News Release (February 4, 1968)

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RELEASE NEw CoLLEGE 1 104 -2/1/68 SARASOTA, FLORIDA 33578 Ref.: Furman C. Arthur 813 / 355 7131 FOR RELEASE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1968 SARASOTA--A rabbi who serves as chaplain to Jewish students at three universities and one college in Pittsburgh will lecture at New College on Friday, February 9, at 8 p.m. in Hamil Center. The public is invited. The visiting lecturer is Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein. He serves as chaplain at the University of Pittsburgh, at Carnegie-Mellon University, Duquesne University and Chatham College. At the University of Pittsburgh he also serves as Charles E. Merrill Lecturer in the Humanities. In addition to his university duties, Dr. Rubenstein also serves as director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. He is a prolific writer, and "\videly-known lecturer. Educated at the University of Cincinnati, he holds advanced degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Harvard University. Dr. Rubenstein has travelled and taught extensively in Europe. He became the first American Jewish theologian to lecture at an institution of higher learning behind the Iron Curtain when, more

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NEW COLLEGE Page2 in 1965, he accepted an invitation to offer a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. there, he also lectured at other Catholic institutions in Warsaw and Krakow. Dr. Rubenstein has lectured to student and faculty groups in most of the major colleees and universities in the United States and Canada. Dr. Rubenstein ha.-; Hritten t u o books--"After Auschwitz" and ''The Religious Imagination." Pariodicals for l-lhich he has written .include The Christian Scholar, Commentary, Commonweal, Playboy, Conservative Judaism, Christian Century, the Review, and Jewish Frontier. Dr. Rubenstein serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary of New York and is a consulting editor of Pegasus Press. He also serves as associate editor of a periodical, The Reconstructionist. His appearance at New College is sponsored by the division of the humanities. 30 -