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Before the year was out, the young scholar became the congregation's permanent rabbi, and his Orthodox teachings their guide. Even now, however, with 500 families (including his own parents), and scores of drop-ins, Riskin admits that many of his congregation are not yet fully observant Jews. If they were, he says, "there would be no need for me." He is pleased enough that they have found "a place to grow" in appreciation of the Law. Orthodox Judaism, he insists, is a living religion, and its laws provide practical guides for behavior. On the issue of abortion...
...member of the J.D.L., I know what it is like. You should not put us under the category of "militants." We should be under the heading of "Jewish survival." The J.D.L. is not a militant group but a group of Jews attempting to put an end to this antiSemitism. We've been used as scapegoats for thousands of years. We are trying to prevent another Hitler, and damn it, we're gonna make it! In my opinion every Jew and any Jew should be a member of the Jewish Defense League...
Lost Illusions. Lecturer David Solomon, a black who is a convert to Orthodox Judaism, told the campers: "Our problem as Jews is that we've always been the humanists, the internationalists. We are the ones with faith in the world, and we are always the last to lose our illusions. That is what happened in Germany." Sam Shoshan, a leading member of the J.D.L. executive board, told TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt: "We want to encourage the belief that fascism is coming to America and that the Jew is not safe here. If there is just a slight fear...
Holiest of Days. Then, while doing postgraduate work in jurisprudence at Leipzig, Rosenzweig met a converted Jew, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who had abandoned his Judaism for Lutheranism. In a climactic all-night conversation in July 1913, Rosenzweig agreed to follow Rosenstock's lead, but vowed to enter the church "as a Jew," like the earliest Christians. While preparing for the leap, Rosenzweig went to services in a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He never publicly revealed what happened to him at the service, but he emerged from it a changed...
Binding Commandment. Even more important and enduring was the middle- of-the-road view that Rosenzweig took of the Halakhah, the elaborate body of law set down in Jewish tradition. Buber virtually reduced Halakhah to individual inclination, arguing that its prescriptions were useful only to a Jew who found them personally fulfilling. But Rosenzweig saw the law as something stronger, not so much a set of rules as a universally binding commandment to seize every opportunity to perform a good work, or mitzvah. Laws that did not serve such good ends in a particular historical setting simply no longer applied...