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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
...issue is religious, and in the last analysis also a sober financial one. By saying that the Church in Harvard Yard is supported by Harvard, Ben-Zion Gold was speaking quite literally. What I am sure most people of good will do not realize is that Protestant religion, representing less than half of the present Harvard population, is the only one supported financially by the University: A large staff, a paid Protestant preacher, heat, lights, janitorial service, the regular use of the building, every week. And as to the church building Jews and Catholics contributed money generously to build this...
...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
Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Hillel, said last night at a small Currier House dinner that "Judaism is treated worse at Harvard than at any other school in the Ivy League...
...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...