Vol. IV - No. 2
A Free Publication
October, 1971
Senior Girls To Sflend Term Studying in Israel
Jewish Council On J erusalen1 Hears Wiesel By Sam Newborn
On Thursday, Sept 23, a confer ence o( 500 Jewish rcl1g1ous leaders \vas held at the New York Hilton Hotel by the Synagogue Council of America, the rcprcscntattve body of the three branches of American
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The conference was held to cm. phas1ze the deep sp1ntual s1gn1f1cnncc of the city of Jerusalem and to unite the Amcncan Jewish com mun1ty in prepar:i.t1on for the U.N debate on the status of Jerusalem The position taken by the council I was that Jerusalem., ns1de from any pollttcal cons1dcrnt1ons, must be rcc1 o,c:111.tcd by the wo1 ld community ;1s
The guest speaker at the confer ence was Eh Wiesel, world renowned author or books on the holocaust, himself a survivor of Auschwitz. Mr Wiese.l's speech dealt with the irn• portance of Jerusalem to the Jewish soul. He spoke nllcgoncally, often Ill• tc:rweav111g Hass1d1c lore and child hood rec0Uect1on� of talcs or Jcru S.)lcm into his speeceh. Speaking ot l11s first v1s1t to the Wa11lng Wa11, which took pince 1mmc-di:1tely rollow111g the Six-Day War, Mr. Wiesel ex pressed his sense or unity with )us feJlow Jews throughout history Em. phas1z111g the great s1gn1f1cance of Jerusalem to the Jew, Mr \\T1cscl said, ''The Jews have always placed Jerusalem on a pedestal high above any other city, for Jerusalem 1s the haven for the soul, mind and spirit of the Jewish people. Jerusalem rep resents a messiamc-ltke dream, a dream or holiness and peace. It rep. resents the religious ful!1llment of the Jewish people and 1s the sole holy place or our rellc1on, as opposed to the i\loslem and Christian rehg1ons wl11ch have other holy places" Eban Addresses U.N.
The d1scussi�n or the Israeli s1tua• Lion and the Jerusalem problem be• can at the United Nations during the week of Oct. Jst with a speech de Jivered by Abba Eban before the General Assembly. Mr. Eban asked for a resumption or the Arab.Israeli nec:otia.t,ons and proposed a number of options for formulating a new peace plan. This session of the Gen• era.I Assembly was attended by the S<'nior class or Ramaz
Sen, Jackson (lcfl) s1>eaking to reporters.
Sen. Jackson Speoks At Soviet Jewry Bully
By Lilly Kaufm:tn Ramaz will participate in the Toc/1. mt Yud-Bel program in the spring lC'i m of this school year Tocluut Yud-Bet 1s run under the auspices of the Jewish Agency m cocperat1on with the Gold College for Women in Jerusalem The pro. gram of study, given entirely 111 Hebrew consists of courses 111 Torilh, Prophets, Hebrew, Jewish Philoso. phy, Modern Jewish History ;md topics of Isro.eh interest. Numerous tnps have been planned as well. Those eligible for the program arc semor girls who have finished their required courses of study by January or their senior year. The girls arrive in Israel 111 the f111al week of J:m uo.ry for five months of 111tcns1vc stud ) and return to the U.S to gr.-1d uat<.· \\ 1th \ht'1r class Adm.ss,on st1:md::i.rds to t!lc p10gram arc very hJgh. Tu1l1on for I\Iachon Gold 1s $950 including air fore. There will be no reduction m R;:unaz tU1t1on to compensate for the cost or the program. The school 1s presently 111vcst1gat1ng the poss1bil1ty of a C'Omparablc program for boys. Other schools which have parll c1pated 111 the program m the past arc Yesl11va Htgh School of Queens. Yeshiva or FIMbush and Hebrew Instttule of Lons Island. Rabbt Bakst sa.1d of Tocluut Yud Bet, "I have studied the program very extensively nnd I feel thnt 1t 1s an excellent one m illl respects. 1 am sure that the students altendmg will {ind 1t very rcwa1d111g and we hope t.J make 1t available to Ramaz stu dents for many year to come."
By Joseph Klausner On September 30, 1941. 100,000 Nazis to the cultt1ral genocide prac. Jews were slaughtered m a ravine llC'cd by the Soviet authorities today on the outskirts 01 Kiev, m Russia - agamst the Jev,,s ...Our nation must 111 a place call� Baba Var. To com not rC'peat the mistakes made m the m€'morate this event, on September past. Now we c:m suU act. The time 2G, 1971. a rally wns held at Congre has come for the President of the gation Keh1fatn Jcshurun. The pur• United States to speak out on the pose of the meeting was not only to plight of the Soviet Jews." remember the dead, but to remember Jackson called on the President to those Jews wno are sllll living m demand th.it the U.S .S R. "msurc the nuss1a today. nght to !rec emigration, a !unda• Despite the fact that there was mental nght embodied Ill the U.N. \.Cry httle advance publicity, over Human Rights Charter.'' which was 1,000 people attended the gathering, signed by the Soviet Umon. wh 1ch was sponsored by the New (Continued on Page 4) York Conference on Soviet Jewry . Rabbt Gilbert Klapcrman and Mr. David Sher addressed mtroductory remarks to the ovcrrlow crowd. They discussed the fact that "tragically and An experiment in aud10-v1sually aided education is underway at Ra· l)p1cally" Bab1 Yar contams no ad� maz. Thirty-two wireless headphones have been donated to the school by quate memorial to the Jews bunecl Mr Daniel Schulman, a Ramaz parent. Four rooms have been specially there. The site of holocaust is today wired for the mstallahon of the headphones. Students wearing the h<.•adthc site of a housing project. phones in the designated rooms will bo able to pick up the sound by Senn tor Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), means of the wire which runs around the ceiling of the lnd1v1dual room. an unannounced presidential cand1· Dr. Petluck, the school's headmaster. commcntcd on the new pro. date, was the featured speaker or the jcct: "The headphones add a tremendous depth anti dimension to eduartcrnoon. Jackson has been m5trucation. IC a student already knows what is being taught m class or would mental m brmgmg many Jev,nsh ltke to delve further mto a subject, he can remain m the classroom and cm1ses to the attention or the Amerlisten to any of the many tapes and records now available at the school." 1can public - among them the plight The headphones allow the student's studies to go beyond the prrnted or Soviet Jewry. page without affecting the learning rate of the rest of the class. The "Let us stand an solidarity w,th the mstrumenls will be used to aid courses 111 English, foreign languages, children of Bab1 Yar,'' declared the music and history. In the future, instead of merely listening to a teacher's senator. "They arc the genu111e heroes recitation, a student will be able to experience a poem, speech or comof our time. They command our position himself. The use of these instruments will make the process of deepest respect." Jackson compa.rcd learning more alive and exciting for all mvolvcd. -Carol \\'eiss the slaughter carried out by the,c.________________ _______ _ ____,
Audio Aids Donated to School