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...decision to permit the services was made this summer by the Rev. Charles Price, Preacher to the University after Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of Hillel House told him that it was difficult to find a hall large enough to house the Reform services, one of three sets of services held for the Holy Days. Price said yesterday that he discussed the matter with President Pusey, but that the decision was his own. The question was not discussed at all by the Corporation, Sargent Kennedy, secretary to the Corporation, said last night...
...Christian services open to the community were never held there until last week, when services for Rosh Hashonah (the Jewish New Year) were conducted in Appleton Chapel by Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond...
This past Friday night, more than 900 people attended Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) services in Memorial Church. Conservative services, which draw as many people as the Reform for the evening Yom Kippur service, and more for the morning, were conducted by Rabbi Gold in the Rindge Tech Auditorium...
Preaching Dialogue. Jakobovits qualifies on most counts. The son of a rabbi, he was born in the former East Prussian capital of Konigsberg, educated in Britain, and served for a decade as Ireland's chief rabbi before coming to the U.S. in 1958. In Ireland, some British Jews recall, his advice on moral issues amounted to "the rabbi says you mustn't"; in the U.S., however, he is counted among the modern Orthodox leaders who seek to accommodate Halacha to contemporary issues. An expert on medical ethics, he frowns on contraception, points to the low birth rate among...
...Britain's chief rabbi, Jakobovits hopes to avoid much of the tiring round of weddings, bar mitzvahs and routine social engagements that go with the job, spend most of his time writing and preaching on contemporary Jewish problems. "Books to us are what armies are to others," he says. Orthodox though he is, Jakobovits thinks he can at least carry on a fruitful dialogue with Reform and Liberal Judaism, says that "the Jews of Britain are tired of conflict and yearning for a new constructive outlook...