Word: rabbies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York job-buying judges continued the cause of citizens' disgust. To the charges against Judge George F. Ewald were added this month similar charges against Judge Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer...
...straits. Last week 7,210 city employes were payless, despite the efforts of a citizens' committee headed by Banker-Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn. Last week Mr. Strawn attended an investment-bankers' meeting at New Orleans, made a speech about municipal securities, raised a voice as indignant as Rabbi Wise's: "Have you ever contemplated the stu pidity of our people in permitting our municipal machinery to be run by politicians . . . who frequently are men who have no education, who know nothing about government, finance, sanitation, city planning or anything else that is vital to ... a great city...
...Pulitzer prize play, The Green Pastures). Instead of "The Talk of the Town" (New Yorker), the New Orleanian's first pages were headed "Uptown-Downtown-Back of Town." Instead of a "Profile" (New Yorker) the New Orleanian presented a biographical sketch called a "Closeup." First subject: Rabbi Louis Binstock, past president of the Rotary Club, but "Rabbi, not Babbitt," "most popular purveyor of religion in New Orleans," whose Friday-night talks on books and such are "the nearest approach to culture this city boasts...
...Orthodox rabbis with year-round synagog jobs last week started a selfish campaign against "mushroom" synagogs wherein a large part of Jewry celebrates Rosh Hashonah (New Year's day) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Those holidays respectively occur this year Sept. 23-24 and Oct. 2. Already many a rabbi without a post is canvassing unchurched Jews to buy seat tickets in his temporary schnl'. On the other hand the unchurched, after trying vainly to buy seats in regular synagogs, are seeking to hire rabbis to lead them in high holiday ritual. This is basically not very...
Israel Benjamin Brodie, 46, Manhattan lawyer; Palestine economic. William M. Lewis, 45. Philadelphia municipal judge ; gift funds. Jacob de Haas, '57, Manhattan writer, lecturer; organization. James Guttheim Heller, 38, Cincinnati rabbi, music critic; cultural activities. Abraham Tulin, 47, Manhattan lawyer; publications...