Word: secularistic
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...other Arab areas [Aug. 4 and 11] acquires considerable irony in view of recent developments, which inevitably attend extended military occupation. Your assertion that "emotional and fiscal" motives sway the Arabs as much as religion in their concern for the holy places would seem even truer of the predominantly secularist Israelis now vigorously exploiting the commercial advantages of the sacred sites. May I point out that in Arab eyes, those hordes of "festive" Israeli tourists visiting the occupied areas are analogous to the Germans who flocked eagerly to see the sights of Paris and other conquered areas...
...these statements sound like typical, orthodox, Protestant argumentation. It would be easy to offend a Catholic with such a statement; he might feel that it denied the validity of tradition in the Church. Such statements would be offensive to a Rabbi, or to a Muslim, a Buddhist, or a secularist. Unitarians and Friends could be upset by such a strong declaration...
...cannot prevent a touch of hero worship from creeping into his prose. Trotsky, Deutscher says, "strove to rally his fighters to the most impossible of causes. He sought to set them against every power in the world: against fascism, bourgeois democracy and pacifism; and against religion, mysticism and even secularist rationalism and pragmatism. He demanded unshakable conviction, utter indifference to public opinion, unflagging readiness for sacrifice and a burning faith in the proletarian revolution...
Israel's secularist majority-long chafing under rabbinical control of marriage and other personal affairs-support Daniel, who predicts his victory would be "a small stone that will start an avalanche" for religious freedom. Argued Father Daniel's counsel, Shalom Yaron: "The time has come for people in Israel to be like all others. Since the state considers an atheist a Jew, what is the logic in not considering a converted...
...debate at Yeshiva University. Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue charged that Jewish organizational support for secularist legislation was indeed adding "fuel to the flames of anti-Semitism." In the forthcoming issue of the semiannual journal Tradition, another Orthodox intellectual urges Jews to forget their anger at the wording of America's editorial and think clearly about the substantive issues involved. Whatever their Reform brethren may want, argues Michael Wyschogrod, assistant professor of philosophy at Hunter College, Orthodox Jews should not be so eager to help secularists raise a rigid, unclimbable wall between church...