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...their country's politics, Hartman is perhaps Israel's paramount religious philosopher. For these Jews, Hartman is a rebbe, a particularly wise teacher. The measure of his impact is that right-wing scholars are truly frightened by his erudition. Most refuse even to discuss him. One who does, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, nevertheless only murmurs cryptically, "Millenniums can pass before a true sage is revealed...
...Brooklyn, says Hartman, he "learned pluralism" by playing with blacks and Italians in the streets. Finally, at Yeshiva University, he bloomed intellectually. Becoming a rabbi at 23, he then spent five years knocking heads with the Jesuits at Fordham University. It was there that he encountered the great Roman Catholic philosopher, Robert C. Pollock, and there that he abandoned religious absolutism. Under Pollock's tutelage, Hartman developed the respect for religious tolerance that infuses his beliefs, and came to appreciate the American pluralistic experience as expressed in the writings of William James and John Dewey. After Fordham, Hartman doubled...
What made this latest twist so extraordinary is that the defection was manufactured by Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, 88, who heads the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has never been to Israel. On Sunday, Agudat Deputy Avraham Verdiger phoned the spiritual leader's office for political guidance. The rabbi's spokesmen implied that this was the first contact between Jerusalem and Brooklyn. Others familiar with Schneerson's modus operandi say that a message had already been transmitted from Brooklyn making plain the rabbi's desire to derail Peres...
Either way, once Verdiger and fellow Deputy Eliezer Mizrahi learned that Schneerson continued to oppose any territorial concessions, a position favored by Labor and opposed by Likud, they backed away from their support of Peres. "It's a disgrace; it's completely disgusting," said Rabbi Allan Nadler of Montreal, who has written extensively about the Lubavitchers. "Rabbis of all the branches have been calling to express their outrage...
...Take two scum of the earth," he said."Reverend [Louis] Farrakhan and Rabbi [Meir]Kahane. Both have the right to speak. If Farrakhancame he'd be allowed to speak; if Kahane camethey'd break up the meeting," said Koch, referringrespectively to the Muslim nationalist accused ofanti-semitism and the Israeli Knesset member whohas taken strong anti-Palestinian positions...