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Pragmatic Cooperation. Within 25 years, predicts Chancellor Louis Finkelstein of the Conservative-run Jewish Theological Seminary, "there will be one overwhelming institution for the different needs of all our people." Even as the theologians are exploring unity in theory, pragmatic considerations have already created a measure of interdenominational cooperation among Jews. Except for a small group of militant Orthodox fundamentalists, all three branches participate in the Synagogue Council of America, which coordinates the assignment of federal prison chaplains and certain Jewish activities in civic affairs. Recently the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, representing 21 secular and religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jews: Pulling Toward Unity | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...Louis Finkelstein, LL.D., chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Like all great teachers, his most deeply moving lecture is himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 17, 1966 | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...International Congress of Military Medicine in Bangkok last month, Dr. Richard A. Finkelstein of the SEATO Medical Research Laboratory suggested that it might be possible to make another type of vaccine. This would work against a chemical poison produced by cholera bacilli that seem to trigger the damage in the intestinal wall. This impairment in turn cause cholera's devastating symptom: the most severe diarrhea known to man, in which an adult may lose up to 15 quart a day while running little or no fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Cholera Resurgent | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Died. Louis ("Louie the Dip") Finkelstein, 73, king of the nation's pickpockets, a dapper, Russian-born master of petty larceny who gleefully boasted of paying $8,000 a year in fines, court costs and lawyers' fees, was arrested a record 121 times in Cleveland alone, once being nabbed with his fingers in the pockets of a police chief, another time with the wallet of a reporter covering his trial, but alas, spent his last years in retirement and on relief after arthritis robbed him of his touch; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1964 | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...Louis Finkelstein, chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City . . . LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kudos: Round 2 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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