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Behind the plan was no rabbi but a husky, 31-year-old physician named Bernard Schneider. Chairman of a self-constituted intercongregational lay committee, he campaigned with the argument that three in every seven Jewish families in Louisville neglected to keep up congregational membership. "We are much more concerned with the civic morale of this Jewish community," said Dr. Schneider, "than about any profit motive involved in acquiring additional members...
...College and onetime Chief of Chaplains of the A. E. F., now on a year's leave of absence to act as the Federal Council of Churches' liaison official between churches and chaplains; Bishop John Francis O'Hara of the Roman Catholic Army and Navy diocese; Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia and a chaplain with Pershing in Mexico...
...soldier all you know about God and tell him all about your relations with God. . . . The Army will give him the natural side; the thing that you have to give is the supernatural side. . . . If we forget all about the supernatural, we are exactly on the Hitler basis." Said Rabbi Landman: in dealing with Jewish boys, the chaplains should remember the differences among Jews in heritage and practice, help them in their religious observances, arrange whenever possible for them to have their holy days free...
...costume and makeup, Actor Chenkin is equally plausible as a bearded gaffer or a youngster with Jewish ritual earlocks. Here he sings in Yiddish and Hebrew, deftly sets forth the garrulity, gaiety, self-pitying anguish of an Eastern European Jew. Typical song: Scholoch S'udes, in which a rabbi unctuously presides at a banquet...
...less than 2% of the population) are highly regarded. When Jews in one city were charged with harboring British agents and assessed a 50,000-guilder fine to be paid within six hours, the sum was raised in time by Christians who handed the money over to the local rabbi, while in five Protestant churches in Amsterdam protests were openly uttered. When a Jewish professor was forced out of the University of Delft (Dutch M. I. T.) the students struck. Nazis closed the university the next day. Said an alumnus in the U. S.: "It makes us very proud...