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...announced that U.S. Judaism was hoping to close the gap. It had commissioned Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a synagogue which would "wed the American spirit to the ancient spirit of Israel." Wright's synagogue began as a gleam in the pastoral eye of Mortimer J. Cohen, rabbi of the Beth Sholom Congregation...
...Rabbi Cohen took his ideas on what a modern synagogue should be to Wright, asked him to design the temple. Wright, the son of a Unitarian minister, was intrigued with the challenge. After working out the design in his studio in Arizona, he delivered his plans to Rabbi Cohen...
...auditorium will seat 1,200. Dominating the interior will be a 40-ft. high ark of the covenant, faced with colored glass to symbolize the burning bush that was not consumed. The pulpit will be in the center, a return to the custom of ancient times, which emphasized what Rabbi Cohen calls "the democratic relationship between the religious leader and the congregation." The exterior will be double-walled-blue-tinted plastic under white-wired glass. A copper cap covering the pyramid will proclaim in large Hebrew letters: "I am the Lord thy God." Rabbi Cohen hopes to break ground...
Columnist Sokolsky became involved with Communism a long time ago. Born in Utica, N.Y., the son of a rabbi, he graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism and was so attracted by the Russian Revolution that he went to Russia in 1917 to see it firsthand. In Petrograd he got a job editing the English-language Russian Daily News. But after the Bolsheviks seized control from the Kerensky government, he quickly became disillusioned with the revolution and fled to China. There he worked for English-language newspapers, later became a special correspondent, whose reports appeared in U.S. and British dailies...
...assortment of freight cars making their way across the nation last week was obviously on no ordinary mission. When the cars left Manhattan, they had been blessed by a cardinal, a rabbi and an Episcopal bishop, had pulled out to a chorus of God Bless America. They carried boxes and crates of supplies ranging from drugs and machinery to pencils. Destination of the cargo: Korea...