Funeral services were held here today for Dr. Shlomo Bardin, founder and director of the Brandeis Camp Institute, who died yesterday morning of a heart ailment at the age of 78. Dr. Bardin was born in Zhitomer, Russia and lived in Palestine from 1919-1939. He studied at Columbia University in New York where he received his doctorate in 1932. After settling in the United States in 1969 he met U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
According to Dr. Max W. Bayh, president of the Brandeis Camp Institute, it was the late Justice Brandeis who inspired Dr. Bardin to establish the Institute to inculcate American Jewish college youth with Jewish values and Judaism. The Institute was founded in 1941 in the east and subsequently moved to California. Privately funded, it currently provides one-month summer programs for college-age and younger students and week end programs for adults the year round.
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