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Amendment opponents insist that organized, vocal prayer can never be truly voluntary. Children of different faiths, or none, will feel themselves forced by social pressure to join in. Contends Rabbi Balfour Brickner of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "If the prayer is spoken, it will be physically coercive, and if silent it will be psychologically coercive." The alternative, opponents contend, is to offer prayers so general as to be meaningless, even offensive to the truly religious. The establishment of a neutered "civil religion" is offensive to many who believe deeply in their own faiths. Says Robert Minor, professor...
...Rabbi Stephen Listfield Washington...
Jewish authorities themselves appear divided over whether students may attend Commencement. Rabbi Moses Feinstein of New York, a leading scholar on Jewish law, last October issued a prohibition against attending...
Steiner said that Rabbi Ben Zion Gold, director of Harvard Hillel, and other leading authorities had advised him that it would be acceptable for students to attend Commencement...
...added that Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a former president of the American Jewish Congress, wrote to Dean Rosovsky that "This holiday is a particularly auspicious time to celebrate educational achievement, and it is very consistent with Talmudic Law for a Jew to attend Harvard Commencement on that...