Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the election reform law pushed through Parliament over strenuous left & right delaying tactics, the Demo-Christian coalition can be sure of an ample majority in Parliament (64%) if it can win but 50.1% of the vote next June 7. The Communists hope to make an effective majority impossible by keeping the center's vote below 50.1%; the Monarchists and Fascists hope to draw enough to force De Gasperi to seek their help-in return for concessions to the right-to form a new government...
...Jewish congregations met in Cincinnati to make a historic break with Orthodox Judaism. They formed themselves into a society to be known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, dedicated, as they saw it, to a newer, more contemporary vision of the Jewish faith. In Manhattan last week, U.S. Reform Judaism celebrated the 80th anniversary of this birthday.* More than 3,000 delegates from 465 Reform temples were on hand; the five-day conference of U.A.H.C. was the largest Jewish religious gathering in U.S. history...
...assembled rabbis and laymen had more than growth to be pleased about. In their own eyes, Reform has done much to wipe out the sense of deep separation from the rest of U.S. life which, they believe, long characterized the Jewish community. But recent years have seen a kind of reform of Reform-a movement away from a liberalism which was sometimes hardly distinguishable from Unitarianism. At last week's convention, Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, director of the Commission on Jewish Education, called for a deeper recognition of the Jewish past...
...Magic Formula. "Classical Reform," he said, "detached God from Israel, thinking that it could achieve a greater measure of sanctity by concentrating on the idea of God . . . The opposite was the result . . . We have only succeeded in breaking the magic formula which, throughout the centuries, served effectively to maintain the Jewish people as well as Judaism , . . We now realize that if our Jewish education is to be effective, it must begin with the Jewish people, [and] it must include Torah...
Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein of Temple Brith Kodesh in Rochester called for more religion in Reform Judaism, even though it be at the expense of social action. "Hitherto," he said, "we have concentrated on defending ourselves against bigots and supporting our brethren overseas . . . Now the American Jewish community is becoming free to give primacy to the task of making itself a strong moral force in this country...