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Composer Saminsky is neat, bald, hardly more than five feet high. He helped found the League of Composers, persuaded it to put on modern operas and ballets. Since 1924 he has been music director at Temple Emanu-El, biggest synagog in Manhattan...
Among the 2,000 who reverently followed the remains of Louis Wiley out of Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El last week, few felt the rabbi's eulogy was unduly exaggerated. For Louis Wiley, the undersized, dynamic and somewhat pompous business manager of the New York Times, was not only an extraordinary newspaperman but one of the kindliest individuals his profession ever produced...
...months distant in time from the allotted refuge in the Gobi Desert. There are banking Jews from the Paris Bourse, London's City, the New York Stock Exchange; pork-eating Jews from Germany; strictly kosher Jews from Galicia and Palestine; liberal Jews from the New York of Temple Emanu-El; Socialist Jews from the locals of the Second International; Communist Jews from the Saar and from Union Square. Although Mr. Nathan names no names, his types fit into the headlines of the daily newspapers of a dozen countries...
...lawns in front of the French house, stepped down the stone terrace into the flower garden to pluck the tearoses he liked to wear in his lapel. The funeral was private. In death as in life he remained true to the Jewish faith. Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El read the services. Before sundown the body was lowered into its grave in the family plot at Cold Spring Memorial Cemetery, not far from the bones of an old friend and wise partner, Mortimer Schiff...
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...