Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will come and is coming when Christianity and Judaism will be considered the natural development from a common source of religion and not opposing religions," said Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, in his speech at the Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon. The noted Jewish leader pleaded for co-operation and understanding between Jews and Christians for the propagation of the ideals which are common to both. Dr. Wise, founder and acting president of the Jewish Institute of Religion, gave the lecture on "Judaism" which was one of the several features of the "Lecture Course in Religion" which...
...Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of the Free Synagogue in New York will be the speaker at tomorrow's lecture of the General Course in Religion, which the Graduate Schools Society and the University Christian Association are conducting at the Phillips Brooks House at 4 o'clock...
...greatest evil of our civilization," continued Rabbi Levi, "is our two kinds of law,--church and state. We ought only to have one. Years ago, when the church and the state were one, there was but a single law. This law, whether you call it ecclesiastical or secular does not matter, covered all cases and its great advantage lay in that its provisions were enforced by both the temporal and spiritual power. Now that these are separate, the secular law no longer receives the sanction of the spiritual; men say that, since the law is man-made...
...Rabbi Levi, explaining that there could be no "static religion", denied the existence of an orthodox religion...
...There is no church," said Rabbi Levi, "that has today the same laws it had in the Middle Ages...