Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Meridian, Miss, last week, a woman became spiritual leader of the congregation of Temple Beth Israel, the second largest Jewish community in the state. Mrs. Paula Ackerman, 57, widow of Rabbi William Ackerman, was appointed by the trustees to take over her late husband's duties until a regular rabbi can be found for the post. Though she may not become a rabbi, because she has not fulfilled the educational requirements, Mrs. Ackerman, leader of a 100-member Reform congregation, is the first woman in the U.S. to execute a rabbi's functions...
...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...