Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman registration day is a symbolic initiation into that complex community. A considerable number of freshmen are Jewish. Yet the University, apparently without scrutiny, picked the day of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith, for freshman registration. One would have expected, on the principle of civility, the necessary sense of tact an-sensibility and the avoidance of such conflict...
...Crimson printed my sermon it also carried an announcement by the university of a multimillion dollar drive to fund a program in Jewish studies. Some people thought that this was a response to my sermon. I therefore would like to point out that the study of Jewish history, literature and language, important as it is for Jews, is even more important for the University as an academic institution. However, Judaism is not only a subject of academic interest but is also the living religion of a substantial group in this university. Just as the study of the history and literature...
Gulf Oil Corporation last month contributed $191,000 to University programs, including a $100,000 grant for East Asian studies and $50,000 for the planned Center for Jewish Studies...
...grant to Jewish Studies Center came after Gerald Weinstock '39, volunteer chairman for the fund drive approached Gulf earlier this year with plans for the center...
Professor Kilson, in his letter in the October 1 Crimson, errs in attempting to turn into an "ethnic" issue what was-cleanly and thoroughly a religious concern of Rabbi Gold's in his sermon on Yom Kippur. He certainly did not "announce his leadership" of any "militant Jewish thrust" of any kind, as Professor Kilson says. Professor Kilson has made that up out of whole cloth...