Word: arzt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week's most penetrating summation came from the Rabbinical Assembly's retiring president: ruddy, usually genial Dr. Max Arzt of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. Said he to the 100 assembled rabbis: "I submit that the world cataclysm of our day powerfully, if tragically, confirms the truths enunciated by the God-inspired seers of Israel. The uniqueness of our Torah lies in the unequivocal assertion that the moral law comes from God. This means that human happiness is inconceivable without obedience to that law. . . . Morality is not an elective in the school of human life. . . . The forces...
...prophets. Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, which has a $2,000,000 endowment and which is headed by grave, bearded Dr. Louis Finkelstein, is the most famed in the U. S. Elected last May to succeed the late, great Cyrus Adler, Dr. Finkelstein is, like Dr. Arzt, a graduate of the Seminary...