Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly all of the 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers created Mr. Fixits. The present one on the Baltimore Post is George Browning, who is cheered as loudly as the mayor when he appears in public. He has been little-johnny-sunshine to newsboys and millionaires. When the mother of a rabbi was in a delirium and needed absolute quiet, he got the highways bureau to close her street to traffic for ten days, until she recovered...
...Home Missions Council found itself sharply divided on the advisability of converting young Jews who regard their own religion with apathy. Said Dr. Ernest Milton Halliday: "... I would say to a young Jew who has left his synagog: 'go back to your rabbi and your synagog and the God you and I hold in common...
...Cleveland torch was Abraham A. Katz, scholar. No rabbi, he knows the windings of Talmudic law expertly. No philologist, he knows the Semitic dialects. Once he decided to memorize every word and its definition in Webster's 2,373-page Dictionary. He succeeded through several letters, until necessity forced him to earn a living. He became an expert accountant, then auditor. He saved money and invested it. Soon he had his competence. He could return to his books...
...spiritual leadership of that congregation three years ago went Rabbi Solomon Goldman, more learned in Talmud than even Mr. Katz, but slightly, very slightly less Orthodox. He suggested and, through synagog politics, persuaded the men & women to sit together during his services. That innovation was terrible to righteous minds. It violated ancient Jewish, Semitic, Oriental traditions. Women should hide themselves in the House of God.* Mr. Katz was vexed. Many of the congregation left. In Cleveland where the P'selvah Katz clan numbers almost a thousand, there is a saying: "to fight like a Katz." Abraham A. Katz remained...
Eighteen adult Jews, members of a Bible class at Temple Israel, near Far Rockaway, L. I., last week began an organized study of the New Testament. "This is the first time," said Dr. Isaac Landman, rabbi of Temple Israel and editor of The American Hebrew, "that a class in the Bible school of a Reform congregation has ever been devoted to the exclusive teaching of the New Testament. The time has come when the New Testament should no longer be a closed book to the Jews...