Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME stated that the late Houdini was the son of Rabbi Weiss. When I ventured forth with this information I was ridiculed...
...late Harry Houdini was indeed born to the name of Weiss. The father was a scholarly rabbi (TIME, Nov. 24, 1924). But let not scholarly Rabbi Weiss be confused with famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan...
...subjects. The Sunday Afternoon Lecture Course on Religion has been continued this year with an average attendance, during the first half year of about 300 men. Professor R. C. Cabot opened the course by speaking on "The Need of Religion." The Rev. A. F. Hickey spoke on "Roman Catholicism", Rabbi S. S. Wise on "Judaism," Dean W. L. Sperry on "Protestantism," Prof. Kirsopp Lake on "The Modern Trend of Religion," and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick on "The Future of the Church." In addition to these speakers, Raymond Robins spoke on "The Outlawry of War," Prof. A. T. Davison, Prof...
...startling to behold the always opinionated but seldom unsophisticated New York World pitching into "Lampy" (as Harvards call their campus fool) like a Dutch uncle or beard-tweaked rabbi, belaboring the unimportantly obvious. "Now it becomes," said the World, "a painful duty...
...Jews of Bessarabia (20% of the urban population) read last week with passive indignation of how Senator Rabbi Zirelson, their sole representative in the Rumanian Senate, had felt called upon to resign from the Senate after passionately attacking the anti-Semite policy of the Government. The Senators, urbane, accepted Rabbi Zirelson's resignation and voted 80 to 17 not to print his speech in the Official Gazette...