Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After elections, the congress concluded its session. Louis Lipsky* of Manhattan was chosen Chairman of the Executive Board for the fifth time. Other elections were expected to mend all differences-especially the elections of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan, Dr. Harry Friedenwald of Baltimore and Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicago, who caused a breach in the Zionist ranks at the Cleveland Congress of 1921 over the establishment of the Palestine Foundation Fund as the principal financial agency of the movement. The eleventh annual Hadassah (women's Zionist organization) convention also came to a close in Washington...
President Coolidge, Louis Marshall, Rabbi Julius Loeb, Dr. Abram Simon, Bishop James E. Freeman and others spoke at the cornerstone exercises of the Jewish Community Centre, Washington...
Three pickpockets went on business to a Jewish synagog in Manhattan. Pickpocket Levine (Jewish) warned Pickpockets Alternaro and Presco (Italians) to buy Jewish Bibles, which they did. The rabbi caused their arrest. "How did you suspect them," asked the Magistrate of the rabbi. "Alternaro and Presco took off their hats in the synagog," replied the rabbi...
...proceedings were begun by Grand Rabbi Abraham Kuk, who pronounced a prayer. Dr. Weizmann declared the University open. Sir Herbert Samuel conveyed the good wishes of the British Government. Then, Lord Balfour arose and, as he did so, some 16,000 feet kept time to some 16,000 gesticulating arms waved by their cheering owners. Minutes passed before the distinguished speaker could speak. The ovation was such that the walls of the amphitheatre and the crowded boughs of nearby trees were endangered. At length?silence...
...answering the question of 'What do the Jews think of Jesus", Rabbi Wise said, "I must ask these questions, 'Was Jesus a Jew?', and 'Was Jesus a Christian?' I cannot think of him but as a Jew and a Jewish teacher who attempted to do what all religious leaders attempt to do--to recreate and revitalize the religious thought and life of his times. He never intended to depart from the Jewish customs or from the teachings of the Torah. Only his death at the hands of some of the Jews has raised the question of the relation between...