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White Americans' treatment of nonwhite minorities is often seen as a prime test of morality. Late colonial records show that few whites were ready to apply their new language about equality and rights to American Indians or blacks. In his Massachusetts Election Sermon in 1770, Samuel Cooke therefore complained that "we, the patrons of liberty, have dishonored the Christian name, and degraded human nature nearly to a level with the beasts that perish...
This was the theme of the Yom Kippur sermon by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold on September 14. For Mr. Kilson, in his letter to The Crimson of October 1, to call this attitude "totalistic" and "miltant confrontationalism," is a reflection not on Rabbi Gold, but Mr. Kilson himself. Daniel Bell Professor of Sociology
...Crimson printed my sermon it also carried an announcement by the university of a multimillion dollar drive to fund a program in Jewish studies. Some people thought that this was a response to my sermon. I therefore would like to point out that the study of Jewish history, literature and language, important as it is for Jews, is even more important for the University as an academic institution. However, Judaism is not only a subject of academic interest but is also the living religion of a substantial group in this university. Just as the study of the history and literature...
Professor Kilson, in his letter in the October 1 Crimson, errs in attempting to turn into an "ethnic" issue what was-cleanly and thoroughly a religious concern of Rabbi Gold's in his sermon on Yom Kippur. He certainly did not "announce his leadership" of any "militant Jewish thrust" of any kind, as Professor Kilson says. Professor Kilson has made that up out of whole cloth...
...sorry that Ben-Zion Gold was too polite to spell all this out in his sermon. Today, in 1975, thousands of dollars to Harvard's budget go to the support of Protestant religion, and nothing to any other religion. This, then, is not an issue out of the past. It is a serious matter of religion and a sober matter of deep unfairness. H. Epstein Space Committee Harvard Hillel