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Tireless Torquemada was appointed by Ferdinand & Isabella to enforce the decree as Grand Inquisitor. He and his Holy Inquisition succeeded as few men have ever succeeded since the world began. Their work endured for more than 400 years. Not until last week was a Jewish couple married by a rabbi in Madrid "publicly...
...Rachel Ventura, 22, "publicly" in the sense that their intention was known. They were married "privately" in the sense that Moses Cohen's apartment is above a restaurant and a modiste shop and all Moses Cohen's window curtains were tightly drawn "because of the heat." There being no rabbi in Spain, the service was performed by a Moroccan banker, Rabbi Menahan Corias...
...noon, Alfred Emanuel Smith took a party of friends to the top of his Empire State Building (world's tallest). Crowds congregated in Manhattan's Central Park. Militant pacifists under Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise prepared to harangue street gatherings, urge them to beware the blood on the glistening wings overhead. But the show had to be postponed three hours on account of bad flying weather and around 3 p.m. it looked as if the spectacle would have to be called off entirely. Black clouds hung over Connecticut. But Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who was to lead his squadron...
...deepen the religious consciousness of U. S. Reformed Jewry, to improve their congregational singing, a committee of ten rabbis has been working for the last five years on a revised Jewish Hymnal. Rabbi Louis Wolsey of Philadelphia, chairman of the committee, announced last week the completion of "Songs and Prayers of Jewish Worship," to be submitted next month to the Central Conference of American Rabbis, representing 400 Reformed Jewish Congregations. Less "oriental," less burdened with pathos than Orthodox Jewish music,* which Rabbi Wolsey calls "a pretentious attempt to revive the Jewish religious life of Palestine," the new Reformed hymnal aims...
...Mayor was quick to take advantage of the sympathy which they created for him among his liberty-loving fellow citizens. Nor was he unaware that Mr. Fox's Republican City Affairs Committee might be confused in the public mind with the non-partisan City Affairs Committee of Rabbi Wise and Preacher Holmes. On the same day that his vituperative retort to the Wise-Holmes complaint reached the Governor, the sensitive Mayor flayed his Republican adversaries...