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Nov. 16, 2000
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The view from Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler’s office on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is expansive.
Nov. 25, 1995
Reform Jews in America have raised more than $500,000 to plant 100,000 trees in a new forest in Israel named for Rabbi Alexander M.
March 5, 1988
The liberal wing of American Judaism is making so few spiritual demands on its synagogue members that “we give substance to the perception that Reform Judaism is but a religion of convenience,” its rabbi-president charged Saturday.
Nov. 3, 1985
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Jan. 6, 1986
Leaders of Judaism’s Reform movement said Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir deserves to be honored with an honorary degree in Los Angeles this weekend despite protests from a group of Southern California rabbis.
Nov. 15, 1991
The head of one of the nation’s largest and most influential Jewish organizations, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, called upon Israel on Sunday to stop the “indiscriminate” beating of Palestinian Arabs because “it violates every principle of human decency.”
Jan. 25, 1988
Leaders of Reform Judaism, the most liberal of synagogue organizations, say they have outpaced the Conservative movement and now have a record-high 791 member congregations.
Nov. 2, 1985
God may have cast the 10 Commandments in tablets of stone, but a religion that fails to change, so far as the nation’s leading rabbi in Reform Judaism is concerned, is destined to disappear.
June 17, 1995
Rabbi Meir Kahane, a member of the Israeli parliament who advocates expelling Arabs from Israel, was described Wednesday by one of the top Jewish leaders in America as being a demagogic rabble-rouser who is “the mirror image of Louis Farrakhan.”
Oct. 31, 1985