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The God of Israel is not rich.
I saw the Sistine Chapel,
Notre-Dame, the Cathedral of Cologne—
You can feast your eyes on them, you can enjoy.
The God of Israel is stingy.
He won’t fill his museum…
Contributor:
A. Leyeles
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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O God of Mercy
Choose—
another people.
We are tired of death, tired of corpses,
We have no more prayers.
Choose—
another people.
We have run out of blood
For victims,
Our houses have been turned into…
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Kadya Molodovsky
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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A natural history of the Jewish mind is impossible. The Jewish mind, as a natural and empirical phenomenon, is an absurdity. It consists in but the pale images of…
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Arthur A. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1962
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There is an old talmudic saying: “A Jew who has sinned still remains a Jew.” My own thinking is, of course, beyond the idea of “sin” or “no sin”; but this saying has brought to my mind a memory from…
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Isaac Deutscher
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1958
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Reform Judaism is a phenomenon of man’s restless spirit. At its best it is a dynamic faith—and its very dynamism…
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W. Gunther Plaut
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New York City, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
Date:
1963
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What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…
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Emil L. Fackenheim
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New York City, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
Date:
1982
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The situation of the Jewish woman might well be compared to the situation of the Jew in non-Jewish culture. The Gentile projection of the Jew as Other—the stranger, the demon, the human not-quite…
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Judith Plaskow
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
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Jews, in the past celebrated for the ability to understand all things, are now in danger of being unable to understand anything at all culturally, for they do not have self-awareness. Without such…
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Aleksander Voronel
Date:
1972
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The outstanding feature of the religious situation in America today is the pervasiveness of religious self-identification along the tripartite scheme of Protestant, Catholic, Jew. From the “land of…
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Will Herberg
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1955
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The American Jewish community is only beginning to come to terms with the meaning of this prostitution of Judaism to the status quo, and it is doing so…
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James A. Sleeper
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1971