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Died. Will Herberg, 75, leading Judaic scholar and sociologist; of heart disease; in Chatham, N.J. Herberg was a professor of philosophy and Jewish studies at New Jersey's Drew University. In his 1955 study Protestant-Catholic -Jew, an innovative interpretation of the role of religion in America that is still widely used in college sociology courses, he noted a religious revival in the U.S. but warned that the major faiths had become secularized, that "believing" was now simply a way of "belonging" in society...
...Just short of herem (excommunication) in the Judaic tradition is niddui (ostracism), the shunning of a wrongdoer by the whole community. Some extreme Orthodox sects still engage in the practice, but it has otherwise fallen into disuse. Last week, however, niddui was proclaimed against Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz, a member of parliament, by Israel's Chief Rabbinate...
Harvard's experts on Judaic studies responded this week to the Rabat Conference's recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Henry A. Kissinger's recent tour of the Middle East with pessimism...
...nonfiction, Elie Wiesel (Night, A Beggar in Jerusalem) has been the dark poet of the Holocaust, a man brooding circularly upon the six million Jews who died in death camps. Now he has written a rich, warm book whose subject is religious joy, that mystical and ecstatic strain in Judaic history known as Hasidism...
...Jewish homeland, Israel has Jews of almost every kind, color and Judaic language, although the Sephardic pronunciation of Hebrew has been made standard for Israel. In the U.S., the oldest Jewish community is that of the Sephardim, who first arrived in 1654. They brought with them an ORTHODOX heritage, but many strayed from it in the New World. The first important wave of Ashkenazic immigration from Germany in the 1840s and '50s, on the other hand, brought with it the REFORM movement of religious Judaism, an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment. Caught up in the rationalism...