Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorial service for the 14 men hanged in Iraq will be held at 4 p.m. today in Appleton Chapel. The speakers include the Reverend Charles P. Price '41, preacher to the University, and Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Jewish chaplain at Harvard and Radcliffe. The service, sponsored by the United Ministry at Harvard and Radcliffe, is open to the public...
...Many Jewish religious leaders are worried about another danger?that the Jew may be losing his identity. Today's militant black asserts his identity, and this, they argue, is a message that the Jew should understand and apply to himself. If the blacks succeed, and if in the process the U.S. learns better to tolerate diversity, Jews will be among the gainers, because they will be that much freer to assert their own identity. That will be the moment, many Jewish leaders feel, when Jews will come back into the civil rights movement?out of self-interest...
Political Sociologist Leonard Fein, 34, is a Jewish intellectual who is associate director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. Black Educator Rhody McCoy, 46, is administrator of New York City's Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district. Last week they met at the offices of TIME to discuss their concern about the deteriorating relationship between the ethnic communities to which they belong. Excerpts from their talk...
Fein: The peculiar tragedy is that the Jewish community has a history of many creative relationships with blacks. We have shared a great deal. While your grandfather was being whipped in Mississippi, my grandfather was being killed in a pogrom. I may be dead wrong on this, but I sense that blacks say to themselves: "Look, the Jews have gotten it in the neck, too; yet they've been extraordinarily successful in this country. How do I explain their success and black nonsuccess?" They're certainly not going to conclude that Jews are better than black people...
...another, and I don't think they're really so ready to find scapegoats as to find reasons to blame it on the total American scene. It's an anti-white attitude period. To me, it eventually all goes back to economics. Jewish people say, "Well, I've been discriminated against, I was a second-class citizen and so I'm going to do something about it." But they still continue to practice the same discrimination. You can't even get a job as a dishwasher in certain areas they inhabit...