Jewish Chaplain: Columbia Abandoned Us; Rabbi blasts administration

From: The Jewish Week | Date: November 3, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Eric J. Greenberg
The Jewish Week
11-03-1995
Jewish Chaplain: Columbia Abandoned Us; Rabbi blasts administration for. response to anti-Semitic student paper column.

ERIC J. GREENBERG

Staff Writer

Like a smoldering fire, the debate over the publication of a vicious anti-Semitic opinion column in Columbia University's student newspaper is flaring up.

Rabbi Charles Sheer, the university's top Jewish religious adviser, is charging that the administration and non-Jewish religious leaders have abandoned the campus Jewish population by failing to denounce Sharod Baker, president of the Black Student ...

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