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...same time, U.S. Jewish leaders are becoming more vocal about their misgivings. In a meeting with Carter aides last week, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, warned that if U.S. Jews believed that the White House was building pressure on Begin, "it will unite them." Schindler says bluntly that, having supported the President in the past, U.S. Jews now have "a big question mark on Carter." Siegel's resignation, he adds, will increase their concern that "something is not right in American policy...
...Jewish community has ever had more distinguished, respected or prosperous members. No Jewish community has experienced less antiSemitism. No Jewish community has enjoyed more religious freedom. Yet American Jewry is in a desperate state of crisis." So says Rabbi Alvin J. Reines of Cincinnati, who is convinced that by the year 2100 the American Jewish community could dwindle from today's 5.8 million to fewer than 1 million-below the point of significance...
Polydoxy is starting small, though Reines maintains that many Jews subscribe to its beliefs without realizing it. The Institute of Creative Judaism, formed in 1971 to promote Reines' philosophy, so far has enlisted only 75 rabbis and ten synagogues. Congregation Or Ami in Richmond, Va., the first synagogue formed to practice polydoxy, began six years ago with six families and now has 100, many previously unaffiliated with any synagogue. The movement has also spread overseas. Rabbi Anthony Holz, who recently returned from a congregation in Pretoria, South Africa, summarizes his polydox outlook: "Fifty percent of what we know...
...Rachel, The Rabbi's Wife, Tennenbaum
...Grow old along with me!" said Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. "The best is yet to be." Meyer Lansky, 75, the Russian-born Methuselah of the underworld, once directed Murder, Inc., held the Mafia franchise for Havana and brought organized gambling to the Bahamas; but he has survived all to become a little old Miami Beach senior citizen. Now he lives quietly, Lansky told a visitor from the Miami News, enjoying a complete absence of memory ("There is no such thing as organized crime"). What does he do with his spare time? Well, he reads: "Lately, philosophy-just...