Young Jews were admonished not to imagine that Jews are the world’s only minority by Rabbi Israel Hoffman, counselor to Jewish students at Columbia University, who spoke yesterday in Milbank Chapel, Teachers College.
Asserting that many young Jews on the Columbia campus and elsewhere are confused, sick at heart, defiant, chauvinistic or borne down by a sense of despair and futility, Rabbi Hoffman said:
“Their bewilderment is the more tragic because they know so little as a background of their own people. They have no knowledge of the beauty and dignity once characteristic of the life of the Jew. They have lost their fath or never had it to lose.”
The speaker said the majority groups should be made aware of how deeply the minorities — Catholics, Jews, Negroes and Orientals—feel about their status as minorities.
“The minority groups, however, should see how prone they are to exaggerate their plight to imagine themselves unique in their difficulties.”
STUDENTS TO VISIT CHURCHES
A visit by students of Columbia University to Temple Ansche Chesed, West End avenue and 100th street, will inaugurate a series of trips to places of worship of different faiths under the auspices of the religious counselors of the university. The first visit will be made on the evening of December 14.
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