Faithfully Yours: Selected Rabbinical Correspondence of Rabbi Samuel S. Cohon During The Years 1917-1957 With Some 2007 Commentary - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1602800197 ISBN 13: 9781602800199

Verlag: Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc, 2009

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Faithfully Yours opens a window on the American Jewish History of the last century. In forty years of rabbinical correspondence (1917-1957), Rabbi Samuel S. Cohon, Professor of Rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati (the seminary of Reform Judaism), covers the developments in the religious, the political and the social lives of Jews and their contemporaries.

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Faithfully Yours

Selected Rabbinical Correspondence of RABBI SAMUEL S. COHON during the years 1917-1957 with some 2007 commentaryBy Baruch Cohon

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Contents

INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................................xiiiAREA: THE JEW IN THE WORLD1 COMMUNAL AND INTERFAITH RELATIONS..................................................................................................................12/12/19-Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, Philadelphia, PA-Federation of Synagogues.............................................................................31/ /30-anonymous-The Jew and Christmas (published)...................................................................................................75/23/32-Joseph Frey, St. Louis, MO-New Testament in synagogue........................................................................................912/20/33-Gilbert Harris, St. Louis, MO-Seminar for interfaith clergy.................................................................................129/26/42-Irwin Grossman, Butler, PA-Sale of war bonds on Saturday.....................................................................................146/15/43-Isaac Rosengarten, New York, NY-Peace covenant at Mt. Sinai..................................................................................151/4/44-Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld, Washington, DC-Proposed synagogue reorganization....................................................................171/9/45-Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt, Indianapolis, IN-Membership in a congregation........................................................................2412/14/45-Elliot E. Cohen, New York, NY-"Must the Jews quit Europe?"..................................................................................2811/17/48-Rabbi Morris A. Gutstein, Chicago, IL-Chicago Jewish history................................................................................3011/23/48-Rabbi Richard C. Hertz, Chicago, IL-Chicago Jewish history..................................................................................311/4/51-Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, New York, NY-Jewish missionizing....................................................................................3411/3/52-Sylvan Lebow, New York, NY-Brochure for college students.....................................................................................369/1/54-Julian Levine, Pontiac, MI-Naming a Reform temple.............................................................................................381/24/56-Rabbi Jakob Soetendorp, Amsterdam, Neth.-....................................................................................................39a) CCAR decisions on halachab) Rabbi's Manual2 ZIONISM............................................................................................................................................439/20/33-Samuel B. Finkel, Boston, MA-Zionism and anti-Zionism........................................................................................451934-anon.-Relation of Zionism to Reform.............................................................................................................512/15/35-Rabbi Louis Wolsey, Philadelphia, PA-Labor Zionism and CCAR..................................................................................522/21/38-Louis Rittenberg, New York, NY-Partition of Palestine........................................................................................588/18/46-Dr. Julian Morgenstern, Cincinnati, OH-Palestine situation...................................................................................595/9/52-Rabbi S. H. Baron, New York, NY-Proposed primer on Judaism....................................................................................613 ANTI-SEMITISM......................................................................................................................................676/30/34-Rabbi Philip F. Waterman, Grand Rapids, MI-False documentation (reply published 1938, titled "Why Do the Heathen Rage?").....................699/19/38-Rabbi Alvin Luchs, Davenport, Iowa-Distorted Talmudic references.............................................................................978/18/39-Rev. J. S. Dallman, Chicago, IL-Hate book endorsed in Christian magazine.....................................................................99AREA: THE JEW AND HIS FAITH4 RELIGION, GENERAL..................................................................................................................................1039/ /34-"E.J."-Why Organized Religion? (published)....................................................................................................10511/ /34-"L.S."-Has Modern Science Banished God?".....................................................................................................1091/ /35-(continued)-What is left of prayer?"..........................................................................................................1135/9/45-John H. Greening, Galway, NY-Universal fatherhood of God......................................................................................1176/6/45-John Sinclaire, Short Hills, NJ-Problem of evil...............................................................................................12112/18/45-Rev. John Wargelin, Minneapolis, MN-Judaism and Christianity................................................................................1225 JUDAISM............................................................................................................................................1277/1/17-7/20/17-Council of Jewish Women, Chicago, IL-Bible study for women's groups...................................................................1299/11/35-Bernard Brown-Chicago, IL-What is a Jew?.....................................................................................................1331/14/41-Edward P. Wintner, Boston, MA-Future life in Jewish belief...................................................................................1341/28/46-Levi Mossman, Urbana, Iowa-Calendation for Day of Atonement..................................................................................1373/25/51-anon., Los Angeles, CA-Questions prompted by Cohon's book....................................................................................13810/28/51-Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild, Fargo, ND-...................................................................................................1421) Conversion2) Gentile wives of synagogue members3) Herberg's Judaism and Modern Man2/ /54-Rabbi Robert I. Kahn, Houston, TX-Mystic poem on 72-letter Name...............................................................................1454/28/54-Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg, Teaneck, NJ-Jewish scholarship in US, last 300 yrs................................................................14712/17/54-Rabbi Robert I. Kahn, Houston, TX-Freedom of the will.......................................................................................1501/27/55-Am. Jewish Congress, New York, NY-Books that influenced Jewish life..........................................................................1526/18/55-Rabbi Bernard Zeiger, Riverside, CA-Bequest for Jewish music.................................................................................1542/20/57-Dudley Kalloch, MD, Santa Monica, CA-Ebionites in relation to...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1602800197
• ISBN 13: 9781602800199
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 407
• Herausgeber: Cohon Baruch J.
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