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...grateful to be informed by Mr. H. Epstein (Crimson, October 4th) that at least one of the followers of Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's new militant Jewish thrust at Harvard isn't really all that militant after all--or so he thinks. Mr. Epstein doesn't even consider religious behavior as part of a larger matrix of concerns called "ethnic." He is, of course, quite mistaken, though in his error is a measure of his low-profile approach to the new Jewish militancy--an approach with which I have sympathy. Yet Mr. Epstein remains somewhat in error. I have several...
Secondly, Mr. Epstein shares Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's confusion about the limits of ethnic participation in a democratic society. The pluralist model for managing ethnic interactions permits both exclusivity and inclusivity in subcultural practices or endeavors, while simultaneously cultivating an open-ended universalism or cosmopolitanism as a style (value) for national institutions. At the extreme of exclusivism is the Amish model: total rejection of and isolation from modern society, cosmopolitanism and all. This is difficult to attain but if you work at it, as the great Amish people of my home state of Pennsylvania have, you can achieve much...
...sermon. Today, in 1975, thousands of dollars to Harvard's budget go to the support of Protestant religion, and nothing to any other religion. This, then, is not an issue out of the past. It is a serious matter of religion and a sober matter of deep unfairness. H. Epstein Space Committee Harvard Hillel
Directed by GUY GREEN Screenplay by JULIUS J. EPSTEIN...
...Handel concert; Charlotte Kaufman, harpsichord, Friedrich Von Huene, recorder and flute, Elizabeth Epstein, flute and voice, and Laura Jeppesen, gamba. Eliot Library...