The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

" Citing demographic studies he contended that the proliferation of courses on the Holocaust would not be sufficient to stop a large number of Jews from leaving the Jewish community. Baron Hertzberg accepted the hypothesis that cultural and religious identity in America would exist in the future "only if they were redefined and reconstructed. He began his career as the director of the campus Hillel for Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst and taught at Princeton Rutgers Columbia Hebrew University and Dartmouth.