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...Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, toastmaster and prime organizer of the $7-a-plate dinner, gave Cohn the first plaque. Then, in rapid order, Lawyer Cohn got six scrolls, three more plaques and a paperweight from as many organizations, including the "Anti-Peress Group of the P.T.A. of P.S. 49." Bellows of hoarse approval went up as Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky attacked "senile" Senators. Fulton Lewis Jr., an "I'm for McCarthy" badge decorating his lapel, criticized his fellow newspapermen for their lack of objectivity about McCarthy. Then Archibald Roosevelt, Teddy's son, led the crowd in booing...
...Students for America called Cohn the "American Dreyfus" and barked: "Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans." But the loudest ovation of all came when Rabbi Schultz introduced "My Hero," Joe McCarthy himself...
...knowledge and background he has in Communism. The most brilliant young man I've ever known is always going to be available, and called upon very, very often for help and advice." It was nearly midnight, and the room was heavy with eye-stinging smoke when Rabbi Schultz rose to introduce the Junior Hero. Said Schultz: "The plain people know the loss of Cohn is like the loss of a dozen battleships...
Last week Salomon Rodrigues Pareira, chief rabbi of the Amsterdam community, announced that the excommunication and anathema must stand. "When I became chief rabbi," he said, "I accepted the rulings of my predecessors. No rabbinate has the right to review a decision of previous rabbinates unless it is greater in number and wiser. I don't consider myself wiser than those who came before...
Transmitting his plans to the Philadelphia congregation, Wright wrote: "Herewith the promised hosanna-a temple that is truly a religious tribute to the living God . . . Here you have a coherent statement of worship. I hope it pleases you and your people." Replied Rabbi Cohen: "You have taken the supreme moment of Jewish history and experience-the revelation of God to Israel through Moses at Mt. Sinai-and you have translated that moment with all it signifies into a design of beauty and reverence...