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...Rabbi Kaplan was so miserable with the hidebound orthodoxy of his first congregation (Manhattan's Kehilath Jeshurun) that he asked the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary to recommend him to a life insurance company as salesman. He was persuaded to stick it out. and instead of insurance, he has been selling his own conception of Judaism ever since. It has been a long pull; Mordecai Kaplan was feted by 600 well-wishers last week on his 80th birthday. And his conception of Judaism has grown into a thriving movement: Reconstructionism...
...Vienna Jewish community instructed Chemist Goldschmiedt to present the Torah to an orthodox synagogue in the U. S. Without such instruction, the Torah would have been considered stolen property by good Jews. Mr. Goldschmiedt gave the scroll, wrapped in a striped prayer shawl, to Manhattan's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, which had it examined meticulously by a scribe, lest a jot or a tittle had been added or erased. The Congregation planned shortly to have it reconsecrated, to invite Catholics and Protestants to the ceremony...
...voiced, long-bearded second man was Rabbi Morris S. Margolies, last week elected president of Yeshiva and of the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He, too, is a native of Russia. In 1899 he became rabbi of the Boston Orthodox Community. Since 1906 he has been rabbi of the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan. In Manhattan there are few orthodox Jewish activities to which his name has not been attached. Orphans and the aged have listened for his slow steps, rabbinical students have harkened to his priestly wisdom. His greatest fondness is study, his ambition bringing Jewish culture and spiritual education...
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