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...secular rather than religious basis, Author Herberg warns, are deluded. A return to religious essentials is necessary, and it will call for "an earnest effort to seek out and gather the sparks of faith hidden among the fragments of contemporary Jewish existence. It involves the return of the rabbi from his present functions as administrator, political leader and popular lecturer, to his earlier and more authentic role of religious teacher and counselor. Most of all, it implies a synagogue interested primarily not in making itself dominant as an organization but in helping to make Judaism operative in the hearts...
...Jewish teachers were impressed by the solemnity of the ceremonies and were pleased when Rabbi Brickner held a question & answer period. Samples: "Do the Jews believe in a Messiah...
...Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, who conceived the idea of the institute, spoke of the importance of Jewish ceremonies in the life of Jesus: "The wine [Jesus] gave [his disciples] was from the Kiddush cup -the chalice. The bread he gave them to eat were these matzos, flour and water. Also on the Seder table is a shankbone, roasted .... In Jesus' time they ate the lamb together. That feast of the Passover was the Last Supper . . . 'Shema Israel adonoi elohenu adonoi echod-Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.' Those were words that Jesus...
...Rabbi Brickner has believed for years that Christian ministers should know what Judaism is and how closely related it is to Christianity. Approving his idea, Greater Cleveland's Ministerial Association set aside one of its monthly meetings to get instruction on the Jewish religion. In recent years it has been their best-attended meeting, and a showplace for scholars of both faiths...
Pleased last week with the first Institute on Judaism for Christian Teachers, Rabbi Brickner was even more pleased that Cleveland's Religious Education Fellowship will shortly reciprocate and start an Institute on Christianity for Jews. Says he: "Many Christians think of Judaism as lurking behind a silken veil . . . Judaism is a rational, logical faith and the more questions we are asked the better we like it ... Good will between religions can never be achieved simply by mutual back-patting . . . We're going to have to build bridges...