. Standing, from left to right: Mel Granatsteir. Berre Kaplan, Murray Laulicht, President: Murray Ge : e- Dave Epstein. Seated, from left to right: Mitchel Wolf, Shep Melzer, Abe Sofaer, Campus Manager, Ronald Burke. Ray Bloch. ' :: DEAN ' S RECEPTION The Yeshiva College Dramatics Society launched its first season of existence this year with three suc- cessful productions. Co-ordinating all undergraduate dramatics, the So- ciety produced the annual Dean ' s Reception in an im- proved and polished form. In addition, it presented revivals of the Broadway plays, No Time For Sergeants and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, the latter as the Freshman Play. OFFICERS OF DRAMATICS SOCIETY President — William Zeitz Vice-President — Teddy Berman Financial Secretary — Harold Basch Co-ordinator of Plays — Murray Mednick B4 SOPHOMORE CLASS PLAY ' The Year They Launched Atlas JUNIOR CLASS PLAY In Pursuit of Gelt : : TEAM ' S RECORD Yeshiva Opponent 53 CCNY 47 62 Quinnipiac 71 55 Hunter 66 88 Patterson State 70 s Hartwick 83 57 Fairleigh Dickinson 74 65 Bridgeport 106 56 Adelphi 88 55 LIU 77 70 Pace 50 65 Rider 72 50 Pratt 59 68 St. Francis 91 70 C. W. Post 88 6S NYU 108 71 Brooklyn 77 50 Fairfield 65 76 Stewart Air Force Base 65 Coach Bernie Red Sarachek Battle under the boards BASKETBALL The age-old problem at Yeshiva — lack of time to get into condition coupled with lack of experienced players and inadequate practice facilities proved to be an insurmountable obstacle for the Yeshiva Basketball Team this year. The Mighty Mites went into a gruelling campaign of 18 games and emerged with a sorrowful 4-14 record. But although there weren ' t many victories, there were plenty of thrills. In the first game of the season, the inexperienced squad turned in a thrilling 53-47 vic- tory over CCNY which raised everybody ' s hopes for a successful season, but in the ensuing games, the Mites were often outclassed but not out-hustled. One of the toughest opponents which the Mites faced this season, was nationally ranked N.Y.U. The seniors on the team were Lou Korngold, cap- tain and playmaker and a former basketball star of Yeshiva University High School of Manhattan, and Gary Baum, rebounder and scorer, both veterans of four sea- sons. Both regretted that their last season could not have been more successful. High scorer of the team this year was Sam Gross- man who sank 363 points for a 21.3 average earning him a berth on the All-East Small College Conference Team. 86 INDIVIDUAL RECORDS ' ..iiiii , To ' l,il Point ' , Avit.ic Baum 17 180 10. ' , (,,111111 ' , r 17 13 0. fiolll ' .tcill 10 87 8.7 Grossman 17 363 21.3 Koni|;ol(l 16 79 4,6 Kranes 1 1 17 1.6 Wicilci 17 52 3i0 l.ii (ih ' .on 17 50 2.9 I ' uilliiil ' ,! 17 181 10.6 Aaron 7 67 9.5 Slaughter in the Bronx ° Gary Baum from left to right: first row — Larry Kranes, Lenr . P reus Shelley Wieder. Philip Burson. second row — V ■ Howard Cohen. Lou Korngold, Kenny Ja: Labovitch. third row — Coach Re: Sarachefc, Sam Grossman, Mike Garmeise, Bob Podhurst Marv Gold- stein, Gary Baum. 5 _ Coach Arthur Tauber FENCING Displaying the traditional form and skilled expres- sion of yesteryear ' s Taubermen, Yeshiva ' s fencers com- pleted their season with an 8-4 record. Pre-season forecasts foresaw Yeshiva finishing the 1960-61 tour at the .500 mark. Early losses to Columbia, Rutgers of Newark and Brooklyn College would have corroborated such a premature choice had it not been for the accomplishments of the epee and saber teams. Yeshiva ' s fencers, although suffering from early losses and a lack of veteran aspirants began to move after their third defeat, and turned back Fordham Uni- versity. This turning point proved decisive, as the saber- men slashed to victories over Brooklyn Poly, University of Connecticut, St. Peters and Patterson State among others. Following its six consecutive victories, Yeshiva dropped a closely fought battle at Drew ' s New Jersey campus 14-13 and then went on to complete its 1960-61 campaign by defeating Cooper Union 14-13. from left to right: Steve Nison, Manager, Warren Enker, Captain 1961-62, Coach Arthur Tauber, Matthew Shatz- kes, Captain 1960-61. I ' , II ' III- You fenced brilliantly! TEAM ' S RECORD Yeshiva Opponent 6 Columbia 21 19 Farleigh Dickinson 8 11 Rutgers- Newark 16 13 Brooklyn College 14 15 Fordham 12 16 Jersey State Teachers 11 16 Brooklyn Poly 11 15 St. Peters 12 16 U. of Conn. 11 14 Patterson State 13 13 Drew 14 14 Cooper Union 13 INDIVIDUAL RECORDS Foil Farkas 17-14 Shatzkes 19-12 Sheinkin 17-14 Sabre Enker 23-8 Nusbacher 18-6 Wasserman 13-10 Epee Konovitch 13-13 Silber 8-9 Hain 11-13 from left to right: Warren Enker, Manny Wasserman, Noel Nussbacher, David Sheinkin, Matthew Shatzkes, Barry Konovitch, Jimmy Hain, Steven Rothman. Billy Silber. 89 INDIVIDUAL RECORDS win loss tp Fred Lieber 3 7 13 George Brown 2 8 10 Benjy Liefer 5 5 11 Joe Rapaport 1 5 5 Phil Keehn 2 7 8 Bob Schwell 7 3 27 Jack Merkin 8 1 38 Warren Klein 5 5 23 Dave Lew 1 Mike Gross 3 Jack Deitsch 1 Phil Hirshenfeld 1 m W m ' C Jttk ■ ' RFSTLING P t J l LJ 1 LJI I%7 —- TnA - w % ■k ' JBambt Getting acquainted The Cinderella Team of pre-season predictions did not fully materialize, but Yeshiva ' s Grapplers very nearly lived up to these optimistic predictions. That they did not, does not constitute failure, but rather serves to illuminate a hope for the coming season. The team, consisting of five two-year veterans and three rookies, in finishing with a 3-5-2 record com- piled a better record than any previous Yeshiva Wres- tling Team. The team was led by co-captains Jack Merkin and Bob Schwell whose 8-1 and 7-3 individual records, respectively, topped a previous individual 6-4 record set last year. Under the expert mentorship of Henry Wittenberg, the young Wrestling Team has arrived at the point where it can begin to hold its own in intercollegiate competition. The team returns next year at full strength with no losses due to graduation. 90 Mr;il v;i Pin Final countdown TEAM ' S RECORDS Team Y.U. Montclair 25 3 Orange Community 16 16 Columbia 21 15 King ' s Point 26 8 C.W. Post 13 23 Fairleigh Dickinson 16 18 Albany State 24 8 Long Island 18 18 Newark Rutgers 15 19 Brooklyn Poly 17 15 from left to right, standing: Jerry Golub. Dave Ls ren Klein, Jack Merken, Bob Schwell, Coach Ha- ■ berg. Sitting: Fred Lieber, George Brown, Benjy Leifer, Mike Gross, Joe Rapaport, Jack Deitsch, Phil Keehn. SEASON ' S RECORD Yeshiva Opponent Pratt 5 4 lona i 8 Pace 3 6 Brooklyn Poly 3 6 Brooklyn (non league) 9 Hunter 4 5 Long Island University 4 5 TENNIS Coach Eli Epstein Attempting to rebound from last year ' s losing season, Yeshiva ' s netmen faced the task of replacing five of last year ' s varsity members. This year ' s team was led by Senior Co-Captains Daniel Frimmer and Bernard Kaplan. The remainder of the starting team included Joshua Muss — Junior, Jesse Hordes — Sophomore, and three capable Freshman — Ezra Goodman, Edward Schlussel, and Jeff Tillman. Se- niors Herb Amster, Jonathan Ginsberg, and Ronald Burke joined the rest to make this year ' s team a well balanced one. In the absence of Eli Epstein, the varsity was coached by George Samet C60). Yeshiva is a member of the Metro- politan College Tennis Conference and competed in six league games. left to right, standing: Jess Hordes, Edward Schlussel, George Samet, assistant coach, Josh Muss, Danny Frimmer. Sitting: Dave Gordon, Ezra Goodman, Maurice Reifman, Jeff Tillman 92 Bishop to King three CHESS Won Lost J. Grossman IV? B. Frankel 4 2 S. Boylan m B. Goldstein 3 2 M. Hauer 1 4 M. Minchenberg 2 Chess has been revived and invigor- ated with enthusiasm at Yeshiva this year. Early in the season the combined forces of the A and B teams defeated the cadets of West Point 7-1. for the first time in Yeshiva history. This year Yeshiva College ' s Chess Team joined the Metropolitan Intercolle- giate Chess League. Leading the A team this year were Joel Grossman. Barry Frankel. Stan Boy- lan, and Bob Goldstein. Marty Rossman. Joe Rappaport and Mark Diskind played excellently for the B team. Senior members of the team were Morton Minchenberg, Lawrence Green- field, and Isidor Apterbach. THE MIGHTY KNIGHTS— left to right, standing: Joel Grossman, Joe Rapaport, Barry Frankel, Al Maimon, Mark Diskind, Max Lew. Sitting: Martin Rossman, Morton Minchenberg, Captain, Willy Goldstein. SENIOR LIFE Which way to the dormitory? We expected to find this . . . . but found this! ■ ' ■ ' .? . ■. ' ■• ' ■■ • • m, ! WW: ' i| We met the floor washer the keeper of the keys and the boss. We soon discovered the hazards of the old dorm and we prayed for deliverance. Instead they modernized the mailboxes and the beds. 95 So we decided to hang it all and have a good old water fight . . . ...BUT WE DID STUDY 96 ...AND PLAY 3£ - - 96 m D The Senior Class of Yeshiva College cordially invites you to attend its MID-WINTER CHAGIGAH Sunday Evening, January 8th, 1961 at 7:30 o ' cloc Klein Hall, Yeshiva University 526 West 187 Street, Hew Tor City Admission Free «€ nnffi I ...AND CONTEMPLATE . US llr 1 mm i i Bv ' ...AND SHARE FOND MEMORIES LITERATURE This was our background — a background rich and var- ied, that fostered our total development. It enriched us and we, nur- tured by the wisdo m of the ages, stretched forth our limbs, heavy with budding life, into the sun, and there bore fruits of various kind. In a sense this literature section, the expression of our creativity, rep- resents the culmination of our development. « f M ' 4 m FAITH, AMBIGUITY and REBELLION Some Aspects of the Book of Jonah by Syd Goldenberg Winner of the Ephraim Fleisher Memorial Prize The most forceful element of the Book of Jonah is at once the most haunting and disturbing. It is the fact that the agonizing dialectic of Jonah ' s religious experience, proceed- ing from rebellion to faith to rebellion, is never fully resolved. If we say with Maimonides that before man may encounter G-D as his prophet, he must possess a fine, philosophical in- telligence, surely we must be disturbed when we read that Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. And even more disturbing is Jonah ' s later outcry: ... I know that Thou art a gracious G-D, and com- passionate, Therefore . . . take, I beseech Thee, my life from me. The problem formulates itself: How are we to respond to the compelling tale of a man who sought to flee unto Tar- shish from the presence of G-D? How are we to cope with the anguish of a man who recoils at the thought of G-D ' s compassion, who finds G-D ' s mercy unbearable, who wishes to die because of G-D ' s love? In short, how are we to inter- pret the terrible paradox of the odyssey of Jonah? I Before approaching the text, I would like to clarify cer- tain general ideas which constitute the core of the present inquiry. It seems to me that Jonah ' s story is primarily a recon- struction of man ' s religious experience, conceived as a tensile alternation between faith and rebellion. The key to this dia- lectical tension is the inherently paradoxical nature of reli- gious experience— for it consists in the encounter of man with G-D, of the finite with the Infinite. Yet because the two poles in this encounter are irreducibly incommensurable, because man. in the last analysis, can never truly accommodate the infinite G-D within the constricted sphere of his finite experi- ence, there remains always a fundamental ambiguity in the religious encounter. I wish to suggest that this notion of the intrinsic polarity of man ' s relation to G-D, a polarity which issues in an im- penetrable ambiguity, is the key to the cumulative spiral of rebellion and faith that constitutes the Book of Jonah. This idea 1 may be clarified if we consider that man, finite and fallible, can never have perfect understanding; his comprehension of the totality of things is irremediably limited by the intrinsic partiality of his nature. Thus, in the intricate but unbreakable order of existence, man, the part, cannot possibly encompass the whole. Yet it is only in terms of his relation to the whole that man ' s significance may be assessed. Here then is the crux of the religious predicament, for man is vitally, earnestly concerned with the significance of his existence. By his very nature, he must seek to know the whole; but, by his very nature he cannot comprehend it. To put this idea more carefully, one might say that man, by nature, makes two kinds of judgments: judgments of relevance- and judgments of significance. The first type of judgment is made in the context of science; the second in the context of religion. The first judgment establishes the connections between things in a coherent order (e.g. the connection between fire and oxygen) ; the second establishes the value of things in a gradual scale (where love outranks gambling). The first must assume the uniformity of nature (so that relationships discovered here and now will hold for the future and throughout the universe) ; the second must assume an immutable order beyond the empirical world. The first judgment derives from man ' s intelligence and his quest for understanding; the second derives from man ' s freedom and his quest for self-justification. Our present inquiry is concerned with the nature of this religious quest, the process by which man is led to the Infinite. Our first point is that man is aware that he can affect by his judgment the actions open to him; his understanding and its decisions may condition his choices. Man is conscious that, if his actions are only the outcome of a cumulative series of past events, his own reason, which understands his situation uncoerced by those events, is an irreducible factor in this series. Now freedom for man does not mean undetermined action, but self-determined action; and man is conscious of such self-determination when he affects his actions through rational judgment and decision. For if man is conditioned by his past, he knows that he is conditioned; and in this knowing he is liberated. His actions are then not imposed by external coercion, but deliberated and chosen by un- hampered reason. Because man possesses rational choice, he must be re- sponsible to himself; because he chooses always from among opposing alternatives, he must establish that his final choice has value. And since, for man, life itself is an option, since 104 he takes it upon liimsclf by deliberate) rational choice, he must also establish I lie significance of his very existence. For man alone, life is nol given, bul chosen; tor man alone, existence must have value. Hill llie significance of life, once agreed upon, does not stand as a discrete, self-contained fuel. Value is nol a dis- connected term 1 nil a relation; a thing is valualile or signifi- cant only as related to a larger context, (e.g. Since man in sociable, friendship is good.) But if lliis larger context changes, all the relationships and values anchored in il uill lie radically dislocated. In a mutable context, values are in jeopardy; and such transitory, hazardous significance is not adequate for man. On the contrary, man requires a signifi- cance for his existence from which other value- can I di rived, which he can rely on throughout his life. Otherwise, all dedication is futile, all hard derision and suffering retro- spectively absurd and existence pointless. But all that is finite is mutable and the mutable jeopardizes value. Thus any finite context for man ' s existence cannot yield him enduring values; he therefore seeks to relate himself to a context which over- comes all finitude , to an infinite Order, impervious to time, which alone can serve as an adequate ground for enduring values. Thus for value to be adequate for the duration of man ' s finitude, it must transcend that very finitude. And thus for value to be reliable for a lifetime it must be immutable for eternity. To summarize, one might say that man ' s finite life possesses meaning only if rooted in the context of an absolute 1 Order, a system of reference which is eternal, and immutable and intrinsically significant. It is man ' s critical finitude, which, coupled with rational choice and the quest for value, paradoxically leads him to the Infinite. This is so because finite human life has only extrinsic or relational significance (related to a larger context). Not so the absolute, which, in its self-sufficient immutability, confers value on the partial, but requires none. All other instrumental values may then be put into hierarchical perspective in ratio to their use in achieving maximum alignment of one ' s life with the immuta- ble structure of things. In sum. human life, inherently finite, seeks significance. The absolute Order, inherently infinite. confers significance. 4 And the one finds redemption in terms of the other. Thus, if we transpose Biblical religious doctrine into these categories, though we realize that it is not exhausted by them, we might say that man ' s salvation is rootedness in the Eternal: his life thus acquires imperishable value which overcomes its finitude. being identified with the laws of G-D. immutable, eternal, intrinsically good. As for sin. may not every instance of it. in the last analysis, be reduced to idolatry — the deification of the partial, the absolutization of the rela- tive? To relate one ' s life to mutable ends and to magnify them to an absolute is to perish in a vicious circle of un- redeemed finitude and to violate G-D ' s claim upon man. I am suggesting that religion is mans attempt to over- come the transitory futility of a purely partial existence by relating himself to an infinite Scheme, impervious to time, in the context of which bis life has significance. The magnitude of man ' s faith now begins to grow clear: we see that his faith is essentially his struggle against his own finitude. Such a strussle must bear the burden of both maximum risk am : the Infinite which man eeki i- onl) accessible to him through hii own finite p ■ ii ' I •.! ilii- reason, faith must ■ oi certainty and the object -,f faith must remain in- hen ible to the believer. Foi man. transcending his ) bj faith in the Infinite, i- -tin finite. This, then, i- the full measure of the religious pai man, i aughl in the ombiguit) f his relatb i i . mu i stand against the Absolute. Hi- in,, responses to this condition are faith and re- belli, ,m. r.iihi -i way. In- mu-i endure the turmoil and face the ii-k of his predicament. Eithei wa) be bai only his • ■•in igi i sustain him across the abyss between the poles ,,f lii- existent e. I ■ • expn -■ the insurmountable nature -f the chasm between man and G-D in religious experience, we shall call it i adit al polai itv. Faith attempts to bridge this chasm; rebellion defies it. ' II With these notions in mind, we shall attempt to ' larify Jonah ' s experience. It seems that the prophet ' s rel I occurs in two phases and on two different levels. The fir-t phase is resolved in the belly of the great fish ; the second climaxes in G-D ' s rebuke to Jonah for protesting the wither- ing of the gourd and the redemption of Nineveh. The ; inquiry is an attempt to differentiate these rebellions and relate them to the idea of radical polarity. Jonah ' s first rebellion occurs the instant G-D confronts him with his mission. When the word of the Lord came unto Jonah demanding that he proclaim their wicki to the people of Nineveh, Jonah sought to flee hi-- Creator. We are told that G-D pursued this prophet and cast him into adversity and despair, at which point Jonah returned to faith. If we bear in mind the radical polarity of Jonah ' s en- counter with G-D and the circumstances of hi? final return. we might interpret this rebellion as a fundamental refusal to yield dominion to G-D, to accept G-D s sovereignty on His own terms. For Jonah is confronted, when G-D breaks in upon him. with the incomprehensible Infinite demanding unquestionable authority over man. I wish to suggest that Jonah ' s flight is a refusal to acquiesce to the supremacy of the unintelligible. To be sure, the incommensurability of the Biblical G-D is not unqualified — and the word unintelligible applied to Jonah ' s G-D must certainly be sharply distinguished from the totally arational G-D of the modern existentialist whose faith ' by virtue of the absurd culminates in Kierkegaard ' s antithesis between faith and reason, religion and ethics. On the contrary, the Biblical G-D. though his Nature is not in- telligible to man, is thoroughly consistent in His relation to him. and existence is a coherent scheme, a natural-moral order for which G-D is the final and absolute guarantee. But if not absurdity, a subtler ambiguity insinuates itself into the encounter of man with the Biblical G-D, an ambiguity, as it were, within the framework of G-D ' s consistent relation to man. For Jonah ' s difficulty as a finite man relating to G-D is not that G-D is inconsistent, but that he is infinite and that partial man cannot encompass the overall structure of things. Indeed, the universal G-D in whom all particular contradic- tions are reconciled, when viewed by man, himself particular, may appear to contradict Himself. That is. certain value- :; conflicts within G-D ' s consistent order may appear irreduci- ble. The outcome of this insurmountable irony is that man is often brought up hard against the blank wall of the in- scrutable. A paradox which in G-D s view is resolved may remain for limited man a hard, inexplicable surd. Thus value-conflicts ma intrude, to a degree, into the ordered Framework of existence under the living G-D and upset the placid current of religious certainty with the nagging under- tow of paradox. Now if we examine Jonah ' s situation, we find that his refusal to surrender to his Creator may be considered to stem from this margin of ambiguity inherent in the encounter with G-D. For the essence I this encounter consisted in G-D ' s unfathomable demand that Jonah offer mercy to Nineveh by warning it to repent before the Lord. The prophet was thus confronted with the paradox that the G-D of justice is also the G-D of mercy. But Jonah is affronted by the notion of offering men to the wicked while the righteous suffer: for the characteristic of human judgments is to limit — at a cer- tain point: justice and mercy become mutually exclusive, or one cannot survive the other. For man. there is a time to love and a time to hate : there is a point at which one cannot forgive — one must destroy. But for the G-D of infinite justice and infinite love, there can be no hard disjunction between the two: at all times they are co-involved in Him and He sustains man with love even as He judges him. But for Jonah, no such fusion of justice and mercy is possible within the partiality of human moral judgments. Over against G-D. he asserts the independence and supremacy of human finitude and its standards of intelligibility and he rejects any moral order or authority which is not accessible to those standards. And if G-D refuses to shrink for man, Jonah will shrink from G-D. Thus, unable to heal the split or comprehend it. Jonah rebels. But though he refuses to accept G-D. Jonah cannot escape his need for Him: by his very nature, he must transcend his finitude to attain significance for it, and rest, by faith, in an immutable Order. Jonah must, therefore, seek a substitute for G-D. And. indeed, there is an order, infinite and eternal, yet amenable to human intelligence and in fact, the condition for intelligibility as such — the order of Nature. Jonah does not reject belief in G-D — he tells the sailors squarely that I am a Hebrew and I fear the Lord. But it is the G-D of Heaven, who made the sea and the dry land that Jonah chiefly fears; essentially he has attempted to re- duce G-D from Hashem to Elokim, 1 ' ' to retain G-D only inso- far as He may be identified with the order of Nature and the hard sequences of justice, but excluding the personal Re- deemer Who loves and forgives. Who succors and sustains his creatures. But if the Biblical G-D is infinitely remote from the un- intelligible absurd of the existentialist. He is equally re- moved from the impersonal though intelligible Order of the naturalist. The G-D of Israel is Hashem-Elokim, the Principle of universal order, but also a Person who loves man and relates to him in Buber ' s terms, a Thou, not an It. Nature (for that is what Elokim without Hashem becomes) may be devoid of her ambiguity of the universal yet personal G-D. but the G-D of Israel is far more than an order, and what finally determines man ' s choice of one or the other is not just its intelligibility, but the way in which it grips his being. And Jonah ' s choice is inescapable — for the prophet, Elokim is not enough. Driven to the edge of despair, he utters the moving cry of his atonement: ' ' I called out of mine affliction Unto the Lord, and He answered me; Out of the belly of the netherworld cried I. And Thou heardst my voice . . . The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains . . . Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, Lord my G-D. When my soul fainted within me 1 remembered the Lord. Only when his soul faints, when he is driven to the periphery of despair, bankrupt of all idolatrous substitutes, naked and alone before G-D, does Jonah remember the Lord. Thus a further dimension of the polarity of man ' s encounter with G-D is disclosed — only man at his lowest point, devoid of false securities, when the chasm between man and G-D is greatest, is it most effectively closed. Be that as it may, the return of Jonah is complete; once again he stands as a son of Israel, under the covenant with his Creator, and once again he calls, with the intimacy of a trusting child, upon the Redeemer of Israel, Hashem-Elokim, ' 0 Lord my G-D. [fthefirsl phase of Jonah ' s rebellion wai impelled b) the difficulty of accepting G-D, the final phase is impelled b) the greater difficulty of living w ith I lim. Jonah, after successfull) carrying G I ' - warning i the people of Nineveh and saving them from punisl ml through teshuvah, is bitter and sullen and wishes to die. He complaint thai G-D ' s mere) and forgiveness are unbearable. h appears thai Jonah now feels the full force, in a con- crete situation, nol just an intellectual apprehension, of the paradox of G-D ' s absolute justice and absolute love. His problem is essentiall) the problem of evil, transposed through the genius of the prophel into the problem of love. For G It ' s love being universal, sustaining Mi - whole creation as sui h, is undifferentiated. Ii supports all men. even when, according In human, moral judgment. I hey no longer deserve it. Il seems that G-D ' s love for man refuses to abide by the par- ticular moral distinctions which alone enable men to do His Will. Il is iliis lasi poinl which leads lis in the center of the problem; to define ii precisely, ue maj sa thai tin- religious paradox consists in the Facl thai the 01) who relates to man with undifferentiated, universal love, irreconcilable with man ' s particular moral judgments, is the same G-D who reveals Himself to man through particular love, in the pro- phetic encounter which legislates those judgments. Jonah clearly sees, with a brilliance he is not aware of, that il is the incommensurability of G-D ' s universal love and man ' s particular love which is at the bottom of the problem of evil. Thus G-D ' s own prophet is forced into the agonizing position of conveying G-D ' s moral distinctions to those who violate them — only to see that G-D seems to pay no regard, but grants blessedness to the wicked in a moment of leshurah on their pari while the righteous suffer. How does G-D answer the challenge of the prophet? He answers through the parable of the gourd: He exposes to Jonah the fact thai the inconsistency does not lie with G-D but with His prophet. While Jonah sat brooding in the des- ert east of the citv. G-D caused a gourd to grow and shield him from the heat: but when the morning rose ' G-D pre- pared a worm and il smote the gourd that it withered. [on ah fainted in the  un. gain ' ed at G-D hed to die. In thi magnificent rcpl) v. I i 1 ■ do i Book, G-D i to lonah, in effc i ! How • to tr it Ninci eh as El ■ ■ . •■ demanded that I In at Mincvch Solely wild order and j and et when I allow natural law and ju ill nd to v. ithci and . oui impudi ni ■ ' •■ !•■ 1 1 ushed ■• ou are fui iou l G-D of nal ural moral oi di i and j ou protest pa ion. forgiveness. Vnd did you i out from tin- i of the earth to thi ' . It of order? Did you turn fro limits of despaii to thi G I ' of justice? I d not wi-li Me to decree immediate and exact justice upon you when you rebelled, bul to sustain you with love in spite of your infidelity, to wait patientl) foi ivah, and lo accept ou without condition when you returned. Bul how can you dare demand thai I violate mj own unity? How can I treal you ai Ha hem, with the love thai mitigates justice, if I do not the same for all m) real . I oi the I i v i 1 1 !_ ' G-D, Hii .hiinF.liil. mi. there . ,, ■ partiality; and Jonah i- shamed into ib-nce. Ill How max we summarize the teaching of this magnificent Book? It appears that the Biblical narrative illumir double failure on the part of Jonah and in so doing, provides a penetrating, unflinching anatom) of man ' n perience. It seems that Jonah had failed to understand the nature of G-D ' s love and the full implications of the polarity of the encounter between man and G-D. Jonah did not under-tand that the ambiguity and paradox of man ' s relation to G-D is indispensable for the survival of man. Indeed, it is pn because G-D loves man that He shields him from full under- standing. If il ware not for the ambiguity inherent in the encounter, finite man could not possibly withstand the in- finite maj est) of G-D breaking forth into the world. He could not possibly retain his identity and freedom, and be addressed as a separate person by G-D. but would surel) be swept into the Infinite, his finite selfhood ineffablv dissolved, his will and his response totally coerced. Therefore G-D ad ' to man only finite imperatives which conserve his identity but jar with G-I) s undisclosed infinity. But it is only to pro- tect mans identity from being consumed by the touch of the Divine that G-D mitigates His glory with a veil of ambiguity: only because He sustains finite man in love, does G-D remain hidden even as He is revealed. s And it is the same Divine love which produces, in turn. the paradox of the continuing relation of G-D to man. the problem of evil. If b) love we mean the action taken with- out any personal benefit, to sustain the individua lity and allow for tlie fulfillment of another, this time-worn religious analogy surel) stands. For it is only because of the undif- ferentiated love of G-D, which supports his creatures without regard for the distinctions which inhere in the particularity of man ' s condition, that the problem of evil exists. And yet without this, in a world governed solely by justice, man, as the Midrash points out. could not endure. But in the nature of things. F-D ' s vision is unalterably polar to man ' s, and must be. if man is to survive. The dichotomy is irreducible; and the problem of reward and punishment, in which G-D ' s universal decrees and man ' s particular deserts are reconciled. is a problem not solved in this world. Joanah had also failed to understand the true nature of the polarity between G-D and man. Had he understood, he would have realized that the dichotomy in G-D ' s relation to man is the necessary concomitant of the dichotomy in man hi mself: it is only because man is finite, yet seeking the Infinite, driven to struggle with that which he cannot behold, that G-D must remain ambiguous to him. The truth is that man must find a paradox in G-D because of the paradox in man: only a G-D both of justice and mercy could sustain finite man. grappling with the Infinite he cannot withstand. Jonah, in rebelling against the paradox of G-D, had only evaded the paradox of man. He had not understood that the root of the problem of suffering is not that G-D is too infinite but that man is too finite, not that G-D does not differentiate, but that man cannot help doing so. Jonah had not understood that the root of the problem of evil is that while man cannot love the whole unless he loves the individual. G-D cannot love any individual unless he loves the whole. n But neither can man find significance as an individual, which alone can re- deem his finitude, he transcends himself and confronts the whole. In other words, if we cannot reconcile the Universal and the particular, neither can we separate them. Thus he who reaches a full religious awareness will understand tha f to fully accept the condition of man is also to accept the dominion of G-D. Thus the vision of the Book of Jonah is a vision of the inexpungable polarity of religious existence in which man must endure a chasm with paradox on either side; devoid of certainty but forced to act, his only alternatives are rebellion or faith. And as we conclude our analysis we are also in a position to understand that the pivot of the Book of Jonah is teshuvah. For it is teshuvah which constitutes the essence of man ' s relation to G-D as the G-D of love and mercy, as the personal Redeemer of His creation. Teshuvah has no place in an im- personal Order of existence; Spinoza declared that atonement is unbefitting a rational man. Without teshuvah, however, the spiral of rebellion and faith in Jonah could never occur; the first rebellion would be the last, justice would descend upon the rebel and the inexorable order of things would indiffer- ently grind all error into ashes. But the G-D of Jonah will not be reduced to justice alone; the personal G-D of infinite love sustains even His creatures who violate His Name. And the Book of Jonah declares that it is teshuvah alone which supports the unyielding struggle between man and his G-D. It is fully granted that the above interpretation is no mure than an individual response to an inexhaustible, enig- matic allegory. It takes the Book of Jonah, not only as an attempt to justify G-D ' s ways to man. but also to explore the gap between them. I have taken Jonah to focus on the rhythm of man ' s successive responses to the radical polarity of his existence, alternately issuing in the yearning struggle to unify the poles, expressed in faith, and the futility of such union, expressed in rebellion. The Book seems to proclaim in the unfinished silence of its ending that the antithetical tension of Jonah is the per- manent condition of man, and that it is precisely in his struggle to integrate this antithesis that man is delivered of the vision and impelled to the faith which redeem his life. Jonah relentlessly proclaims that the greatness of man is the relentlessness of spirit, that this is intrinsic to G-D ' s order and the human situation, that it is an irreducible tension which yields no facile solution, and will suffer neither the humanist displacement of G-D nor the scholastic sub- mergence of man. On the contrary, man must accept that, as a limited human, he can only know the absolute by the peril of faith — it must be by peril because he is limited, but it must be absolute because he is human. And finally, Jonah declares that, though we may face this unyielding tension with acqui- escence or rebellion, the restlessness of man shall never end. FOOTNOTES J In the following discussion, I shall alternately consider religion in general and religion involving a personal G-D. The former I call religion , the latter, Biblical religion . Also, in the discussion of the former I shall use impersonal concepts such as Order or Structure , in the latter, the concept of G-D. I am attempting, in this way, to develop universal concepts of the nature of religion as such, in order to illuminate particular religions (in this case Biblical Juda- ism). I would also like to point out that many of the ideas in the ensuing discussion I owe to my teacher, Prof. A. Litman. -The phrase is Dr. Litman ' s. 3 By Absolute throughout the essay I mean Impervious to time (i.e. external and immutable self-sufficient and intrin- sically significant ) . The Absolute means the total structure of things, a structure impervious to time. (The definition is Dr. Litman ' s.) 4 The definition is from Will Herberg, Judaism and Modern Man, Meridian Books, New York, 1959. 5 cf. Dostoevsky ' s formulation of the nihilistic viewpoint: I shall persist in- utter metaphysical defiance, infinitely lovely, supported only by my moral insight. I shall offer absolute resistance to the ultimate principle and shall despise it. Quoted by E. Frank, Philosophical Understanding and Re- ligious Faith, New York, 1945, p. 38. °This key idea of Jonah ' s dichotomy between Hashem and Elokim and the inconsistency of this dichotomy, I received from my teacher, Rabbi Moses Tendler. Again, I wish to note that this interpretation originated with Rabbi Tendler. 8 cf. The article by Emil L. Fackenheim, The Dilemma of Liberal Judaism, in Commentary, Oct., 1960. 9 cf. Article by Sam Ajzinstat, Religion and Rebellion in Judaism in Reflections, Toronto Hillel Organization, 1960. 108 A PERIOD OF CHANGE by Martin Mantel Winner of the Jerome Robbins Memorial Prize for best short story. Pierre Mwambe stirred, feeling the corrugated surface of the tin sidings chill his back. Slowly his eyes grew ac- customed to the sickly dawn glow filtering past the cracks and he began to wonder what he was doing beneath the tin shack. Then, seeing the even, surrounding carpet of grey dust, he was easy. Thinking seemed to depend on seeing for Pierre. Lying on his back and staring wide-eyed at the dirty, plank floor overhead he began to remember . . . Pierre had Ilonga blood according to his mother but he could never be sure; she, with her half-sister, had left the tribe early to find servant work with the whites. His mother was twelve then, but by the time Pierre was born she was twenty-eight and an old hag with swollen spittle-colored gums that emerged sickeningly from between her few teeth as she grinned (he supposed now that she was happy with the whining bundle that sucked at her shriveled teats — that was always the way with her between the babies). Pierre thought: If she couldn ' t remember how many of them she buried, then how could she remember her tribe? 7 And then you had to add the fact that she left when she was only twelve. Time makes everything dim. That is why he couldn ' t picture his father, who ran off when Pierre wa s eight to find work in a distant factory. But his mother continued to have babies nonetheless with an indefinite succession of transient workers whom she re- ferred to as mes bonhommes all with her open mouthed good-humor. Pierre recalled the grin well as he did the way her thin and slack breasts hung limply against her chest. She is a wicked witch. he thought, and two yean aftf-r his father ran away he followed suit, leaving behind a noisy brood of children and the last clinging bundle that seemed to glow from the sallow flesh drawn taut across his mother ' s scrawny frame. A sudden shiver made the muscles of his face twitch and he shifted fitfully from his position. Why do these thoughts haunt me? He relived the bitter days spent straying in the village gnawed by hunger until he collapsed senseless in the dusty filth paving the dirt gutter, days of his quivering vision yearning desperately after the delirious images that floated by unconcernedly. Those few days of starving desolation, of ravenous searching through the stinking garbage heaps were more to Pierre than events to be remembered. They were part of his identity. They had made him practical. Such was Pierre ' s condition that when a group of French travelling missionaries caught sight of the child ' s bloated form drawing thin gasps of stale gutter air and rescued him from sure death, the boy was too weary, too hungry to know the compassionate hands that laid him gently on the back of the motor lorry, too hurt also to feel thankful for his miracu- lous salvation. But Pierre was obedient if not grateful, and in the course of two or three weeks he learned the rudiments of being a good houseboy to Pere Moriot and M. Reyne. The Pere in turn allowed him to become a member of the party and was civil enough. Once, in fact, during a short and pain- ful interview Moriot questioned Pierre about his family and home but he turned away and didn ' t answer. : : It ' s quite obvious. said Reyne. that he is content with his most recent adventure, the young scamp. I ' m not sure we do light in keeping him along. Pierre had kept facing the wall, for all his childish impu- dence: there was a murderous threat he imagined, an omen of something terrible emerging from the shallow blue pools sunk in M. Reyne ' s face. Even when he grew older, leaving the priests to serve the families which took him in for short periods. Pierre could not rid himself of these earliest traces of terror. In the class- rooms, too, where, on occasion, because of overcrowded schools the boy was allowed to sit in the back and discovered that he was superior in his studies to many of the colonist children — even as he learned to hate the chattering mass of fair-skinned Europeans — the same mysterious awe lurked within him. damming back the hot-tempered outbursts he might have blurted out against the injustices he endured. Here the boy ironically succeeded, for his tense restraint was taken by everyone for stupid docility. So convincing was Pierre ' s air of dull servility that his instructors never both- ered to probe his sensitive intelligence although they were continuously amazed by the quality of his work. Instead, they tacitly assumed that he received help from the other students although he wasn ' t popular, it being additionally puzzling that inferior students could supply him with perfectly done assignments. When he was eighteen and through with the government school. Pierre was turned down for an opportunity to attend a European University on a scholarship. The boy is too sullen. ' they all agreed, an academic freak. A week after graduation he joined the guards. Someone above was awake now and Pierre cut short his reflecting to listen better. Dust had thoroughly caulked what- ever cracks once made it possible to see between the planks. but it didn ' t shut out sound. A bed was creaking and a body twisting resentfully to its edge. Two feet made contact with the wood near Pierre, leaving the boards in quivers as they reacted to the pressure above. Rustlings, the sound of clothes removed, clothes donned. He wondered whether it was a man or a woman and decided, after listening longer, that he couldn ' t tell. Again the boards sagged: this time in a steady sequence like piano keys. He or she was leaving, giving Pierre at last the chance to stretch his aching limbs. Inclining his way towards a thin slit of yellow, he found the opening of the night before. Pushing a rock aside, he craned his neck viewing either side of the alley, seeing nothing move but a woman ' s receding outline. Retreating, he surveyed the ground for any posses- sions he might have dropped and, struck by a frantic fear, reached wildly for his holster. The gun was still there. He sighed relieved, removed the ancient revolver and inspected the chambers carefully. The empty part from the shot he had fired yesterday evening emitted a faintly acrid odor. Reaching for his belt, Pierre removed one cartridge and loaded the groove, snapping the barrel smoothly into its position. Then, returning the gun to its leather shield, he grabbed forth his cork helmet and scraped his way past the opening. Pierre winced at the blinding inundation of morning sun, swaying weakly for some steps until his feet accepted the reality of the dust-packed alley and began to carry him away from the already indistinguishable shack, in a direction away from the woman. He didn ' t want to pass the marching ground though, being afraid, and, therefore, wove through a maze of miserable hovels towards the road that led away from Kasala. Approaching the outskirts of town, Pierre could smell the green dew-beaten grass and the thick brown soil of the newly plowed fields. He could hear the creakings and rustlings of people being roused and the actions of dressing. He sensed the noise accelerating with the start of an infant ' s howling cries that mingled with the animal noises in a cacophony of sounds. Hastening pace, he began to count the houses re- maining before the last one closest to the road. He knew the sign would say — Gelea — 69 Kilometers. He had passed it many times before. Suddenly a civil worker in a white shirt gave Pierre a start by crossing his path just as he neared the pebbled road- side. The short man was walking at a brisk clip whistling an incoherent melody that rose and fell with his labored breath. In his haste, he paid no regard to the dishevelled guard member who hurried past him and scampered for the shallow camouflage bordering the quiet road. Pierre didn ' t have to be afraid of being seen. It was not unusual for the local police guards to patrol the village, especially on the day after a demonstration. Once seated on the soft cushion of earth, Pierre became aware of his thumping heart. He strained nervously to see the marching ground in the distance. It was empty. The rau- cous shrieking of the wild birds joined the jungle croakings in frantic counterpoint. Somewhere the hoarse coughing of a car starting mingled with the general confusion. His body swayed grudgingly to the rhythm, Why did I leave the vil- lage? . . . Pierre lurched forward pressing his eyes against the balls of his hands in a vain effort to shut out the rising flood of panic that tormented his imagination. He groaned aloud, unable any longer to submerge the writhing images of the evening before. r 3 A J He saw himself again at the head of the marching ground before the Supervisor ' s office and felt the tension of his grip on the butt of his revolver. He shuddered at the incarnation of the brutal mob violently waving their clenched fists and placards in the dimming light. Like a horrible beast the in- furiated crowd roared, striking fear into his heart. It began to converge upon the whitewashed wooden building hurling vile curses, shouting Kill the Whites! and ' ' Death to the traitors! ' It made as if to rip Pierre limb from limb. He was retreating erratically, his knees working wildly. The other guards were nearby, infected with the same fear of immediate destruction. They shouted frantically ' ' Stay back! . Don ' t move! . We ' ll shoot!! and brandished their guns with jerking movements, pointing them in all directions. Never before had there been such an outbreak in Kasala. There were mild demon tral ■■■ n il captain of il guards had even warned I ' i • omp in developing, l ii nothing i him imagim ' I wo f il guard Ihn h down tl Wound open-, tin- i rowd -H hed towardi the remnonti of the • th .- deadly mo Hie captain began firing into tl crUp , ,.,. k .,1 thi fit i hoi loal ! ■ If i lb ' - ' I. joined by the firing of many bullets, into the air, the crowd, everywhi r Foi Pii i re tl - fii il wai like hearii Tin- next in ' . mi hi v.i- iu,- during whi ' li !■ • Li- identity and ..nl l only think f h idiotii grin, hei weary frame, and the terror he fell for the Wliii ' -. Like pincers, the feai and ihame tl nil reserve, ;ii the mold imprisoning him. and reeling blindly from lb ' - ■ onfusion and pani ' thai racked hi- quaking I hi; felt an overpowering animal oneness with the ■: in. ,n-i, i thai -wallowed him alive. His 0] i -,iu him numbly draw the revolver. 1 can throw it ■.-. he though) shoi ked. Behind him the captain roared Shoot! ' . ' and Pierre froze completely, his finger paralyzed on the thin and worn trigger. In an instant ' ' - i ' ion he S8W an old in line with his barrel, lighted by a nearby U.r ' h. She km being pushed forward by the i real of the mob. She blazed like an apparition in Mwambe ' s eyes. Her breasts were bare and corroded, her toothless mouth contorted with murder — the image of his mother! Sinking into an ocean of di Pierre knew at once with the crowd the overwhelming misery, both his and theirs. He knew, he knew. Then, within him something evil and foul, that had festered over a lifetime, over generations, for time immemorial — contracted. And the chamber exploded thrusting its projectile like a plow into the chest of the woman and she slumped, slowly, almost gracefully to the ground. The others were still firing into the crowd when the dazed Pierre ran . . . Where can I go? he wondered. A voice said. Report for duty as if nothing happened. but that was senseless. A lone cloud stared dully at him from the cobalt sky com- manding him to rise. He shuffled some meters, paused, and looked eastward, away from the road. The Ilonga s camp is about forty kilometers from here. Mwambe s feet moved noisily over the underbrush, but the noise was masked by the approving screeches of the birds. On the Thirteenth Year of the State by Isidor Apterbach I Alone, alone An unheard moan A lark that flew too high To sing and trill Above the hill And in a lonely sky What can be said to years of toil, To sombre Truth, in words of song? What need of hammer has our gong? With every breeze the tired tunes shrouded time reverberate And heavy numbers, soon and late, Bow our laden souls with further grief. Nay, glorious was our time of seed And ours, my people, every deed The world names lightly: good; For who are we but Amram ' s son? ' And yet we cannot sing of joy When all about, in bated breath, We hear the Gentile ' s sentence: ' death, to death ' 1)2 Halevi ' s rhyme with lance transpierced And Imly Meir ' s tmshi ieved end And every Jewish garment renl For bitter loss of martyred kin; Our eye is blinded by a sea of wailing blood. The sun. drowned in a Bcarlel flood, Brums imi with white, but, inflamed spears And in thai plague of constant night, Dimmed wiili tears, the Jewish light Thai only mothers ' eyes express I ' ll ii ii nil I ' d questions pierce the ear Whal horrid crime from birth to bear, My little babe, to be a Jew. My liiili • that ' s dead, I ask. Was this your G-l) appointed lask ' : ' II ■ ' And ran the tide refuse lo flow When hidden by lb unseen power ' . ' ' Or can the opening flower Say ' Nay I ' ll but be plucked by jealous maids ' ? ' Twas ours to grow and spread huge limbs Thai, stretching to the very rims Of heaven, shade the evil race of man: And ours, so close to G-d were we, to burn For every heathen ' s sin until he learn From us the ways of G-d. Ill No drop, no single wail of stricken child But belies these shameless words And rips the fragile chords Connecting heart with brain And mad we so into a world h madl) arc w thithei hurled If iln- bi ' .hi unenvied lot. t pher, Noi human tho ficer, re ih ie bul dead men speal • • k etcrnil d •.! i« .ii the veil from time? Bul know thai yours ' , ■ soul in rime More e il does than evei I orquen 1 1- out j to live, to laugh and --inf. ' . nd not exull ih privati i tin rai ' ■ is heii i . las, whj rouse whal numbness sealed And pluck al wound- when yet unhealed I he hi art, oi ever) nerve th li.it i an be Baid i years of toil, I o sombre 1 1 ulh, in Bong? IV Bul sing a new and wanton strength For ours, the lasl in heavy chains Enclosed; and first tha ' in manly freed.. ' (if spirits thai our father- lacked — Of angry pride and swelling -hout Thai drain the swamps and. un ' strained. rout. Barharian-like. the very elements That seek our death. Once more bj I The Southern desert ' s filled: Again the heady cry of life From lusty throat in healthy strife. Is heard above a land thought dear. The right to live and that do die ' Bove all, the greatest right — to try — Is ours. Symphony of Cife . by Arnold Sheinbi rg rose i plucked A note is struck V wave is lulled into endless oblivion A child dies And the Maestro conducts the eternal Never ceasing, always leading The crescendo ol Wars End in the calm, calm melody of Peace Sweet, beautiful Ecstasj Mortal and G-dly music in Harmony mphony of L fe you ain ' t so sweet sweet potato as ya think you am by Richard Schlifstein Oh. little yam I know what you am You are a potato, full of starch, What keeps my belly on the march. You make me fat! You dirty rat! Scram, Yam! Zhe Revolution of the Potato by Richard Schlifstein Why die as your brothers and sisters have died? Boiled in oil. and become french-fried, Or wake up one morning to a horrible scene That you ' ve gone through the guillotine. You find your head all in a mash Or you ' re in a Mulligan Stew, or part of a hash Then you might as well be dead — For what is life if you can ' t get a-head ? From your homes you ' re uprooted, you ' re sent overseas, Or skinned alive during kitchen K.P.s Yes, I admit to you it is no life Without any children or a wife. Here is a plan for you to do Follow the instructions that I tell you: Take your first letter, which is a p Cross it out. and make it a t Then take the first letter out of me And change it for the first letter of thee Now the last step, Mr. Potato Put on rouge, and you ' re a t-o-m-a-t-o ! As we leave Yeshiva, ready to go along our many ways, the University is in the throes of a massive building program. Across the street from the new dorm, now beginning to wax ancient, a new building is rising — a class- room-administration building ready to house the planners of future under- takings. And in midtown plans are being prepared for other edifices to house an evergrowing student body. And so it goes on and on, the same old story of expansion and progress. But for what purpose? Is it just to increase Yeshiva ' s prestige, and through it that of American Jewry, in the academic community? 115 116 ■ ' ■ Perhaps this is what some people are hoping for — another Harvard out of a divinity school, with no religious division to speak of. But this is not Yeshiva ' s purpose, nor that of its administrators. Rabbi Dr. Menachem Kasher, director of the University ' s project to publish the Gaon of Ro- gashov ' s commentaries on two milleniums of Jewish thought and Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman, religious leader and Professor of Political Science, are given places of honor. And while the JSP student and many of his fellow comrades in the other religious divisions may still not be able to understand the synthesis that is Yeshiva University — a University which requires the learning of Talmud as well as secular science — it is there. It exists in every individual. % 117 When Yeshiva expands, it does so with a purpose. Progress is important in any institution, but here at Ye- shiva it is progress rooted in tradition that counts. ADVERTISEMENTS 119 gi 120 121 In Honor of my Nephew MARK GROSS Good luck and best wishes to our son and brother Congratulations to ALVIN R. GOLUB (AVI) GERALD GOLUB on his graduation and his classmates MR. AND MRS. IRVING GOLUB A FRIEND CHARLOTTE AND STUART V«V VW ' .. ' ' ii .i ' , i.VV ' ,.V r ..V , i, , i ' i , ' V ' ,, ,, m m ' ' ,,VV ' 1 , ' VVVVVVVV ' 1( ' V m ' , i , ,, ' ' In Revered Memory of HERMAN PRESS Beloved Husband, Father, Grandfather In memory of Brother and Uncle WILLIAM GLASSENBERG from MR. MRS. JOSEPH VIENER IDELLE H. VIENER RICHARD H. VIENER RONALD S. VIENER Mazel Tov and Best Wishes to SHELDON MEINER upon his graduation MOM, DAD, HELEN, RHODA, MARVIN, STEVEN 5E=H 525i : 5c5 H5i5L ; c5E£HiH=S S5ZScS25L5SSESi5c MR. and MRS. SAMUEL I. 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