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...really surprised by Rabbi Magnin's ungracious and uninformed comment on Rabbi Siegel's appropriate choice of a Jewish statutory bracha (ritual blessing) to conclude his prayer at President Nixon's Inauguration [Jan. 29], but I am dismayed that TIME should have repeated and embellished the report of Rabbi Siegel's "kingly" blessing...
...correct version of the blessing which Rabbi Siegel recited was "Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who shares a portion of His glory with mortal man." This blessing, according to Jewish traditional practice and precedent, may be recited whenever one is in the presence of any person who holds chief executive office in a political sovereignty...
...RABBI WOLFE KELMAN...
...eight different women, members of the faculty and administration, to participate in the Symposium on Affirmative Action, because I wanted to have a woman on this panel. For a variety of reasons, none of them accepted. That is the sole reason that there was no woman on this panel. Rabbi Ben Zion Gold Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society
...groups involved in Key 73 have decided to avoid the issue altogether. The Richmond, Va., clergy association, for instance, expressly ruled out proselytism of Jews, directing its efforts only to "inactive and unchurched people in the Christian community." Such moves would have been hailed by the late and eminent Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, who last week got in a posthumous word on the proselytism question through a television interview taped just before his death in December. It was Heschel whose persuasive efforts at the Vatican helped win Roman Catholics away from trying to convert Jews. "If there are some Protestant...