How well have relations fared
between the three major faiths
in this country, and what are
the prospects for improved and
continuing good relations? What
effect has the recent Supreme
Court decision on the reciting
of prayers in public schools had
on such relations?
"The Outbursts That Await
Us", containing three essays on
religion and culture in Amer-
ica, by Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
of Englewood, N. J.; the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Joseph Moody of the
faculty of Ladycliff College,
New York, and Martin E. Marty,
an associate editor of Christian
Century, published by Macmil-
lan, serves as an excellent guide
to students of the religious-
cultural problems.
The Protestant viewpoint
outlined by Mr. Marty shows
how issues become macro•
scopic, how a broadening of
the base in the spread of
publicity on the issue gives
"more apparent noise and
ugliness" to the religious con-
flict. He maintains that plu-
ralism is "insubstantial, de-
void of content."
"If pluralism does not be-
come the base for an ideology,
American religions will be in
their best positions," Mr. Marty
contends. "The positive regard
with which the American exper-
ience is held can be drawn
upon. Ideologies and fanati-
cisms can be resisted, for the
sake of maneuverability and
political opportunity."
Presenting the Catholic view-
point, Msgr. Moody is hopeful.
He declares that "on the most
divisive issue among us—that
of public aid to independent
education—a calm study of the
procedures in other democratic
countries should calm fears and
renew intelligent discussion."
He states:
"More than peaceful co-
existence is necessary if
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America is to be genuinely
enriched. It would be possible
to extract from the religious
tradition, common to us all,
those ideals which have uni-
versal appeal. Lenin remarked
that 'without revolutionary
theory, there can be no revo-
lutionary action.' Certainly it
has become apparent that
democratic action is ineffect-
tive without the stiffening of
principle. All religious groups
in America affirm the prin-
ciples that are needed to un-
derpin our democratic struc-
ture: the priinacy of man in
creation which derives from
his God-bestowed intelligence
and freedom; the primacy of
the moral and the spiritual
in human concerns; the dig-
nity and worth of every hu-
man being; the collateral
principle of his responsibility
to, and his need to recognize,
an objective moral code. This
is the rich treasure of the
American religious heritage.
It belongs to us all. Our na-
tion and the world have need
of it now. It may appear curi-
ous to posterity that at this
central point in history the
three great religious bodies in
America spent their time
wrangling about a children's
morning prayer. Maimonides,
Aquinas, and Calvin would
have been puzzled."
Pursuing the theme, Rabbi
Hertzberg states that "religion
is neither established nor com-
pletely disestablished in Amer-
ica. There is separation of
church and state but it is not
absolute." .
As a Jew, Rabbi Hertzberg
writes, feeling at home in the
American atmosphere, "my
whole tradition points toward
the equality of all faiths, even
in theory, and to their being
able to join together in practice
for moral ends." He asserts, in
reference to the controversies
that have arisen, that: "The
Founding Fathers once gave us
Seeks to Weigh the Milky Way
"Weighing the Milky Way,"
the luminous expanse of distant
stars which stretch across the
heavens, is becoming a reality
through the research efforts of
Dr. Leon Landovitz, an associ-
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Yeshiv a University's Belfer
Graduate School of Science.
Dr. Landovitz, a 31-year-old
physicist, is currently expand-
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was developed three years ago
by utilizing the information
carried by radio waves which
is fed into electronic compu-
tors. This far-reaching project
of Dr. Landovitz, which he
started when he was associated
with the Brookhaven National
Laboratories, will aid in mas-
tering celestial space.
Dr. Landovitz' idea involves
the use of radio waves. After
eliminating the masking effects
created by other radio waves in
the gravitational field, he feeds
these signals from the galaxy
to electronic computors. Dr.
Liandovitz says that weighing
the Milky Way would enable
astronomers to determine how
the stars are distributed in the
galaxy and that his method.
would also pinpoint the center
of the galaxy and reveal the
velocity with which the solar
system traverses the surround-
ing stars of the Milky Way.
a clue in the First Amendment
as to how to live with such
complications in an undogmatic
way. Let us not do to one an-
other that which is hateful to
any of us. Let us stand sepa-
rately for our various truths.
Let us stand together for the
peace of society."
In the course of his analyses
Rabbi Hertzberg insists that "it
is simply not true that Jews
are completely doctrinaire in
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Encounters among the major
faiths are reviewed in this book
dispassionately.
Rabbi Hertzberg, in his refer-
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schools, indicates that there is
a Jewish group that stands. apart
from American society in its
sponsorship of parochial schools
and "therefore is not really in-
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9 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, August 23, 1963
Need for Inter-Faith Amity Affirmed by Three
Religious Leaders in 'Outbursts That Await Us'