Jerusalem Echoes:The Ohr Somayach Story (Vol. 2)

NO DUST JACKET>>>Ohr Somayach is the largest network of introductory and advanced pro- grams in Judaic studies for full and part time students and adults, in Israel, wi ib a presence in the United States as well. The Torah is light brightness and warmth penetrating ignorance Ohr Somayach The Joyful light is the name of a college with studies tailored for the student who has lost contact with tradition and is new to advanced Jewish learning. Israel Radio Ohr Somayach has introduced several thousand students to the experience of Jewish learning. Two colleges in Jerusalem for men and women carry full Jewish Studies program. Parallel courses are taught at the Givat Ada/Zichron Yakov Com- munity (20 miles south of Haifa), and at the Yonkers N.Y. campus. Classes are small and personal. individualized study groups develop close relationships between students and teachers. Ohr Somayach conducts lectures, seminars, and workshops at a network of bases in Jerusalem, TelAviv, New York, and throughout Israel. Shma Yisracl a full color magazine on Jewish affair; with a Feisty radical slant (N.Y. Village Voice) U published by Ohr Somayach. A healthy, frank, matter off act atmosphere pervades .. .Ohr Somayach a spirit of intellectual inquiry The Jerusalem Post