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...opposing secularism. Wyschogrod sees theological merit in nondenominational worship in public schools in the manner of the New York Regents prayer outlawed by a Supreme Court decision last June. "One of the leading Torah authorities is said to have remarked that the prayer in question fulfills the Biblical obligation to pray," he points out. More materially, Wyschogrod also thinks that Orthodox Jews might well take another look at their attitude to the question of federal aid to religious schools. Reform Jews almost unanimously oppose such aid; but most of the U.S. yeshivot (day schools) are conducted by Orthodox congregations that...
...Orthodox rabbis, also turned him down. The congregation was relegated to a tabernacle in an empty lot, and held services by the light of the worshipers' automobiles. It took an Israeli Supreme Court ruling last week to assure Unger the use of the town hall for Simchat Torah (Rejoicing...
Traditionalists who read new Bibles mainly to be outraged can make short work of the new Torah. Its first words are not "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Scholars decided the passage should read instead, "When God began to create the heaven and the earth...
...uncompromising work of scholarship, the new Torah has something to antagonize everybody. Singers of spirituals will note with dismay that the Israelites crossed the Sea of Reeds rather than the Red Sea. Moralists may be chagrined at the retranslation of the Third Commandment, which now reads, ''You shall not swear falsely by the name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not clear one who swears falsely by His name"-a dictum against perjury but not profanity. From increased knowledge of ancient Hebrew, the scholars translated the Hebrew nefesh to mean "the man himself" rather than...
Translated directly from the Hebrew Masoretic text, the new Torah leaves out Elizabethan thees and thous, shuns traditional Biblical prose. Says Translator Orlinsky: "Our constant goal has been to render the original Hebrew as accurately as contemporary understanding will permit into modern, readable English, discarding the errors and the obstacles which, through misunderstanding or a misplaced traditionalism, have stood between modern man and a clear knowledge of God's Word...