THE OBSERVER The (~ffi<:ial i\/ewspaper of Stern c:ollege for il'01nen ° Ynhiva /_ 'nli'enifr May 12, 1993 Volume XXXV. Number 7 TttousANDs ATTEND RAv's FUNERAL Talmidim Recollect
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EDITORIALS 't J y Governing Board Chavie Levine, Editor-in Chief Beth Green Kesari Ruza CONFRONTING THE Executive Editor Editorial Editor
Sara• Klein Tzal"1a Rosen Ilana •Breslau RAv'sDEATH Cultural Arts Editor News Editor Features Editor
Pearl Kaplan Chava Bovian Mindy Preminger -\, ,tud1..'nh ill YL',hl\a l·111,cr,11~. all of u-. \\CfL' C\po,t'd to t_he Ra,·zel Kinderlehrer Research Editor Beth Stadtmauer h,ra~( Correspondents Copy Editors R.1, \\"(' m.1, ha,i: karnt'J ahotil hi-. :-\Jam I and Adam II t;polog1c:-. Nava Y. Fried Ill a ("111muHI; da:-.:-. or hi:- umqut' thnught in a mmkm philo:-.ophy cla:-.s. Adina \\' eiss Vanessa Gluck Rona Gross tir ma, ht' hi, namt' ,,. a-, mcmioncd 111 a wl'ekly Shahhat draslw in shul. Sports Edilor Layout Editors Business Manager \\"hc-r~,cr \.\C ,,c-rL'. hi, pn:-,l'nce ,,a, always felt. \\'1th hi, pa..,:-.mg. \\l'. an: only !,cg.inning to comprehend how much . Yael Gotlib Rachel Schenker Rachel Annenberg pur \..:L'ncratitlll ha, mi,sc
It's finals time - do vou know An unwritten contract exists provide the most concrete feed where vour midterms ·are? between professors and stu back. Like it or not. in college. Preventing Holocaust If you arc like most SCW stu dents which warrants emphasis: grades are what ultimately last. dents, you have probably not re Students attend classes (hope Without a grade, students can Revisionism ceived all your midterms back fully), study, write papers, and not determine whether or not yet. Most likely. but not exclu take the midterm and final. Not they have effective study habits, sively. these midterm,;; are from only are the professors-respon whether to requesf extra· creoir your Judaic Studies classes. If sible to teach the classes, they projects or possibly even In April of thi" year. Pope John Paul II finally ordered the vou have received all of your also are responsible to mark pa whether to withdraw from a class. Carmelite nun~ \\,ho occupy a former ~a1.i poison ga\ storehou~e ffiidterm:'), was at least one of pers PROMPTLY so that they ar Au~chwitz to leave the silc, in accordance with the 1987 Geneva them returneclone. week before can provfde students with feed If you hesitate to ask profes\ors Agret'ment "hich WJ!-, to have been fulfilled year<- ago. The prc~ence of or even during the last week of back indicating how successfully for your tests. therefore. remem tht' convent at the largest Jcwi~h cemetery in the world was offensive to classes? Certain professors are they have learned the material. ber: marking papers is part of their Jewish -,ensibilitie!-.. lb presence left room for Holocaust revisionism to known to return the midterms at While personal conferences job. It is a given. Failure on their take place. by indicating either that the Holocaust was a primarily Chris the final, and some never at all. and classroom discussion pro part to do so. is a breach of con tian tragedy or that the Vatican helped save Jews during the Shoah, both Needless to say, something is vide the student with rough idea tract. gros\ diStortions of the facts. very wrong with this situation. of how well she is doing. tests Rabbi Avi Weiss deserves the credit for prompting this impor tant step. It is he who traveled to Auschwitz in July 1989 to peace "" fully protest the nuns· presence. During a five-hour prayer vigil there, he endured the humiliation of being doused with urine-tinged water and the pain of being beaten hy construction workers at the site. '"I Food Fetish don't- believe in violence ... asserted Rabbi Weiss, explaining why he and the six others in his group did not fight back. And Rabbi Weiss was prepared to return to the convent - he and his group had tickets ~ and an interpreter. ready to once again protest this ··attempt at Despite the cafeteria's at pays for something, it does not ferred from our accou,(t· to Holocaust revisionism."' He added that '"if the nuns don't move - and tempts at ensuring that two bel9ng to a person until one for theirs. ) they haven·1 moved yet - we will return." cashiers are on duty during rush mally acquires it - in this case, the Furthermore, any of t-our Polish newspapers feature Rabbi Weiss regularly. and Polish Jews hour in the caf, we sometimes food is not ours to take until the unspent money at 'the end f the unfonunately describe him as crazy ...It might be crazy to fight the find ourselves waiting longer cashiers remove the appropriate year is used to develO!l e caf Polish church:· smiled Rabbi Weiss. but this very real and deep than we think we should have to amount of money from our ac eteria and improve se vice, not concern is anything but crazy. Indeed. the cause is not yet won. There -- especially when we are late for counts. Therefore, taking food to pay for maintenanc or other is a church situated in SS headquaners at Auschwitz II. and a huge class and service is slow. After without paying for it constitutes expenses incurred by Food Ser cross erected just a year ago stands at Terezinshdat. all, we have spent $ 1300 on our stealing. Beyond the halakhic vices over the academic year. Rabbi Wei~s refuses to allow the Vatican to distort history. We meal plan. In fact, what differ prohibition, there are obvious fi So, think twice before you grab commend Rabbi Weiss for leading the fight to stop this revisionism. ence does it make if we just take nancial consequences for the food and head to the ele_vator food and next time tell the cash Food Services Department and "will take care of it later'' or ier to deduct the cost from our when people take food without fill all your pockets with utensils, The Observer would like to accounts. It is not like we are paying. While our $ 1300 has paper goods, and anything else stealing, ·right? WRONG!! been allotted to the meal plan, not chained down. Although you wish Dr. Silver, Rabbi According to Mashgiach Food Services does not get any may think it is okay, it is not yours Ruchani Rabbi Flaum, halakha money until we use our cards, at for the taking. Berman and Dr. Bacon mandates that even· if one pre- which point the money is trans-
much success on. their \ ventures and projects for __) ~ the coming year. The Observer, on behalf of the entire We also bid farewell to Dr. student hody. wishes ('he1·yl Bennan a Blank as she embarks on her Readers an: uu·ouraged to submit leuen to the Editor. It :should be remem!H:red tha·f the opiniotH expre,.,ed it! tht',t"t' lnren rtfftn unly the views of the signer,,; and are nvt necessarily endorsed by The Observer, the studenl bodr, the Jacult)' or lh.? admini\"tratiun uf ) C Readt-r::. arr- ( -·· i,u,ictd to respond to these letter., as· well. zealots who insisted on J. reso! u Junathan Pollard un humaniur rt'--.1dcn..::c- rcqui:cmcnh t--. nn-.· MISPLACED tion exonerating, if not praising, ian grounds draw the line al al Quality v.,:: l1U\ bl.' ..:on-.,idl'rin::.!. l <.th,.) Jonathan Pollard's actions, in lowing his cause to be u;-,ed as a ....-1.mfc,,- 1hat l m,ay t,.e 'th; pn\\ er stead of the simpie letter to the vehicle for trashing the State nf Credits? bial po! ,.:al!iog the kettle hiack.· - FURY President which a majority of Israel, the leaders uf Amencan hsYing nl)-':>df CLHnpleted a B:\i delegates has agreed to support Jewry and the government uf the To the Editor MA pwgram in phJsic--.. with a before the zealots rejected this United States. Sadly, it was the One l)f the mo-;t aSf\)unding minor in malhernati.:,. in seven To the Editor: approach. tiny minority who would do all the rcoorts I have se..::n in a '.'.Choo! '.",eme:,ters but thi" ca:s-:, at I write in response to Judith One wonders if these ·zealots above who doomed to failure nctwspapcr was the reference in ka:-,t a:, r~pi.)rteJ. take'.'> the c:ikc Solomon's opinion piece in the want to see Jonathan Pollard out our efforts at NJCRAC. your March 3 l i:-.sue- to a ~tudent On .1 Jiffert'nt noti:. i .:nJo:vcd March 3 l issue of the Observer. of jail or if they are more inter A!I this having been said, ! who _··managed to completi' re the profile of Dr. LC-\.')'. I took hh Her fury over the results of the ested in exploiting his plight to was pained and stunned by Ms. quirements for a jomt Judaic introductt)f) cour.,c in my fir-,t recent NJCRAC (National Jew snit their own selfish purposes. Solomon's angry closing decla Studies/Biology major in onl) ~emester at Ye~hiYa College ish Community Relations Advi Jonathan Pollard himself admits, ration that, "if this is what it thre-e----semesters. Her recorJ ~xacth 20 vears a.!o. \,\'hat l sory Council) may be under in a remarkable recent letter to means to be Jewish. count me cofltained over l 28 .:redits." 1Jarne-d ha_-.· '-ilJ!eJ v.ith me. standable, but may I suggest that President Clinton (inspired by a out." I do hope she does not How? Summer school? Outside probably hecau~c his ~tylc wa-; it may also be misplaced. visit to his prison cell by Rav mean it-- we need her concern examinations'! Transfer credits'! ~t) unique and refre~hing--from I was one of the floor leaders Abron Soloveichik) that his ac and passion and can ill afford to Correspondence course\? Or the first day right thmugh the fi on behalf of the motion to send a tions were "repugnant to Ameri write off or count out any other did someone actually manage to nal exam, when the conductor letter to President Clinton com can Law, G-d's Torah and the Jew. get permission over three se of the recorded piece made a big mending his decision to review Law of nature." Minimizing his mesters to average over 43 class mistake, .. the Jonathan Pollard case. We crime, trivializing the magnitude David Luchins YC'68 hours?! And what must the qual Keep up the good work. lost_ the vote in question but cer of his guilt, and maligning those Member, NJCRAC ity of those credits have been'' tainly not because, as Ms. Jewish leaders who reject the Executl've Committee I confess that this matter is of Robert Kantowitz Solomon intimates, the leaders zealots howls does not assist more than purely theoretical in Academic Standards of organized American Jewish Jonathan Pollard of further terest to me, since I chair the Committee Chair life are self-hating Jews. Rather, ahavat Yisrael. Academic Standards Commit Yeshiva College Board we lost because of the mis Most of those in the Jewish tee of the Yeshiva College Board of Trustees guided actions of a handful of community who support of Trustees, and the subject of Letters continued on page 18 May lJ. ~9!J.\ AROUND THE CAMPUS J the '-Ult!~ of 1,.1,,(.1men ln lw!at..ho. Kanarfogel A warded YSILVER, BERl\llAN AND The es:-.avs will.he based on mate rial that he has been teaching and World-Renowned Prize BACON PLAN rdining for the past few year~. Hl:' is considering conducting his re for First Book search in Israel at the Institute of - SABBATICALS Research in Jerusalem. affiliated cfo By Elana Hartstein with ,he law school at Heb·rew Rabbi Dr. Ephraim The awards are considered to University. where he has dofle re KanarfogeL Chairman of be !he highest form of recogni- SCW' s Rebecca l vry Judaic tion in American Jewish litera By Yaffa Schindler search during previous sabbaticals. Dr. Joshua Bacon. who is also Studies Department, has been ture. Past winners include: Ber selected as the winner of the nard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, s~vcra! profe~sor:,; at SC\\i' and has continued and in her taking sabbatical next year, and 1993 National Jewish Book Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis \'\.:ill tx: taking ;,;abbaticals next se sp.tre time for the past several would like to spend his the year in Award in the category of schol- Singer, Leon Uris, and Elie mc.",;.tcr to concentrate their ef years. She hopes to be able to Israel writing up the research that fons on scholar!) worb eY::ntu spend some time with her hus he has been doing here at Stem. He arship for his book, Jewish Edu- Wiesel. a!!y to bt~ prepared for publica hand. \.vho i~ in South Africa. also applied for a research grant 10 ld!ill!"-'!.l.ll,dw,=· · · Jewish Education and Soci- and to comple The student life committee and furnishing Brookdale Hall's tribution of that housing, based held its third meeting this year on I !th and 18th floor study halls on a lottery·!fystem. The lottery Friday April l 6. Present were with individual study cubicles. would exclude student leaders five of the seven student mem An additional seven o'clock and first-time-on-campus stu bers of the committee, sew intercampus van will be pro dents. Dean Karen Bacon, Resident vided for the upcoming fall semes A student delegation, along Hall Supervisor Deborah Kenny, ter. with Braun, Bacon and Director Director of Student Services Kenny was present to discuss qf Supporting Services Jeffrey Zelda Braun and Dean of Stu the student housing outside Rosengarten, will further look dents Efrum Nulman. Brookdale Hall, which she called into all-women health clubs in the Issues discussed included "independent housing." She in sew area. specific career counselor hours troduced a new system for dis- Berlmwi~~d Levy, Rhoda Pagano) to violin and piano AN ENSEMBLE OF SC (David Kelsey, Aron Deutsch) to voice (Dafna Kalish accompa nied by Sharon Millen). After an AND YC STUDENTS AND intermission, the jazz ensemble (Edward Levy, Noyes Bartholomew, Melech Abrams, FACULTY Jeff Cohen, Michael Roth, Wil Cl!tfo1W een> liam Posner, Margy Berkowitz) tre, lerusa; embraced the room with saxo iem Israel.. Jme ~-is, '~very phone, trumpet, guitars, percus· The Prize' t hon.ored by the By Danit Eliovson sion, and piano ..The interaction is awarded xecogllltion and of both student and faculty musi annually to a '·cQntributions On the evening of March 30, Musical Performance and Inter cians gave the concert a unique female who ;being .made in betv.een 70-80 people crowded pretation courses given at both and enlightening effect. excels in the · Jewish educa- into room 4 l 8 of Stem College. Stern and Yeshiva College. The What Dr. Silver expressed promotion of Students. faculty, and other pa memhers of the various en~ rang true for all when she said, Jewis.h edu- tron\ of fine music gathered to sembles have been working a!\ "H's always a delight to see how gether to attend the..... Concert of year on this event. much talent we have here." At Chamber Music and Jail pre Margy Berkowitz, sew jun: the same time, the performers Information Carrels Introduced to Library sented b:y the music department ior and one of the pianists. corn were pleased to see people en~ of Yeshi~·{t Univc-r~ity. Directed mc meJ. "it's great to expose joying their work. As Michael By Laurie Katzman by Dr. Ed~ard Ln y and Dr. people at· Stern to classical mu Roth of the jazz ensemble slated, A carrel has recently been set women. Also, in addition to the Noyes Bartholomew. the pro -,ic." The performance. which "it'-; great that a lot of people up in the left study room of the books currently available in the gram gave students an entertain la"ted for a couple of hours, im showed up. It shows people still first t1oor library to serve as a library, 15-20 more books have ing iouk at music as performed hued the atmosphere with a have an interest in the fine arts." resource area. been ordered, including addi- by fellow studenh und facult\. -.cn-;e of warmth and attentive By the end of the concert, it In a joint effort with career tional information about gradu iho"-e ·students w~perform~ lh Ilana llre,lau Thi'-, year. on!y 1, 1u.:-prec.,idcnt Secretary- Rt:na \1a--.!:..tn-..kJ, :.rnJ ,l'\C,i\ ,I', iJL·[ ~()di '.IC'<:\ and correo;;ponding ...,ec,etary nt Trea"urcr- Rachel Po~ner. :-,__·,,r l(,r ··\\SH -...ru,k , 1(, Dr. Peninah Schram the -.!udcnt council'" executive Pearlman ;1ttnhu!~d the: lack oi StuJ4nt kadi:r-.. ;ire :.ilr...:aJ. kil(lV, wh1, 1 .11n. \\hi, th: 11,,;_;icl board were ,:onte\led pn<;ition,: compct!tion fnr \!LH..lcn! goH'rn i:11lwt:ni pl.tn" l()r nc:x: ~l'cl; n11.:mhLf', :.;re. and 1n.n all candiddtc'.'s for sssBsc·-, po rncnt pos,1t1tln, to \tudcn!-- · prior Pc:nlnian -,tn.'-.,-q:d the J1rl,~r~,, f..:,\d~ tl, ht' lhcir \,ill'-. l Popular \1tion-., ran unoppo-,ed. However_ cnmmitml.'nh to other acr1, 1til·, thcil Lurrcnt SCWSC Pn:,1d~n1 1ll d\\]',t tht:m \O t;1/-.t' ,id then: \Va'-. competition for th<..' fi\L~ :.mJ pnontizmg. Gruv-. added th,lt ·\dcn·a Layc1 Cirauh,ird tu-.. \dlltdgt::: of a!\ :ht· llf"lP•lftVlltlC'- Professors TAC po'>ition~. in SSSB there 1.., a -;mall number nf made in :idYanunt'. ,tudcnt :id . .Jil,1.hk tn 1hcrn" Candidates· '>ign-, and -.,logans Present cluttered the elevdtm .... halt:i, and walls B: B. Che~na Green MEMORIAL LECTURE Syh;a Haber. SCWSC V,cc Reit Atidrash 'in honor of Dean\ Pn:..,i A. SELF DEFEAnNG PRoJEcr Lampert Auditorium was by Jesselson·s son Michael. who filled on Tuesday night April 27 stressed his father's capacity to 'iis members f Yeshiva Univer- get along with all types of By Ch•v• Boylan ~ On Thursday. April 29. par Bring Our Daughters to Work think, even men experience,-Ob- ents all over lhe country brought Day was a pul down to men and stacles on their way to success ~ their daughters to work. The women who stay at home full and even )llCII ~ do not ~ project, conceived by Gloria time. In The New York runes ar get credit for what they aq::om- " Steinem, was sponsored by The ticle covering the event, one girl plish. This day should possibly ~ Ms. Foundation. The news me even commented, 1'his shows us have beeo National Take our. ~ dia lauded ii. It made the front what women can do beyond cook Chilmn to Work Day. cover of The New York Times. ing or cleaning in the house." This The Metropolitan Dimy con- Overall. it was considered a suc girl obviously is unaware of the • tained a vignette of one girl who cess. benefits to the family when one participated in this program. A But was it? _Did the project parent stays al home. co-worker found a ten year old achieve its goal? National Take And what about the boys? girl typing the following on the our Daughters to Work Day was Why couldn · t the boys go to computer: predicated on several studies work with their pan; ? All chil "l have nothing to do which concluded that upon dren need to be tol that they can 1 have nothing to do reaching puberty. adolescent accomplish an ng they puts I am board girls tend to feel limited in .their their minds to. day actually Only fifteen minutes till lunch." Phyllis Jesse/son speaks at her father-in-law's memorial capabilities. By taking the girls to further emphasi d a division While this vignette might be wod(, the Ms. Foundation hoped between sexe hicb the femi amusing, it proves that even a sity, and the greater Jewish com people, his honesty. and avoidance ·girls, self esteems, to show nist moveme t supposedly sets National Children's D!lY at Work munity gathered for a memorial in of petty dispute. unlimited career possibili out to destro. is not what is needed. Because. memory of Ludwig Jesselson. The final speech was given a friendly work place. In the New York Tmies when it. comes down to it, pbil- The first to speak was by Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm. ignoring other main article, Delia alez, age 12com dren. ' ,schQof.Wilh- Jessel son's grandson Mendy, Lamm reflected on Jesselson ·causes of low self esteem. this mented, "Everybody knows. ~ ····anc1wm:. who spoke of his memories of as." Ludy hagadof', "Ludy the day also publici7.ed a widespread men can do everylbiog•• ,.Thty ing wm.noisuc- his grandfather and lessons Great", and discussed bis char always get the credit. N __ - learned from liim. Next was acter, commitment to Jewish mismHner that self esteem is di · .... •· rectJy linked with snecess- in have to get some." Ma a,. -~-:. Jesselson' s · daughter-in-law, causes, and contributions to YU . one's career. This concept, in ..pears to have. been fed 11 ·lot of JtJ,.~~~ Phyllis Jesselson, who re Many of the speakers empha and of itself is prone to cause low propaganda. ' · t"'.. :wodd.» ··~ counted her personal impres sized his wife, Erica· s, full part sions Ot Jesselson--,--S-CliafitC'ter nership in phllimthiopic aciivriies. self esteem. Contrary to~ Dd\a miglit ,"'.$. ··1 What about homemakers? and integrity, She was followed ANNOUNCING YOl=EE 210 West 14th Street THE OPENING OF CHAI (bet. 7th and 8th Aves.) NYC THE DOORS TO Glatt Kosher Re§!,aurant WEEKDAY LUNCH American & Chinese Cuisine SPECIAL FROM 11-3 Catering For All Occasions FREE PARKING AFTER Private Room seats 200 people 6PM WITH MINIMUM Weddings • Bar/Ba/Mitzvahs $40 PER TICKET • Partus • Meetings • AU Simchas • Sheva Brochos • Pidyon Haben • Etc. 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By vir a brief moment at lea.s.t. to joint contemporary political phiioso Because the Rav was able to remarks about the Rav 's religious tue of my father's zt"l close re partnership, to a feeling that he phy. Along with the other revi participate in our thinking, though authenticity that would have been lationship with the Rav, l had met ,too, was now a link in the cha.in sions of the Rav zt'T s bil)graphy he considered us. mistaken. th~ inconceivable in a ··real'' Yeshiva. him a number of times during my of the masorah of learning. The perpetrated in the past several subsequent anti-war movement at Academic freedom was :-.erve THE OBSERVER Page I J THE OBSERVER Page' 10 y The Rav's Link to sew: ITHE RAv's SHIUR Dean Karen Bacon BRILLIANCE Recalls By Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel By Dean Karen Bacon It is extraordinarily difficult to ner. I knew the Rav from a dis- proached, the tension in the air attempt to describe my experi A one-time instructor at Ye tance. which was probably true was almost unbearable, I found ence as a talmid in the Rav's shiva College. who had a very for most people and was cer- myself pacing the halls, fidgeting shiur. I shall try, however, to fo fine general education but no tainly true for the women of and sw ting, trying desperately cus briefly on one or two aspects formal Jewish education, once Stern College in the I 960s, From to think f the words I would say of that experience in order to asked us if he could attend one a distance I listened to his shiurim to the R v when I would meet convey to our students, and to of the shiurim in order to observe before the yamim noraim, from him per, nally. words that remind myself, what all who the Rav whom he had heard so a distance and through intenne- would not fa flat or seem trivial. study Torah have lost, on the much about He sat in the back diaries I heard bits and pieces of My attemp s at preparation one hand. but what a precious for the entire two and a half the Torah he taught at Yeshiva were ultimat ly to prove foolish, gift we had and what a remark hours I the average length of the -during the week. And. from a for when I ood face to face able legacy has been left behind Ra,·'s shiuriml watching the Ra, distance. I felt myself to be with the Rav, more at a dis on the other. intently. We asked him later for among the generation of, stu- tance. I was ove ome by the hi,,;, impre-.~ion:-.. He ,;aid that at dents who. in years to come. enormity of the moment. and the beginning. the Rav appeared would claim the privilege of call- with a tremble in my voice and to be tired and somewhat de ing the Rav their Rebbe. their teario, in my eyes I simply tached. But a~ thi: ~hiur pro. spiritual and intellectual mentor, thanked him for making the "... you were also gressed. he \a"-· the Ra\·.., face In 1964 my husband and I women of Stern College impor equally struck by come alive and he could appre were married. The Rav was our tant by his presence. He ac- ciate the \Jtality with v.hich the the palpable sense Ra\ \I. orked hi-. way through the by my father-in-law. then the walked on, took his place at the of devotion that subject at hand. When the ,hiur Dean of Yeshiva College. My front of the room and began, ended, he ,av. the Ra, slump memories of that occasion are I have heard so many people the Rav and he heard a sigh signalling by the pic talk of the Rav as dazzling that by probably influenced demonstrated for that the shiur \.\3~ indeed over tures and the movies. scenes in now that word has lost much of The Rav described himself as which the Rav looms large. its power. Would that I could limud ha-Torah in a Rebbe, in his later years. in tenns handing Stephan the wine, pour think of another, but I can't, The particular and for not too different from those of the ing ashes on his head, a Rebbe Rav led us on an analytical quest college instructor. Learning and holding his talmid's hand in that day that ranged over no intellectual teaching stirred him and made him dance. Again I experienced the more than three words of text, striving and rigor young again, We were truly Rav from a distance. but goaded us to stretch to the blessed to be able to see that face It In 1977 I returned to Stern limits of our critical powers, SPEAKS in general." and to hear the words of Torah College as dean, With the strong was a shiur that appeared to RAV SoLOVEITCHIK'S DAUGHTER from this great gadol ben-Torah, for conviction that' Stem College's make time stand still. And, ! who was also an intellectual giant. to in my life and in the destiny was inexorably linked the first time by Kes~I Roza Upon hearing the Rav deliver and above all. a complete human Col the quality of the Jewish studies life of the women of Stern being, Sometimes when I am learn opening Torah She be' al Peh up the inaugural shiur for the beit a shiur, you were immediately program, I worked with Rabbi lege, the Rav was also our Rebbe ~d about the Rav's world of Torah and lamdus was ::; in my the midrash program, in which the struck by his increNew York City, the Rav gave a became aware --Dean Bacon is the SCW ¾ palpable sense of devotion that "Learning and a davar pashut; f weekly gemara shiur at Moriah tentions, related Lichtenstein. Hebrew, it was the Rav demonstrated for limud this as an issue." synagogue, with a women's sec they approached President teaching stirred he did not see ha-Torah in particular and for Mrs, Lichtenstein herself from a tion always available to those Lamm and requested that he ask A REFLECTION ON THE "The Rav came intellectual striving and rigor in him and made him grew up in her father's house who wished to learn, This shiur the Rav not to give the opening tradition of great objec general, Learning gemara would learning gemara under his guid was groundbreaking, not only in shiur. Upon hearing of this young again." do never be the same for any of us. ance, and was raised keeping respect for women's that it gave women an opponu tion, the Rav asked, "Where RAv, ZT"L. A new world was opened up as did the men. intellectual prowess ... '' nity to learn Talmud, but also that their daughters go to school" Bet _, many mitzvot which was exciting and daunting She always ate in the succah on a Rosh Yeshiva was offering Ya'akov? They, study Rashi - at the same ti me, By Rabbi Saul J. Berman Succot and it was only many them this opponunity, that is Torah Shebe' al Peh !" The (During the years that I at- 0 to spirituality, authority and self years later when she became Rav gave the shiur and ended it I feel myself and my world tended the shiur. there were mind's eye and I am inspired by it by the transformation were commonly aware that as woman, she was with words of chizuk, encour have been diminished a tion), and opened to her the world more than one hundred students I trust that those who did not have zecher achieved in the same single not obligated to do so, agement, to the women in their passing of the Rav, oL,the written, as well as Oral "The Rav was a in lhe class, And yet. the Rav the privilege of learning with the tzaddik ve' kadosh levracha, Mitzvah act. No one else had Mrs, Lichtenstein's upbring fun~er pursuits of Torah !fudy, Law,'' The Rav's mother also insisted on calling the roll every Rav will study his writings and his Many teach Tmah with ethical ever ·made me feel with such ing was actually a continuation 'champion in opening The Rav was very much against kept mitzvot as men did and in day, and marking down (or de- shiurimsothattheytoowillbeable that the study the Yeshiva becoming co-ed, bu·c sensitivities; many teach with clarity and power of the heritage of the Rav's fam sisted on sitting in the Succah and 1bmh Shebe'al Peh up to of his im in their own institution he be leting) those students who were to absorb a measure degl'\es of spiritual awareness; of Torah was the act of engag ily. "The Rav came from a tra davening three times a day. worneIL'' lieved that women could go as not attending, For all of his great- mense learning and indelible pres-• man)'.J!;ach Torah with a pow- inginarelationshipwithG-dhim dition of great respect for Mrs, Lichtenstein noted that, far as they wanted in tenns of a ness, he considered himself a ence, erful sense of its authority; some self, women's intellectual prowess," as far as she knows, the Rav Torah curriculum, rebbe first and foremost, He even teach with recognition of The Rav taught that the study she explained, When her grand never wrote about the issue of Although gemara was taught In closing, Mrs, Lichtenstein tried to challenge students di --Rabbi Kanwj'oge! is the Chair the capacity of Torah to trans- of Torah by women, including mother, the Rav's mother, women and Torah study, "By in Stern College from the remarked, "The Lonely Man of rectly (an often harrowing expe num of the Rebecca frn Dtpart form the soul and life of the that of Torah Sheb'al Peh, con passed away in 1967, Mrs. not writing, but doing, he college's inception, it was al Faith could have also beeo The rience) and get the most out of ment Testimony of the Rav's Father and 11 ·,1.1 11 ,·;1r1·11 h1 f)r ..Hontrtt! R Lt'ilf)!i/1)/: di/,! rrinrf.f Iii !ht· Grandfather ,._\j_g_{JJJJ.:..ilhl--1.L•urnoi on ,\Lin.·fi .". /V9j_,, lf11s 11·11s ri'f'rinted '.1!'tt }i·ith ;he \1. rit,:r ·.\ poni!sswn lly Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann the man who will capture the Land which is not applicable any more, this field. His character is filled ... l ha,.-c \\niten ahout my cxperi that is evident andckar for all eyes spiritually and materially. His like Zeroim, Kodashim, Taharat, with excellent quality and he al ~nce-.. \1.'ith the Rav in a past article to see. Sol do nm come as a wit home will be the settling of the or the fixing of the new moon, His wcys shows c ABOUT THE RAv: THESE THINGS I REMEMBER By Dr. Alvin I. Schiff Rabbi Joseph Ber cited teacher, accompanied by the :: Soloveitchik, zt"l, was a tower principa