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...Christian, but bland-voiced Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, occasional contributor to The Nation, gave Minister Hanner his pastoral charge. Not from the Bible but from an ancient Jewish book of moral teaching, The Ethics of the Fathers, came Rabbi Bernstein's text. This week tall, grey-templed Minister Hanner, a 34-year-old onetime agnostic who got religion by acting in amateur dramatics with the First Unitarian's Gannett Players, began the practical application of his charge. The place: Nantucket's Second Congregational Meetinghouse, built in 1808 at the height of the whaling boom and so well...
...Artist Doctoroff made charcoal drawings of Candidates Hoover and Curtis. (He rates Mr. Hoover one of his dullest subjects.) Having painted such bigwigs as Chicago's Rabbi Louis Mann, Illinois's Governor Henry Homer, the late Banker Melvin Traylor, the late William Wrigley Jr., Railroader Daniel Willard, Artist Doctoroff tried his hand at the late Abraham Lincoln. This canvas so impressed Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune that he bought it for $500, replated and reprinted his Lincoln's Day rotogravure section to feature it. In 1936 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend...
Albert Kahn is a small, merry, 71-year-old architectural genius who spent his youth in a penny-pinching struggle to support an immigrant family of ten (including an impractical Rabbi father). He was 34 when the late Henry B. Joy, president of young Packard Motor Car Co., walked in and asked him to design a factory...
...Jews, of which Jewish congregations lay claim to 4,000,000. For the 1,500,000 actively practicing Jews there are about 2,000 rabbis. Most rabbis (literally, teachers) are the spiritual pastors of a congregation; like a Protestant pastor or a Catholic priest, a rabbi conducts services, preaches, supervises the religious teaching of the children, visits the members of his congregation, marries them and buries them, is their leader in social and charitable work. For Jews who observe strict dietary laws, many a rabbi is required to supervise slaughterhouses, butcher shops, restaurants and dairies...
From the time of his circumcision, on the eighth day after birth, until his death and burial, the practicing Jew keeps close to his rabbi, is guided...