Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, a Reform rabbi, has been named counselor to Jewish students at Columbia University, succeeding Rabbi Isidore B. Hoffman, who is retiring after 33 years at the university.
Rabbi Goldman said that the questions asked by students cover such matters as life, existence, sense of purpose and belonging, which are not “constructed to be religious in nature. It is precisely those questions to which the modern campus rabbi must be willing to address himself,” he said, adding that he was aware of the fact that students reject “organized religion with its categorized ideals and traditions” as part of their revolt against the “establishment.”
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