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coming editors: John Er-
lewine, Irving Jaffe, Bub
Brimmer, Marion Ford and
Charlotte Conover.
The shades of Lowell are in
evidence in the action of the
members of the faculty, but
the spirit of America is re-
flected in the unfulfilled
prophecies of A. Lawrence
Lowell and in the courage of
students who defy introduc-
tion of extreme prejudice in
their universities.
The question is which spirit
shall survive? Will it be that of
Lowell and the numerous
clausus or the brave University
of Michigan student jour-
nalists and the traditions of
America which they so
staunchly uphold?

An Addendum
About Lowell's
Famous Kinsman

Another Lowell came to judg-
ment soon after A. Lawrence
Lowell's death. According to an
article in Life magazine, Feb. 19,
1965, Robert Traill Spence Low-
ell Jr. is quoted as "asserting
himself as follows about Jews and
Jewishness":
Jewishness, and not just of
the New York variety, is the
theme of today's literature as
the Middle West was the
theme of Veblen's time and the
South in the '30s. These
regions have burned out, and
now we're lucky to have the
Jewish influence. It's what
keeps New York alive; not
only writers and painters but
also the good bourgeois who
support the arts. Consider the
list of patrons and benefactors
of any cultural enterprise.
Do I feel left out in a Jewish
age? Not at all. Fortunately,
I'm one-eighth Jewish myself,

which I do feel is a saving
grace. It's not a lot of Jewish
blood, but I think it would
have been enough to come
under the Nuremberg laws.
My Jewish ancestors, oddly
enough, were named Moses
Mordecai and Mordecai
Moses.

Gordenker
Postscript

On March 19, 1943, Congress
Weekly published a letter of mine
in which I stated:
Leon Gordenker, of Mt.
Clemens, Mich., whose rejec-
tion for a senior position on
the editorial staff of the Michi-
gan Daily, University of Michi-
gan official publication, oc-
casioned the formal protest by
the editors of the paper, has
just been appointed city editor
of the Daily.
This action by the Univer-
sity of Michigan Board of Con-
trol of Student Publications is
significant not only as an
about-face, but also for other
reasons.
In the first place, able
Jewish newspapermen can no
longer be ignored when im-
portant positions are avail-
able, with so many young
people being inducted into
active military service. More
important, however, is the fact
that formal protests against
discriminating practices bring
results. This is as true of 'the
Gordenker incident as it is of
the effect of the American
Jewish 'Congress public
demonstration in Madison
Square Garden a week ago.
The moral is clear: voices
speaking for causes of justice
must never be silenced.

.

Assembly Of God Funds
Missionary Groups

LARRY LEVEY

Special to The Jewish News

T

THE JEWISH NEWS

he unsavory roar of the
"Hebrew Christian" mis-
sionary lion is quickly
transformed into the silence of
the skunk when one simple
question is broached: who is
paying the tab for this $100 mil-
lion movement to convert
Jewish souls? Are we dealing
merely with isolated, indepen-
dent and autonomous ministries,
as the missionaries would have
us believe? Or is there a boarder
conspiracy at work?
A preliminary investigation by
Jews for Judaism (a countermis-
sionary organization with offices
in Baltimore and Los Angeles)
reveals that the funding picture

Larry Levey is West Coast direc-
tor of Jews for Judaism.

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Friday, August 1, 1986

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

may be a good deal more alarm-
ing than many in the Jewish
community have imagined. The
sudden appearance of "Messianic
Jewish" and "Hebrew Christian"
congregations throughout
America is far from a spontane-
ous phenomenon, but rather the
result of a centralized, sophisti-
cated and carefully coordinated
proselytizing effort sponsored
and funded by the Assemblies of
God, the fastestgrowing evangel-
ical Christian denomination in
the U.S. today.
Based in Springfield, Mo., the
Assemblies of God denomination
was at one time opposed to the
deceptive practices of the "Mes-
sianic Jewish" movement, even
going so far as to term the move-
ment "diabolical . . . anti-Gentile
and an abomination unto the
Lord." In the late 1970s, however,
the denomination reversed its
stance, as the chairman of its
special Ministries Department
announced that "ministry to the