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PAGE 14 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE June 13, 1986
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The June 15 Yeshiva High
School dinner honoring Larry and
Eleanor Bogart will feature Rabbi
Avraham Weiss, who has been
called one of the most dynamic and
outspoken Orthodox rabbis on the
American scene.
Rabbi Weiss is senior rabbi of
the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
and assistant professor of Judaic
Studies at Stern College, Yeshiva
University. He is also the national
chairman of the Center for Russian
Jewry with the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry and is on the
national executive board of Amer
icans for a Safe Israel. Rabbi Weiss
is presently completing his Ph.D.
thesis in comparative religions.
Rabbi Weiss’s synagogue has
received national acclaim for its
innovative outreach programs,
which include programs for the
mentally retarded, elderly shut-ins,
singles of all ages, free high holiday
services and Passover Seders.
The Institute’s supplementary
school, known as the Jewish Youth
Encounter Program, has been
viewed as a model Hebrew School,
and the Institute’s Allen M. Was-
serman Academy of Judaic Stu
dies attracts hundreds of begin
ning, intermediate and advanced
students to study the Torah.
The Hebrew Institute is one of
the only Orthodox congregations
in the country that officially spon
sors a Women’s Halachic Tefila.
Rabbi Weiss is a leading activist
on the American-Jewish scene.
During the Israeli War in Lebanon,
he spent two weeks in Rambam
Hospital in Haifa visiting wounded
Israeli’ soldiers. In October 1982
he fasted for six consecutive days
and nights in solidarity with Anat
oly Shcharansky at the Soviet Mis-
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sion to the United Nations. In May
1985 he led a group which spent the
first shabbat in Bergen Belsen in
four decades, protesting President
Reagan’s visit to Bitburg.
During the recent Reagan-Gor-
bachev Summit, Rabbi Weiss, to
gether with Josef Mendelevich
peacefully sat-in and prayed at the
Soviet airlines Aeroflot office
demanding that Soviet Jewry be
raised as a priority issue at the
Summit. Together with Mr. Men
delevich, he was incarcerated for
50 hours and was held in a maxi
mum security prison until expelled
from Switzerland by the Swiss
police.
Rabbi Weiss has written exten
sively on Jewish philosophy and
Halacha, as well as political issues.
His articles have appeared in Tra
dition, Jewish Education, the New
York Times, Newsday, the Jerusa
lem Post, New York Law Journal
and Sh’ma.
For dinner reservations, call the
school office, 873-1492, or Elyse
Wertheimer, 633-6908.
AJF seeks signatures
for letter to Gorbachev
A unique and ambitious project
on behalf of the Jews of the Soviet
Union is being undertaken by area
academicians in cooperation with
the Worldwide Jewish Affairs
committee of the Atlanta Jewish
Federation, according to Howard
Sachs, chairman. “Over 350 aca
demicians from all institutions in
the metropolitan Atlanta area and
University of Georgia have been
asked to endorse an open letter to
Gorbachev, concerning the rights
of refusniks to emigrate. This will
be published when President Rea
gan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet
this coming fall,” says Dr. Arnold
Schneider, of the College of Man
agement at Georgia Institute of
Technology and coordinator of this
project. “In addition,” continues
Dr. Schneider, each of the acade
micians has been twinned with a
refusnik who shares the same pro
fessional background. Unfortu
nately, many ol the refusniks no
longer practice in their profession
because they were stripped of their
duties and fired from their jobs
when they applied to emigrate to
Israel. Nevertheless, we ask each
academician to send to their
twinned refusnik copies of their
published, scholarly material."
“The purpose of this kind of
twinning program,” explains Dr.
Roger Wartel, Department of
Biophysics at Georgia Tech and
also involved in the coordination
of this project, “is to provide intel
lectual sustenance to these men
and women who have been denied
access to research and study in
their hard-earned areas of exper
tise.”
A letter explaining the project
and urging participation by area
academicians was signed by Dr.
David Blumenthal, chairman. De
partment of Religion, Emory Uni
versity; Dr. Melvin Kranzberg, pro
fessor, School of Social Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology;
Professor Paul Kurtz, professor of
law. University of Georgia; and
Dr. Michael Mescon, dean. Col
lege of Business Administration,
Georgia State University.
“We are hopeful that by the tall
we will have many hundreds of
signatures for the open letter to
Gorbachev,” says Schneider. “More
importantly, we hope that many
colleagues here in Georgia will
make the effort to communicate
with their refusnik colleagues It is
a matter of academic life and death."
For further information about
this program, contact Noah Levine
at the Federation, 873-1661
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