Word: nai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain powerful, non-Christian element in our population" was trying to "dominate Southern Methodist University." For one thing, the university's own Southwest Review seemed to be highly susceptible not only to anti-McCarthy authors (e.g., President Henry Wriston of Brown University) but also to B'nai B'rith, which, according to Beaty, "is sometimes referred to as the 'Jewish Gestapo...
...whole university was also suspect for cooperating with the National Conference of Christians and Jews on a summer workshop in human relations, and so was the university bookstore for displaying books by Friedrich Engels. "Are the minds of our students," cried Beaty, "to be guided by B'nai B'rith ... or by Soviet Moscow ... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel?' How did non-Christian power come to wield so great an influence in S.M.U...
...Jewish groups soon replied. Said Leon Gellman, of the World Mizrachi Executive: "An example of clerical anti-Semitism." Added B'nai B'rith President Philip M. Klutznick: "A disservice to the cause of democracy." In London, the archbishop's chaplain explained that the statement was "purely political." The archbishop is regarded as the Church of England's political spokesman...
...would-be purchaser was the City of Toledo, which wanted to enlarge an adjacent playground. Also in the bidding were the nuns of St. Ursula's Convent, who aimed to build a Roman Catholic school on the land. Finally, Rabbi Morton Goldberg's Congregation B'nai Israel wanted the plot for a new synagogue, school and library. After due reflection, Owens-Illinois suggested that the three would-be purchasers settle the problem around a table...
Last week Congregation B'nai Israel bought the whole piece. Rabbi Goldberg's congregation took a little over six acres for itself. The nuns received 11.7 acres, and the city close to an acre-following a division made a month before, after all three parties had set down their minimum space needs. Instead of prorating the cost, B'nai Israel's trustees voted unanimously to pay the whole amount, give the convent and the city their shares free. Said Mother Vincent de Paul of St. Ursula's: "A wonderful Christmas present...