Word: hamidrash
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Last week 300 rabbis and 800 Orthodox Jews crammed New York's oldest synagog, little Beth Hamidrash Hagodol on the East Side. The issur, which the rabbis had voted to "declare, pronounce, issue and publish," was read aloud by venerable Rabbi Israel Dusovitz. Beshawled and wearing phylacteries* strapped to his forehead, the rabbi parted a pair of curtains to reveal the Ark of the Covenant and the Scrolls of the Law which are shown to Jews only on the most solemn occasions. Holding aloft the issur, he invoked the blessing of God, exclaimed: "The issur is now in force...
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