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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- * “ > DIRECT DIAMONDS & COLORED GEM BUYERS ANTWERP-TEL AVIV-BANGKOK FEDERAL WHOLESALE DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY “Open To The Public" 5895 Memorial Drive Suite K Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083 Steven L. Rubin (404) 299-3159 (out of town call collect) WEEKLY QUOTE FROM LESTER S BOOK "Spontaneity is the practice it takes to become confi dent enough to trust your instincts." 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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. 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