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...liberalization of immigration laws to meet the special tragic need of the Jewish people. Israel has never faltered in the fulfillment of this responsibility, taking in the sick, the lame and the aged, and jeopardizing its own survival by doubling its population in the brief span of 15 years. RABBI DAVID GREENBERG Scarsdale Synagogue Scarsdale...
Died. George Ephraim Sokolsky, 69, foreign correspondent turned syndicated columnist, a militant conservative who was a fiery one-man front for capitalism; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Son of a New York rabbi and a student at Columbia Journalism School, he left to observe the Russian Revolution firsthand, got bounced from the country by the Soviets for his adverse editorial views, landed in China with one Yankee dollar in his pocket, and stayed 14 years in Asia as a correspondent, political adviser and friend of China's revolutionary leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Returning...
...RABBI MAURICE J. BLOOM Tremont Temple The Bronx...
...born Rabbi Unger, 32, such paradoxical problems are familiar, for he represents Reform Judaism in a country that is run by a strange partnership of agnostic secularists and letter-of-the-Talmud Orthodox rabbis. Premier David Ben-Gurion has a persisting intellectual interest in Buddhism, infrequently attends synagogue. But his parliamentary coalition is held together with votes from two religious parties, and he has been unable to prevent Orthodox Judaism from becoming the state religion of a country that is 40% agnostic...
...Rabbi Unger's congregations usually call themselves Progressive rather than Reform: but the Orthodox rabbinate considers any liberal Judaism a divisive rather than a complementary force, and looks more kindly on Baptist missionaries. Says Minister of Religious Affairs Zerah Wahrhaftig: "Our spiritual mainstays must be maintained in unadulterated form." Replies Unger: "The old generation had Zionism and the establishment of a Jewish state as their ideal. But to the younger generation, Israel is a fact. They are a generation in search of something. Liberal Judaism can channel that search in a purposeful and meaningful manner...