Posted on 12/15/2014 4:35:05 PM PST by SJackson
It will take some time to scrub anti-Semitism completely out of the substructure of Wellesley College. It’s stubborn stuff, like the admissions quotas on Jewish students during the 1940s, the outright hostility to Jewish scholars in the college’s religion department during the 1960s and ’70s, and the 1990s-era professor whose bigoted diatribes included false accusations against Jews for “monumental culpability” during the transatlantic African slave trade.
Last month’s firings of Wellesley College’s Jewish chaplain and director of the Hillel student organization may well turn out — as the college contends — to be part of a broader consolidation effort aimed at hiring a full-time rabbi and providing higher level support for the college’s roughly 250 Jewish students. But it sure stirred up some memories for me.
In 1983, while reporting for the Jewish Advocate weekly newspaper, I received copies of correspondence written in April 1970 between then Wellesley president Ruth Adams and religion professor Roger Johnson on the sore topic of appointing a Jewish chaplain at the college. If prizes were awarded for genteel anti-Semitism, these letters would be contenders.
Johnson anticipated the need for “a Yiddish-speaking corridor at Tower Court.” And in the event that the all-women’s college should become coed, Johnson suggested that the Jewish chaplain must “possess those skills necessary for the rite of circumcision” as a way to serve male students contemplating “possible conversion to Judaism.” Johnson signs off, “shalom.”
Obviously touched, Adams raised the likelihood of Jewish weddings at the college. She mused on the material used for Jewish wedding canopies and the need for the college to gain “experience in merchandizing so that we can get full value.”
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Like Obama and Rev. Wright, Hillary never heard a word of any of it.
Sure she didn’t . . .
Hillary Clinton, Wellesley Class of ‘69
“F***ing Jew bastard”
What a bunch of wussies.....my daughter - a 2nd year bio-engineering major & finance minor just had 5 final exams in 5 days.
I have no idea why this is here.....I was replying to a different thread....
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