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Desert Etiquette. Those were wild years in Palestine, as the Jews and Arabs warmed up for full-scale war. Shots rang in the narrow streets of Jerusalem; machine guns chattered beyond the Judean hills. It was not time for an unarmed rabbi to go exploring in Arab country, but Glueck was never questioned about his religion. "That a Jew should wander by himself in Trans-Jordan," he says, "was so unheard...
...coming to terms with the desert itself was every bit as difficult. Over the course of his archaeological career, Glueck estimates, he has eaten his own weight in sand. Recurrently parched and hungry, he figures that he has lost a cumulative total of 1,000 Ibs. But the slim rabbi with the emphatic eyebrows always emerged from his Bedouin robes in perfect health...
Whereas the Protestants hope to establish a oneness with the academic community, many Jews seek a means to understand or give expression to their tradition. "Hillel for many Jews means a community," says Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, associate director of Hillel. "If a Jew recognizes himself as a Jew this means that he wishes to act as such. For some it means to hear a lecture, for others it means lox and bagels, and for others it means worship...
Over half the Jews who signed religious preferences cards, however, do not belong to Hillel; many consider it a form of self-imposed segregation. Such people are "trying to move away from the restricted life of suburbia," suggests Rabbi Gold. But, he continues, "they fail to see that Harvard itself is a form of segregation in its uniqueness, and that they will need Judaism later. Being a man of the world and a Jew are disjunctive to these students. Hillel attempts to show what the broader context of religion...
...membership of 350 out of at least 800 Jewish undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe Hillel manages to attract a higher percentage of potential members than most other religious groups. "I am pleased with what we get, but I can't say that I'm happy with the status quo," Rabbi Gold emphasizes. This year Hillel's membership is 75 less than the total for each of the past two years. But because registration coincided with the High Holy Days making it difficult to contact prospective members, Rabbi Gold considers this a random occurrence rather than an indication of a downward...