Word: nai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nai B'rith, the Jewish Labor Committee of David Dubinsky, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations repudiated the referendum. Rabbi Wise hoped to get 1,000,000 Jews to the polls. Last week the American Hebrew, pro-Adler journal, listing the organizations which have declared themselves on the question, found their membership totaled more than 1,000,000, about 9-to-1 against Rabbi Wise and his conception of "Jews in America...
Born an orthodox Jew in England, converted to reform Judaism in the U. S., Rabbi Henry Cohen passed his 75th birthday last month. Next month he will become the first U. S. rabbi to have served one Jewish congregation - Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel-for 50 years. Last week in Galveston four judges, Christian churchmen including a Catholic bishop, and 2,500 other people gathered to do honor to the South's greatest rabbi. Said Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson: "Henry Cohen is not merely our friend. In his humanness, he is a symbol of that democracy...
...seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama of agonized soldiers, screaming mobs and weeping women...
...Kirk. The latter, however, has an impressive record of interment ceremonies. It was the scene of services for Will Rogers and Marie Dressier. Prior to last week, last big film funeral at Forest Lawn was that of Irving Thalberg, whose remains were taken from B'nai B'rith Synagog for interment in a $25,000 room in the Mausoleum. Jack and Lottie Pickford are in a family room in the Mausoleum, Flo Ziegfeld and Marie Dressier in crypts. Other famed Forest Lawn dead: Lon Chaney, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, King Gillette, Senator Frank Flint, Edward L. Doheny...
Last week armed German police smashed their way into Berlin's-B'nai B'rith lodge, arrested the members, cleared out the premises and seized the property. All over Germany other B'nai B'rith lodges were raided, seized and evacuated, as were children's homes, sanatoriums and homes for the aged supported by the society. Though most of those arrested were later released, the entire organization was ordered dissolved and its funds seized, on the pretext that one of the 14,000 German members of the B'nai B'rith...