Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein (author of What the Jews Believe) was once an enthusiastic member of the Interfaith Good Will Committee in his. home town of Rochester, N.Y. For almost 20 years the clergymen on the committee dealt "constructively" with relations among their different religious groups. Since 1949, how ever, committee members have not even sat down together at an annual luncheon, The reason: hard feelings between the Protestants and the Roman Catholics...
...Rochester situation is fairly typical," Rabbi Bernstein told fellow towns men last week. "My own duties as presi dent of the Central Conference of American Rabbis have taken me to scores of communities. I cannot recall one where improved relations were reported. In practically all of them, tensions were on the rise." Some of the reasons, as Bernstein sees them: the intensified Catholic pro gram for parochial schools, Cardinal Spellman's controversy with Mrs. Roosevelt in which he denounced her for bigotry, Harry Truman's designation of General Clark as ambassador to the Vatican. The Clark appointment, says...
When Abraham A. Neuman graduated as a brilliant young rabbi from Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, he was swamped with offers to take over a congregation. One offer came all the way from South Africa. But he turned them all down because, he says, "I thought that the future of Judaism lay in America. I wanted to be a scholar." Last week, at a testimonial dinner in Philadelphia's Warwick Hotel, Dr. Neuman, now 61, listened to words of high praise from his fellow scholars. For 40 years he has been pursuing his ideal, the last...
...authority on Irish folklore. In these days of stress, when we see men turning against their fellow man because of race or color, it is heartening to see among us a man of a race that is one of the oldest and most cultured in the world." The guest: Rabbi Theodore Lewis, spiritual director of 189-year-old Congregation Jeshuath Israel in Newport, R.I. Rabbi Lewis, wearing his black skullcap and a dazzling green tie, stood up to acknowledge the cheering "Caed Mile Failte" (100,000 Welcomes) of his fellow Irishmen...
Born a Jew (his great-grandfather was a rabbi), Picard became a Roman Catholic in 1939. But long before his conversion, his writings reflected a Christian horror of the divided and uncertain world around him. Often more emotional than logical, they are written in German in a tense prose-poetry that is hard to translate. Now, with the publication in the U.S. of Picard's most famous book, The Flight from God (Henry Regnery; $2.50), U.S. readers get a look at the essence of Max Picard's philosophy...