Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunny day, last week, when the dome was very bright 600 Jews of the "reformed" faith gathered underneath it. One of them, glancing at the synagog, quoted "How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places, O Israel." Thus opened the 31st Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
...about colleges that most of the delegates were thinking, particularly about Hebrew Union College, U. S. Judaism's Reformed rabbinical institute in Cincinnati...
...most religious conferences slowly work up to a climax so last week did this one in San Francisco. The climax came when Adolph S. Ochs, owner-publisher of the New York Times read his report on the $5,000,000 endowment fund for Hebrew Union College. Impressive was the list of names and donations which Mr. Ochs read. From David, Murry, Solomon and Simon Guggenheim, $500,000; from Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, Mortimer L. Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Warburg, $500,000; from Julius Rosenwald $500,000 if the fund reaches $4,000,000 by July 1. Other gifts were...
...Chicagoan, as the wispy Elsa who could not cure her curiosity, Rene Maison the Silver Knight and Maria Olszewska the black-hearted Ortrud. Other operas came from a standardized repertoire, all save Honegger's Judith which retells starkly in music and text the apochryphal legend of the Hebrew prophetess saving her people against the warring Assyrians. Mary Garden it was who prayed simply as Judith and then sought Holofernes alone in his tent, hacked off his head with a great sword, tucked it in a bag and carried it to her people. Baritone Césare Formichi as Holofernes...
...quiet and amusing story-that of a girl who, for the sake of getting things to write about, got herself a lover, and of the lover who regarded his good fortune as a grand passion. Alexander Carr, onetime half of "Potash and Perlmutter," gargled glib dialect as a Hebrew theatrical producer who instigated and later encouraged the literary liaison. Mary Carroll was the girl...