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...modern Jews most sympathetic to Jewish missions to the Gentiles are generally the liberals in the reform group. Yet these, says Rabbi Petuchowski, have precisely the least to offer. "The orthodox Jew could conceivably enter the arena with the Creed of Maimonides in one hand and the Shulchan Aruch [a codification of Jewish law] in the other. He could say to the prospective convert: 'Here is a new way of living. Take it!' And then the convert would really have taken something; he would not merely be moving from one 'branch' of universal religion to another...
...Harry Wills. It was the first prizefight Sylvia had ever seen, and she recalls that she tried hard to like it. Three and a half years later, Ed and Sylvia were married in the rectory of a Roman Catholic Church in West Orange, N.J. Sylvia has remained a Jew, but their daughter Betty has been raised a Catholic. Meanwhile, Winchell left the Graphic for the Daily Mirror, and Louis Sobol replaced him as Broadway columnist. When Sobol joined the Journal-American, Sports Editor Sullivan inherited the Broadway assignment. "I didn't want the job, but it was either take...
...religion, but it is not the same as his grandfather's, for this, too, has undergone Americanization. The many varied regional or national sects and churches which the immigrants brought along with their cooking and their clothes have been reduced to a tripartite division: Protestant, Catholic and Jew. These have become "three great branches or divisions of 'American religion...
Published this week is a sharp-minded investigation of the American religious paradox. In Protestant-Catholic-Jew (Doubleday; $4) Jewish Author-Scholar Will Herberg maintains that both the religiousness and the secularism of the American people derive from much the same sources, and have combined to give the U.S. a religion...
...believes, as the idea "that they are three diverse representations of ... the 'spiritual values' American democracy is presumed to stand for." Thus "it becomes virtually mandatory for the American to place himself in one or another of these groups . . . For being a Protestant, a Catholic or a Jew is understood as the specific way, and increasingly perhaps the only way, of being an American and locating oneself in American society...