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...Balfour Brickner, spoke up in outrage against the attack by Egypt and Syria and the profanation of Yom Kippur...
...right. If he is, then he must be willing to give up his job to raise the question-to the highest authorities within the company and if necessary to the public. The Judeo-Christian tradition dictates that a man's highest authority is God." Rabbi Balfour Brickner, a director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, cites the Old Testament to justify whistle blowing: "Thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor (Leviticus...
Première (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Keir Dullea and Shirley Knight in an adaptation of Richard P. Brickner's first novel, The Broken Year...
...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...
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...