LATKE VS.HAMANTASCH THE GREAT DEBATE

LATKE VS.HAMANTASCH THE GREAT DEBATE "They were literally hanging from the rafters," recalls a former student at the University of Chicago. He could only be referring to one event: the annual...

...haman-tasch debate...
...Cohen is at the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois...
...LATKE VS.HAMANTASCH THE GREAT DEBATE "They were literally hanging from the rafters," recalls a former student at the University of Chicago...
...The late Harry Kalven was Professor of Law at Chicago, and Edward Stankiewicz is currently in the department of Slavic Languages at Yale...
...It was, among other things, a non-threatening way for Jewish faculty members to make public their own Jewish identity before their fellow Jews, but within the context of the University...
...The debate was essentially a form of Pu-rim-Torah, except that it was held during Chanukah, at a time when the Jewish identity among Chicago's students might be at an otherwise low ebb...
...The room is packed each year, and the excitement palpable, as the faculty members, including austere giants, profound philosophers, brilliant scientists, and mesmerizing intellectuals, who could be so distant all year, would shake the snow from their boots and proceed with the agenda at hand...
...The great—and soon-to-be-famous—debate was the innovation of the legendary Rabbi Maurice Pekarsky...
...He could only be referring to one event: the annual latke vs...
...Thirty years after Pekarsky's innovation, the debates are still going strong, and one of the selections we print, that of Professor Stephen Z. Cohen, was offered only a year ago...
...We print selections from the debates with the kind permission and assistance of Daniel Leifer, Director of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Chicago...

Vol. 2 • December 1976 • No. 3


 
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