JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
A REFORM SYNACOCUE
252 SOUNDVIEW AVENUE
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK 10606
MAURICE DAVIS
RABBI Friday, September 28, 1979
Mr. Mark Director
c/o The Director's Chair
The Harvard Crimson
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dear Mark,
Is that the way you write to your Rabbi? A letter you never even bothered to mail! And you publish it, instead, in that Harvard paper for everyone to read. ("Everyone" is, I suppose, a slight exaggeration, but I'm trying to say something nice.)
You talk to me about football on Rosh Hashana. You say you can't understand why our New Year is in the fall. It's all right for Harvard to start school in the fall. It's all right for Harvard to begin its football season in the fall. So, why can't we have Rosh Hashana in the fall?
You want forgiveness because you are going to a football game. Is it really for me to forgive?
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