Scholars Review Religion on Campus, Shaarey Zedek Dedicates Morris Adler School in Israel
ligious School.
A public school in Gadot, Israel, some time in Israel for study.
Ceremonies, chaired by Samuel
Tri-Faith Issues, in U-M Paperback
Kibbutz Gadot is a settlement
will be named for Rabbi Morris

A major comment in Dr. Her- Adler in tribute to his service to
The American student com-
Cong. Shaarey Zedek.
munity is analyzed by scholars berg's presentation is this conclu-
Dedication of the Morris Adler
representing all faiths in the im- sion he reaches in analyzing the School was marked at special
pressive "Religion and the State pluralistic society:
Hanukah ceremonies attended by
University," edited by Eric A. Wal-
"The 'three great faiths' belong
ter, University of Michigan pro-
together, but they belong togeth-
fessor of English. published by
er not because they are 'religions
University of Michigan Press.
of democracy.' They belong to-
It is not only the analysis of
gether because they are the reli-
gions of the Bible. The real and
the status of . religion on univer-
sity campuses that makes this pa- significant bond between them
perback stand out, as much as the is not that they are all American,
scholarly comments on the moral but that they are all Biblical: we
foundations involved in many of all, insofar as we are„truly Chris-
the approaches to the subject. tians or Jews, recognize Abraham
Prof. Walter points out at the as our father and the God of Is-
outset that the doctrine of sep- rael as our God. The differences
aration of church and state has between the three religions are
tended to put most state univer- not trivial; they are very real
and often of quite crucial impor-
sities, in their study of religion.
tance, not to be dissolved into a
in a position of striving for mere
generalized commitment to `reli-
'
objectivity."
Thus. "education in state-sup- , gion' or 'democracy.' Yet they
ported universities is predominant- are differences within a common
religious framework, usually de-
ly secular."
Dr. Will Herberg, presenting signated as the Judeo-Christian
t
the Jewish view, emphasizes such tradition,
and it is this that
common
religious framework
gives
indicating
that"the
,
a position by .
ultimate religious meaning to the
pluralism of .American society is ' American tri-faith pluralism and
RABBI MORRIS ADLER
the product of its history, and
to every effort to relate this tri-
therefore reflects its inmost be
faith pluralism to the enterprise more than 600 members of the
ing, for the inmost being of men
of higher education."
congregation Sunday evening.
and their societies is essentially .
David M. Miro. president. made
Viewpoints of leaders in other
historical."
The America, described by Dr. religious ranks, 'student counsel -- the presentation to Rabbi and Mrs.
Herber,,, emerges in a new , ing. academic freedom and other Adler on the occasion of the rabbi's
major famous interests are dis- sabbatical leave. He plans to spend
described by the Jewish inter- cussed by authoritative contribu-
prefer ; as follows:
"Unlike 50 years ago, Catholics tors to this paperback. There is an Landsleit With a Brogue
and Jews as well as Protestants . essay on interreligious relations
MONTREAL (JTA) — A society
feel themselves to be Americans by Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld.
known as "The Jewish Sons of
A
concluding
statement
by
Wil-
not apart from, or in spite of. their ,
Erin" composed of Irish-born Jews
religion, but because of it If Amer- liam K. Frankena discusses the has been organized here, with a
ica today possesses a 'church' . . . need for counseling, the restric- membership of 18. Aim of the so
it is the tripartite religious sys- tions in granting credits for reli- ciety is to act as a "hospitality
t e m o f Protestant-Catholic-Jew. gious studies from outside centers committee" to Irish - Jews. who
The transformation of America ' and various other problems that either visit or want to settle in the
from a Protestant into a three-re- ' enter into university planning, and . Montreal area.
ligion country has come out not • cautions regarding men on the
as a result of any marked increase campus who may be =called upon
0 Bush of Moses! Not because
in the ratio of Catholics or Jews to deal with religious groups and thou
art tall. but because thou art
in the population—the Protestant- problems:
veal Himself in
-- While it is desirable that these lowly. did God re
Catholic ratio has remained almost
the same for the past 30 years and people understand religion and thee.—The Talmud.
the proportion of Jews in the gen- philosophy well. perhaps that some '
eral population has probably been of them be sympathetic with reli-
declining. It has come about as an gion or even personally committed
accompaniment of the shift in the to a certain religion, it cannot in
pattern of self-identification, and a public university be a condition
therefore also in the source of of their . appointment or tenure
pluralistic diversity, from ethnicity that they subscribe to any particu-
Jar kind of ultimate belief."
to religion."

located in northern Galilee, 500 C. Kovan and Dr. Samuel Krohn,
co-chairman, included the Shaarey
Yards from the Syrian border.
The tribute was made possible Zedek Sisterhood Choral Group,
through the cooperation of the under the direction of Cantor
Jewish National Fund and the chil- Reuven Frankel and solos by Can-.
dren of the Shaarey Zedek Re- tors Jacob Sonnenklar and FrankeL

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