Word: nai
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...declared Rabbi Israel Goldstein, sermonizing last week in Temple B'nai Jesurun, Manhattan...
...Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Cincinnati. Its prime purpose was to found Hebrew Union College. Two years later, with a faculty of two, and 16 students, the college started. The library consisted of a few Bibles. The class rooms were the vestry rooms of B'nai Israel and B'nai Yeshuruh in Cincinnati. Today the college has four large Tudor buildings, has graduated 289 Rabbis. The library now has 70,000 volumes and the largest collection of Spinoziana in the world. The librarian is Adolph...
Louis Behr, the fourth child of prolific Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Behr of Rockford, Ill., who have eight children, has played for three years on his college basketball team; also he has served its Jewish society, the B'nai B'rith, Hillel Foundation. Upon winning his prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which...
...request of the anti-Defamation League of the Order of B'nai Brith, Mr. Cecil DeMille will revise the picture "King of Kings", and in his foreword obligingly "exculpate the Jews of guilt for the death of Jesus," and put the responsibility on Roman hirelings. As a historian Mr. DcMille is both magnanimous and tactful. It is an act that should make the wallets of exhibitors swell with good feeling. And Premier Mussolini is hardly likely to protest in favor of the newly accused culprits. The B'nai Brith magazine praises the "fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such...
...nonclerical interpretation would indicate that the Chicago church-member situation jibes with empirical fact: church membership is a social phenomenon; the professional man belongs for church contacts, just as he more blatantly belongs to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Odd Fellows, Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus, B'nai B'rith, Ku Klux Klan, International Bible Students, etc.; the clerk and the businessman aspire to the same social security and economic advantages; the working man seeks his security in his unions, in preference to churches, which he considers "controlled" normally by the rich. The acknowledged membership situation is pragmatically so and striving...