Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kook (for he is somehow colonel) is Chief Rabbi of Palestine. He is the most venerable figure in contemporary Judaism. Born in northern Russia, his early ambition was to go someday to Palestine. For this purpose he studied Hebrew clandestinely. Twenty years ago he was offered the Rabbinate of Jaffa, and, giving up a well-paying position as rabbi of Busk, Russia, he went. Today the Jewish world regards him as its philosopher-saint. His landing on American soil was greeted by 300 rabbis and thousands of aged patriarchs, standing in the windy cold. Why did he come...
More broadly, he is here to cooperate with other Chief Rabbis (e. g., the Chief Rabbi of Lithuania) to get money for all European and Near East Jewish schools...
...sermon of the week was preached by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. He preached it on anniversary eve- the 52nd of his birth, the 30th of his ministry and the 17th of the founding of his Free Synagogue. He preached it to one of Mr. Adolph Och's reporters (The New York Times...
There was a dinner at the National Republic Club, Manhattan. Nathan Krass, famed rabbi, made an impassioned appeal for unity among Catholics, Protestants and Jews to foster religious instruction. Said he: "The one great church in America that has done its duty (in this respect) is the Catholic Church." Whereupon Ernest Stires, famed P. E. rector of St. Thomas, said that criticism of the parochial school system of the Catholic Church by non-Catholics should be deferred until other churches had done as much for religious education...
Here is the Rabbi's thesis: "We can't have a common religion in the common public schools. We can't have a priest, minister and rabbi visit each school, for to do so would be to segregate the children into groups in an institution in which they should not be divided. The purpose of the public schools is to make for a political democracy. We cannot bring a divisive force into the public schools...