Word: rabby
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kippur sermon at Memorial Church on September 14, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Harvard Hillel, announced his leadership of a militant Jewish thrust within the Harvard community. This is a regretful event, potentially even more destructive of that delicate framework of civility which sustains Harvard's greatness than the past militancy of blacks, leftists, and women. Like the latter's spokesmen, Rabbi Gold's claims for redressing Jewish grievances would have Harvard surrender its painstakingly acquired universalism to the cathartic requisites of a new particularism. He considers Harvard's past injuries to Jews grounds for inflicting upon Harvard today...
...fact, for Rabbi Gold the injuries of the past define the present. This leads him to the same kind of totalistic claims for redress that emanated earlier from black, leftist, and women militants. Even though Harvard today is in reality farther removed from its Christian origins than at any previous period, Rabbi Gold's militant perception of the situation causes him to view Memorial Church as standing, in his words, "in the heart of this university..." A maddening juxtaposition of the past-and-present always leads to extremist conclusions. Thus for Rabbi Gold Harvard can redress past injuries to Jews...
...situation, though in the eyes of the new ethnic militants who insist on a maddening juxtaposition of the past-and-present it appears so. Anyway some cultural lag is functional to the longrun process of Americanization and should not be condemned. I have no doubt that Memorial Church--which Rabbi Gold mistakenly perceives as standing "in the heart of this university"--is one such cultural lag. After all, no small part of the national support (financial and otherwise) which sustains Harvard University is connected to this symbol of Harvard's Christian origins. This can and should be tolerated without jeopardizing...
...Rabbi Gold also said he thinks the conflict reflects a general policy of Harvard that he described with the slogan, "To Jews as individuals, everything; to Jews as a people, nothing." This attitude, he added, has been "accepted and even defended by many Jews in the University...
While Rosovsky said he agrees with Rabbi Gold's specific criticism of the scheduling conflict, he stressed that he does not believe that it "justified the broader context" in which the rabbi placed...