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Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, interreligious affairs director for the committee, conceded that the "Christ killer" image of the Jews "has lost its power" in the U.S. But, he said, it is still a danger to Jews in some countries where the film will be shown. Actually, the film is such a screaming, witless enterprise (TIME, July 30) that religion and stereotypes aside, it probably deserves Strober's appraisal as a "catastrophe." In other respects, the criticism seems exaggerated; it is doubtful that anyone not already a confirmed bigot would be swayed by the film. As for criticizing the Temple...
Siegman goes so far as to suggest that an "intensely Christian environment can in fact make for a more traditional Jewish community"-an argument that provokes an outraged response from Ecumenist Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in the same magazine. The U.S. has already had just such an intensely Christian environment, Tanenbaum points out, in the days when evangelical Christianity and American nationalism were considered synonymous. In that situation "Jews were second-class citizens, denied the right to vote and hold public office...
...Tanenbaum refers to Colonial America and the early decades of the Republic. Though the Constitution guaranteed equal rights on a federal level, Jews were barred in some states from voting, and in more from holding office, well into the 19th century...
...completing six months training for her conversion from Catholicism to Judaism. Those studies dovetailed with her journalistic chores, which included a visit to a mysterious cult of Jews outside Mexico City, lunch with six Orthodox rabbis on Manhattan's Lower East Side interviews and with Conservative Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum. After bestowing the traditional three blessings that complete the conversion cere mony, the rabbi quipped: "You even look Jewish." At a family gathering, her mother-in-law teased that Clare had learned more about Judaism and its history than anyone else present...
...last week in Manhattan to launch an ecumenical dialogue. Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, the informal talks produced, according to Father Robert Stephanopoulos, "a real sense of affinity we cannot always feel with Western Christians." Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, who originally suggested the dialogues, cited the two groups' common religious-ethnic heritage and Mediterranean background. Indeed, said Tanenbaum, though Greek and Hebrew philosophies are often regarded as opposites, rabbinic Judaism was actually a "creative synthesis" that absorbed some thought patterns and institutions of Hellenism...