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...Fraud . .. deception ... playing with religious tradition." These harsh words, aimed at a new movement of Jewish-born Christians, spill forth from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, normally one of Judaism's most temperate envoys to Christianity. His target: the so-called Messianic Jews, who insist that they can adopt a belief in Jesus as the Messiah and yet remain as Jewish as ever...
...seemed most notable for the names that did not appear in its list of 16,000 people who "demonstrated merit in some form of religious activity." Among those not present: Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen; Unification Church Founder the Rev. Sun Myung Moon; Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee; and Manhattan Clergyman Norman Vincent Peale, whose "positive thinking" books have sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S. "It was a first-time publication and schedules were tight," explains Who's Who Sales Manager Sandra Barnes. She adds that the editors have already started making...
...Days. The recession is changing preferences in pets. Registration of pedigreed dogs has dropped off from last year. Jeanne Tanenbaum, an executive of the Humane Society of New York, reports that more owners of large dogs are giving them over to pounds, or simply turning them loose because they cost too much to feed. Fortunately, adoptions of dogs and cats at pounds are running well ahead of last year Mutts, of course, are cheaper than pedigree pets...
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, longtime ecumenical envoy between Jews and Christians, praised some aspects of the guidelines as "constructive," but took grave exception to other parts. Tanenbaum said that "no self-respecting Jew" could live with passages that "imply a religious 'second-class' status" for Judaism. What especially grieved Tanenbaum and other Jewish critics was the guidelines' silence on Jewish historic and spiritual ties to the land of Israel. Any definition of contemporary Judaism that does not consider "the inextricable bonds of God, People, Torah and Promised Land," wrote Tanenbaum, "risks distortion of the essential nature...
...with Arab states. To Jews, it appeared to be a clear step backward from an earlier working draft of guidelines in 1969-leaked at that time to the press but subsequently shelved-which urged Christians to "respect the religious significance of this link between the people and the land." Tanenbaum and other Jewish leaders are scheduled to meet this week in Rome with their Vatican counterparts, and that link between Jews and Israel will doubtless loom large in their conversations...