Declaring that Jewish students are being discriminated against on the campus of the University of Michigan here, Rabbi Adolph G. Fink of the Hillel Foundation, said that “the existence of Jewish and Christian fraternities and sororities, side by side, shows that there is little genuine feeling of good-will among the students.”
Rabbi Fink said that Jewish non-sorority women are compelled to go from house to house in search of lodging, being refused on one pretext or another.
While Regent James O. Murfin speaking at the recent University of Michigan student good-will banquet, declared that universal acceptance of the Golden Rule would solve the religious problem, Rabbi Fink declared that “today only the Romanticist can think that any degree of satisfactory understanding exists among Protestants, Catholics and Jews.”
Rabbi Fink called the problem no longer that of the Jews, but a Christion problem. He said: “No group is seeking pity, pardon or a condescending tolerance, but rather a sympathetic understanding, inasmuch as the difference of faiths is not in the essentials but in the material manifestations.
“For the crime of being Jewish,” Rabbi Fink concluded. “Jewish students are subjected to spiritual and mental humiliation.”
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