- What role did Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver play in creating the State
of Israel?
- What did the nineteenth-century Pittsburgh Platform, which
defined the course of the Reform movement for fifty years, say about
the relationship between Judaism and modern civilization?
- What position did the Reform rabbinate's Centenary Perspective take
on the issue of autonomy in Reform Judaism?
- How does CCAR President Rabbi Richard Levy's position on autonomy
differ from that of the Centenary Perspective?
- Name the rabbinic sage who is quoted as saying, "All is part of
God's plan, yet free will is given."
- List three arguments proffered by kashrut advocates in the early to
mid twentieth century.
- Name the great actor/director who said, "We get a good deal of
Jewish delicatessen in Hollywood. Without pastrami sandwiches, there
could be no picture-making."
- Name the Hebrew prophets who intoned the following admonitions, and
explain their implications.
"For the Lord hath a controversy with his people
And He will plead with Israel.
My people, what have I done unto thee?
And wherein have I wearied thee?
Testify against Me.
What have I done to you?
What have I done that has allowed you to break your agreement with me?"
- What is an ethical will and what are its roots in Jewish tradition?
- Name the Jewish writer who, upon receiving the Nobel Prize for
literature in 1966, remarked: "Some see in my books the influence of
authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard...."
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