Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Orthodox Jewish leaders, meeting in Atlantic City for the annual convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, were agitated by a brand-new effort to make divorce more trouble than it is worth. Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary and leader of the Conservative Jewish movement in the U.S.,* announced the formation of a new marriage court, to which all couples in Conservative congregations must henceforth bring their marital problems for adjudication and possible settlement before taking divorce proceedings. Couples who ignore the new body or fail to follow...
...Orthodox rabbis, the Conservatives' new body was an unwanted and unnecessary growth on the smooth perfection of the Law. Said honorary Union President Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of Manhattan's West Side Institutional Synagogue: "Regardless of the well-meaning intention of those who initiated the attempt ... it is a departure from traditional procedure and practice accepted by the bulk of Jewry, and it should not and cannot be recognized by the loyal adherents to Judaism...
...About 40% of the U.S.'s estimated 5,500,000 affiliated Jews belong to Conservative congregations, which stand between the religiously strict Orthodox Jews (4%), who insist on the letter of the law, and the Reform Jews (20%), who have changed the letter considerably (e.g., work on the Sabbath permitted, no hat worn in the synagogue...
...member churches yielded $1.5 billion in 1953-54, an increase of $136 million over 1952-53. The most generous givers were Seventh-day Adventists, with an average yearly contribution of $173.35 apiece. The next five, in order: Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, $170.39; Church of the Nazarene, $118.33; Orthodox Presbyterian Church, $112.56; Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America, $109.03; Conference of the Evangelical Mennonite Church...
GSAS, then, is to a great extent personified by is scholarly curriculum. Nevertheless there are marked lines of cleavage among faculty and students on the purpose of graduate education. There is, however, an official orthodox view of the function as they see it applicable in their fields...