Word: brickner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herzog, calling the beatings an "offense to the Jewish spirit" that "violates every principle of human decency and betrays the Zionist dream." Declared Bert Gold, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee: "Using brute force evokes other times and places when it was used against us." Said Balfour Brickner, senior rabbi of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "When the Israelis become like their enemy, they are no different from their enemy." "We read with shame," wrote four Jewish intellectuals in a letter to the New York Times, "reports of house to house beatings of hundreds of people, leading...
Amendment opponents insist that organized, vocal prayer can never be truly voluntary. Children of different faiths, or none, will feel themselves forced by social pressure to join in. Contends Rabbi Balfour Brickner of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "If the prayer is spoken, it will be physically coercive, and if silent it will be psychologically coercive." The alternative, opponents contend, is to offer prayers so general as to be meaningless, even offensive to the truly religious. The establishment of a neutered "civil religion" is offensive to many who believe deeply in their own faiths. Says Robert Minor, professor...
Rabbi Balfour Brickner, a longtime social-action official for Reform Judaism, has battled Catholic officialdom on abortion. Yet he says of the nuclear issue, "They let us carry the ball alone for too long. Bring on the bishops!" But Archbishop Peter Gerety, 70, of Newark, warns, "We have to make clear that we are not trying to write legislation or elect politicians." In some cases bishops have veered close to doing both on the abortion issue...