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Today, now that the issue has simmered down, Finkelstein feels that perhaps he was mistaken, and that the State of Israel may turn out to be a good thing, after all. Relations between the seminary and Israel are now cordial, and Finkelstein will do his best to keep them...
Isaiah's Meaning? This week, the directors of the seminary announced that Dr. Finkelstein will assume a new post as chancellor, and that his presidential duties will be taken over by a three-man team of two vice chancellors and the seminary provost. Louis Finkelstein hopes the arrangement will give him more time for scholarship, for writing and for travel. But most of all, he hopes it means more time to work for a renaissance of spiritual Judaism in U.S. life...
Impious Question. There must be action and example. One way in which U.S. Jews can serve their country and the world, says Finkelstein, is "by bringing people together and helping them understand each other...
...Finkelstein himself has done plenty to "bring people together." In 1938, he helped found the Institute for Religious and Social Studies, a "graduate school" of clergymen and lay religious leaders, Christian and Jewish, which holds 13 sessions a year in Manhattan and six in Chicago. This year, for the twelfth time, he was elected president of the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, which meets each year at Columbia University. "When I am at work on those enterprises," he says, "I feel that I am obeying the commandments just as much as when I go to the synagogue for prayer...
...been a bitter portion. Exile, humiliation and persecution have dogged them through history, from Babylon to Buchenwald. Persecution has driven the Jews in upon themselves; they have sometimes set up barriers against the world simply in order to survive. But of what use is their survival, asks Louis Finkelstein, if their mission is forgotten...