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Appointment of a parson and a rabbi to help Rev. Frederic Siedenberg. executive dean of the Jesuit University of Detroit, mediate Detroit's pandemonium of sit-down strikes was not the only thing which reminded observers of the medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last...
Thinking over the anti-U. S. scurrility which boiled up in the State-controlled German press last fortnight after New York's Mayor LaGuardia had called Hitler a "brown-shirted fanatic" (TIME, March 15), the wife of New York's famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise last week began to boil, too. Off to Secretary of State Hull she shot a hot letter calling his attention to remarks in No. 3 Nazi Goebbels' Der Angriff* demanding an official rebuke...
...this "Jewland" is carefully distinguished from the province of Galilee, where Christ preached. The implication is that this was not in "Jewland." Throughout the new Gospel it is implied that Christ and His disciples were not Jews. Jewish names such as "Elijah" and "Isaiah" are omitted, replaced by "prophets." "Rabbi," as applied to Christ, becomes "Master." Christ, according to Bishop Weidemann, shared the "German Christians' " contempt for the Old Testament because it is Jewish in flavor. Example, St. John, Chapter...
...raise funds for Jewish charity, persisted. He eventually got another $213,000 and Eternal Road rehearsals resumed Nov. 29, 1936. There were three more postponements before the greatest night in a generation for New York's Jews at last arrived. With Sara Delano Roosevelt representing the Gentiles and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise at the head of his flock, the lights went down...
...Eternal Road begins in the depths of an ancient musty synagogue, somewhere in central Europe, some time in the Dark Ages. A terrified congregation has fled there for protection from their Aryan neighbors. To comfort and strengthen them the rabbi and his elders bring out the Scroll of the Law from the Ark and begin singing the history of their melodramatic race...