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...Rabbi Ben Zion Gold and Rev. Richard Mumma, members of the United Ministry at Harvard and Radcliffe signed a statement issued by 75 Protestant and Jewish clergymen Tuesday castigating Goldwater as opposed to the demands of Jewish and Christian ethics...
...statement on Goldwater's candidacy [Oct. 9] was contained in a sermon as rabbi of Temple B'Nai Abraham, and not as president of the American Jewish Congress, which is a nonpartisan organization. The fact that Senator Goldwater has seen fit not to repudiate the support of ultra-right-wing extremist groups, for example, seems to me a matter of profound concern. I considered it my duty as rabbi to speak out on these dangers. Some of the letters I have received as a reaction to my sermon, containing the most vitriolic and anti-Semitic attacks I have...
...RABBI JOACHIM PRINZ New York City...
...contest lasted two nights, using questions drawn up by a team of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars and tested out on the 1961 world champion, Rabbi Yihie Alsheich of Jerusalem. A team of 15 linguists then put the questions, all taken from the Old Testament, into the ten languages spoken by the contestants. Toughest problem: phrasing the questions in Amharic for Begalech Gabre, a beautiful 18-year-old girl from Ethiopia, who entered the contest in hopes of getting a scholarship to a Jerusalem medical school...
Distrust & Resentment. U.S. Jews were dismayed by the tone and spirit of the revision. Particularly offensive to them was the reference to conversion, which was not matched by any call for Moslems to become Christians. Perhaps the most telling criticism came from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, a good friend of Cardinal Bea's, who has worked long and hard for better Christian-Jewish relations. "A message that regards the Jew as a candidate for conversion and proclaims that the destiny of Judaism is to disappear is bound to foster reciprocal distrust...