A contribution of $50,000 towards the Yeshivah College Endowment Foundation, Inc., has been made by Leon Tuchmann, retired New York merchant, who takes an active interest in Jewish communal affairs, according to an announcement issued by Rabbi M. S. Margolies, president of the board of directors of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College.
The Yeshiva College Endowment Foundation, organized several years ago under the presidency of Mendel Gottesman, treasurer of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, has for its purpose to contribute towards the maintenance budget of the institution for higher Jewish learning in the United States which has now an enrollment of 600 students coming from all parts of the country, Europe and Palestine.
Mr. Tuchmann, making the contribution in behalf of Mrs. Tuchmann and himself, made no stipulations regarding the use of the fund. In a letter to Rabbi Margolies, accompanying the gift, Mr. Tuchmann, who resides at 215 West 90th Street, stated: “It has long been my opinion that the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College is the institution which of all institutions will do more for the permanency of Judaism than any other in existence in our time.”
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