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...argued heatedly about the merits of Zionism, after the old religious yearning for the biblical homeland was translated into a national liberation movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine. For most Jews the argument became moot in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, which represented unmistakable threats to the existence of Israel. Arab leaders frequently make a distinction between Judaism, which they claim to respect as a biblical religion that is a spiritual precursor of Islam, and Zionism, which they see as an outdated colonialist and imperialist ideology imported...
...same time, relations between Kissinger and Schlesinger, two strongwilled, independent men, grew tenser. They had been squabbling since the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, when Kissinger charged that Schlesinger tried to stall the massive resupply of U.S. weapons to the Israelis. A year later, Kissinger promised to consider sending Pershing missiles to Israel; Schlesinger, who had not been consulted when Kissinger made the promise, contended that reopening production lines for the missile was impractical. More seriously, they increasingly disagreed on détente, notably on just what concessions could safely be made to the Russians to gain an agreement...
...freshman registration day is a symbolic initiation into that complex community. A considerable number of freshmen are Jewish. Yet the University, apparently without scrutiny, picked the day of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith, for freshman registration. One would have expected, on the principle of civility, the necessary sense of tact an-sensibility and the avoidance of such conflict...
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
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...