Word: israel
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Subsequently, the dwelling-place became the head-quarters for General Israel Putnam, the Commissary officer of the Revolutionary army. Putnam and his adjutants were quartered here until the battle of Bunker Hill, in which all of them participated. After the Boston affray, the American troops and General Putnam retired from Cambridge, leaving the Hicks house to remain open for civilian occupants the rest of its days...
...erect a statue to the late Oscar Strauss, said that only two public statues of Jews existed in the U. S.-those of Poet Heinrich Heine and onetime Mayor Nathan Barnert of Paterson, N. J. Since have come information of statues to Alfred Benjamin in Kansas City, Mo., Israel Marks in Meridian, Miss. (LETTERS, Jan. 23 ?. 30) and, now, to Nathan Morris in Indianapolis...
...Believing that your magazine would welcome information of a correction of any statement in your magazine, I am taking the liberty of calling your attention to a statue erected to Israel Marks, a Jewish citizen of Meridian, Miss., and which was erected during his lifetime in the year 1913. The statue was erected in honor of Mr. Marks by public subscription, voluntarily donated by the people of all creeds and classes living in the City of Meridian, and it now stands in Highland Park in the City of Meridian. It was an appreciation to Mr. Marks who was a factor...
...Nations written into the Treaty of Versailles. Wherever Jews were harassed Mr. Straus used his public power to defend them. He was pious in his religious observances; and always kept nailed to the door-posts of his homes a mezuzah, a small case containing the Israelitish creed "Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One," together with appropriate verses from Deuteronomy. Such a career, decided the Jewish Tribune readers, was statuesque. It deserved a memorial, and for that the magazine has started a campaign*. When the statue goes up it will be only the third statue publicly...
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...