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...Great Confession. Louis Finkelstein was born in Cincinnati on June 14, 1895. His father, Simon J. Finkelstein, a strong-minded Orthodox rabbi from Slobodka, Lithuania, moved to a congregation in Brooklyn when Louis was seven. It was there, in Brooklyn's heavily Jewish Brownsville district, that Louis grew...
...congregations. But each group claims a large additional number of unenrolled worshipers. *Among them: U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. *A Jewish woman, at this point in her morning prayers, humbly thanks God that He has created her according to His will. *Oldest and biggest: Hebrew Union College (Reform) in Cincinnati. * E.g., Isaiah 53:3-5: "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows...
...sweeping a doubleheader against the Red Sox, with the Yankees' Allie Reynolds pitching his second no-hitter of the year, the first American League pitcher ever to do it twice in a season. In the National League, Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds turned the trick twice...
...commissioner owed his new job to one owner in particular, Warren Giles of the Cincinnati Reds. The field had narrowed down to Giles and Frick, but neither could get the necessary majority (twelve votes). After 17 ballots and nine hours of hassling and wrangling, the meeting was hopelessly deadlocked. Then Giles stalked in and declared dramatically: "My first interest in baseball is for the welfare of baseball itself. My second ... is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles. In the best interests of baseball, I wish to withdraw my name." Frick was elected unanimously on the 19th ballot...
Johnny Vandermeer of the Cincinnati Reds pitched two no-hitters in two consecutive starts to be the other man to turn the trick in one season. This was during the 1938 pennant race...