Word: bethe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First there was the problem of keeping his religion from growing rusty; he rose each day at 5:30 a.m., put in an hour's study of the Talmud before early service at Milwaukee's Beth Jehuda Synagogue, where he is assistant rabbi. Medical school classes began at 8 a.m., and here real complications set in. His full, black beard was a sanitary problem in surgery, requiring special snood-like surgical masks. His tallith katan, a small prayer shawl worn by many Orthodox Jews under their shirts, had to be made of cotton instead of wool -which might...
...convince Jamaica's good-time Charlies of the error of their ways and reduce the ranks of illegitimate "pickneys" is the major concern of an articulate, honey-skinned feminist named Beth Jacobs. Born 41 years ago, and one of six children, she is now a member of the island's Legislative Council, the wife of a doctor popular among the island's U.S. tourists, and the mother of two. Beth Jacobs is first of all in favor of marriage; secondly, she proposes to cut the rate of illegitimate births by contraception. The ideals of Planned Parenthood...
...some support. Says a pretty young seamstress: "What Beth wants is no more unwed mothers running around here, shoving pickneys off on old grandmothers to raise." But one island matron sniffed that "Beth Jacobs is just teaching single girls how to use contraceptives." Bishop John J. McEleney warned the Roman Catholic 6% of the population against the clinic. Occasional signs chalked on walls say, "Birth control is a plan to kill Negroes...
...Beth Jacobs intends to keep trying, but she admits the job is hard. "Even unwed mothers," she sighs, "left to face their ordeal alone, would rather have had their fling and pay the price than be good spinsters with no love life...
...Fund Drive, the estimated cost being approximately $7.5 million. The Medical Center includes the Medical School and seven affiliated hospitals--the Peter Bent Brigham, the Massachusetts General, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Free Hospital for Women, the Boston Lying-in Hospital, the Children's Hospital, and the Beth Israel Hospital...