Word: rabbies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rabbi Harry Levi of the Temple Israel synagogue in Boston has been selected as the first Jewish authority to lecture to Harvard theological students since the Theological School was founded nearly three centuries ago. The Reverend W. L. Sperry, dean of the Theological School, yesterday requested Rabbi Levi to talk to the students during one week in June, preferably on the subject of Judaism...
...Rabbi Levi has lead the Adath Israel congregation, one of the largest and most influential in Boston, for 20 years. He came to Boston from Wheeling, West Virginia, where he had served as leader of the Jewish community after being ordained as a rabbi directly on graduating from the Hebrew Union College. Besides his researches in Jewish theology he is recognized as an authority on Hebraic history and literature. In 1899 he published an authoritative volume on "Jewish Characters in Fiction...
...their names, paired as tightly as Sacco & Vanzetti, Mooney & Billings, became Symbols. Last October, under the leadership of vigorous Professor Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, was published a manifesto signed by 49 U. S. religious leaders. They -Harry Emerson Fosdick, Mary Emma Woolley, Sherwood Eddy, Kirby Page, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, et al.-said they, too, would weigh issues before fighting. Some swore they would never war. Last week, under the leadership of Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, the U. S. religious press-both conservative and liberal, urban and provincial-squared off, prepared to line...
...appeal for support, signed by Rabbi Nathan Krass, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bishop William Thomas Manning, Manhattan's Committee of Fourteen (antivice) declared the Depression is forcing many young women "either directly into prostitution or at least into borderline occupations from which the ranks of prostitution are most generally recruited," and that the underworld is ''taking advantage of this situation...
...once suspected of modernism, may be the next U. S. cardinal. Less well known is the work which won him, month ago, the second annual medal of The American Hebrew for the Promotion of Better Understanding Between Christian and Jew in America. Sponsored by the Hebrew's editor, Rabbi Isaac Landman, last year's medal was awarded to Newton Diehl Baker, Protestant chairman of the National Conference of Jews & Christians. When the judges-who include Jane Addams, Professor John Dewey. Bishop William Thomas Manning, Otto Hermann Kahn, Mayor James John Walker-met this year, they chose Archbishop Hanna...