Word: jewishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration revoked permission Thursday to allow a Christian group called "MIT Seekers" to sponsor a Purim celebration in cooperation with "Jews for Jesus," a group of Christian Jews based in New York. The administration cancelled the celebration in response to complaints from MIT Hillel, a Jewish group, and students and faculty who criticized "Jews for Jesus," Giffone said. Hillel called the group a "proselytising organization" which does not belong at MIT, Rabbi Dan Shevitz, director of MIT Hillel, said Friday...
...Jewish professors at Harvard will probably spend more time examining Jewish issues in coming years, Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, said yesterday in a discussion of Jewish life at Harvard with Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government...
Nozick said Harvard is a "universalist institution," employing Jewish professors who want to make a contribution to Western intellectual culture. He said some professors formerly tried to conceal their Jewish origins, but "Jewish motivation would begin to bear on their work...
...have always thought philosophy was a way of thinking about issues I most cared about," Nozick said, adding, "so why compartmentalize my interests?" The Harvard-Radcliffe United Jewish Appeal sponsored the seminar, entitled "On Being Jewish at Harvard." More than 100 people attended...
Walzer agreed Jewish intellectuals were beginning to examine Jewish issues more fully. He said the growth of Israel and the acceptance of Jews in modern culture makes unnecessary the "traditional, detached, skeptical Jewish intellectual" in the university and the world...