Word: rabbies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian is Associate Justice Cardozo. By ancestry he is a Sephardic Jew, great-great nephew of Gershom Mendes Seixas, a Rabbi who took part in the inauguration of George Washington...
Last week 300 rabbis and 800 Orthodox Jews crammed New York's oldest synagog, little Beth Hamidrash Hagodol on the East Side. The issur, which the rabbis had voted to "declare, pronounce, issue and publish," was read aloud by venerable Rabbi Israel Dusovitz. Beshawled and wearing phylacteries* strapped to his forehead, the rabbi parted a pair of curtains to reveal the Ark of the Covenant and the Scrolls of the Law which are shown to Jews only on the most solemn occasions. Holding aloft the issur, he invoked the blessing of God, exclaimed: "The issur is now in force...
...romance entitled Biarritz, written in 1868 by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name of Sir John Retcliffe. As a melodramatic interlude in his book Goedsche pictured a secret assemblage of the "Elect of Israel," gathered in a Prague cemetery around the tomb of a mythical "Holy Rabbi." The gathering plots the destruction of the world much as do the Elders in their Protocols. Goedsche's notion, besides inspiring the author of the Protocols, lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech of a Jewish rabbi to his congregation, crediting...
...performance as the Duke of Wurtemberg, Suss's master. He fits perfectly into the background of Rebecca door-ways and flying cupids. His amorous advisees are suitably unsubtle. Pamela Ostrer is distinctively beautiful in her part as Suss's daughter, but Cedric Hardwick is somewhat disappointing as the rabbi Gabriel. The only other character of importance is Benita Hume, who plays the levitous and licentious Duchess...
...Philadelphia, Rabbi S. J. Englander helped his son, Rabbi David Englander, install his grandson, Benjamin H. Englander, as rabbi of Congregation Shaare Shomayim...