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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: The Book of Job as a guide to happiness. Speakers: Eugene O'Neill Jr., Greek Statesman André Michalopoulos, Rabbi William H. Fineshriber...
...assembly, a book was handed to each of them. The book: the New Testament, plus the Book of Psalms and the Book of Proverbs. But last week, after the Gideon Bible Society had given away more than 2,500 copies, the Davenport Board of Education called a halt. Rabbi Abram Vossen Goodman of Davenport's Temple Emanuel had protested. Wrote...
...Zionism was absorbed in its own internal conflict. Massive, 72-year-old Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, who founded the Zionist Organization of America in 1898, announced: "I do not, I cannot withdraw from Zionism, but I withdraw from . . . the Zionist Organization of America." Dr. Wise's grievances were threefold: last month's World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, had been a "collection of personal hatreds and rancors and private ambitions"; it had immoderately rebuked both Britain and the U.S.; it had ousted Dr. Wise's good friend Dr. Chaim Weizman from the presidency of the W.Z.O...
Bing Crosby, who financed this film version but does not appear in it, thought he was taking all necessary precautions by posting a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on the set as technical advisers during production. But the story's Jewish father is still a pinchpenny, the Irish father is still a belligerent bullhead. It turns out, in 1946, that jokes about racial and religious groups are not really good, clean...
...election of a new president to succeed aged, ailing Chaim Weizman, distrusted as pro-British in spite of a lifetime given to Zionism. Two candidates were angling for his job. One was dynamic David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive. His opponent was a Cleveland rabbi, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. Sad-eyed, smooth-talking Dr. Silver, who led some U.S. Jews in opposition to the British loan, opposes Ben-Gurion on the ground that the Agency's offer on partition was a tactical blunder which gave ground too readily to the British...