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Jackie Mason is a 32-year-old rabbi who has given up the temple and now tells jokes with a message. Too often the message scrapes through, but the humor does not. He is a dedicated slayer of cliche philosophies. "Don't change horses in midstream," he scoffs. "Did you ever take two horses into the middle of a stream? That is stupid in itself. But I tried it, and you know, the second one was better." Somebody digs. Mason gets top bookings...
...Post Publisher Oswald Garrison Villard, who later edited the Nation for 15 years, to write a "Call to Action" that led directly to the formation of the N.A.A.C.P. Among those who issued the call on Lincoln's Birthday 1909 were Professor John Dewey, William Lloyd Garrison, Jane Addams, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Lincoln Steffens...
William Sloane Coffin Jr., chaplain of Yale University; Rabbi Morris Lieberman of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation; and Msgr. Austin J. Healy, who marched as an official representative of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore...
...Buber came across a testament of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the 18th century's wonder-working Baal Shem Tov (the good master of the divine name) who founded Hasidism. Buber gave up politics and journalism to spend five years studying Hasidic texts, then wrote the first of his ten books that retell the legends and learning of the Hasidic rabbis. During the early '30s, he and the late Rabbi Leo Baeck were the unquestioned leaders of Germany's Jewish community; Buber organized schools, edited anti-Nazi journals, and in "The Question to the Single One" wrote...
...must accept. Moreover, the sayings of Jesus that they believe to be his in whole or part-rather than creations of the church-are of such a quality, says Zahrnt, that "a single, absolutely distinctive picture of the person and work of Jesus emerges." This person was a prophetic rabbi who taught the imminence of the Kingdom of God and who dared to act in God's place by warning of the need for repentance. The Marburgers deny that Jesus explicitly claimed to be the Messiah, although Dinkier and Käsemann argue that he was conscious...