Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oberman, who was in Rome for the first five weeks of the Council, spoke at the Catholie Student Center. He is a member of the Reform Church of Holland...
...Reform Movement...
...most dramatic part of his career came after his retirement from the Senate in 1957, when he and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt spearheaded the drive 'to reform New York's Democratic Party. In 1961, at the age of 33, he campaigned actively against Carmine DeSapio and the other party bossed, speaking from sound trucks and touring the city on foot in the middle of a hot summer. Even after achieving victory, he continued to guide New York's reform movement and act as the state's political conscience until his death...
Eisendrath quickly came under attack from Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a leader of the Reform Jewish academic community. In a closed-door session of the board of trustees, Glueck delivered a scathing, ten-minute rebuttal accusing Eisendrath of trading off a re-examination of Jesus in return for the Vatican Council's reassessment of antiSemitism. Eisendrath's remarks, he said, made it seem "as if American Reform Judaism were prepared to put Jesus in a central role as a great rabbinical leader...
...root of the controversy is the extreme sensitivity of Reform Jews to criticisms by Orthodox Jews that Reform Judaism is just a steppingstone to Christianity. But Eisendrath denied he had any such trade-off in mind, nor would his re-examination relate to anything more than "the man Jesus, not to Christ, his Messiah-ship...