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Born: Paris, May 4, 1895, grandson of a rabbi, son of Jacob Justin Mayer, director of a dynamite company, and Marthe Rose Simone Dupont. A cousin by marriage of the famous Rothschild banking family, he has often represented Rothschild interests on company directorates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: NEW FRENCH PREMIER | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...market-and mighty embarrassed about it. One would-be purchaser was the City of Toledo, which wanted to enlarge an adjacent playground. Also in the bidding were the nuns of St. Ursula's Convent, who aimed to build a Roman Catholic school on the land. Finally, Rabbi Morton Goldberg's Congregation B'nai Israel wanted the plot for a new synagogue, school and library. After due reflection, Owens-Illinois suggested that the three would-be purchasers settle the problem around a table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: It Is More Blessed ... | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Last week Congregation B'nai Israel bought the whole piece. Rabbi Goldberg's congregation took a little over six acres for itself. The nuns received 11.7 acres, and the city close to an acre-following a division made a month before, after all three parties had set down their minimum space needs. Instead of prorating the cost, B'nai Israel's trustees voted unanimously to pay the whole amount, give the convent and the city their shares free. Said Mother Vincent de Paul of St. Ursula's: "A wonderful Christmas present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: It Is More Blessed ... | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Young Eddie Cantor acted in Alliance-sponsored plays, Arthur Murray learned to dance there, and Morris Cohen discussed philosophy in the Comte Synthetic Circle. Radioman David Sarnoff and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver got encouragement from sympathetic teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: East of the Bowery | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Last week in Manhattan, Rabbi Kasher took the wraps off a new project, an English translation of the Torah Shelemah. The first volume, which covers only the first chapter of Genesis, is being put on sale this month (price: $10). The others will appear as soon as the volumes of the Hebrew Torah Shelemah can be translated. With his project now underwritten by a committee of U.S. Jewish laymen, Rabbi Kasher, 57, works 16-hour days in his Manhattan study to get new volumes ready, and he is helped by a corps of assistants in Israel and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Torah In English | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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