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Calling it "an unfortunate trend in American Judaism today" for Jews to congregate socially, he creates a fright-eningly anti-semitic image of the fraternity which comes across as naive and misguided...
These groups eschew violence but offer no explanation of what should be done about the Muslim shrines that now occupy the holy ground. They point out that animal sacrifices and other aspects of Temple worship are so ingrained in Judaism that they take up a third of the 613 biblical commandments, plus major portions of the Talmud and the daily ritual. Temple restoration is also a fixation for literal-minded Protestants, who deem a new Temple the precondition for Christ's Second Coming...
...rabbis like Jerusalem's Pesach Schindler, such efforts are historically interesting but spiritually superfluous. A member of Judaism's Conservative branch, which shuns Orthodox literalism regarding the Temple, Schindler contends that "religion evolves. We have respect for the past, but it has no operational significance. With the establishment of the state of Israel, we have all our spiritual centers within us. That is where the Temples should be built...
...mean to defend the existence of a fraternity on the Harvard campus, nor do we represent the opinions involved with Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, but we feel that Cohn's opinion piece, "Life Isn't a Kosher Deli," reflects a far more unfortunate trend in American Judaism than does Sigma Alpha...
Contrary to Cohn's beliefs, the growing trends of American Judaism are tragically that the intermarriage rate is rising, and the community is shrinking as more Jews forsake any connection to Judaism whatsoever...