Advocacy
Dr. Maghen is also an outspoken advocate of Jewish growth, Jewish knowledge, Jewish joy and Zionist outreach. In a peroration written to the Jewish student body of Columbia in 1990, Maghen satirically lambasted his peers for their apologetic response to supposed anti-semitic hate speech on campus:
"A man calls you a pig. Do you walk around with a sign explaining that, in fact, you are not a pig? Do you hand out leaflets expostulating in detail upon the manifold differences between you and a pig ("A pig has a snout, I have a nose; a pig wallows in mud, I only occasionally step in a puddle, and then, of course, inadvertently...")? Do you stand on a soap box and discourse eruditely on why, in general, it is extremely not nice to call people pigs, and appeal to the populace to please have no truck with an individual rude and nasty enough to say such things about an upstanding citizen like yourself? Fellow Jews, where in hell is your dignity? Where is your abhorrence of useless, thoughtless, counterproductive endeavor?"
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