Berkowitz-Enmeshed in scandal, Oral Roberts Univ saved by $70 million bail out 
 
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:49:37 -0600 (CST)


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Oral Roberts  University: Saved by the bail out
 
I first discovered Oral Roberts when I was a young boy growing up Jewish in  
the Bronx, New York of the 1950s. Actually, like Columbus "finding" America, I 
 found Roberts quite by accident.  
One day while standing (pre-remote control) in front of my parents' 16" black 
 and white television and switching channels hoping to tune into another 
Million  Dollar Movie repeat showing of "Yankee Doodle Dandy," I encountered Mr. 
Roberts.  He was, I believe delivering what appeared to be a very heart-felt 
sermon to a  nicely dressed audience.  
I knew from sermons; after all I faithfully attended Hebrew School four days  
a weeks after a full day at public school, and I was a regular at Saturday  
morning services at the synogogue where the Rabbi regularly sermonized.  
I had even seen Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, the stern, humorless and powerful New 
 York City-based Catholic, deliver messages in his always somber voice to the 
 faithful on television.  
Roberts was different: He stalked the stage; he raised his voice; he had the  
crowd in the palm of his hands ... and he appeared to indicate that he could  
heal the sick, mend the wounded, deflict the afflicited.  
It seemed to me that all you had to do to grab a piece of the healing was to  
place your hands on the television set and let the power of Mr. Roberts do 
the  rest.  
That was then.  
Now, Oral Roberts University, the Tulsa, Oklahoma institution named after the 
 pioneering televangelist, needs some healing of its own. And that's where 
Mart  Green, a young multi-millionaire comes in.      
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