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Segal was born in Brooklyn in 1937 and came to Harvard in 1954 out of Midwood High School. He majored in Classics, a discipline representing individual preference as well as the influence of his rabbi father. He also ran for the track team, wisely but not too well, though he fondly recalls his tutelage under Bill McCurdy. "McCurdy is one of the glories of Harvard. He is one of the finest teachers you have...
...RABBI SAMUEL M. SILVER
...Rabbi Alvin Reines' concept of "poly-doxy" sounds very modern-you might call it "doing your own thing." But he fails to look at what our greatest teacher, history, has shown us. For thousands of years, there have been many movements and forces which did not conform to Torah standards. Yet only one factor has united Jews through the dark centuries of the exile in every corner of the world-a belief in Torah. Anyone who left the Torah fold was inevitably swallowed up by a Jew's eternal enemy, assimilation. Rabbi Reines may want...
...sure if he is right. If he is, then he must be willing to give up his job to raise the question-to the highest authorities within the company and if necessary to the public. The Judeo-Christian tradition dictates that a man's highest authority is God." Rabbi Balfour Brickner, a director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, cites the Old Testament to justify whistle blowing: "Thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor (Leviticus...
Sabbath Combat. Despite the current interest in Orthodoxy's various shades, many Jews resent its exclusiveness. Indeed, Reform Rabbi Alvin H. Reines, of Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, turns the tables and regretfully excludes Orthodoxy from his concept of Judaism. Reines contends that there is no single entity describable as Judaism, but rather a variety of Judaisms over the ages, each fashioned to its time. Some have lingered on and now coexist, but the common denominator of most is flexibility. Reines would like to see basic unity among believing Jews under an umbrella he calls "polydoxy...