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...American Rabbis, representing 400 Reformed Jewish Congregations. Less "oriental," less burdened with pathos than Orthodox Jewish music,* which Rabbi Wolsey calls "a pretentious attempt to revive the Jewish religious life of Palestine," the new Reformed hymnal aims to reshape oldtime melodies in modern forms without losing their essential Hebraic spirit. From the two previous hymnals, published in 1897 and 1914. the committee has removed 177 hymns written by non-Jewish composers, and substituted some 200 authentic Judaic compositions. Still to be part of the service, but not employed by any other sect, Jewish or Christian, are hymns with verses...
...eliminate the last shreds of would-be liberalism from this magnificent bequest, and at the same time "scoop" all the other publications who were too weak-kneed to print it, by stating that the will specifically forbade admission to these schools of any member of the Hebraic race...
...collections, which are amazing testimonials of scholarly industry from a standpoint of careful selection and historical completeness, is the greatly increased field of research for students engaged in such a highly specialized study. The position of distinction which Widener now assumes among the authentic sources of Hebraic and Oriental knowledge attaches a new note of importance to the University as a promising field for research of importance by the Hebraic scholars of the country...
...above Milt Grossian verses were to be seen issuing out of the mouth of a farmer of decidedly Hebraic aspect drawn last week by able Cartoonist Will Johnstone in the New York World. Cartoonist Johnstone's fantasy was inspired by the annual report of the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc., whose president : no less eminent a Jew than Percy Selden Straus, famed Manhattan merchant-philanthropist (R. H. Macy & Co. Inc.). The report declared, to the surprise of Cartoonist Johnstone, that there are now some 90,000 Jewish farmers in the U. S. as against some 1,000 when the Agricultural...
...later. At first the demarcation of such a definite dead-line for weekly sin appears to be wholly illogical, but after a lengthy microscopic examination, there becomes faintly apparent the only possible loop-hole to plausibility. The authors of this legislative marvel may perhaps have the ancient Hebraic conception of a personal deity with all the very human characteristics of the Olympian gods, who, after the activities of Saturday night, is scarcely interested in what happens on Sunday before noon...