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Download Printable Version The name “Jew” is in crisis. A word of intense power, it is often a source of confusion and conflict for a modern liberal religionist who bears the name. Accordingly, there are clear indications that if the…
Continue readingThe ultimate challenge to human freedom is the condition of finity. In its essential nature, the condition of human finity is that the person is not a self-sufficient causa sui.
Continue readingOne of the momentous occurrences in the religious life of the present age was the convocation of the Second Vatican Council. Among the many decrees promulgated by the Council are several that touch directly or indirectly on the Jews.
Continue readingSome degree of misunderstanding, in my opinion, exists in the minds of many persons regarding the dominant spirit of Jewish religious systems in our time.
Continue readingTo the reader who comes to a study of Reform Judaism with the usual notion that a religion is always dogmatic and certain, with clearly discernible outlines of belief and practice, the cautious discussion that follows concerning the essence of…
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Perhaps the foremost problem confronting Reform Judaism at this period of its development is that though the fact that it is, is clear, what is is, is not.
Continue readingAmong the facts of life generally left unstated and unexamined in contemporary America, particularly in the Jewish community is that religious communities, like all human organizations, possess political structures.
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