Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the land headlines blared RABBI WISE SAYS JEWS SHOULD ACCEPT JESUS. As the implication of those words sank in, Jews became excited and commenced to flay famed Manhattan Rabbi Stephen S. Wise right and left. The Agudath Harabonim* issued an edict against him. Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, professor of the Talmud at the New York Jewish Theological Seminary, declared: "Rabbi Wise does not represent the beliefs of a majority of Jews...
...length someone troubled to discover that Rabbi Wise had actually only said that modern Jewry must accept Jesus as a great Jewish teacher and indorse His ethical code. Later the Rabbi explained, that he had used the words "accept Jesus" in the sense of "accept Jesus as a man and a Jew." He said: "There is no question of embracing Christianity save by Christians...
...Rabbi Stephen S. Wise was one of those who lightly indulged...
...wits on the stage. The amazing feature was that everyone took the caricaturing of his own race as a great joke. Caricature is, by the way, the correct word, for only the Irish girl most charmingly played by Miss Lorna Carroll, the Jewish boy, the priest and the rabbi, are in any sense real. The other roles were pure burlesque, although Mr. White as the old Jewish father, had moments of true dramatic power...
...assembled at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, to discuss the plight of their coreligionists in Eastern Europe. David A. Brown, Jewish organizer, proposed a plan for assisting Russian Jews to get back to the farm. He was supported by Julius Rosenwald and Louis Marshall. He was emotionally opposed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise who urged concentration of Jewish efforts in Palestine. After a day's debate, Messrs. Brown, Marshall, Rosenwald, Wise, H. H. Lehman, Felix Warburg, Nathan Straus, retired, a committee, to a room. Thence issued a compromise calling for Jewish colonization, but not specifying Russia...