Word: judaisms
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...statements about Israel are added testimony to his courage and sincerity as an advocate of peace and justice. That his incisively true remarks would infuriate some American Jewish religious leaders is significant. These leaders cannot separate the concept of Israel as a foreign political entity from the concept of Judaism as a religious faith...
...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...
Eternal Pariahs. Some Christians make a distinction between Judaism as a religion or ethic, which they defend, and the secular state of Israel, which they reject or severely criticize. Most Jews eye the distinction suspiciously...
...support of such issues as civil rights and the state of Israel, and against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Sadly, hours before he was to deliver his valedictory address, Eisendrath died of a heart attack in his hotel room. Much of his life was spent overseeing change in Reform Judaism, which has always been one of the most flexible of faiths...
More recently, however, American Reform Judaism has begun to re-embrace some of the long-scorned traditions-and to move toward the acceptance of Zionist ideals. The killing of 6,000,000 Jews during World War II burned home the need for a Jewish state, if only as a refuge. After four Arab-Israeli wars, the new attitude toward Israel was evident at last week's U.A.H.C. convention in an official vote of thanks to the Nixon Administration for its military and diplomatic support...