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...organization Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., a nationwide affiliation of 1,000 clergymen and laymen, decided in September to give their 1974 Gandhi Peace Award to Viet Nam War Protester Father Daniel Berrigan, 52. (Previous winners: the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath.) But after the controversial Jesuit sounded off on the Middle East war recently, attacking both Israeli and Arab leadership (TIME, Dec. 31), some of P.E.P.'s 45 board members objected. The organization's head, the Rev. Roy Pfaff, polled the full board to find out whether Berrigan...
TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath was in Santiago during the September coup that overthrew the Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens; last week he returned to see what changes had been made by the new military junta. His report...
...Union of American Hebrew Congregations, meeting in New York City last month (TIME, Nov. 26), was expected to issue a strong statement on Watergate. The union's retiring president, Maurice Eisendrath, who died suddenly as the meeting began, had planned to scold Jews for their silence in the face of "the heinously immoral cesspool" of the Nixon Administration. But some delegates, nervous about U.S. aid to Israel, decided, as one of them put it, that it was "the height of folly to bite the hand that feeds us." Though the convention deplored Watergate as "a dangerous assault on constitutional...
...years, as head of the U.A.H.C., Eisendrath helped shape Reform policy in support of such issues as civil rights and the state of Israel, and against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Sadly, hours before he was to deliver his valedictory address, Eisendrath died of a heart attack in his hotel room. Much of his life was spent overseeing change in Reform Judaism, which has always been one of the most flexible of faiths...
...idea of assimilation has come to seem to some Reform Jews what it has always seemed to the Orthodox-the road to godlessness. Quietly symbolic of this reverse evolution is Rabbi Alexander Moshe Schindler, the roundish, cigar-smoking World War II ski trooper who was chosen to replace Rabbi Eisendrath as the U.A.H.c.'s president. Schindler was born in Munich 47 years ago. He joined the flood of refugees who fled to the U.S. in the late 1930s, eventually becoming the U.A.H.C.'S director of education and-six years ago-its vice president. Unlike Eisendrath, Schindler was raised...