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...story is told in countless versions. Somebody-a saintly rabbi, a mystic caught up in holy ecstasy, even in one version a lost astronaut-chances to see God face to face and lives to tell about it. "What is God really like?" asks an anxious crowd back home. The narrator hesitates. "You'll be shocked," he warns. He is pressed further. "Well," he finally says, "to begin with, she's black...
Reform Judaism has accepted a handful of female cantors, and will this year have its first woman rabbi: Sally Priesand, 25, who will be ordained in June. But only since World War II have some Conservative Jewish synagogues permitted women to be called to pronounce the blessing over the Torah. Orthodox Judaism does not permit even that, and moreover still decrees that women must sit apart from men in the synagogues...
...have delved into the intricacies of Jewish religious law, Halakhah, as they apply to contemporary problems, genesis 2 printed an angry sermon on a Boston slumlord, urging that the Jewish community not ignore Halakhic prescriptions about a landlord's obligations to tenants. Response published a provocative piece by Rabbi Everett Gendler, suggesting that groups of believing families could find an alternative to the traditional synagogue by sharing their homes for services and celebrations...
...journal on the market today -and arguably the liveliest Jewish periodical in the U.S.-is a slim, stapled biweekly called Sh'ma, from the Hebrew confession of faith, which begins "Sh'ma Yisrael" (Hear, O Israel). The eight-page offset sheet was started in 1970 by Reform Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, professor of Jewish thought at the Manhattan campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Scholar Borowitz, 48, who edits Sh'ma in his home, is himself a staunch but critical supporter of Israel and an advocate of more rigorous theological interpretations of modern issues...
...RABBI ELI A. BOHNEN