Word: secularists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israel's secularist majority-long chafing under rabbinical control of marriage and other personal affairs-support Daniel, who predicts his victory would be "a small stone that will start an avalanche" for religious freedom. Argued Father Daniel's counsel, Shalom Yaron: "The time has come for people in Israel to be like all others. Since the state considers an atheist a Jew, what is the logic in not considering a converted...
...debate at Yeshiva University. Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue charged that Jewish organizational support for secularist legislation was indeed adding "fuel to the flames of anti-Semitism." In the forthcoming issue of the semiannual journal Tradition, another Orthodox intellectual urges Jews to forget their anger at the wording of America's editorial and think clearly about the substantive issues involved. Whatever their Reform brethren may want, argues Michael Wyschogrod, assistant professor of philosophy at Hunter College, Orthodox Jews should not be so eager to help secularists raise a rigid, unclimbable wall between church...
...Womb of Time." Judge Learned Hand often seemed almost to scoff at the law he served. "The aim of the law.'' he once said, "is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man." He was a legal secularist, denying the existence of a natural law and cautioning younger judges not to "embrace the exhilarating opportunity of anticipating a doctrine which may be in the womb of time, but whose birth is distant." He was also a charitable judge who could write, in reversing a lower court's refusal to grant citizenship to a woman because...
...reasoning produced that formidable 19th century institution, the Bible college, in which fundamentalist fervor was the school spirit, Darwin's was the team to beat, and the professor who knew his stuff was the man who could find the applicable verse in the Good Book. In this secularist midcentury, academic acceptance of the Bible college has declined toward the vanishing point. But this month marks the centennial celebration of a dramatic exception. Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., a nonsectarian Protestant Bible college, in its fashion has learned how to reconcile science and scripture...