Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightmare of man being destroyed by a creature of his own making has always been with us. The first robot in literature was the Golem, a clay man made by the High Rabbi Lev Ben Bezalel of Prague in the 16th century. Animated by a slip of paper bearing the name of God, it murdered the Rabbi when he made it work on the Sabbath. The Biblical analog is the Tower of Babel, the presumptuous construction that called down God's wrath on man. But the Golem and the Tower of Babel are myths. Computers are real...
...June 4, Columbia's commencement day, Keith Karnofsky, 22, was arrested in a student protest near the campus. A month earlier he had been charged with criminal trespass when New York City police cleared Columbia's buildings of student rebels. Today he is studying to be a rabbi at Manhattan's Hebrew Union College, and he sees no disparity between his radicalism and his faith. As Keith puts it: "Activism is a Jewish thing...
...Jewish students in sit-ins and love-ins is purely numerical: more than 80% of eligible Jewish youth are attending college, and they form more than 6% of the total student population. Some synagogue leaders contend that historical tradition does much to stimulate student commitment to radical causes. Says Rabbi Alfred Jospe, director of programs for the Hillel Foundations: "From experience, the Jew knows that whenever inequality exists, the Jew suffers as much as anyone. If we cannot exist...
...Harold Weisberg, a philosophy professor at Brandeis University, thinks that many liberal Jewish parents have raised their children with strong ethical consciences while neglecting their own. "The kids find that their parents have betrayed something. They look around and ask: 'Where were you? You let this happen.' " Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee believes that youthful Jewish protest against social inequity is a valid, idealistic continuation of the "prophetic rebellion" that began in 7th century Israel. He may be right, but not many parents are finding it easy to accept the idea that their...
Eshkol was willing to consider financial aid, but offered little hope for the other requests until Reform increased its ranks in Israel. Tel Aviv's chief rabbi, Brigadier General" Shlomo Goren, charged that "Reform leaders in America want to export their religion but not their bodies to Israel." To demonstrate an interest in exporting at least a few bodies, the progressives' governing board passed a resolution recommending that Reform Jews be encouraged to settle in Israel. Reform Rabbi Richard Hirsch of Washington, D.C., a leader of the progressives' union, will stay in Israel for at least several...