Word: judah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frederick B. Kellogg, Episcopalian; January 26, Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Presbyterian; January 27, Rev. Leonard G. Clough, Congregational; January 28, Rev. D. J. Fitzpatrick, Roman Catholic; January 31, Rev. Hobart F. Goewey, Methodist; February 2, Rev. Irving R. Murray, Unitarian; February 3, Rev. Edmund A. Steimle, Lutheran; February 4, Judah J. Shapiro, Hillel Foundation...
Spiritual father of the Houston statement was Beth Israel Trustee Leopold L. Meyer. But the congregation's young Rab bi Hyman Judah Schachtel, son of an Orthodox cantor, got a few hard raps. He had come to Houston from Manhattan's West End Synagogue only three weeks be fore the principles were adopted. But he stood by them. Said he: "If I had written the principles I would have made some changes. I endorse them in the main. . . . Our congregation does not oppose Zion ism. We simply do not participate...
Disorderly Teetotaler. Like his contemporary, Benjamin Disraeli, Judah P. Benjamin was a sephardic (of Spanish-Jewish ancestry) Jew. Born in 1811 at Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, he became a U.S. citizen when his drygoods-vending father was naturalized at Charleston, S.C. At 14, Judah was the youngest man in his class at Yale, and a member of the teetotaling Philencratian Society. At 16, Judah was bluntly bounced out of Yale. Probable reasons: "association with a set of disorderly fellows who were addicted to card playing and gambling," theft, mysterious temptations "which he had not the moral force to resist." Judah...
Work Horse. New Orleans proved less seductive than New Haven. Judah got a job with a notary, studied law in his spare time. Admitted to the bar, he promptly married Natalie St. Martin, a Creole girl with "the voice of a prima donna." She liked parties in the Vieux Carré. Judah preferred to work like a horse. When Natalie left him to live in Paris, he worked harder than ever...
Work soon brought him an annual income of $50,000, leadership of the Louisiana Whigs, practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, a huge plantation mansion. When Judah was not busily promoting railroads or flourishing what his opponents called his "oily, plausible pertinacity" in courtrooms, he was trying to raise the best sugar in Louisiana. For recreation, Benjamin would recite from memory "a wonderful stock" of verses (he was a passionate admirer of Tennyson), play whist, harpoon devilfish. His appreciation of good food and drink was vast...