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...Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) may deny it, few scholars place the Book of Adam and Ken within the Hebrew Bible. Nevertheless, AALARM co-presidents now claim that their organization, by means of its homophobia, is the true defender of Jewish values at Harvard. DeGiorgio and Webb have done nothing less than attempt to undermine the independent voice of the campus Jewish community...
AALARM struck back. In yesterday's Crimson, Webb and DeGiorgio called Hillel's criticism "misguided." They claimed that their opposition to Hillel's resolution places AALARM, and not Hillel, on the side of the "Jewish value structure...
Until yesterday, few realized that E. Adam Webb was an authoritative expositor of Jewish values. And for good reason...
...ways to analyze what is or is not a tenet of Judaism or a Jewish value. One is to study traditional Jewish texts. The other is to see Judaism as the culture of a people, the Jews, and see what their values actually are. Either way, the idea that Webb and DeGiorgio could over-rule Hillel's Coordinating Council is ludicrous...
First, consider the textual method. In support of their contention that Hillel's opposing attacks on gays and lesbians violates Judaism, Webb and DeGiorgio invoke the "the Old Testament and the Talmud." (Imagine my surprise at discovering that E. Adam Webb was a learned Talmudic scholar. I didn't even know that he could read Aramaic...