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...Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, of The Temple in Cleveland, has been appointed Dudleian Lecturer at the Divinity School for the current academic year, it was announced yesterday...
...monument in the Vosges marks the spot where, in 1914, Grand Rabbi Abraham Bloch was killed while bringing a cross to a dying French officer. Last week Grand Rabbi Maurice Liber, peacetime head of Paris' rabbinical school, now aumônier general for the army's Jews, combed France for Jewish chaplains. Entitled to 48, he could find only 26. The total enrollment of the rabbinical school-twelve youths-was mobilized in the army, but proved insufficiently trained to serve as aumƦniers...
...Sholaum in Brooklyn, N. Y., the first day's sun of year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen Hadassah Levinthal, comely in academic gown and four-pointed choir-singer's cap, preached at the three big holiday services, as near to being a rabbi as a female might be. Last summer, at Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion, she was the first woman anywhere to pass a course of studies for the rabbinate...
...principal address will be given by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland whose topic will be "The American Way of Life." Also announced for addresses at general sessions are Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, Dr. Harry Overstreet, author and lecturer, Ralph L. Lee of General Motors Corporation in Detroit, and others...
...from striking them during blackouts, cows and horses were painted with white stripes. Sandbags climbed walls like ivy, till there was such a shortage that some lingerie factories began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture suitable for cellars, empty flashlights (batteries...