Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel. Assimilated or tradition-bound, religious or secular, Jews found common cause in their response to the 1967 challenge from the Arab world: Israel must be destroyed. The effect was electric. Recalls Jewish Historian Max Vorspan of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles: "The Six-Day War tapped Jewish feelings among peopie who didn't know they had any." It also tapped a flood of Jewish cash. Financial support for Israel, always strong, crested to a new high: the 750 Jewish families of Charleston, S.C., alone raised a remarkable $250,000 ?nearly $100 per person. Young people?...
...communal Jewishness is creating a heightened interest in Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish history and even Bible study?though for many the latter is more cultural than religious. On U.S. campuses, an impressive number of Judaic courses have been added to the curriculums, often at the students' instigation. At least 55 secular colleges and universities?more than half of them top-ranking schools?now offer courses in Jewish studies, compared with only eleven a generation ago. Where formal Jewish studies fail to meet the demand, "free Jewish universities" have sprung up for adults as well as collegians...
Orthodoxy?especially militant Orthodoxy?does create problems within Judaism, but in the U.S. these problems are only minor ones, skirmishes of words. In Israel, Orthodox zealotry has created a national law-and-order crisis. Orthodox Jews are naturally inflamed by secular Jews who spend the Sabbath sunning on the beach at Tel Aviv. Secular Jews are exasperated at the kind of Orthodox legalism that debates whether using electricity
Soloveitchik tirelessly commutes between New York and Boston, where he supervises the enlightened Yeshiva he founded there, the Maimonides School. It is designed to give students from kindergarten through twelfth grade the best in both secular education and Jewish
...figures. All five pieces were played with intelligence and imaginative registrations. Once again John Adams has provided an outstanding program, bringing together two of the area's very finest choral groups in a sensitive, thoughtful presentation. He did as much with sacred music as is possible in a distinctly secular...