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...unlike the typical Chaplin figure, whose weapon was silence, but like Chaplin's little fellow, he is a reincarnation of the classic non-hero of Jewish folklore-Peter Schlemiel, the man without a shadow, who is the fated enemy of authority, whether commissar or cop. priest or rabbi, and whose talent it is to make a wheezy accordion of all top hats...
...traditional and somewhat theatrical custom of clergymen opening or closing a political convention was carried on at Los. Angeles and Chicago, among others by Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Roman Catholic Bishop Hillinger, and Rabbi Hillel Silver. The familiar scene inevitably raises a question: Should different denominations of Christians pray together-or alongside members of other faiths-and if so, under what circumstances...
Existentialism, one of the century's most important philosophical movements, has had little influence on Jewish intellectual life in the U.S. The reason, according to Orthodox Rabbi Shubert Spero...
Under the influence of existentialist thought, writes Rabbi Spero in the magazine Perspective, "the criteria of a meaningful religious system are no longer the mental stability it may bring or its possibility of social acceptance, the doctrines it shares with other religions, or its sweet reasonableness. On the contrary, the very elements of Judaism which but yesterday were in ill repute-our unique chosenness, the reality of evil, the deadly seriousness and unconditional demands of the life of service to God-have today been reinstated...
Existentialism is important to Orthodoxy, thinks Rabbi Spero, partly because it has exposed the inadequacy of the liberal, merely rational, versions of Judaism, and partly because it has managed "to create the philosophic climate, and to popularize certain categories of thought, wherein the classic Biblical concepts can again be spoken and appreciated...