Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stoutly opposed was the great, bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan. While he is inclined to favor all-Jewish union, he regards the present Zionist leadership as weak, inadequate. Also opposed was the revisionist group, which is dissatisfied with the powerful conduct of the Zionist cause...
...Congress closed with the election of a coalition executive board, headed by Dr. Weizmann including three names famed in U. S. Jewry: Lotus Lipsky, Zionist editor of Manhattan, and Publicist Henrietta Szold and Rabbi Meyer Berlin, two one-time Manhattanites now living in Jerusalem. All eyes then turned toward Zurich Town Hall and the first council meeting of the All-Jewish Union...
Several distinguished Jews spoke at last week's meeting, including Chemical Tycoon Lord Melchett and Sir Robert Samuel, famed Liberal. None was more closely attended, however, than orotund Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan, who said: "Theodor Herzl was one of the few men truly epochal . . . because he dared to bid the Jew to be what, for nearly two millenia, he had not dared to be-to be himself, a Jew. . . . Before Herzl came the Jews had been so hurt by the world's ill will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely...
...destroying what they held dearest: the great Zionist movement which has already given Jews a city of their own, Tel Aviv, close to historic Jaffa. They heard about Jews in Russia who had turned against Jew, striving to abolish from Russia all traces of Judaism. Cleveland's Rabbi Barnett Robert Brickner, fresh from a trip abroad, told his listeners that leading officials had told him it is "the ambition of the Yevseksia [Jewish branch of the Communist party] that the Jewish people in that country shall be assimilated first and that their identity as jews shall be lost...
...intricacy, is David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager. Born in Uzlian, Minsk, Russia, on a cold winter's day in 1891, Mr. Sarnoff arrived in the U. S. in 1900. He delivered meat, sold newspapers, sang in a choir. His parents hoped he would become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same year young David got a $5 job as messenger boy with Commercial Cable Co. He saved $2, bought a telegraph instrument, soon was a junior telegraph operator with...