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Last Sunday, Rabbi Mann, 53 and an outstanding Jewish American, marked his 20th anniversary at Chicago's Sinai Congregation. Said he: "If I had nine lives I should be a pastor nine times...
Nine Lives in One. Rabbi Mann could hardly do more with nine lives than he has with one. He has been active in the Big Brother and Big Sister movements ("There are no delinquent children, only delinquent parents"). He pioneered with Margaret Sanger in the American Birth Control League long before such participation was respectable. He is a director of the National Crime Prevention Institute. Ex-President Hoover appointed him a member of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Secretary Harold Ickes put him on the Housing Commission. He is a regional arbitrator on the National...
Every Sunday Rabbi Mann packs the temple (the first reform congregation organized in the U.S.). Sinai has had Sunday services for 69 years (orthodox synagogues hold services on Saturday - the Jewish Sabbath). He lets men and women sit together, does not require them to sit facing east. He baits them in his sermons, to make them think. "My job," he says, "isn't just to use a vocabulary. I have to get a thrust in now & then. Religion can't be taught. It has to be caught. And it must be caught from someone who is on fire...
...Rabbi Mann has found the psychology he learned at Yale more valuable than his theology. In his study, filled with 700 books (there are 1,000 more in the adjoining bathroom), he sees an average of eight parishioners a day who come with problems. He keeps a fresh handkerchief in his desk drawer for those who cry. If he cannot straighten out a case, he recommends a psychiatrist...
...Chicago-born Dr. Pardue has held four parishes. In all of them he has been active in civic affairs, youth work, interfaith cooperation. While rector of St. James's Church, Hibbing, Minn., he served as chaplain of the B'nai B'rith lodge (there was no rabbi in the town...