Word: rabbies
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Papa wanted his first-born son to become a trader; Mama, who came of a long line of rabbis, was determined that he should become a scholar. So when Papa left the tiny Russian-Jewish village of Uzlian to try his luck in America. Mama immediately sent her five-year-old son off to her uncle, a penniless rabbi who lived several hundred miles away. For almost five years the little boy lived there. He was an only child among a household of grownups; he rose with them at sunup and for twelve or 14 hours a day intoned pages...
...Rabbi, Gordon...
...major religious controversy swept Harvard when a CRIMSON article attacked then University Preacher George A. Buttrick for refusing to allow a Jewish student to be married by a rabbi in Memorial Church. It took a month for the Corporation to reverse the ruling and end the debate that had sustained dinner table conversations for weeks. In the eight years since religion as dinnertime conversation has rarely lasted through the potatoes, and its campus representative, the United Ministry, has in that time had to get used to talking largely to itself...