Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of Mrs. Noble is called to the fact that it is Rabbi Wise, not TIME, who offended...
After reading it very carefully, I came to the page on Religion and I would like to draw your attention to Rabbi Stephen Wise's comment on the "Erection of a Shrine to Buddha" in Central Park, New York City [Dec. 14 issue, p. 26]. It reads: "I wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons...
...Rabbi Rabinowitz look...
Further it appeared that all Rabbi Wise had been driving at was the expression of his enthusiasm for a book Jesus of Nazareth, written at Jerusalem and in Hebrew by a Dr. Joseph Klaussner, who set forth the Nazarene simply as a great Jew and not as the Christ...
Before the soothing explanations were heard, however, Rabbi Wise felt obliged to hand in his resignation as Chairman of the $5,000,000 United Palestine Fund. Promptly famed Manhattan Jewish merchant Nathan Straus ("best loved U. S. Jew") made a further contribution of $150,000 to the fund, and flayed anyone and everyone who aspersed his friend Rabbi Wise. Later Mr. Straus predicted that the Rabbi's resignation would not be accepted...