Word: beth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strategic posts for four of their seven candidates. Elected were: Dr. Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, chairman of the Committee on Public Relations; Dr. Bernard Solomon Denzer of Mt. Sinai Hospital, chairman of the Committee on Medical Economics; Drs. Henry Barber Richardson of Cornell and Edward K. Barsky of Beth Israel Hospital, delegates in a group of 13 to the New York State Medical Convention...
Payoff on Month I of World War II: some plunged in Beth Steel at $go-to-$100, hedged by picking up German Government dollar bonds (which went unnoticed from $5 to $9) on chances that they might go to $25 (netting 400%) if Hitler should happen to get his peace...
Such vexing questions as these, in which Mosaic law and Talmudic maxims must be applied to modern life, are on the docket of a Jewish Court of Justice (Beth Din), which opens this week in Manhattan. The first permanent court of its kind in the U. S., the Beth Din is composed of three black-capped Orthodox rabbis - Max Felshin, Benjamin Fleischer, Reuben Maier-and a secretary, Jacob S. Cohen. It will judge divorce cases, slander suits, business disputes, will decide matters of law which might baffle a single rabbi. For certain grave matters, the rabbis will call...
Where permanent Jewish courts do not exist, questions of law are decided, as they arise, by rabbis or councils of rabbis. Any Jew may bring a case before the Beth Din; indeed, it is his duty, if he is bothered about a point of the Law. He pays the court what he can and, as a man of faith, accepts its decisions as binding, † When the Beth Din sits (daily except religious holidays), the rabbis wear prayer shawls...
...Beth Israel Hospital Chapel