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...polydox, "even Reform Judaism seems right wing...
...Proposed remedies include greater commitment to Israel, a higher birth rate, a stricter ban on intermarriage and campaigns against proselytizers from other faiths. But Reines, 52, doubts that any of these will work. The problem, he argues, is that American Jews simply do not accept the teachings of traditional Judaism. And without some religion, Jewry will vanish...
...what about Reform Judaism, the liberal branch created to free the Jews from the rigidities of Orthodoxy without stripping away their faith? Reines teaches at a Reform seminary, Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College. Yet he considers Reform Judaism to be only a halfhearted effort at liberalism. The answer, he insists, is "polydoxy," a radically open-ended faith with only one absolute: that there are no absolutes. At the first national meeting of polydox Jews in St. Louis last week, Reines proposed the creation of a Polydox Jewish Confederation to unite the radicals...
...focused on Middle East diplomacy. And diplomacy may in part explain its passage. Because of pressure from liberal Jews in the U.S., Premier Menachem Begin promised the two Orthodox parties in his parliamentary coalition a long-sought bill on a different issue, which refused to recognize conversions to Judaism in Israel except under Orthodox auspices. By permitting the antimissionary bill, he may have hoped to shore up Orthodox support during a time when compromise may be necessary in the delicate negotiations about the future of Israeli-occupied land on the West Bank of the Jordan...
Crist, who says he looked into a number of different religions during a period of adolescent searching before he found Jesus, says he thinks most religions have some elements of truth (Christianity) in them, but only partial truth. He says Judaism, out of which Christ came, is "the shadow of the truth...