Beginnings
The weeks since our last issue have been uncommonly crowded by public events of particular consequence: the continuing debate on the American government's posture with respect to human rights, as...
...The critics of Reconstructionism have often commented on its lack of passion...
...The raid on Iraq, whatever else it demonstrates, is further proof—as if more were needed—of the importance of a competent government in Israel, since it reminds us in an especially forceful way that there is no acceptable solution to the continuing tensions of the Middle East save a political solution...
...It will open again, in the form of another nuclear plant, or the AWACS, or other life-threatening developments by Israel's enemies...
...Here, we are already thinking thoughts of fall, as we prepare our coming issues, the next of which will reach you shortly after Labor Day...
...Booth's tutoring activities took place...
...1 learned a great deal, for in the presence of authentic genius, one comes to see the world in new ways...
...the elections in Israel...
...in Canada, there is a postal strike...
...the summer does not last forever...
...The weeks since our last issue have been uncommonly crowded by public events of particular consequence: the continuing debate on the American government's posture with respect to human rights, as expressed in the Senate hearing on the confirmation of Ernest Lefever and by the publication of Jacobo Timerman's book, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (do not fail to read it...
...Booth's own perspective, the story might well have been told from the JCC's—and would also have been exciting...
...It was during that same summer that I first met Harold Schulweis, from whose insights and energies all of us have benefited...
...it is hard to reconcile that criticism with the surging energy of Schulweis' interpretation...
...the Israeli raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor...
...Eventually, the gap will have to be healed, and not merely stopped...
...Sadat has shown...
...Enjoy...
...Nor can Israel's friends take much comfort from what was necessarily a stop-gap measure, at best...
...In many ways, the Los Angeles Jewish Federation Council and its constituent agencies are among the most imaginative in the country in the fields of social planning and community relations...
...The unusual story of Carl Booth that appears later in these pages requires an additional word, not about Booth but about the West Side Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles, where Mr...
...in Israel, who knows...
...I am, therefore, especially delighted that our homage to Dr...
...The gap has been stopped, but the stop will not hold...
...In Boston, just now, there is a heat wave...
...the world gathering of Holocaust survivors...
...The question, therefore, is whether "eventually" means before or after more major bloodletting, slaughter...
...No more heat...
...in Israel, who knows...
...The answer to that question is not entirely in Israel's hands, of course—as Mr...
...I think it was 13 years ago that I had the rare opportunity of spending two weeks with Mordecai Kaplan, when both of us were the late Shlomo Bardin's guests at the Bran-deis Camp Institute...
...Begin can continue in power with so thin a margin of support as has been accorded him...
...As I write, the dust is still settling in the aftermath of the elections, and we have chosen to defer our comments on the results until our next issue, by which time we will all have a better sense of whether Mr...
...Much of Kaplan's theology depends on his understanding of the inherent order of the cosmos, an understanding I could only glimpse at second-hand...
...But Israel is not merely a passive bystander, and an Israeli government that can both govern and dare is a critical necessity...
...The West Side Center is a good example of energetic creativity, and though we have here chosen to tell the Booth story from Mr...
...Tape cassettes of a related version of Rabbi Schulweis' remarks, delivered as the Centennial Address of the Jewish Recon-structionist Foundation, are available from the Reconstructionist Press, at 432 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, for $7.00...
...no more flies, no more strike...
...in California, there are fruit flies...
...Hang in...
...Whatever one's judgment on the Iraqi matter, it is plain that force cannot indefinitely be relied upon to prevent nuclear proliferation...
...Kaplan on the occasion of his 100th birthday takes the form of an article about Kaplan's ideas by Schulweis...
...Still, it was no small thing to sit under a summer California sky with this extraordinary man and to listen to him describe the world—the sacred world—his genius comprehended...
Vol. 6 • July 1981 • No. 7
