Internet pictures have been in the news lately but here is a story of one such picture that few people know about.
Readers of this magazine are familiar with the story of the medical school inKovnoLithuania which attracts students from all over the world among them several dozen Jewish students. Its small Jewish student center is run by a rabbi and his wife who supply the students — none of whom are observant — with Friday night meals prayer sessions occasional classes and discussion groups all in an effort to create some connection between these young people and their Jewish heritage.
The rabbi’s task is not easy because the students have only one goal in mind: to do well in their medical studies. All else is peripheral. Religious discussions talk of G-d and Torah and the Jewish People — these all fell on deaf ears — as they do on many campuses around the world.
Toward the end of the school year as final exams loomed the entire student body began studying frantically for their finals. During the days and nights prior to the exams the tiny library of the center usually quite empty was filled with the Jewish students who found the quiet of the room very compatible for intensive study.
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