Word: herzog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rabbi Herzog is not sightseeing in the U.S. Averaging about four hours' sleep a night, he is visiting 20 cities in 25 days, making two or three speeches each day, to raise money through United Jewish Appeal for the state of Israel. To Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews, whom he sees in nearly equal numbers, he says the same thing: it is the responsibility of U.S. Jews to give Israel material aid, in return for which they will get spiritual food. "In Israel," he says, "we have the responsibility of sustaining the spiritual lives of Jews all over...
...Irish Free State. He was elected chief rabbi of Palestine in 1936, and there led his community of 500,000 members through Jewry's 13 most crucial and trying years since the destruction of the Temple (70 A.D.). As symbolic head of all Orthodox Jews, Dr. Herzog takes his position gravely. "I was the chief rabbi of Palestine," he said last week. "Now I am the chief rabbi of Israel. I am the same man, but there is a big difference...
...Rabbi Herzog is a scholar who likes most to talk about his five-volume work, The Main Institutions of Jewish Law, but his interests range far & wide. Before leaving the U.S. next month he hopes to 1) visit the U.N., 2) see an Indian reservation, 3) meet Billy Rose...
...Sparks. He had a memorable meeting with another prominent American last week. After a formal exchange on the subject of Israel with the President of the U.S., Rabbi Herzog opened his Bible and began reading (in Hebrew) the 126th Psalm. Meanwhile, Harry Truman reached into his desk for his mother's old Bible and flipped the pages to the same place. When the rabbi had finished, the President read in English: "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing...
When newsmen asked him if he found the President a religious man, Rabbi Herzog's blue eyes twinkled. "Absolutely," he said. "I felt it at once. It was like two sparks meeting...