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...antiwar groups for Chicago's Civic Center Plaza and New York's Wall Street. Some scientists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., have promised to wear black armbands at work, as have some doctors and dentists. Two too leaders of American Reform Judaism, Boston's Rabbi Roland Gittlesohn and New York's Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, urged their 700 synagogues to participate. Exerting his influence beyond the cause of his migrant workers for the first time, Mexican-American Leader Cesar Chavez has asked his followers to observe the day. The moratorium leaders expect thousands of sympathizers...
...recent weeks, the mayor has announced a variety of improvements in city services, including stepped-up police patrols and accelerated garbage cleanups. One press conference was arranged to allow the mayor to be photographed with a rabbi on one side, the police commissioner on the other and a row of uniformed police commanders in the background. Procaccino, too, knows where the votes are. Any Democrat in New York starts with a huge advantage because his party's enrollment outnumbers the Republican and fringe-party membership by 3 to 1. Defections from the Democratic left
...page volume was written by a quartet of authors-a Roman Catholic priest, a rabbi and two Protestant scholars-and contains extensive selections from both Old and New Testaments. Its value, however, lies mainly in its wealth of commentary, which provides a cultural understanding of the Bible that few college graduates possess. Moreover, disputed texts are fully and carefully interpreted, explaining the basic Jewish, Protestant and Catholic viewpoints...
...Abbott ten years ago-four years before the Supreme Court decision-while he was an editor of America. Work began in 1961 after Father Abbott had been joined by Dr. Rolfe Lanier Hunt, a Methodist educator, the Rev. J. Carter Swaim, a Biblical scholar and Presbyterian pastor, and Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, now dean of the Jewish Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia...
...religion courses, Jews maintain, are bound to reflect a Christian bias in what is historically a Christian society. Other critics insist that true impartiality, in any event, distorts the real nature of religion as a sense of the ultimate. "Reading the Bible as literature rather than as revelation," says Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, "is worse than not reading...