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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...
...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...
...remain in the Common Market. Pro-European zealots hinted ominously that a no vote would benefit the Communists. Anti-Europeans countered by charging that the American CIA, which helped to finance some European-unity groups back in the 1950s, has been secretly marshaling the yes vote. In a sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral, the Bishop of London tried to elevate the level of debate. Taking his text from the Gospel of St. John ("There shall be one fold and one shepherd"), the bishop implied that the Lord himself was a staunch pro-Marketeer...
Today, that reason for Hicks' fame has utterly vanished. The only people who read his sermons are art historians searching for iconographic clues to his paintings. One example: "Finally, my friends, farewell! May the melancholy be encouraged and the sanguine quieted; may the phlegmatic be tendered and the choleric humbled; may self be denied and the cross of Christ worn as a daily garment; may His peaceable kingdom forever be established in the rational, immortal soul." To Hicks' own mind, the clues were all meant quite literally. In a sermon at Goose Creek Meeting in Virginia, he explained...