The departments of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, located on New York East Side for the past 43 years, were transferred to the new spacious buildings erected at 186th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Sunday, February 3. The Yeshiva College, recently chartered by the Board of Regents of the New York University, temporarily located at the Jewish Center, 131 West 86th Street, was also transferred to the new buildings, as were the Teachers’ Institute and the Talmudic Academy, the Yeshiva high school.
Impressive ceremonies and religious services were held in the old building at 301 East Broadway and in the new buildings when the Holy Scrolls and the sacred books were transferred. A large assembly of the directors, rabbis, teachers and friends of the institution attended the ceremonies.
From the downtown home of the Yeshiva, there moved a procession of automobiles bearing the Holy Scrolls. Arriving at the new buildings on Washington Heights, the ceremonies were continued.
Addresses were delivered by Dr. B. Revel, president of the faculty, Rabbi I. Rosenberg, Rabbi M. S. Margolies and others.
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