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...expected pleasant news. The Senate Judiciary Committee seemed likely to approve a bill that would extend the commission's life and retain all its present members, including themselves. But hours before the committee was to meet, the White House gave Mary Frances Berry, Blandina Cardenas Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman a totally different message. As expressed in a letter hand-carried to Berry's office and signed by Personnel Assistant John S. Herrington, it was: "The President has requested that I inform you that your appointment as a member of the Commission on Civil Rights terminates effective today...
When Susannah Heschel was growing up as a rabbi's daughter in New York City, she once attended a Simhat Torah celebration, during which men traditionally dance for joy while holding scrolls of Scripture. She wanted to join the dance, which is forbidden to women, and under the disapproving eyes of many in the crowd, joined her father in the festivities. When asked who had given her permission, Susannah snapped...
...father was the legendary philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel, who for 27 years was a professor at New York City's Jewish. Theological Seminary of America: J.T.S. is the only institution in North America that trains and ordains rabbis fdr the Conservative branch of Judaism. Shortly before he died in 1972, Heschel urged his daughter to apply to the seminary as a candidate for ordination as a rabbi. "I think things might change," he said. Though women had long studied and taught at J.T.S., none had ever tried to become a rabbi. Susannah's request was denied...
...Luther's views on the Catholic Church have come to be accepted even by many Catholics, his anti-Semitic views remain a problem for even his most devoted supporters. Says New York City Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum: "The anniversary will be marred by the haunting specter of Luther's devil theory of the Jews...
Civil rights groups were outraged five months ago when the president tried to replace three of the six commission members. He fired those three-Mary Berry. Blandina Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman...