Word: rabbis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Holy Task. Dr. Marc Boegner, leading French Protestant and one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches, pledged the support of the World Council's 156 component bodies. Said Isaiah Schwartz, Chief Rabbi of France: "At the present time, when so many clouds are accumulating on the horizon, there is no task more holy and more necessary than that presented...
...RABBI ASHER DOV KAHN...
...think I know what Henry Koerner's barber-shop picture means: it is what happened to the Jews in Germany. The rabbi should never be in the barber shop at all. He sits pale, immobilized, and with eyes fixed on the barber, who is "fiddling while the Jews burn"-only it is a funeral dirge. The barber's costume is like a butcher's. Soon the rabbi will be in the position of the customer in the other chair, horizontal...
...does not the rabbi run? He cannot move; the chained Beast in the corner has entangled him. The mother under the drier, seen in the mirror, is already being burned...
...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...