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Hillel serves a unique role for Orthodox Jews on campus. Religious law says the students must pray twice a day and eat kosher food. So Hillel, with its religious services and kosher dining hall, becomes a necessity more than a choice. Approximately 120 students, mostly Jews, eat dinner at Hillel every night, according to Rabbi Sally Finestone...
...response to this criticism, which he calls uninformed and unjustified, Gomes says, "What I tried to do on that occasion was not simply pray in the language of my own tradition but to try to go beyond that tradition to the source of all traditions...
...Christian because that is the way in which I see the world, but I do not believe that the God to whom I pray is only the God of Christians, because the God to whom I pray has to be the God of everything and everyone...
...program designed to coax youngsters into using reference books has blossomed into a public television game show, a best-selling set of computer video games, a series of adventure books and a collection of jigsaw puzzles, all popular with kids age eight and up. "It's addictive," says Jonathan Pray, 13, an eighth-grade student in Golden, Colo., who has been prodded by Carmen into memorizing all the world's countries and their capitals...
Surely at least a minimal concession to the efficacy of prayer on such occasions must be that at least the person who prays it ought to be able to believe it. To allow for that is a small step toward that tolerance for which the writer presumably pleads and for which I pray, daily and on state occasions. The Rev. Peter J. Gomes Plummer Professor of Christian Morals