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...issue of October 11, 1989, Jonathan S. Cohn writes that "...Sigma Alpha Mu...reflects an unfortunate trend in American Judaism today...
...existence of any selective social organization at Harvard smacks of elitism and raises serious ethical questions. But the formation of Sigma Alpha Mu is especially troubling--at least to Harvard's Jewish community--because it reflects an unfortunate trend in American Judaism today...
...religious-cultural dichotomy was becoming clear. Even for a somewhat unreligious person, the religious aspects of Judaism--the prayers, holidays, rituals and such--are themselves an integral part, indeed, the foundation of Jewish culture. For me, the Jewish cultural heritage consists of Eastern European Jews coming to New York City; for Jews in Tel Aviv or Warsaw or the Soviet Union, the cultural experiences that make up Jewish life may be different...
...does not always come easily. In his sermon, the rabbi reminded us that it has often been difficult for Jews to maintain their religion and culture due to destructive and often catastrophic influences that have occurred through out history. In particular, the rabbi referred to the outright war against Judaism known as the Holocaust...
After the war, Hitler joined a new and violently anti-Semitic group, the $ forerunner of the National Socialist German Workers' Party -- Nazi for short. There, for the first time since adolescence, he found a home and friends. Within a year, he became the chief Nazi propagandist. Judaism, he told his audiences, had produced the profiteers and Bolsheviks responsible for the defeat of the fatherland and the strangulation of the economy. Jews were bacilli infecting the arts, the press, the government. Pogroms would be insufficient. "The final aim must unquestionably be the irrevocable Entfernung ((removal)) of the Jews...