Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troop of Anglo-Arab police perceiving the imminence of Moslem brickbats and desirous that the Day of Atonement should not become a day of stonement, tried to disperse the Jewish ululators...
Thereafter worship ceased, indignation meetings met. However, the National Council of Palestine Jews succeeded in quieting the outraged worshippers, by declaring that it would beseech the League of Nations to restore the Wailing Wall from Moslem to Jewish ownership...
Tobacco Tycoon Bernhard Baron set aside last week a fund of ?500,000 ($2,430,000) to be administered in favor of Christian and Jewish hospitals, at the discretion of a board chairmanned by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading...
Ludwig Lewisohn, Jewish author who has suffered from Christian ostracism, recommends in his new book, Midchannel, that states invest rabbis with full legal powers in affairs affecting Jews, especially concerning marriage and divorce. Several European countries have such autonomous courts. Manhattan has an extra-legal one whose chief function has become the smoothing of disputes between Jewish manufacturers and tradesmen...
...place for the man who loves home and normalcy, Hollywood is grist to the mill of the farceur. Van Vechten takes a spineless playwright, lover of normalcy, and pitches the unwilling wretch into a kaleidoscope of temperamental screen-stars, their mamas (chaperones?) and parasitic Spanish nobles, of shrewd Jewish producers and bland rewrite men. Imperia Starling snatches Ambrose Deacon to her Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self...