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...sermons in "signs" and watching choristers "sign" their hymns in unison is fairly common for U. S. deaf-mutes in urban centres. In Manhattan there are three congregations for them, Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish. Once a week Jews attend services supervised by Mrs. Tanya Nash, widow of a rabbi, who provides guest rabbis and interpreters. Because deaf persons cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore...
Dear to Founder Narvesen are his courses in religion ("Not proselyting but better understanding is the goal"). In the Municipal Courtroom at City Hall, Rev. John Gabriels expounds the Fundamentals of Catholicism. Rabbi David I. Cedarbaum presents The Jew Under Persecution from Pharaoh to Hitler in Central Temple House. High in Olds Tower the Rev. J. A. Canby of Lansing's Church of Christ offers Bible Study to all comers. Other ministers and church workers hold forth elsewhere on everything from Hymnology to Christian Parenthood in the Modern World...
...little riot developed when Religion's spokesman for Birth Control, Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore, exclaimed: "If you members of the Committee think birth control is immoral, then pass a law that will drive contraceptives out of every home in the nation...
Last December in Manhattan, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, Bishop Francis John McConnell and Dr. John Haynes Holmes, seasoned Liberals, urged that "the special economic privileges of the church" be curtailed because they had been abused. They listed the values of the richest Manhattan churches:* Trinity ...... .$25,000,000 St. Paul's Chapel 6,600,600 St. Bartholomew's 5,400,000 St. Thomas 5,000,000 Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas 4,000,000 Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 3,850,000 Brick Presbyterian...
Yoslie Kalb is a sad story about a Jewish student (Horace Braham) who is seduced by the girl (Erin O'Brien-Moore ) whom a rabbi (Fritz Leiber) wants to marry and spends 15 years wandering about as Joe The Fool ("Yoshe Kalb"). Critics admired bits like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...