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Page 20 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 26, 1986
by Joseph Polakoff
I Si's Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON— Yeshiva
University, America’s oldest and
largest university under Jewish
auspices, conferred its degree of
laws upon President Reagan and
presented him with a silver men-
orah as a memento of his becom
ing an honorary alumnus of the
century-old institution in New
York City.
In a ceremony on Dec. 18 in
the Cabinet Room of the White
H ouse attended by a select group
of the institution’s benefactors
and officials, the university’s
president. Dr. Norman Lamm,
also presented Reagan with a
copy of the letter Thomas Jeffer
son had written to Mordechai-
Manuel Noah from his home
near Charlottesville, Va.
In the letter. Jefferson observed
Noah's speech in New York pro
vided “some valuable facts about
Jewish history which 1 did not
know before.” The letter had
been given to Yeshiva by an uni
dentified benefactor who bought
it at auction.
The president was visibly
moved by the honor of being the
first incumbent president to re
ceive a Yeshiva degree. Later
Max Green, associate director of
the Office of Public Liaison at
the White House, informed Lamm
President Reagan expresses appreciation to Yeshiva University officials. With him, from left, are Dr.
Norman Lamm, Max J. F.tra, Herbert Tenzer, Stanley Stern and Dr. Israel Miller.
as the Yeshiva group was leaving
the White House grounds that
the president had told aides of his
appreciation of the university’s
honors. The presentations came
at a time when both he and his
administration were under severe
criticism and strain over what
has become known as the Iran-
Contra affair
“Yeshiva University draws
confidence from the confidence
of the Reagan era—and we are
confident that this larger confi
dence will neither fail nor falter,”
the degree’s citation said. “Even
during crisis and criticism, you
have never wavered from basic-
human decency, you have never
lost your sunny sense of humor,
and we know you will never per-
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mit a passing cloud to dim the
luster of your leadership.”
The delegation that met with
the president included Rabbi
Israel Miller, a former chairman
of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Or
ganizations, who is the universi
ty's senior vice president and
who chaired the ceremony; Her
bert Tenzer, chairman of Yeshi-
va’s trustees, and Max Etra, its
chairman emeritus.
The bipartisan political
makeup of the group of 20
Yeshiva leaders was indicated by
the presence oi Tenzer, the first
Democrat elected to Congress
from New York’s Nassau County
who served two terms in 1964-68
and now at age 81 heads a 60-
member law firm in Manhattan;
and George Klein, a prominent
New York businessman who is
among the original backers of
Reagan’s presidential campaign
as an official of a group of lead
ing Republicans now known as
the National Jewish Coalition.
Klein is a Yeshiva trustee.
Yeshiva had previously con
ferred honorary degrees on John
F. Kennedy when he was a sena
tor and upon Richard Nixon
when he was not in the White
House. It has similarly honored
Vice President George Bush,
Secretary of State George Shultz,
Secretary of Education William
Bennett and former Ambassador
to the United Nations. Jeane Kirk
patrick.
Two Yeshiva alumni serve in
major governmental positions in
the Reagan administration. Max
Kampelman head the U.S. dele
gation at the Geneva arms-control
talks with the Soviet Union, and
former U.S. Judge Abraham
Sofaer is legal advisor at the
State Department.
In a letter to Yeshiva in Sep
tember in connection with its
centennial celebration, Reagan
said, “its history—representing
as it does both freedom of secular
inquiry and freedom of reli
gion—is the story of America.”
Yeshiva, which began as a
school of traditional Jewish stud
ies with a few teachers and a few
immigrant students on New
York’s Lower East Side in 1886,
now is an international univer
sity with five undergraduate
schools, seven graduate and pro
fessional schools including med
icine, law, social work, educa
tion, psychology and Jewish stud
ies, and three affiliates.
Its student body of more than
7,000, ol whom 41 percent are
women, comprises members from
all parts of America as well as
L anada, Europe, Latin America,
the Middle East and Africa. It
has a full-time faculty of 1,300.
Its seven libraries house more
than 850,000 volumes, periodi
cals and special collections in all
branches ol the arts, sciences and
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