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When Christians first began spreading their strange new doctrines in 1st century Jerusalem, Rabbi Gamaliel urged the Jews to be lenient and to avoid accusing them of heresy. If the new sect was doing God's will, he reasoned, men could not stop them (Acts 5:34). When Christians held power in the Middle Ages, they often ignored this common-sense approach. Heresy became an all-too-common crime punishable by all-too-painful penalties...
...extremely shortsighted to treat the issue of Jewish students' admissions in a manner that will help elevate ethnicity as such to a principle of admissions to Harvard College. The reported "investigation" of admissions status of Jews by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of the University Ministry will surely do this. It smacks of a crude and uncritical application to a university of methods of handling ethnicity that evolved in city machine politics...
...RABBI) MARVIN J. SPIEGELMAN Cleveland...
...Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Harvard Jewish chaplain, is conducting his own investigation into admissions policy concerning Jews. "Dr. Peterson is an honest man," Gold said. "I heard him and I believe him.However, I am concerned lest these allegations be true, and I am finding out. If my investigation shows that there have been appreciable drops, I will confront the people who say nothing has changed...
Despite the obvious political overtones of his letter, Rabbi Levin was undoubtedly correct that terror tactics against Soviet diplomats harm the cause of Jews in Russia. Yet no matter how wrongheaded the acts of the Jewish Defense League in the U.S. have been, one of the organization's basic arguments is accurate: Jews in the Soviet Union are routinely subjected to harsh treatment...