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In the treatise Zeit ist’s [Franz] Rosenzweig outlined a detailed and imposing plan of an Academy for the Science of Judaism, the members of which would be both scholars and teachers. As scholars…
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Nahum N. Glatzer
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1956
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O mother
what have I left out
O mother
what have I forgotten
O mother
farewell
with a long black shoe
farewell
with Communist Party and a broken stocking
farewell
with six dark hairs on the wen of…
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Allen Ginsberg
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New York, United States of America
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1959
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South African Jews are forever conscious of injustice, but of the injustice that they alone are made to suffer. They quickly grow furious over the treatment of Israel, the power politics…
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Ronald Segal, Dan Jacobson
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1957
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[ . . . W]hile there are undoubtedly articles of faith in Judaism there are, nonetheless, fundamental differences between Judaism and Christianity in the matter of dogma. The first of these is due to…
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Louis Jacobs
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New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
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1964
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I’m trying to pray; one of the voices of my mind says, “God, please help me do this,”
but another voice intervenes: “How conceive God’s interest would be to help you believe?”
Is this prayer? Might…
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C. K. Williams
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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1992
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Most simply described, Bibliodrama is a form of role-playing in which the roles played are taken from biblical texts. The roles may be those of characters who appear in the Bible…
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Peter A. Pitzele
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Katonah, United States of America
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1997
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Your Holiness,
As the Chief Rabbi of this community, whose history goes back thousands of years, I wish to express to you my intense satisfaction at the gesture you have wished to carry out today…
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Elio Toaff
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Washington D.C., United States of America
(Rome, Italy)
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1986
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February 9, 2000
Dear Ammi,
It was a pleasure meeting you in person last week. […]
I wonder what the staff and the other patrons thought about the two of us sitting there, me with my beard, peyot…
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Ammiel Hirsch, Ammiel Hirsch
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New York, United States of America
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2002
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For a half-millennium the Jew, rejected by the world, had secluded himself within ghetto walls, unconcerned with what lay without. But the day came when the world…
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Milton Steinberg
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New York City, United States of America
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1934
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During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
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Leo Baeck
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1922