Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national prestige, which, according to opinion polls, has been slipping lately. Licata's victory also gives the state G.O.P. a one-vote majority in the legislature's lower house, previously deadlocked 54 to 54, and may thus smooth passage of the Governor's embattled tax reform program. Next week...
According to the presidential task force, "the most promising way" to cut the crime rate is to reduce recidivism by "reintegrating the offender into the community." Barring felons from jobs and civil rights is a sure recipe for more crime. Among the task force's recommendations for reform...
Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El, the world's largest Jewish congregation, has long been an uncomfortable maverick in the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, a federation of 680 Reform synagogues. The temple was initially reluctant to join the union; over the years, its leaders have opposed a number of U.A.H.C. actions, including a decision to create a Religious Action Center in Washington...
They charged that the union's highly vocal president, Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, who is a critic of the Viet Nam war, had illegally arrogated the right to speak for all of Reform Judaism on political and social issues. They also objected to the way he takes stands. As an example, they cited his comparison of President Johnson to Attila the Hun- a statement that otherwise has gone unquestioned by U.A.H.C. synagogues. Insisting that he spoke only for himself, Eisendrath angrily replied that the real reason for the break was the conservative trustees' "disagreement with the union...
...Emanu-El resigned from the union during a dispute over elections to the U.A.H.C. board. A compromise brought the temple back into the fold later; Reform leaders doubt that the present rift can be easily healed...