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...many of these Germans sincerely want to become converts? The question has implications that would give a patriarch pause-and the slight, dark-haired U.S. Jewish chaplain who has to give the answers is no patriarch. But whether he likes it or not, Lieut. Mayer Abramowitz, 27, Jewish U.S. Army chaplain in Berlin, is ex officio chief rabbi of the city...
Born in Palestine and schooled in Manhattan, Chaplain Abramowitz has seen his people's problems in several lights. The knotty decisions his position forces him to make weigh heavily on his inexperienced shoulders. Last week, doing the best he knew how, he had taken a firm stand and was defending it with dignity...
...Lieut. Abramowitz turned away all would-be converts, sincere or not. His stock answer to suppliants was: "Wait until the Jews have their own chief rabbi here. Let him decide." He explained, without bitterness, that his motive was not a projection of the "eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" doctrine. The Jews were too much hurt, he says. Along with other rabbis and chaplains he feels that the time is not yet ripe for Germans to be admitted into the Jewish faith...
Fourteen Jewish G.I.s have come to Lieut. Abramowitz for permission to marry Fraulein. Rejecting every application, he has explained...
...Fiske, III Scholarship for study at Trinity College, Cambridge, awarded to G. W. Lewis '32; and the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Scholarship, held by D. H. Popper '32. The Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships for Study in Europe were awarded to D. D. Boyden '32, R. K. Brown '32, Moses Abramowitz '32, and Frank Gilchrist '32. Garrett Birkoff '34 is holding one of the American fellowships under the Henry Fund...