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...case in point: the violently anti-Israeli opinions of Jesuit Radical Daniel Berrigan, once imprisoned foe of the Viet Nam War, longtime champion of the underdog, and soul brother of the late Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, American Judaism's most poetic Zionist. At a meeting of the Association of Arab University Graduates this fall in Washington, D.C., Berrigan excoriated Israel as "a criminal Jewish community. The creation of millionaires, generals and entrepreneurs... is rapidly evolving into the image of her ancient adversaries." Israel's "historic adventure, which gave her the right to 'judge the nations...
...arrived at the Syrian consulate in Manhattan to offer herself in exchange for an Israeli P.O.W. The First Baptist Church of Dallas took a half-page newspaper ad asking Texans to "support Israel." And hundreds of other church leaders and groups, according to a report by Rabbi...
During the war the governing board of the National Council of Churches demanded a Middle East arms embargo by the U.S. and U.S.S.R.-a demand that could influence only the U.S. "If the resolution had been taken seriously," complains Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, "Israel would have been denied arms at the very moment the Soviet Union was pouring them in on the other side." Suggesting that Israel's presence was a permanent irritant to Middle East tranquillity, one top-ranking Protestant was far more brutal than Berrigan. "It is quite conceivable," he said, "that...
...other ways, though, Rome has been solicitous toward the Israelis. Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate to the U.S., got the Vatican to intervene with Egypt and Syria on behalf of Israeli P.O.W.s. And a Vatican-Jewish meeting this month, Rabbi Tanenbaum reported, was "a heartening, healing experience." Rome is more realistic about Soviet aims in the Middle East than are many Protestants, he says, and still preserves a sense of tradition that ties Christians to their Jewish moorings...
...form of pop nostalgia or a genuine yearning for an older, more stable faith is still a matter of debate. Indeed, the renewal of interest in Jewish heritage and customs does not seem to be accompanied by any sweeping resurgence of faith in God. A survey conducted for Reform rabbis last year showed that 37% of Reform youth regarded themselves either as agnostics or atheists. Yet Rabbi Schindler, who calls himself a "cockeyed optimist," feels the return to tradition is a harbinger of a return to a more spiritual faith. "There was a time in Reform when...