Word: kook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the Mohammedans are perfectly within their legal rights, an extreme recourse was resorted to last week, by Abraham Isaac Kook. Chief Rabbi of Palestine. Weeping copious tears Colonel* Kook decreed a general fast day and renewed mourning by all Jews...
...state of extreme despondency. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 (TIME, March 31, 1924) he jocularly remarked that "the English in Palestine are no Angels"; but last week he appeared to have revised this opinion for the worse. Brooding behind his Muscovite halo of whiskers. Colonel Kook muttered, "The end is near! How can we endure that they desecrate the Wall...
Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
Therefore Jews throughout the world heeded the call of Colonel Kook, last week, fasted for a day, mourned exceedingly...
...reporter of the New York Evening Post (paper owned by Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis) innocent of all knowledge of Zionism, succeeded only in asking Rabbi Kook what he thought of America. Answer: "Very nice country. Nice reception. Nice mayor. Cannot tell yet about people...