Word: wyschogrod
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...knowing that people will follow like sheep. "My country, right or wrong" is a great idea - if you're running a totalitarian regime. In a pluralistic democracy, we need the Cindy Sheehans to speak up and honor their fallen children by telling the truth as they see it. Tamar Wyschogrod Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. Harting stated that "a soldier's job is to follow the President no matter what." It's terrifying to think any intelligent person has that attitude. A President is just a man who is fallible. As we note the 60th anniversary of the end of World...
...TAMAR WYSCHOGROD Morristown...
...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 or synagogue and state...
...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...
...long run, Wyschogrod argues, "it is in the interest of the American Jewish community that America remain a Godfearing nation. The security of all mankind, as of the Jew, is to be found in a world in which God rules and in which all men have a sense of living under his judgment. The temporary and superficial toleration that the Jew enjoys in a completely secular, Godless world is no more than skin-deep." For no matter how deplorable is the history of Christian persecutions of Jews, Wyschogrod concludes, "the danger that threatens us today in this country...
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