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...GOOD LIFE (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Affluence and religion are the topics for a discussion between Yeshiva University's Dr. Emanuel Rackman, Fordham's Dr. Paul Reiss and Union Theological's the Rev. Henry Clark...
Residue of Loyalty. To Orthodox Rabbi Irving Greenberg of Yeshiva University, history has already provided Judaism with the unity of shared experience: all Jews have been affected by the Westernization of their faith and culture, the Hitler holocaust, and the re-establishment of Israel as a nation. Nonetheless, Greenberg argues, Jewish unity seekers must face up to difficult issues. A problem facing all three branches of Judaism is that the majority of Jews are secularists living off a residue of "sentiment, loyalty and nostalgia which is vulnerable to the increasing inroads of contemporary culture...
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...finals, each a winner of competitions in his homeland. There was a chicken farmer from New Zealand, a paratroop major from the Belgian army, an Italian glassblower, a Seventh-day Adventist bookkeeper from Brazil, a Swiss electrician. From the U.S. came Polish-born Samuel Joshua Singer, 58, a onetime Yeshiva student and a former assistant attorney general of New York State. France sent a professional Scriptural scholar, Roman Catholic Abbe Raymond Seguineau, 42, who is preparing a Bible concordance; Finland's champion was blonde, blue-eyed Irja Immonen, 29, a church worker. The Israeli champion, predictably, was a rabbinical...
...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...