Religion: The Oasis

Among the sun-baked hills of Santa Susana, covered with rough brush and scrub oak, the priests and prophets of ancient Israel might walk without surprise; such was the hard land where Jacob lay down to dream on a pillow of stones and David praised God with song and sword. But the hills of Santa Susana are 35 miles from Los Angeles, and the Jews who walk there are men like Furniture Manufacturer Julius Fligelman or Actor Paul Muni. They and other U.S. Jews of all ages come to Brandeis Camp Institute as to a...

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