Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Commenting on Dean Rosovsky's promise September 26 that he would try to avoid scheduling important events on Jewish holidays, after the University held freshman registration on Yom Kippur, Gold said it was "something" but added "no action is being take on the problem of Jews not being a part of the University...
Reed was an outsider at Harvard. Not coming from the clique of Eastern establishment families that sent its sons to Groton, Exeter, and Andover, he found it impossible to crack the club system in his sophomore year. In one of his more ignominious moments, Reed told his Jewish roommate, Carl Binger, that they could not live together, because it would hamper Reed's chances of gaining membership in the Hasty Pudding Institute. Reed preferred football games and social functions to participation in Walter Lippmann's newly formed Socialist Club...
...Kippur sermon at Memorial Church on September 14, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Harvard Hillel, announced his leadership of a militant Jewish thrust within the Harvard community. This is a regretful event, potentially even more destructive of that delicate framework of civility which sustains Harvard's greatness than the past militancy of blacks, leftists, and women. Like the latter's spokesmen, Rabbi Gold's claims for redressing Jewish grievances would have Harvard surrender its painstakingly acquired universalism to the cathartic requisites of a new particularism. He considers Harvard's past injuries to Jews grounds for inflicting upon Harvard today...
...extremist conclusions. Thus for Rabbi Gold Harvard can redress past injuries to Jews only through parity of status for Judaism--a parity that extends, alas, even to the secular sphere of the Harvard calendar, for it is not enough for Harvard to provide an alternative registration day for religious Jewish students...
Instead I went to the Berkeley Student Union to ponder my predicament. I sat there, confused, a little depressed, considering my options. A smiling, humming, attractive Jewish-looking woman walked in. Eye contact. The ethnicity clicked. She came over, friendly, talkative, from Long Island originally. Small talk, poetry, politics, time passes. Then I received an invitation to dinner--"I live with this big family and we always have lots of people over to dinner...how about...