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...their support of "traditionally liberal" causes. Indeed, such a withdrawal will likely lead to even greater alienation and animosity between these two vital American groups. More importantly, it will end a long alliance between blacks and Jews (such as that forged by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel and more recently by Michael Lerner and Cornel West), an alliance which has as its greatest strength a shared sense of struggle to affirm that which is most deeply human about us all. It would be a truly sad situation if, years from now, in the histories of American blacks...
...quote on one poster which doubtless many did not even stop to read: "Six million were wiped off the face of the earth. And there is the danger that they will also be annihilated from our memories. Are they doomed to a two-fold annihilation?" Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's haunting question remains unanswered. Only time will tell...
Traditionally, and especially in 20th century America, Jews have believed that the measure of a just society is how it treats its least fortunate. The picture of Abraham Joshua Heschel marching with Martin Luther King, the memory of Schwerner and Goodman dying with Chaney in Mississippi, and the glorious record of Jack Greenberg's crusades in the courts are examples of American Jews applying traditional Jewish values of justice and kindness to their dealings with African-Americans...
Last week Susannah Heschel was back on campus as the seminary's faculty voted 34 to eight to admit women for rabbinical training, despite strong opposition from some of the institution's leading scholars. The first women candidates will be admitted next September, and those who complete the four-or five-year course will be ordained. Susannah, a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, has not decided whether to join them...
...meeting, and Israel Francus, former chairman of the seminary's department of Talmud and Rabbinics, said angrily, "We have committed suicide by handing over the whole Conservative movement to the Reform wing." But to many Jewish women the risk of schism is the price of revolution. Declared Susannah Heschel, now 28 and editor of a recent anthology, On Being a Jewish Feminist: "It is so important and noble to be a rabbi...