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...Rehovot last spring, relatives of a farmer whose body had been examined by autopsy ran amuck in a hospital, injuring 20 persons including physicians and nurses. Last October, Israel's two chief rabbis, joined by 356 other religious leaders, called for repeal of the 1953 law. Ever since, the Orthodox dissenters, led by the ultra-rightist Agudath Israel Party, have stepped up a grisly campaign against postmortems. Fortnight ago, they accused a Tel Aviv hospital of stealing the heart of a rabbi's wife after she died...
...recent conference in Washington of "Clergymen and Laymen Concerned About Viet Nam," 500 seminarians signed a petition urging the abolition of their exempt status. In a letter to the New York Times last month, three antiwar clergymen, Lutheran Minister Richard J. Neuhaus, Jesuit Father Daniel V. Kilfoyle and Rabbi Lloyd Tennenbaum, contended that "far from aiding institutionalized religion, the total exemption of clergy does American religion a great disservice." This month, Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a two-day seminar on the issue...
...many of the 4,800 scholars who contributed to the new encyclopedia are non-Catholics. The managing editor, Father John Whalen of Catholic U., insists that authors were picked solely for their knowledgeability rather than for their faith. The article on Jewish theological education, for example, was written by Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary, while Editor Erwin Canham of the Christian Science Monitor wrote about Christian Science. Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale served as consultant for the articles on Protestantism, which display a new sympathy for once-deprecated figures like Calvin and Luther...
...openly ecumenical, postconciliar attitude toward religion in education. This month the university appointed a Lutheran Church historian, the Rev. Robert L. Wilken, as a permanent member of its theology department -the first Protestant clergyman to hold such a full-time post at a Catholic university. The school also employs Rabbi Irwin M. Blank of Temple Sinai in Tenafly, N.J., as a visiting lecturer. Last fall Fordham began to share libraries and lecturers with the interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; currently it is competing with Yale on a proposed affiliation with the Jesuits' Woodstock College in Maryland...
...easy an answer to dismiss the Trinitarian formula as mere outdated symbol. "Never say only a symbol," Paul Tillich perennially warned his pupils-and his life work is testimony to the importance of symbol to the human psyche and to the fact that the answers given by the Nazarene rabbi who died on the Cross can still help 20th century man explain himself to himself...