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Bizarre Plot. Some members of the President's inner circle, however, are a bit embarrassed by the genially egotistic rabbi. He also seems to be a bit of an embarrassment to other Jews. Last week Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, denounced him as "an apologist for rampant immorality [who] aspires to out-Watergate Watergate in the name of fair play...
Kosher Kitchens. The whole idea of assimilation has come to seem to some Reform Jews what it has always seemed to the Orthodox-the road to godlessness. Quietly symbolic of this reverse evolution is Rabbi Alexander Moshe Schindler, the roundish, cigar-smoking World War II ski trooper who was chosen to replace Rabbi Eisendrath as the U.A.H.c.'s president. Schindler was born in Munich 47 years ago. He joined the flood of refugees who fled to the U.S. in the late 1930s, eventually becoming the U.A.H.C.'S director of education and-six years ago-its vice president. Unlike...
...debate. Indeed, the renewal of interest in Jewish heritage and customs does not seem to be accompanied by any sweeping resurgence of faith in God. A survey conducted for Reform rabbis last year showed that 37% of Reform youth regarded themselves either as agnostics or atheists. Yet Rabbi Schindler, who calls himself a "cockeyed optimist," feels the return to tradition is a harbinger of a return to a more spiritual faith. "There was a time in Reform when it was a sin to read a prayer in Hebrew unless you knew the translation," he points out. "Now we know there...
Many Jews find a moral in the Jesus movement. The American Jewish Committee memo asked whether the conversions are not a "judgment" on Judaism's own lack of appeal to youth. One anxious rabbi in New Jersey plans to start teaching a Bible class. Rabbi Alexander Schindler, vice president of Reform Judaism's synagogue union, has concluded that liberal Western faiths have been "too hyperrational. Our young people want a religion which sets the soul on fire...
Beethoven was not one to throw things out. After his death in 1827, about 400 Conversation Notebooks were found. His Boswell-the devoted but officious Anton Schindler-collected them all, then destroyed about 260 as unimportant, uninteresting or, in the case of two books of conversations with a violinist whom Schindler despised, because "they contained the grossest and most boundless criticism of the Kaiser and Crown Prince. . . ." Schindler sold 137 books to the Staatsbibliothek (State Library) in what is now East Berlin, and there they lay for more than a century. A previous attempt to publish the notebooks...