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Over the years, many Jews from Eastern Europe have arbitrarily changed their name to Cohen even though they have no claim to priestly descent. As a result, rabbis are perplexed as to how to distinguish true kohanim from impostors-a particularly touchy problem if the Jerusalem Temple is ever rebuilt and priests are once again summoned to their hereditary ministry there. "Only the Messiah will be able to tell," says one Jerusalem rabbi...
Ethical Culturists wince at being labeled atheists, but their basic premise is that man can help build himself a better society based on a rational morality and human cooperation without reference to belief in God. Founder of the movement was Felix Adler, a rabbi's son and professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell, who reluctantly decided that there was no hope of reforming Judaism from within. Giving up religious practice, Adler in 1876 undertook a series of Sunday morning lectures on contemporary moral issues. Among his early followers was Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation...
Johnson's problems are hardly new, as Rabbi Issar Yehuda Unterman, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, took occasion to remind him in a brief, unofficial visit. King David, said the whitebearded rabbi, had also been assailed by "seemingly insoluble problems of state"-yet had surmounted them with divine guidance...
...Rabbi Unterman blessed Johnson with a 2,000-year-old berakah (blessing) that is recited only for chiefs of state, then read from one of King David's Psalms (18:29): "And thou, my Lord, will make my lamp to shine, and enlighten me in darkness...
Many Orthodox Jews are convinced that Christians cannot abandon this idea: implicit in Christianity is the belief that Jesus supplanted the law of Moses, and that the churches represent a new Israel. In the current issue of the quarterly Judaism, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits of Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Ill., bluntly argues that theological discourse is meaningless, since "Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism." Even though the two faiths have a Bible to share, Berkovits notes, it means something entirely different to each. For the Jew, the Hebrew Bible is complete...