Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gurion's blast has touched off an embarrassed dispute among U.S. Jewish leaders about their relationship to Israel. First to react was Philadelphia-born Rabbi Israel Goldstein, 64, former president of the American Jewish Congress. Stung by Ben-Gurion's reproaches, Goldstein stayed on after last fortnight's congress, the first top-ranking U.S. Jew to settle in Israel. But in the U.S., liberal and conservative rabbis alike condemned Ben-Gurion's theology as "erroneous." The American Jewish Committee declared itself "grieved and shocked" by the suggestion that Jews have an obligation to emigrate to Israel...
Joshua Lederberg, 35, is a balding biologist?and a genius. At 21, the studious son of a New Jersey rabbi, he was already making significant contributions to genetics. Working with his teacher, Edward Tatum, at Yale, he demonstrated that bacteria have a sex life of sorts. At 27, in collaboration with one of his own students at the University of Wisconsin, Lederberg discovered that bacteria infected with certain viruses may suffer hereditary changes. His work on this process, known as transduction, won him a Nobel Prize. Now, at Stanford's School of Medicine, Lederberg's latest cause for excitement...
...Protestant Douglas Auchincloss' 17th TIME cover story (among the others: Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, and the Dead Sea Scrolls) in 14 years as TIME's Religion writer. Of this one, Auchincloss had an impression he will not soon forget: "The most relentlessly intellectual cover story I've ever done...
...double the indemnity, the marriage was performed twice, first in civil ceremony, two days later by a rabbi. Marilyn ate matzo balls with her new in-laws, studied Judaism and became a convert to Miller's religion. Both sailed enthusiastically into the task of complementing their differences. As a British journalist wrote, parodying Longfellow in something called Highbrowarthur's Honeymoon...
...woes is the Just Man that sometimes when he rises to heaven, "God must warm him for a thousand years between his fingers before his soul can open itself to Paradise." Author Schwarz-Bart imagines a familial dynasty of Lamed-Vov called the Levys. The first of the line, Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, forces himself to slit the throats of 250 of his coreligionists in an 1185 A.D. pogrom in York, England, rather than have them tortured or converted. After this follows an inexorable litany of torment, in which generation after generation of chosen Levys are burned, torn apart...