Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Louis Leopold Mann despised all rabbis, thought there was not a real, red-blooded man among them. Then one day he read in the Talmud, "If there be a need for a man, be thou that man," decided he would enter the rabbinate. He left Louisville, went to Johns Hopkins (where an English professor wrote on one of his themes: "Please describe something. You always preach."), then to Cincinnati's University and Hebrew Union College, then to Yale for a doctorate in psychology...
Last Sunday, Rabbi Mann, 53 and an outstanding Jewish American, marked his 20th anniversary at Chicago's Sinai Congregation. Said he: "If I had nine lives I should be a pastor nine times...
Nine Lives in One. Rabbi Mann could hardly do more with nine lives than he has with one. He has been active in the Big Brother and Big Sister movements ("There are no delinquent children, only delinquent parents"). He pioneered with Margaret Sanger in the American Birth Control League long before such participation was respectable. He is a director of the National Crime Prevention Institute. Ex-President Hoover appointed him a member of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Secretary Harold Ickes put him on the Housing Commission. He is a regional arbitrator on the National...
Every Sunday Rabbi Mann packs the temple (the first reform congregation organized in the U.S.). Sinai has had Sunday services for 69 years (orthodox synagogues hold services on Saturday - the Jewish Sabbath). He lets men and women sit together, does not require them to sit facing east. He baits them in his sermons, to make them think. "My job," he says, "isn't just to use a vocabulary. I have to get a thrust in now & then. Religion can't be taught. It has to be caught. And it must be caught from someone who is on fire...
GERALD C. MANN Attorney General of Texas Austin...