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Friday, April 6, 1919

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'Unorthodox Judais m' Essays

get Jews to observe
Western rules of time and
space — not just the rules
Detroit, Mich.
of the Western world in
general, however, but the
rules of the Western
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upper-middle classes."
The essays "To Solemnize
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or Not to Solemnize" and
BLOOD
"Ill Wind or High Tide?"
examine inter-and-mixed
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marriages and the attitude
of the Reform rabbinate
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towards this issue.
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Prof. Mirsky points out
that
there are differences of
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opinion among Reform rab-
bis regarding this problem.
He notes that many rabbis
officiate at mixed marriages
in defiance of established
procedures and policies of
the CCAR (Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis).
Even rabbis who support
the CCAR are "far from re-
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mixed marriages."
He says the definition of
intermarriage as involving
"the conversion of one
spouse to the religion of the
other" is self-contradictory,
since the convert to
Judaism is a Jew. Con-
sequently, "conversion vir-
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tually eliminates the 'inter'
door is opened for the symbolic entrance of the Prophet Elijah. All rise, and the
dimension of an intermar-
leader of Seder recites the following:
riage."
"A Rabbi Named Sally"
English rendition of the
is an insightful study of
Hebrew:
the first American
woman rabbi, Sally
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love the six millions of our people
of the European exile who
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more wicked than the Pharaoh
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student and the attitude of
who enslaved our fathers in
her
male counterparts
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ions, let us cut them off from being
toward her. Although they
a people, that the name of Israel
weren't hostile, they treated
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may be remembered no more. And
her "with an indifference
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men and women and little onew,
with vapors of poison and burned
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Now, the remnants of our
the Reform rabbinate.
people who were left in the ghettos
"The Vision of Man
and camps of annihilation rose up
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is both a
against the wicked ones for the
sanctification of the Name, and
stror_i commentary on and a re-
slew many of them before they
capitulation of the history of
died. On the first day of Passover
All sing ANI MAAMIN ("I Believe. ),
the Birmingham Temple.
the remnants in the Ghetto of
the
song
of
the
martyr!
in
the
ghetto'
and
liquidation
camps:
The Reform rabbinate of
Warsaw rose up against the ad-
versary, even as in the days of
Detroit, at a gathering to
Judah the Maccabee. They were
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which the press was invited,
lovely and pleasant in their lives,
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once accused the Birming-
and in their death they were not
divided, and they brought rede-
ham Temple's Rabbi Sher-
mption to the name of Israel
win Wine of being an
through all the world.
A-ni ma-a-min be-e-mu-no sh'le-mo
atheist and demanded an
And from the depths of their
explanation.
affliction the martyrs lifted their
B'vi-as ha-mo-shi-ah, v'af al pi
voices in a song of faith in the
Rabbi Wine declared,
comong of the Messiah, when jus-
"If
by atheist you mean a
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ze
a-ni
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tice and brotherhood will reign
person who denies the
among men.
existence of a Supreme
I believe with perfect faith
All sing ANI MAAMIN ("I
Being existing in time
the
coming
of
the
Mes-
in
Believe"),
and space and having the
siah:
the song of the martryrs
attributes of a human be-
And though he tarry, none
in the ghettos and liquidation
the less do I believe! --
ing, then I am an atheist."
camps:
Rabbi Wine's definition,
Prof. Mirsky notes, can be
equally applied to "every
theologian from Philo to Til-
lich."
The volume "Unorthodox
Judaism" presents a
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Prof. Norman B. Mirsky's
"Unorthodox Judaism"
(Ohio State University
Press) is a collection of es-
says dealing with Reform
versus Orthodox practices
and beliefs.
The essays include
"Evolution and the Stork,"
"To Solemnize or Not to Sol-

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emnize," "Ill Wind or High
Tide?," "A Rabbi Named
Sally" and "The Vision of
Man Triumphant."
"Evolution and the Stork"
traces the beginnings of the
Reform movement to the in-
troduction of rules of de-
corum in certain German
synagogues early in the
19th Century. In Wurtten-
berg, for instance, the rules
prohibited leaving "one's
seat in order to kiss the
Scroll of the Law" during
the service, and knocking
"during the reading of the
Book of Esther on the feast
of Purim."
The emphasis on de-
corum in Reform
synagogues, Prof. Mirsky
explains as follows: "All
the regulations concern-
ing order and decorum
from 1810 until the pre-
sent, we see attempts to

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