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Professor Kilson, in his letter in the October 1 Crimson, errs in attempting to turn into an "ethnic" issue what was-cleanly and thoroughly a religious concern of Rabbi Gold's in his sermon on Yom Kippur. He certainly did not "announce his leadership" of any "militant Jewish thrust" of any kind, as Professor Kilson says. Professor Kilson has made that up out of whole cloth...
...service, the regular use of the building, every week. And as to the church building Jews and Catholics contributed money generously to build this Memorial, which was then dedicated as a Protestant Church, with crosses carved right into the woodwork. The official University service for freshman, to which the Rabbi referred, was a Christian, a Protestant service, in which no Jew could in conscience participate, based as it was upon Trinitarian prayers and readings...
...Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Hillel, said last night at a small Currier House dinner that "Judaism is treated worse at Harvard than at any other school in the Ivy League...
Gold also endorsed the recommendations of the University-appointed Stendhal Committee, whiih in 1973 asked Harvard to turn over administration oo Memorial Church to a three-member composed of a Protestant minister, a Catholic priest, and a Jewiih rabbi. The Administration rejected the recommendation that year...
...situation, though in the eyes of the new ethnic militants who insist on a maddening juxtaposition of the past-and-present it appears so. Anyway some cultural lag is functional to the longrun process of Americanization and should not be condemned. I have no doubt that Memorial Church--which Rabbi Gold mistakenly perceives as standing "in the heart of this university"--is one such cultural lag. After all, no small part of the national support (financial and otherwise) which sustains Harvard University is connected to this symbol of Harvard's Christian origins. This can and should be tolerated without jeopardizing...