Word: rabby
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago Harvard held registration for first-year students on Yom Kippur, stirring criticism from members of the University's Jewish community, including Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Hillel...
...sermon delivered at Yom Kippur eve services on September 14 Rabbi Gold objected strongly to the timing conflict. Before a Memorial Church audience that included Rosovsky, Rabbi Gold argued that the conflict separates Jewish freshmen from their classmates on an "emotion-laden" day and that it pressures Jews to conform to a non-Jewish norm and to ignore their religion...
...following is the full text of a sermon delivered in Memorial Church September 14 by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Hillel, during the evening service of Yom Kippur...
...trait he had inherited from his father, Yechiel, who had been a prosperous miller in Bessarabia in Eastern Europe. When Yechiel went to Montreal in 1889 in flight from Russian antiSemitism, he booked passage not only for his wife and three children, but also for a young rabbi to guard his children's Jewish faith in the New World...
...having been taught by the rabbi from Bessarabia, gave lavishly to charity and urged his children to do the same. The family gave a $1 million wing to the Israel Museum, and still donates at least another $1 million annually to various worthy institutions. For the making of more money he also relied on his children, particularly his oldest son. Scrappy and assertive, Edgar went south to Williams College in Massachusetts, but after three indifferent years he transferred to Montreal's McGill University to get his B. A. degree...