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...decided that the Second Commandment puts no ban on portraying objects, parts of the body or things, orthodox synagogs have done without art for thousands of years. On view in Chicago this week were the first strictly orthodox Jewish synagog murals in the U. S. They were commissioned by Rabbi Elias Gamze of the Loop Orthodox Synagog which used to be in West Madison Street and attracted such visitors as Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Ben Bernie, Jack Pearl, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. Last week workmen were cleaning up the Synagog's new $25,000 quarters?over a restaurant...
...Youngest rabbi at the Pittsburgh meeting was David Philipson, its secretary. By last week Rabbi Philipson, white-haired and goat-bearded at 72, was the only survivor of that historic gathering. Called the "dean of the Reform rabbinate," he is the shepherd of B'ne Israel Congregation in Cincinnati and honorary president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, mouthpiece of Reform Jewry. In the latter capacity Dr. Philipson last week journeyed to Chicago for C. C. A. R.'s 46th annual meeting...
...years the Pittsburgh Platform has stood unchanged. To the conference members who, wearing no such beards of yarmulki as do their Orthodox brothers, looked much like a convention of doctors or dentists, Rabbi Samuel Goldenson key-noted in the Platform's vein: Let Jews beware of any current secular movement which tends to consider Judaism a civilization rather than a religion. But Rabbi Philipson declared the time had come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge...
...sponsored by Very Rev. Richard ("Dick") Sheppard, Canon of St. Paul's, Chaplain to King George V. Further, Garland Anderson claimed the backing of Sir John Simon, icy British Foreign Minister. Less impressively, his New York sponsors were Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, all three of whom lend their names frequently...
...Named Iphigenie for her mother, Iphigenia Wise Ochs, who has always been called Effie. Widow Effie is the daughter of the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Reform Judaism in the U. S. He once wrote a novel based on Greek mythology in which Iphigenia (''Great Princess") is a noble character...