Word: brickner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radical proposal that women be ordained as rabbis vexed the 66th annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), meeting in Asbury Park, N.J. The idea was broached by Conference President Dr. Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland, who cited women's "special spiritual and emotional fitness to be rabbis." But after prolonged debate, the Reform group decided not to follow the Northern Presbyterians (TIME, June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches...
...Jewish teachers were impressed by the solemnity of the ceremonies and were pleased when Rabbi Brickner held a question & answer period. Samples: "Do the Jews believe in a Messiah...
...what light is Jesus regarded in the Jewish religion?" The Jews, replied Brickner, believe in a Messianic age, "when there shall be no war, no hatred," rather than in a Messiah, and they think of Jesus as a great teacher...
...Rabbi Brickner has believed for years that Christian ministers should know what Judaism is and how closely related it is to Christianity. Approving his idea, Greater Cleveland's Ministerial Association set aside one of its monthly meetings to get instruction on the Jewish religion. In recent years it has been their best-attended meeting, and a showplace for scholars of both faiths...
Pleased last week with the first Institute on Judaism for Christian Teachers, Rabbi Brickner was even more pleased that Cleveland's Religious Education Fellowship will shortly reciprocate and start an Institute on Christianity for Jews. Says he: "Many Christians think of Judaism as lurking behind a silken veil . . . Judaism is a rational, logical faith and the more questions we are asked the better we like it ... Good will between religions can never be achieved simply by mutual back-patting . . . We're going to have to build bridges...