Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is also a new understanding of what Judaism has to teach. After centuries of concentration in Europe, many Jewish scholars are now writing in America. The late Hebrew Philosopher Martin Buber, whose books stress concern for the individual over organized religion, has become a big man on non-Jewish campuses. "In the U.S.," ob serves University of Chicago Theologian J. Coert Rylaarsdam, "there is current ly a great vogue for things Jewish...
...Effective Nonuse." Should it succeed, the Schenley takeover would cap a comeback for Riklis, a Palestinian immigrant whose seesawing fortunes have fascinated observers on Wall Street for years. Riklis came to the U.S. in 1947, taught Hebrew and sold stock in Minneapolis until the mid-1950s, when he was struck with what he now calls "the effective nonuse of cash"-or the technique of using borrowed money to buy undervalued companies, whose assets could provide the leverage for still larger takeovers...
...students, of course, had slogans of their own. Some McCarthy workers sported buttons reading "We Try Harder"-in Hebrew. Posters announced: "God Isn't Dead-He's Just Lonely-But He Might Commit Suicide March 12th. It's Up to You." That same sense of last stand desperation was echoed in a primary-eve plaint: "Over 40%, we go on to Wisconsin; 30%, back to school; 20%, we burn our draft cards; 10%, we leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre...
...RECORDS. An even farther-out commentary is The Incredible Shrinking God, a long-playing collection of "sermons" by Manitoba-born David Steinberg, 27, a rabbi's son who studied Hebrew literature before becoming a comedian with Chicago's Second City troupe. Not religious in a formal sense, Steinberg's comic oratory is a pop version of God-is-dead theology. Steinberg explains that he picked that title for the record because "the traditional God is becoming harder to find in modern society all the time...
...Hebrew Bible is depicted as the faithful protector of his chosen people. Yet at least 6,000,000 Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. To believe in the God of the Covenant today, concludes Richard L. Rubenstein, Jews must affirm that their creator "used Adolf Hitler as the rod of his wrath to send his people to the death camps. I find myself utterly incapable of believing this. Even the existentialist leap of faith cannot resurrect this dead God after Auschwitz...