Reply To: Donating a Gemara to a Catholic College

Just because you have some frum yidden who go there most likely for things like OT, PT, Counseling, Education, etc., does not mean that there is a huge need for seforim in the library. I actually know many people who have gone there, and it is not as if there is any great Jewish life on campus. The article makes it clear that the intentions of this donation were to have the Gemara accessible to galuchim and members of the galach seminary on campus. Clifford Meth’s words make this very clear. If anyone from Oorah is reading this, I am curious to see what the heter is and what sources they relied on in permitting this. Sure, in Europe, there were efforts to have the Talmud translated and placed in goyishe universities, but this was only for the purpose of refuting anti-semitic attacks against the Talmud, a problem whioh doesn’t exist anymore, and making torah accessible to assimilated students at a University like the Sorbonne, where Reb Yisroel Salanter felt such a need existed. I do not think such a need can legitimately exist in a school that is thoroughly sectarian and affiliated with the RC archdiocese, has a galach seminary, etc.