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Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Arguments for: a moderate, a Jew, a proven vote getter in bellwether Connecticut. Arguments against: religion, a lackluster record as Kennedy's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Desert Etiquette. Those were wild years in Palestine, as the Jews and Arabs warmed up for full-scale war. Shots rang in the narrow streets of Jerusalem; machine guns chattered beyond the Judean hills. It was not time for an unarmed rabbi to go exploring in Arab country, but Glueck was never questioned about his religion. "That a Jew should wander by himself in Trans-Jordan," he says, "was so unheard...
...England to Rome and Vienna. Tom Tryon, lithe and beatific as Father Stephen Fermoyle, plays the prospective prince. At first he falters. His sister Mona (Carol Lynley) tells him in the confessional that she has "slept with" a boy (John Saxon) whom she cannot marry because he is a Jew. Fermoyle never gives absolution, for he has long since despaired of converting the boy, who utters wisecracks like: "Hasn't Darwin kind of put the skids to GenesisT...
Whereas the Protestants hope to establish a oneness with the academic community, many Jews seek a means to understand or give expression to their tradition. "Hillel for many Jews means a community," says Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, associate director of Hillel. "If a Jew recognizes himself as a Jew this means that he wishes to act as such. For some it means to hear a lecture, for others it means lox and bagels, and for others it means worship...
Over half the Jews who signed religious preferences cards, however, do not belong to Hillel; many consider it a form of self-imposed segregation. Such people are "trying to move away from the restricted life of suburbia," suggests Rabbi Gold. But, he continues, "they fail to see that Harvard itself is a form of segregation in its uniqueness, and that they will need Judaism later. Being a man of the world and a Jew are disjunctive to these students. Hillel attempts to show what the broader context of religion...