A journal of essays dealing with Jewish philosophy and treatises on Talmudic passages in the Persian (Parsi) language was issued recently by a group of Iranian students at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Baltimore, Md. According to Torah Umesorah, this is the first Persian-language journal dealing with Jewish themes ever published in North America.
Rabbi Bernard Goldenberg, chairman of the executive staff of Torah Umesorah, said that, as a result of the upheavals in Iran during the last two years, there are some 200 Iranian Jewish students studying at various secondary Hebrew day schools and post-secondary theological colleges and seminaries. A large contingent (about 20 percent), is located in the Baltimore school. Because the Iranian Jewish students are scattered throughout the country, the Baltimore group saw the need for the publication to maintain contact with all of the various Iranian student groups in the U.S.
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