Word: judaisms
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This story is the latest chapter in TIME'S half-century tradition of reducing to comprehensible dimensions subjects that readers might find dauntingly broad and perplexing. That practice began with a 1928 look at The American People, and has in recent years included Judaism (1972), Capitalism (1975) and Socialism (1978). Islam merited such treatment, says Associate Editor Marguerite Johnson, who wrote the main cover story, because "the Iranian revolution has made it especially important for Westerners to understand the driving energy and devotion Islam commands from so many." Correspondent Dean Brelis was given a vivid example of that devotion...
...charge of the Special Report, first began to appreciate the pervasiveness of the faith while serving as TIME'S religion writer from 1962 to 1966. "Islam has been so frequently misunderstood," contends Elson, "partly because so many people have tried to apply terms from Christianity and Judaism to it. What we have attempted to do is give a succinct but complete picture of a phenomenon that is not merely a faith, but a way of ordering society...
Levenson's own experience as a Jew was crucial to his life and work. In the introduction of what was to have been his retirement book on Judaism, Levenson proudly reaffirmed his commitment to a Judaism with links to the past that McDonald believed cut him off from the present. To be a Jew in America was for Levenson a choice of standards from which to view not only his own time and culture but any other--"To choose well in life is nothing less than to choose life itself...
...American Judaism: Transition and Tradition--Colloquium with Rabbis Stanley Dreyfus, Harold Kushner, and Shlomo Riskin, Science Center...
...apparent. Major groups that accept abortions only to save the mother's life include the various Eastern Orthodox churches, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, most members of the Churches of Christ, "independent" Christian Churches, the American Baptist Association, the Baptist Bible Fellowship and other conservative Protestant groups. Orthodox Judaism is willing to consider abortion for serious health reasons, while the Mormons and the 35 smallish denominations in the National Association of Evangelicals are also open to it in cases of rape. Three of the four largest black Protestant denominations have issued antiabortion statements. This anti-abortion bloc encompasses...