Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What great trouble we are in now!" sighed Rabbi Levin, venerable editor of the Talmudic Encyclopedia. "For us, two Jews remain two Jews no matter what they do. And it is a Jewish duty to try and save life. Could we know it was the Communists who guided our pens? We are not politicians...
...Most American Jews view their Israeli brethren with love. Rabbi Berger hates the Israeli Jew as any anti-Semite would . . . Rabbi Berger remains a front man for the anti-Semite and the extremist Arab groups...
Angry Shouts. The Council was founded in 1943 by a group led by Lessing J. Rosenwald, onetime board chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Almost all of its members belong to Reform congregations, and Executive Director Elmer Berger, 44, is a Reform rabbi who left his synagogue in Flint, Mich, to take the job. Some of the earliest Reform rabbis were explicitly anti-Zionist, and to Council members, the rising popularity of "Israelism" in the U.S. seemed the very thing the rabbis had protested...
...Council has met hitter opposition. In 1945. no less a pro-Zionist than Albert Einstein attacked its program as "a pitiable attempt to obtain favor and toleration from our enemies by betraying true Jewish ideals, and mimicking those who claim to stand for 100% Americanism." On his speaking tours, Rabbi Berger has drawn angry shouts (e.g., "Pro-Arab!") in some congregations. Nowadays, however, the angry voices have become quieter, and the Council (dues-paying membership: 16,800) is getting some serious attention. Says Rabbi Berger: "American Jews are uneasy about the nationalism of the Israelis. They're beginning...
...recourse except to launch attacks that are as false as they are terrible in their nature. They have charged me only lately-when they overstepped themselves-with being anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic ... I leave the answers to those two to my good friends, Cardinal Spellman, Rabbi Silver and Bernard Baruch (see above) . . . When I contemplate this series of completely false accusations against me, I get so angry I sort of choke...