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...Roman Catholic nun, part of the time studying literature at St. Anne's College, Oxford. It was there that she began to question the teachings of the church and decided, after considerable agony, to leave her order. She lives alone in north London and teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism. Armstrong has written 10 books, including an account of her convent years, Through the Narrow Gate, and a well-regarded biography of Muhammad that earned her an honorary membership in the Association of Muslim Social Scientists...
Under Fire. To make sure the film was as accurate as possible, Producer Lord Grade consulted experts from the Vatican to the Leo Baeck Rabbinical College of London and the Koranic School at Meknes, Morocco. But the film nonetheless came under ideological fire from Protestant right-wingers, led by Bob Jones III, president of South Carolina's Bob Jones University. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen that he would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man-gentle, fragile, simple," and Jones leaped to the conclusion that the portrayal would deny Christ's divine nature. Without seeing...
...years at Theresienstadt, Baeck conducted illegal services and seminars at night, took charge of a camp governing body that cared for the sick and the aged. When the camp was liberated, he persuaded the surviving prisoners not to take their vengeance on Nazi officials turned over to them by the Russians. Until his death, at 83, Baeck lived in London, although for five years he commuted to Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College to lecture on Jewish history. The future of Judaism, Baeck believed, lay in the U.S.-the only country in history that has allowed 5,000,000 Jews...
Great Dissenters. Much of This People Israel, which was first published in Germany in 1955, was written on scraps of paper at Theresienstadt; yet it is a book that breathes a spirit of peace and hope. Writing a theology of history, Baeck traces the unfolding of Judaism's central concepts-Torah, Talmud, Halacha-from the Exodus to the Nazi holocaust and the creation of modern Israel. The history of Judaism, he says, is a story of a people's encounters with God; the Jews were the first to perceive the unique oneness of God, the first to proclaim...
...Jewry is unique, Baeck adds, it is also a surrogate for humanity. Every people is a mystery, and "each is a question which God has asked." God's question speaks stronger in Israel; yet his covenant is not for one nation but for all. "It is the covenant of God with the universe, and therefore with the earth; the covenant of God with humanity and therefore with this people contained in it; the covenant with history and therefore with everyone within...