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...Died. Rabbi Zvi Rabinsohn, 88, father of Communist Boss Ana Pauker of Rumania ; after long illness; in Tel Aviv, Israel. Fanatically Orthodox himself, he brought his ungainly daughter up strictly, left Rumania for Israel after the Reds (aided by Ana) took over, never saw Ana again...
...Beach needed a new synagogue. Said Coe: "I didn't see why we couldn't help them, too. I'm for churches. They do a lot of good . . ." Last week he and his committee held a second auction, raised $65,000. Said Washington's visiting Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld: "The real test of good will in a community is action." Said Socker Coe: "I believe a good deal of bigotry was broken down by the committee . . . There's a general attitude of friendliness that wasn't there before...
Writing in the current issue of Commentary, this eminent son of a rabbi finds "American Jewry . . . aiming at a confused third way which is neither philosophically tenable nor socially practicable" -a "genteel" watering-down of Judaism to conform to U.S. cultural standards...
...Americans first and good Jews afterwards, and the obvious way of doing that is to join in the general 'democratic' chorus that nobody really differs from anybody else, that all religions are equally true, that Jewish worship is really just the same as Christian worship, that a rabbi can appropriately preach in a church and a Christian minister in a 'temple,' and that a common ignorance of the Bible and of theology can unite everybody in a sentimental, social-service, 'boys'-town' religion...
...Said Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Reform): "Women should not be denied the privilege of ordination . . . There is nothing in the practice and principles of Liberal Judaism which precludes the possibility of a woman serving as a rabbi...