Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harried hassle over Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey's pro-religion policy at the university (TIME, April 14), the most incendiary charge was that the Rev. George Arthur Buttrick, chairman of the Board of Preachers, refused in 1955 to permit a Jewish student to be married by a rabbi in Harvard's Memorial Church. On another occasion, Dr. Buttrick made his position plain: "It is intellectually dishonest for Jewish and Christian marriages to be conducted under the same roof...
...your book which I am sure will make a real contribution to our present day thinking."--Rabbi Joshus Loth Liebman, Temple Israel, Boston...
...Rabbi Richard Rubinstein, of the Harvard B'nai-B'rith Hillel Foundation, who was not present at the meeting, last night praised the Corporation for its stand...
...Memorial Committee proposed a resolution favoring construction of the church. Before a vote could be taken, Edward E. Sanborn of the Southern California Club recommended a proviso that "any chapel should not be limited to any sect or creed, but should be open to any priest or preacher or rabbi." Judging from the minutes of the meeting, this proposal was met by silence. The original resolution was immediately passed without discussion...
Jewish couples on several occasions have been married in the church by Unitarian ministers, and four times since 1932 weddings performed by a rabbi have taken place. But these last services have usually been clandestine affairs, conducted in express violation of the Corporation's edict. And the Corporation reaffirmed its decision as late at 1949, upon an appeal from Dean Sperry...