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Lawyer Abraham Isserman tried the goad. "When your honor interrupted me to misconstrue-" he began, but that was as far as Lawyer Isserman got. Said Medina in a level voice: "That is an impertinent statement ... If you keep this up ... there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
...Louis last week Jewish reaction to the Taylor appointment wrecked the local branch of the best U. S. good-will agency, the National Conference of Christians and Jews. One of the founders of the St. Louis "Round Table" of the N. C. C. J. is Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman, a big, sometimes brash Jewish liberal. Dr. Isserman's Temple Israel is across the way, on "Holy Corner," from two big Protestant churches, St. John's Methodist and Second Baptist. "Brotherhoods" of the three meet jointly. Last fortnight, at a Brotherhood meeting, Rabbi Isserman joined the two Protestant pastors...
...Rabbi Isserman denied that he had used these particular words, but the damage was done. The five Catholic board members of the Round Table resigned at once. Said the angriest of them, Surgeon R. Emmet Kane: "It has been very difficult to stimulate enthusiasm among the Catholics of St. Louis for the Round Table. . . . Rabbi Isserman has torn down everything we have been striving for." Thereupon Rabbi Isserman resigned, too, asked the others to reconsider. At week's end,, none...
Beneath a perpetually flickering lamp in St. Louis' Temple Israel last week rested a plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel...
Though Janitor Bibb's dust also was given the final blessing of the African Methodist Church, he was a member of neither sect which honored his memory. Reverently Rabbi Isserman declared: "His psalms were his services faithfully rendered and his prayers were his scrupulous conscientiousness. . . . There was almost an ecstatic rhythm in his dusting of the pews...