Word: heschel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edited by Rabbi Chaim Stern of Chappaqua, N.Y., drops "thee" and "thou" in addressing the Deity (only "you" is now used) and downplays expressions like "our fathers," which are now deemed to be sexist. It also incorporates the words of moderns like Alfred North Whitehead and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and these lines from William Blake: "It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements,/ To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan;/ To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast...
...Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, were intended to implement a declaration by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 which, among other things, had declared that all Jews could not be blamed for the death of Jesus. That document, for which Jews like the late Theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel had long labored, also called for building positive relations between the two faiths...
...addition to the striking art, the ancient rhythms of the Haggadah text are punctuated by a thoughtful anthology of contemporary and historical readings. Martin Buber retells a Hasidic story. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel discusses the Sabbath. Erich Fromm talks about idols, Elie Wiesel about Jewishness, and a passage from The Diary of Anne Frank touchingly describes how to be hopeful in adversity...
...case in point: the violently anti-Israeli opinions of Jesuit Radical Daniel Berrigan, once imprisoned foe of the Viet Nam War, longtime champion of the underdog, and soul brother of the late Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, American Judaism's most poetic Zionist. At a meeting of the Association of Arab University Graduates this fall in Washington, D.C., Berrigan excoriated Israel as "a criminal Jewish community. The creation of millionaires, generals and entrepreneurs... is rapidly evolving into the image of her ancient adversaries." Israel's "historic adventure, which gave her the right to 'judge the nations...
...have decided to avoid the issue altogether. The Richmond, Va., clergy association, for instance, expressly ruled out proselytism of Jews, directing its efforts only to "inactive and unchurched people in the Christian community." Such moves would have been hailed by the late and eminent Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, who last week got in a posthumous word on the proselytism question through a television interview taped just before his death in December. It was Heschel whose persuasive efforts at the Vatican helped win Roman Catholics away from trying to convert Jews. "If there are some Protestant sects who still cling...