Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years from now the Orthodox synagog will find the women and the men still seated separately, and we do not want to depart from the law today!" The rabbis agreed with him. They decided to establish a national board of Jewish education to train children of the Orthodox in Hebrew knowledge and Jewish religion. Already many U. S. cities have independent, uncorrelated local boards of Jewish education, distinct from temple religious schools...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Fletcher Dole, 82, father of Pacific air race sponsor, James Drummond Dole (TIME, Aug. 22, et seq.); at Boston, Mass. While his son grew rich farming good Hawaiian pineapples, the Rev. Dr. Dole penned improving tracts: Early Hebrew Stories, Noble Womanhood, Jesus and the Men about Him, The Religion of a Gentleman, My 80 Years...
...Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio...
Eighteen adult Jews, members of a Bible class at Temple Israel, near Far Rockaway, L. I., last week began an organized study of the New Testament. "This is the first time," said Dr. Isaac Landman, rabbi of Temple Israel and editor of The American Hebrew, "that a class in the Bible school of a Reform congregation has ever been devoted to the exclusive teaching of the New Testament. The time has come when the New Testament should no longer be a closed book to the Jews...
Married. Norma Shearer, 22, famed cinemactress; to Irving Grant Thalberg, 26, executive director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; in Hollywood. The ceremony was prolonged by the bride's unfamiliarity with responses in the Hebrew...