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...interest rate to how grain that falls into gopher holes during harvest time should be left for the poor. At Manhattan's Orthodox Yeshiva University, 150 rabbinic alumni listened to a lecture on halacha and science by Yeshiva's Dr. Moses D. Tendler, a 33-year-old rabbi and biologist. The lecture was a good example of how halacha changes with the times...
...much impressed by the Jewish chaplain at San Bernardino's Community Hospital. Several years later, at a charity party for children in San Francisco, he found himself kidding with a young man whom he assumed to be a fellow entertainer. When he turned out to be a Reform rabbi, Davis was delighted. "Everything he said had meaning . . . Our casual conversation began to develop into a deep, soul-searching experience. Once more, my curiosity about Judaism was set aflame." The rabbi recommended several books. "At first, reading those books confused me. I would read a few pages, close the book...
...Another rabbi in Hollywood continued his education in Judaism, and eventually Sammy decided that he wanted to become a Jew. The rabbi told him to wait for a year, and some of his Jewish friends told him he was crazy to consider it. "You have two strikes against you now," said one. "We Jews have been oppressed for more than 5,000 years, and all of a sudden why do you want to get into the act? Quit while you're ahead...
...Jersey rabbi, Baskin was rigorously trained in the Talmud until his 15th year, later got an equally thorough art training at the Yale School of Fine Arts, in Paris, and in Florence...
...concern over the Cologne disgrace abroad." In a radio speech, President Heinrich Lubke blamed all Germans for an "overestimation of material achievement as opposed to intellectual, spiritual and moral values," and noted the continued prevalence in Germany of "arrogance, self-satisfaction and feelings of superiority." Cologne's Rabbi ZwiAsaria did not think enough was being done. Said he: "All those who held high positions under the Nazi regime and are still sitting in government offices should be ousted. German schoolteachers should tell their pupils what the Nazis did, instead of passing over the Hitler era in silence...