Hebrew Union College Students Plan Public Memorial Services for Kent University Victims

Students at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will hold a public memorial service tomorrow for the four students killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University May 4. The service will mark the end of a seven-day mourning period (shivah) for the four students and for war dead in Southeast Asia. All classes during the period have been canceled. The school’s Student Rabbinical Association and Student Cantorial Association voted to demand an immediate end to United States military activity in Cambodia, U.S. military withdrawal from Southeast Asia, and “an end to domestic political repression.” The associations are setting up task forces to guide the community at large toward political Involvement under Judaic tenets.