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In 1980, Durst was appointed by Unification Church founder [[Sun Myung Moon]] as the president of the American church.<ref>[http://www.dci.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=388:interview-dr-mose-durst&catid=148&Itemid=36 Neil Duddy Interview: Dr. Mose Durst].</ref><ref name = "UCSCR">[http://www.signaturebooks.com/excerpts/unification.htm excerpts] ''The Unification Church, Studies in Contemporary Religion'' Massimo Introvigne, Signature Books, ISBN 1-56085-145-7.</ref><ref>{{cite news | title =Religion: Sun Myung Moon's Goodwill Blitz | work =[[Time Magazine]] | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966889,00.html | date =April 22, 1985 }}</ref> |
In 1980, Durst was appointed by Unification Church founder [[Sun Myung Moon]] as the president of the American church.<ref>[http://www.dci.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=388:interview-dr-mose-durst&catid=148&Itemid=36 Neil Duddy Interview: Dr. Mose Durst].</ref><ref name = "UCSCR">[http://www.signaturebooks.com/excerpts/unification.htm excerpts] ''The Unification Church, Studies in Contemporary Religion'' Massimo Introvigne, Signature Books, ISBN 1-56085-145-7.</ref><ref>{{cite news | title =Religion: Sun Myung Moon's Goodwill Blitz | work =[[Time Magazine]] | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966889,00.html | date =April 22, 1985 }}</ref> |
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Durst currently teaches literature and history to middle school students at the Principled Academy, a Unification Church sponsored school in [[San Leandro, California]], and is the chairman of the school's board. He has published numerous books, including a 1984 biography of Moon, ''To Bigotry, No Sanction: Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church'', with the title derived from a [[George Washington]] letter to the Jews of [[Newport, Rhode Island]] from 1790.<ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/bigotry.html]</ref> |
Durst currently teaches literature and history to middle school students at the Principled Academy, a Unification Church sponsored school in [[San Leandro, California]], and is the chairman of the school's board.<ref>[http://principledacademy.org/wordpress/?page_id=54]</ref> He has published numerous books, including a 1984 biography of Moon, ''To Bigotry, No Sanction: Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church'', with the title derived from a [[George Washington]] letter to the Jews of [[Newport, Rhode Island]] from 1790.<ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/bigotry.html]</ref> |
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Revision as of 22:34, 10 June 2012
Mose Durst (born 1939) is an author, educator, and the former president of the Unification Church of the United States.[1] He was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City; then an Orthodox Jewish community; to immigrants from Russia. He received a Master's degree and Ph.D while studying English Literature at the University of Oregon. He taught at Laney College in Oakland, California. In 1972 he converted from Judaism[2] and joined the Unification Church in Oakland, then became a lecturer and a church leader in California. In 1974, he married Korean missionary Yon Soo Lim, and they led the Northern California church together.[3]
In 1980, Durst was appointed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon as the president of the American church.[4][3][5]
Durst currently teaches literature and history to middle school students at the Principled Academy, a Unification Church sponsored school in San Leandro, California, and is the chairman of the school's board.[6] He has published numerous books, including a 1984 biography of Moon, To Bigotry, No Sanction: Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church, with the title derived from a George Washington letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island from 1790.[7]
References
- ^ Children of a Lesser God, by Don Lattin, San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 2001.
- ^ "Religion: Sun Myung Moon's Goodwill Blitz". Time Magazine. April 22, 1985.
- ^ a b excerpts The Unification Church, Studies in Contemporary Religion Massimo Introvigne, Signature Books, ISBN 1-56085-145-7.
- ^ Neil Duddy Interview: Dr. Mose Durst.
- ^ "Religion: Sun Myung Moon's Goodwill Blitz". Time Magazine. April 22, 1985.
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