Word: rabbi
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Said its president. Rabbi David I. Golo-vensky: "Voting for a presidential candidate because he is a Catholic or vot ing against him because he belongs to the Catholic faith is a sinister betrayal of the fundamental precept of American democracy." In the influential Jesuit weekly America, the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a front-rank Catholic theologian, said that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition...
...unlike the typical Chaplin figure, whose weapon was silence, but like Chaplin's little fellow, he is a reincarnation of the classic non-hero of Jewish folklore-Peter Schlemiel, the man without a shadow, who is the fated enemy of authority, whether commissar or cop. priest or rabbi, and whose talent it is to make a wheezy accordion of all top hats...
Existentialism, one of the century's most important philosophical movements, has had little influence on Jewish intellectual life in the U.S. The reason, according to Orthodox Rabbi Shubert Spero...
Under the influence of existentialist thought, writes Rabbi Spero in the magazine Perspective, "the criteria of a meaningful religious system are no longer the mental stability it may bring or its possibility of social acceptance, the doctrines it shares with other religions, or its sweet reasonableness. On the contrary, the very elements of Judaism which but yesterday were in ill repute-our unique chosenness, the reality of evil, the deadly seriousness and unconditional demands of the life of service to God-have today been reinstated...
Existentialism is important to Orthodoxy, thinks Rabbi Spero, partly because it has exposed the inadequacy of the liberal, merely rational, versions of Judaism, and partly because it has managed "to create the philosophic climate, and to popularize certain categories of thought, wherein the classic Biblical concepts can again be spoken and appreciated...