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...your story on Rabbi Richard Rubenstein [Feb. 16]: let us lay the blame of Auschwitz where it belongs: on all of us who let a madman run loose for so long. Please do not blame God. He has had a pretty rough time with His children...
...happens, Rubenstein, 44, is not a disaffected atheist but an ordained rabbi in good standing and a Jewish chaplain at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also teaches humanities. One of the most interesting of American Judaism's younger theologians, he is at least a spiritual cousin of Christianity's "death-of-God" thinkers, who are considerably more enthusiastic about his work than are Rubenstein's fellow Jews...
Another frequently stated point is that the war is immoral because it has had a brutalizing effect on the American people and represents, in the words of Rabbi M. David Weiss of Boston, "a corruption of our national purpose." Stanford's Brown accuses the U.S. Gov ernment of telling American forces in Viet Nam, in effect, that "anything goes. All moral considerations are either subsidiary or suspended for the sake of military victory." Baptist Pastor Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, who only within the past year has joined the dissenters, says that "morally, it offends...
...operation didn't hurt so much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak Hebrew." After the other guests had chanted Hasidic songs for the couple, Mehta sang themes from Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Beethoven's Hamrnerklavier sonata with...
Understandably, many moderates decided to stay away from last week's outing. "Whereas most of the people who will be in attendance at the march will be well-intentioned, this demonstration was organized and is being run by the radical left," warned Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch of the Religious Action Center of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. "I can't go along with these folks who think everything the U.S. does is wrong and everything Hanoi does is right...