Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Understandably, many moderates decided to stay away from last week's outing. "Whereas most of the people who will be in attendance at the march will be well-intentioned, this demonstration was organized and is being run by the radical left," warned Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch of the Religious Action Center of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. "I can't go along with these folks who think everything the U.S. does is wrong and everything Hanoi does is right...
...rabbi, he uses an obsolescent language; yet he has the spiritual restlessness, the wry embarrassment at heroics, the ashy taste for the absurd that are so typical of modern writers. At the same time, the difference between Singer and the Jewish-American authors is the distance between the first and the second generations. However brilliant they may be at times, their Jewish tradition and color have a borrowed air; Singer's are genuine. Their characters, at large in American life, suffer alienation; his characters, alone in their closed world, triumph over isolation...
Though not all teen-agers run away with the intention of joining the hippies, that is often where they wind up. "It's simply because the hippies will take them in when nobody else will," says Rabbi Samuel Schrage of the New York City Youth Board...
...context of those gathered at Barmen, these statements sound like typical, orthodox, Protestant argumentation. It would be easy to offend a Catholic with such a statement; he might feel that it denied the validity of tradition in the Church. Such statements would be offensive to a Rabbi, or to a Muslim, a Buddhist, or a secularist. Unitarians and Friends could be upset by such a strong declaration...
...Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, D.D., chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America...