Word: herberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current issue of the Jewish monthly, Commentary, Jewish Scholar Will Herberg describes the growing impact of Rosenzweig's work on current Jewish thought. Says Herberg: like the Christian philosopher, Kierkegaard, he felt that religious teachings "cannot be appropriated merely by the intellect; they must be made part of one's existence to be truly understood...
Franz Rosenzweig's concept of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity treated the problem, according to Herberg, "with a depth and originality that will make all future thinking on the subject dependent on his work." To him the two religions were "essentially of one piece, one religious reality: Judaism facing inward to the Jews, Christianity outward to the Gentiles. The two faiths are organically linked as complementary aspects of God's revealed truth. Yet they are not the same; they are distinct and different in their being and in their function . . . While Israel stays with God, Christianity goes...
...Soviet Russia's boasts is that it has wiped out antiSemitism, guaranteed equal rights to its 2,000,000 Jews. In Manhattan last week, free-lance Jewish Scholar Will Herberg analyzed the record...
...Herberg's conclusion: "What decades of Czarist persecution could not do, Communist totalitarianism seems on the verge of accomplishing-the stifling of every form of Jewish expression, the total extinction of Jewish existence...
...According to Herberg "the best information would seem to indicate that in 1949 the Conservative United Synagogue of America had 365 synagogues affiliated with it, the Reform Union of American Hebrew Congregations had 392, and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations 500, with an unknown number of congregations, largely Orthodox, unaffiliated...