Word: emanu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wailing Wall in Jerusalem last week a 90-year-old rabbi with a flowing white beard prayed for peace in a quavering voice. But this year's most notable observation of Rosh Hashanah, was in Manhattan, where the new and beautiful Temple Emanu-El, costing $8,000,000, was opened. Famed members of this synagog include, besides the late great Louis Marshall (TIME, Sept. 23), Daniel Guggenheim, Benjamin Mordecai, Adolph S. Ochs, Roger Williams Straus. Rabbi Nathan Krass told them the temple signified that "man doth not live by bread only...
Still uncompleted is the $4,000,000 Rockefeller-given Riverside Church of Manhattan. Last week Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who will be its pastor, gathered his flock into Temple Beth-El and there preached. Beth-El members now attend the new Emanu-El, and are therefore glad to accommodate the Christians by loaning them the vacated synagog...
...Francisco's huge-domed Temple Emanu-El is a bright Byzantine touch on Arguello Boulevard. The coruscant half-globe catches the sun's rays, seems to blaze with its own light. On an especially sunny day, last week, when the dome was very bright 600 Jews of the "reformed" faith gathered underneath it. One of them, glancing at the synagog, quoted "How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places, O Israel." Thus opened the 31st Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
Rabbis met at Chicago for the 30th annual convention of the Centra] Conference of American Rabbis. Interest centered upon the address of President Hyman G. Enelow of Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, who urged his confreres to emphasize and define the character, the enlightened program of Jewry...
...many important occasions; that I headed Jewry's delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and was instrumental in obtaining recognition for racial minorities; that I had settled strikes, served New York Governors, headed Jewish relief drives, and been for some time president of the American Jewish Committee, of Temple Emanu-El, and chairman of the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Jew who 'transcends the limitations of labeled Judaism ... an ambassador from Israel to the people of the world...