Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left of the community-scorned as near apostates by Jews who observe Halacha (religious law)-are the minority of Reform Jews, similar in their modernizing views to American Conservative Judaism, and the Liberals, who theologically conform roughly to the Reform movement in the U.S. Representing the mainstream of Orthodoxy -and most of the wealthy Anglo-Jewish families-is the United Synagogue, which governs 80 congregations in Greater London. Although it defends the full authority of Halacha, the United Synagogue is nonetheless suspected of liberal tendencies by the militant Federation of Synagogues, which was founded by recent emigrants from Eastern Europe...
...Barb is an eight-to twelve-page weekly, less than a year old, with a circulation of 7,500. Says the Barb's bearded editor, Max Scherr, 50, a local bohemian of long standing: "I'm interested in all the little movements that are divergent from the mainstream of the culture." Scherr also admits-reluctantly-that sex and radical anti-Viet Nam articles are what sell his paper. Radical is the word. Wrote a Barb columnist known only as "The Roving Rat Fink," after President Johnson's recent speech in Omaha: "Never before has an American president...
...because he was a candidate. You have to be a candidate to be heard." He adds: "I'll be any kind of candidate for anything to carry this cause?or I'll be no candidate, if that's the best way to get the Republican Party back into the mainstream of American life...
...That mainstream, in Javits' view, weaves between the Scylla of the right, with "those who ignore international realities and look back with nostalgia to the economic jungle of the 19th century," and to the left, the Charybdis of "increasing control over the nation's economic and social life." He feels it is the responsibility of Republican liberals to chart a mid-channel course, thus offering the voter a choice "between a Democratic Party which instinctively leans on the Government to solve any problem, and a Republican Party which instinctively seeks ways to bring the resources of the business community into...
...John C. Bennett, D.D., president of Union Theological Seminary. The Biblical viewpoint places you in the mainstream of 20th century activity and, as oft it has, commands even the reluctant to shoulder the robe and risk of the prophet...