Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week German Austrian storm troopers loaded 51 Jews, including an 82-year-old rabbi, into a Danube river launch, took them downstream to the point where Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary meet. There they dumped them on a stone breakwater in the middle of the swollen stream. All night they crouched on cold, slippery stones barely emerging from the water...
...every priest, parson and rabbi knows, there is more than one way to fill a church. The National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery knows several. Founded more than three years ago, this committee has sponsored Loyalty Days every autumn with the object of filling U. S. Catholic, Jewish and Protestant churches. Last week, in collaboration with the Golden Rule Foundation, it launched a series of Brotherhood Days in a dozen cities. For the first time, the committee's efforts got some enthusiastic publicity. William Randolph Hearst signed an editorial denouncing atheism, and in Manhattan, where the first Brotherhood...
...Rabbi Samuel Sachs: "She did not have to tear up the ticket, but since she felt it was proper, she was certainly right...
...proclaimed a day of prayer for "peace, harmony and fraternity" among all Rumanian faiths. Handsomely he wrote Dr. Jacob Isaac Niemirower, Chief Rabbi of 1,000,000 Rumanian Jews, that "the Jewish religion is recognized to enable it to make better human beings and more faithful citizens of its followers." Chief Rabbi Niemirower, his yarmulke (skullcap) bobbing with excitement, ordered synagog gatherings throughout Rumania on the day of prayer, to pledge Jewry's loyalty and devotion...
...which has 380 correspondents throughout the U. S. and abroad, and henceforth is to be called the Religious News Service, gained 92 paying clients in the secular and religious press during the past year. Since 1933 when it first sent out a touring "pilgrimage team" consisting of a minister, rabbi and priest, the N. C. J. C. has increased such activities until, last year, 25 teams traveled 25,000 miles preaching amity. Newest N. C. J. C. goodwill stunt is for a team to "bury a hatchet" in public, as was done in Seattle when Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago...