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...Gurion's blast has touched off an embarrassed dispute among U.S. Jewish leaders about their relationship to Israel. First to react was Philadelphia-born Rabbi Israel Goldstein, 64, former president of the American Jewish Congress. Stung by Ben-Gurion's reproaches, Goldstein stayed on after last fortnight's congress, the first top-ranking U.S. Jew to settle in Israel. But in the U.S., liberal and conservative rabbis alike condemned Ben-Gurion's theology as "erroneous." The American Jewish Committee declared itself "grieved and shocked" by the suggestion that Jews have an obligation to emigrate to Israel...
...History and Literature; Judith H. of Briggs Hall and Worcester, Helen H. Arnold, of Cabot Hall Oak Ridge, Tenn., Mathematics; B. DuBois, of Gilman House and Conn., History and Literature. Also elected were Ann Gale, of Cabot and Glencoe, III., Biochemistry; S. Garelick, of Cambridge, History Literature; Judith L. Goldstein, of Center, Social Relations; Janet Martin of Holmes Hall and N.Y., History and Literature; C. Merton, of Cambridge and on-Hudson, N.Y., Social Relations; Patricia N. Wagar, of Holmes Hall Madison, N.J., History; and Susan Warram, of Boston, American History...
Your story of Female Theologian V. S. Goldstein and her "feminine complaint against contemporary theologians" reminds one of the story that was current a generation ago about the late Feminist Susan Anthony...
...problem, says Teacher Goldstein, is important for men as well as women, because society as a whole is growing more and more feminine. If the 19th century U.S. was a masculine society of private enterprisers and empire builders -egotists to whom opportunism and ornery behavior were no sin-the modern U.S. rates teamwork and sociability high virtues. It is a world in which the in dividual is expected to play a relatively more passive role within the group...
...Goldstein feels that theologians are not taking sufficient account of this sociological fact, that they are still attacking an oldfashioned, masculine form of sin, instead of redefining their "categories of sin and redemption" to meet the new situation. "For a feminine society will have its own special potentialities for good and evil, to which a theology based solely on masculine experience may well be irrelevant." She offers no specific suggestions for a female theology of the future, but perhaps what lies ahead is a theology of enlightened self-esteem emphasizing the final words of Christ's commandment: "Thou shalt...