Word: rabbis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...obscure tribe of ancient Palestine? Why have the chosen people become a nation of exile, torment and holocaust? Just published in the U.S. is one of the century's most profound and moving attempts to unravel the meaning of Judaism: This People Israel, by the late Rabbi Leo Baeck (Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...nine years ago, is revered as a saint of modern Judaism, and as one of the last towering figures of the German Jewish renaissance that produced such men as Freud, Einstein, Kafka and Martin Buber. Born in Prussia, he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, and as a rabbi in Silesia, Dusseldorf and Berlin emerged as one of Germany's great articulators of Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism as a classical...
...than 40,000 Jews. Baeck refused to go into exile himself; in 1943 he was arrested and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where his four sisters died. Baeck survived only by accident: the SS assumed that they had liquidated the leader of German Jewry when another rabbi, named Beck, died...
Public Appeal. Several weeks later the Committee of Concern was organized by clergy of nine churches; among the founders were Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Gerow of Natchez-Jackson and Rabbi Perry Nussbaum of Jackson's Temple Beth Israel. The committee issued an appeal for whites and Negroes to join in rebuilding the 42 Negro churches bombed and burned in Mississippi. By year's end the committee had collected $50,000, much of it from within the state. Help came in other ways too. A group of students, mostly from Ohio's Oberlin College, arrived to help rebuild...
...Miller: "He has made religion the most meaningful experience for me in terms of ethical and moral decisions." Other rab bis in Detroit, however, think that Wine is an immature sensationalist, and the schedule of his weekly sermons has been struck from the local Jewish News. Pittsburgh's Rabbi Solomon Freehof, one of Reform Judaism's leading theologians, suggests that Wine ought to drop all pretenses entirely and call his Birmingham Temple the "rationalist association of Detroit." "When he uses the title rabbi and the term synagogue or temple," says Rabbi Freehof, "he is luring in new members...