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JEWISH  WESTERN BULLETIN
Friday, November 21, 196
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niversity lor the Jewish People
Dr. I. H. Quastel has been a Governor of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 1950. He is Professor of Neurochemistry at University of British Columbia.
WHEN IN 1915 the foundation stones of the Hebrew University were laid by Dr. Charm Weizihann on the then barren crest of Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, an event of deep ^^gnificance for the Jewish people had taken place, Palestine was still a battlefront with only a part of the country occupied by British forces under AUenby. This act of faith was the beginning of a great centre for intellectual and scientific development of the Jewish people.
With the passage of years, the Hebrew University has become more than a focus for specific Jewish learning. It has also become a centre in which Jewish scholars and investigators teach and develop basic subjects of fundamental importance in the world today, whether these subjects be in the vast fields of medicine, agriculture or science.
In the beginning^ the University had three major objectives: to acquire knowledge through teaching and research at the highest level; to train manpower required for : creation and development of a modern state \ and to serve as the University for the Jewish people everywhere. The University is attaining thes6 goals in spite of what, through the years, seemed to be unsurmountable difficulties.
* In 1948 during the War of Independence • the University was cut off from its campus oh Mount Scopus and, during the period which followed, its premises consisted of various shops, houses, apartments and several institutions, so much so that in 1956 the Uiniversity was actuaiUy scaitt^d over-fifty 'Jbttiildings in various sections of Jerusalem. In ajaditicui, the refusal of>the»Araba^^t^^ the ti-ansfer from Mount Scopus of thousands of books in the collection of the Jewish National and University Library, imposed great hardships on students and teachers alike. Always, throughout the years, there was a; chronic lack of funds.
THANKS TO THE FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY in all countries of the free world, and to the generosity of individual supporters, difficulties due to the severance from Mount Scopus have gradually diminished. Now, in 1969, the University has three campuses: the new campus on Givat Ram, the Medical School at Ein Karem, and we are back at Mount Scopus where we intend to stay.
The Hebrew University has played, and is still playing, a major role in the fight for Israel's independence and security. It has an equally important role today in development
of the country through training of teachers and investigators, in exploitation of natural resources, and in training of men and women needed for law, administration, education and health services of the country.
I'he student body now numbers more than 15,000 of which about 3,000 are from abroad and 155 are Arabs. It is important to note that since both men and women serve for three years in the Israel armed forces, usual age for first year students is about 20 — rather older, and consequently more mature, than their counterparts here.
There is also a significant growth in the numbers of rabbis and Jewish teachers who come from abroad to the Hebrew University in order to spend their period of leave in study and research. The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the School of Jewish Studies and the Centre for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, are all expanding their programs, thus pointing to further development of the Hebrew University as a constructive force for the Jewish people as a whole.
'.rhe Truman Centre for the Advancement of Peace, located on Mount Scopus^ will be in use early next year. Nineteen residences with room for 2,240 students are now in various stags of construction. ^
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY is today a University of which any country might well be proud. It stands in first rank in all aspects of teaching and research. It owes a large and permanent debt to the students, faculty and staff of 1948 who proved that it is not buildings alone that niake a University but rather the intense desire to acquire knowledge, and the ability and skill to overcor#ill^|^^fes,iKm; ^#)^#^^ The Cknadiaii FHends; of tlii^ HeBrevir University have played a major role in the creation of the University and it is fervently hoped that it will continue to do so. The erection of Canada Hall, one of the first buildings on the n«w campus of Givat Ram was made possible by Canadian Hadassah and recent development of the Law School was due to the efforts of the Canadian Friends. They hav:e initiated the attractive Family Endowment Plan, now also adopted in Israel, to secure much needed funds for student scholarships.
We are particularly hai^\t»^wejcome:to; our midst soon, if only for a slidrt time; Mrs. Zena Harman, a great lady and the wife of the President of the He1?reiy Umversity. W^*' hope that she will eiljoy this visit to bur outpost so far in distance from Israel but so near to Israel in our hearts.
GEORGIAN JEWRY
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But we are waiting, because we believe.
It is not racial discrimination that forces, us to leave the coun-^ try. Perhaps, then, it is religious discrimination? But, in this cbim-
fimmhei The Sabbath
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try, synagogues are allowed and we are not forbidden to pray at home either, However, our prayers are with Israel because it is said: "Let my right hand shrivel up if I forget thee, Jerusalem," because we, religious Jews, consider that there is no Jew without faith, as there is no faith without tradition. Of what, then, consists our faith and our traditions?
For a long time the Roman legions made a siege of Jerusalem. But, in spite of the well-known horrors of the blockade — hunger, lack of water, sickness and much else — the Jews did not renounce their faith and did not give up. However, even human forces have their limit. The barbarians finally burst into the Holy City. Thus, thousands of years ago, the Holy Temple was destroyed, and together wtih it, the Jewish state.
BUT THE NATION REMAINED. Although those Jews who could bear arms did not give themselves up to the enemy and killed one another, there remained the bleeding wounded and there remained the old men, the women and the children.
And whoever could not leave, was killed on the spot. And whoever could, went into the desert and whoever survived reached other countries in order to believe, to pray and to wait, itvom then on they had to search for a living in other people's lands, among people who hated them. Pelted with insults, splashed by the dirt of slander, scorned and oppressed, they earned tl>eir bread by their blood and tl|eir 5S«jr€at|,arid rt}|^e3r4t»rought up their ^dijlMiilh. - ' f"
Their hands were calloused, their souls were bleeding. But the main thing was, the nation did not perish -r- and what a nation. The Jews have given the world religion and revolutionaries, philosophers and scholars, rich men and sages, geniuses with the heart of a child and with the eyes of old men. There is no branch of knowledge, no branch of literature and art to which Jews hadn't given their contribution. There is no coimtry that has given shelter to rtlje^ Jews: that-:they hadn't thanked by their work. Aiid what did the Jews get in exchange?
When all lived bearably, the Jews iin fear iawaited other times. And when things became bad for all, the Jews knew: their mortal hbiur hid -cora^- £^ Jthen they
either hid or fled'frdm the country.
And whoever fledi began everything^ ft^jmithebegiiming;"^^
And whoever could not flee, perished. .
AM wik^ver well, awaited other times.
Who hadn't oppressed Ithe Jews?"In their persecutiGh, all
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WHENEVER UNTALEN!CED
|Gr£N]|BALS 1^^^ .at once
it W£^ tfekt'the culprits for the defeat wiere looked for, Whene^fer a political ^(dyeiiture^ ifaileiijflfo ful^ heap of promises hie had made, the reason for this was immediately found — the Jews. They perished in the dungeons of ithe In:(iuisitidh in Spain and in the Fascist concentration camps in Germany. The ahti-Semitesbran-dished, like a bugaboo, the Dreyfus Affair in enlightened France and the Beilis Affair in illiterate Russia.
And the Jews had to bear it all.
At the same time they could have lived peacefully — like others, they only had to pass over to another faith. Some did so — everywhere there are people of little courage. But millions and millions preferred the life of mar-
tjrrs, and often even death to re nunciation.
And even if they roamed ove the earth without a shelter had place for all. And alth their dust is dispersed througho the world, their memory is all Their blood is in our veiiis^ ou tears are their tears.
The prophecy has come tru Israel has arisen from the aih We have not forgotten Jerusale and it. needs our hands.
THERE ARE 18 OF US wh
have signed this letter. But wh ever thinks that there are 18 of us, is mistaken. There cpul have been many more signa'
They say that there are ohl 12 million Jews in the world. Bu whoever thinks ihat there only 12 million of us, is mistake Because with those who pray fo Israel are hundreds of millions^, o those  who did not live 1< enough, of those who have tortured' to death, of those wh are no longer here. They wa with us in the same ranks, the un-vanquished and the ever living,, those who have transmitted to us their traditions of struggle and of faith.
This is why we want to go to Israel...
History has placed a great mission on the United Nations — to think about people and to help them. Therefore we deinand that the U.N. Commission, for the Rights of Man should take all the measures that it can and, in the shortest possible time, should obtain from the Government of the U.S.S.R. the permit for our emigration.
It is incomprehensible that, at the end of the 20th century, it should be possible to forbid people to live wherever they wish. It is strange how one can forget the widely broadcast appeals concerning the:rigM nations for self-detenriinatipn and, naturally, the rights of men, out of whom nations are composed.
We shall wait for months and for years, if necessary for our entire life, but we shall not re-noimce our faith and our hope.
We believe: our prayers have reached God.
We know: our appeals will reach men.
Because we do not ask for much —let us go to the land of our ancestors:
Signatures:
1. Elashvili, Shabata Mikhaloi-vich, Kutaisi, Dzhaparidze 33.
2. ElashviU, Mikhail Shabato-vich, Kutaisi, Dzhaparidze 33.
3. Elashvili, IzraelMikhailovich, Kutaisi, Kirov 31.
4. EUashvili Yakov Aronovich, Kutaisi, Mayakovsky 15.
5. Khikhinashvili, Mordekh Isa-kovich, Kutaisi, Makharadze 19.
6. Chikvashvili, Mikhail Sam_uil-ovich, Kutaisi, Khakhanash-viU 88.
7. Chikvashvili, Moshe Samuil-ovich, Kutaisi, Tsereteli i32;
8. Beberashvili, Mikhail Ruben-ovich, Kutaisi, Klara-Tset-kina 9.
-9. Elashvili, Yakov Israilovich, Kutaisi, TsereteU 54.
10. Mikhelashvili, Haini Aronovich, Poti, Tskhakaya 57.
11. MikhailashviU, Albert Haim-ovich, Poti, TsklAs^ya 5U.
X2. Mikhailashvili, Aron Haimo-vich, Poti, Dzhaparidze 18.
13. Tetruashvlli, Halm David)o>-vich, Kutaisi, Dzhaparidze 42.
14. Tsitsuashvili, Isrd Zakharo-vich Kutaisi, Shaumiana 1, Lane No. 5.
15. Tsitsuashvili, Efrem Isrovich, Kutaisi, Shaumiana 1, Lane No. 6.
16. Yakobishvili, Benision Sholo-vich. Tbilisi, 4, (Poste Res-tante), (lived on Bomova St. 91).
17. Batoniashyili, li/Ckhail Rafael-ovicn, Kutaise^ Dzhaparidze 53.
18. Tetruashvill, Mikhail Shalo-- movich, Kulash, Stalin No.
114.
22 Av. 5729 — August 6, 1969.