Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building committee three years of my entire time and energy. I have had no time whatsoever for my own business, which has been entirely neglected, besides having divorced myself from all other institutions with which I have been connected for 42 years. ... I therefore propose that this venerable rabbi shall be elected president of this great institution...
...deep-voiced, long-bearded second man was Rabbi Morris S. Margolies, last week elected president of Yeshiva and of the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He, too, is a native of Russia. In 1899 he became rabbi of the Boston Orthodox Community. Since 1906 he has been rabbi of the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan. In Manhattan there are few orthodox Jewish activities to which his name has not been attached. Orphans and the aged have listened for his slow steps, rabbinical students have harkened to his priestly wisdom. His greatest fondness is study, his ambition bringing Jewish culture and spiritual...
...Maimonides, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (also called Rambam, from his initials), Jews say: "From Moses unto Moses there arose not one like Moses." Mendelssohn (1729-86) who gave Jews European culture and modernized Judaism, is rated the third great Moses of the Israelites...
...declared Rabbi Israel Goldstein, sermonizing last week in Temple B'nai Jesurun, Manhattan...
...first printed code of orthodox Jewish life was published a quarter-century after the Gutenberg Bible (1452). It was Rabbi Jacob 'ben Asher's famed Arba Turim (Code of the Jews). For five centuries it disappeared from the sight of orthodox Jews. Lately it was found in Italy bearing on its Hebraic pages three visas of papal inquisitioners who had examined it for heresies. Last week it was taken to Manhattan and placed in the Jewish Theological Seminary. It was purchased with funds (of concealed volume) donated by Theatrical Producer Abraham Lincoln Erlanger...