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Category: CJ Journal – 1945-1959
Reflections on Death (1973)
Heschel writes in 1973 in "Reflections on Death": Life here and now is the task. Every moment can be an achievement.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
September 22, 2024
CJ Journal - 1945-1959
Confronting Death
Introduction to the Kaddish: For Those who Died in the Israeli War (1957)
Written by S.Y. Agnon in the Conservative Judaism Journal for those who died in the War of 1948, these words are especially fitting today.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
September 20, 2024
CJ Journal - 1945-1959
Conservative Judaism Journal
Democracy in Post-Biblical Judaism (1948)
Rabbi Greenberg writes, many ideas matured in rabbinic thought, particularly "group of ethical values usually associated with the concept of Democracy."
Rabbi Simon Greenberg z''l
July 2, 2024
CJ Journal - 1945-1959
Conservative Judaism
The Biblical Basis of Democracy (1948)
Rabbi Gordis writes, "the main current of Biblical thought and Jewish tradition is fundamentally democratic..."
Rabbi Robert Gordis z''l
July 2, 2024
CJ Journal - 1945-1959
Conservative Judaism
Tisha Be-Av In Rome, Under the Arch of Titus (1949)
Rabbi Abramowitz z''l: "...Tish'a be-Av amid the ruins of the Roman Empire [was] fraught with inner meaning and significance...in 1948"
Rabbi Meyer Abramowitz z''l
June 30, 2024
CJ Journal - 1945-1959
Conservative Judaism Journal
Distinctive Emphasis in Conservative Judaism: Vis-a-Vis the Halakha (1952)
Rabbi Max L. Forman z"' wrote: "the formulation of a dynamic approach to Jewish law; not to a corpus or platform, but to a methodology."
Rabbi Max Leon Forman z"l
June 29, 2023
CJ Journal - 1945-1959
Conservative Judaism
Conservative Judaism as a Unifying Force (1949)
Rabbi Max Arzt z"l wrote, "Its realistic and reverential attitude to tradition is animated by a profound concern for Jewish unity..."
Rabbi Max Arzt z"l
June 28, 2023
CJ Journal - 1945-1959
Conservative Judaism
