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Mark Mirsky is another writer whose work could have been represented more plentifully. Shkootz is an anecdote about a rabbi who must punish a little boy who scribbled a swastika on the Sunday School wall. Mirsky's prose is full of fire and yet maintains a reserved dignity. Only once does the writing seem to go out of control, for I don't understand the important passage explaining the rabbi's cry of "Shkootzim, shkootzim" at the children who had perpetrated the evil deed...
...Hardart Children's Hour, small Broadway parts). This Is Your Life turned out to be more interested in a portrait of the self-sacrificing mother and her husband, said Mrs. Hahn. As for that episode in magistrate's court, she had taken her daughter there on a rabbi's advice because the girl had fallen in with a bad crowd and was the victim of a "fraudulent ring" of thugs...
...RABBI MAURICE N. EISENDRATH, President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
...Unbelievable religious persecution!" cried the Archbishop of Cape Town. Most Reverend Joost de Blank, and the chief rabbi of the Transvaal, L. I. Rabinowitz, appealed to the government to revoke the deportation order...
Said its president. Rabbi David I. Golo-vensky: "Voting for a presidential candidate because he is a Catholic or vot ing against him because he belongs to the Catholic faith is a sinister betrayal of the fundamental precept of American democracy." In the influential Jesuit weekly America, the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a front-rank Catholic theologian, said that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition...