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...Rabbi Solomon Bernards of the Anti-Defamation League leveled one of the most thoroughgoing criticisms in the Christian Century last month. Bernards questioned the "monolithic undertones of this effort that aims at a completely Christian America." The campaign fostered "triumphalism," he charged, citing one prediction that Christians could convert the entire world within two years. Moreover, mass evangelical efforts inevitably employ "simplistic theology [and] emotional appeals," and tend "to disparage and downgrade other faiths and value systems...
...Another rabbi, however, Henry Siegman of the Synagogue Council of America, warns against taking "the alarmist view" of Key 73. Writing in the current issue of the American Jewish Congress's Congress Bi-Weekly, Siegman doubts "that any significant number of Jews will be won over to Christianity by Key 73. Those few who will convert will do so because we have allowed Jewish life to become so secularized, so emptied of transcendent meaning, that some of our children will turn to Christianity and to other faiths in order to fill a terrible spiritual void...
Siegman goes so far as to suggest that an "intensely Christian environment can in fact make for a more traditional Jewish community"-an argument that provokes an outraged response from Ecumenist Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in the same magazine. The U.S. has already had just such an intensely Christian environment, Tanenbaum points out, in the days when evangelical Christianity and American nationalism were considered synonymous. In that situation "Jews were second-class citizens, denied the right to vote and hold public office...
...secular ethicist, Jonas believes that society has a "social responsibility" toward pregnant women: it must protect the "mission of motherhood against the clamors of individuals or of social movements. To give this mission over completely to individual choice oversteps the order of nature." Others disagree. According to Reform Rabbi Israel Margolies, a fetus "is literally part of its mother's body, and belongs only to her and her mate...
...Hill's prayer was followed by a musical interlude, and another prayer by Rabbi Seymour Siegel. At nine minutes to noon. Spiro Agnew took his oath, followed by another prayer, this one given by the primate of the Orthodox Church in America, to which Agnew once belonged...