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...first, the half-hour television film The Passover seems to be one of those instructive seasonal documentaries. A Jewish family is sitting down to a typical Passover Seder. An announcer tells the story of the Exodus, the Jews' anguish in Egypt and their struggle to leave, and that terrible night the Angel of the Lord passed by the houses of the Jews to strike down the first-born sons of their Egyptian masters. On the traditional Seder table are the symbolic foods: the salt water and bitter herbs, reminders of the time of bondage; the roasted lamb, recalling...
Represent the what? The Christian Trinity? What kind of Seder is that? Not an ordinary one, to be sure. It is the Seder as seen through the eyes of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, a 77-year-old Protestant evangelical organization, whose efforts to convert Jews now stretch to six countries. At a cost of $ 100,000 for air time and extensive promotion, the board planned to show the film in a dozen major U.S. cities this week to coincide with both the Christian Holy Week and the beginning of the eight-day Passover celebration at sunset...
...House (History of Science); Jay S. Rosen, of Brooklyn, N. Y. and Leverett House (Mathematics): Michael J. Schiffer, of Philadelphia., Pa., and Dudley House (Social Relations): Michael L, Schler, of Hantagh, N. Y., and Kirkland House (Mathematics): Donald E. Scott, of Plainfield. III., and Dudley House (Economies): Jeffrey A. Seder, of Jenkintown. Pa., and Dunster House (Social Relations); Robert E. Shostak, of Arlington. Va., and Kirkland House (Applied Mathematics...
Daniel Berrigan, a director of Cornell United Religious Work, succeeded. In a two-hour appearance at a "freedom Seder" held at Cornell over the pre-Passover weekend, he spoke to some 10,000 students gathered for an "America Is Hard to Find" festival. Apparently because federal agents wanted to avoid a student riot, he was allowed to slip away. The following Tuesday his brother was to appear with Dave Eberhardt at an "Up from Under" rally at St. Gregory the Great-until the FBI stepped in. Philip Berrigan had made a considerable sacrifice for that unrealized moment of final resistance...
...Some of us wanted a stronger gesture of protest, but we've decided to leave the dining hall at this time to demonstrate our opposition to the policies of the University toward the community, and against its complicity with the Federal government." Seder said...