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Polydoxy not so radical after all,
ICJ president says in Atlanta
Holiday and Ritual Celebration,”
“Freedom in the Religious
Education Process” and “Creative
Liturgy,” topics paramount in the
practical application of Polydoxy.
At both Friday evening and
Saturday morning services at the
Temple, as well as for Havdata at
the home of Larry and Bonnie
Pike, creative liturgy services
developed and published by ICJ
were used.
Rabbi Alvin J. Reines, professor
of philosophy at Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati, who
developed the religious philosophy
he designated Polydoxy, said,
“The principle of individual
freedom requires services and
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ceremonies that do not impose a
particular theofogy upon the
participants.” In educational
materials, he added, “the
appropriate instructional
approach is one in which the
student is presented with the
opportunity to make free- but
informed—choices.”
Indoctrination of any sort is
rejected, according to an ICJ
booklet of questions and answers
about Polydoxy, which says: “In
Polydox Judaism, persons have
the right to accept only beliefs they
are convinced are true, and to keep
only observances they regard as
meaningful.”
It was that very freedom that led
Rabbi Lerner, speaking at
Saturday evening’s dinner session,
to caution his membership:
“People are afraid of freedom.
People want to know what their
responsibilities are. They want to
know what’s right and what’s
wrong. It (freedom) if> a threat to
people so often. So, instead of
using wor.ds like radical or
revolutionary, I think it is time to
consider ourselves what we
are., the central philosophy of
American Jewish life."
Lerner also said, “We're right in
the center, where four and a half
million American Jews are. Maybe
that’s not so radical and
revolutionary after all."
He suggested that it is the time to
“tell people not how free they are,
but what responsibilities they have
under freedom. .. and what freedom
demands of people."
Lerner disagrees with those who
say America is not a “melting pot”
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which develops and makes
available educational, ritual and
liturgical materials which follow
the polydoxian philosophy.
At the core of Polydoxy is the
Freedom Covenant, which
declares: “Every adherent of
Polydox Judaism pledges to
affirm the freedom of all others in
return for their pledges to affirm
her on his own.”
The ICJ held its third biennial
gathering in Atlanta April 16-18 at
the Temple.
Throughout the weekend,
rabbis and lay people utilized a
series of panel discussions to share
their experiences in such areas as
“Creative Change in Sabbath,
by V ida (.oldgar
Much of the American
Jewish community has
yet to hear of the concept of
Judaism called “Polydoxy." Many
who have heard of it are, at best,
reserving judgment. Polydoxy has
been called ‘radical," “revolutionary"
and. by some, “Godless."
Yet. one of its primary
proponents, Rabbi Leigh Lerner
of Mount Zion Hebrew
Congregation, St. Paul, Minn.,
claims Polydoxy is “the central
philosophy of American Jewish
life.”
Rabbi Lerner is president of the
Institute of Creative Judaism (ICJ),