Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious divorce by handing his wife or her agent a get (writ of divorcement) before a rabbi. But many another Jew gets a civil divorce or deserts his wife, without bothering to give her the get which, religiously at least, sets her free. This leaves the woman an agunah, neither wife, maid nor widow, who cannot remarry in the synagog...
Died. Effie Wise Ochs, 76, relict of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times, mother-in-law of the Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; of heart disease; in White Plains. N. Y. Her father, the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati, founded Reformed Judaism...
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TIME regrets that it misheard Rabbi Mann's benediction, delivered in Hebrew and English, but still thinks there was good poetry in the TIME version: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...
...David and Saul. According to Director Wylie, Columbia aims to "freshen and reanimate" the stories, employing ablest writers to do so. Margaret Sangster did Job, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) Joseph. Thyra Samter Winslow and Ernest Howard Culbertson are among those selected to write future scripts. A Manhattan rabbi, priest and minister review the acts, copies of which Columbia will send in any quantity to churches throughout...