Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago Rector William Casper Munds of the Church of the Good Shepherd invited Rabbi Sidney Wolf of Temple Bethel to join him in a union Thanksgiving service, with the Episcopal church decorated by its women's Guild and the Jewish Sisterhood of the Temple, Episcopalians and Jews acting as ushers, the day's offering to go to the needy of both congregations, and the sermon to be preached by the rabbi. His subject this week: "True Brotherly Love...
Down an Episcopal church aisle in Corpus Christi, Tex. this week was to march a Jewish rabbi bearing a Menorah or seven-branched temple candelabrum. An Episcopal rector was to read from the Reformed Jewish prayer book. The rabbi in turn was to pronounce the solemn syllables of the King James version of the New Testament. Cheek by jowl in the church pews would sit Episcopalians and Jews of the only U. S. town named for the sacred Body of Christ...
Corpus Christi's interfaith venture, probably unique in the U. S., owes much to the calibre of its brotherly shepherds. Rector Munds, 44, is president of the city's Community Chest, its Planning Commission, and chairman of the Boy Scouts. Rabbi Wolf, 30 next month, is a Rotarian, member of the Civic Music Association, chairman of the county Red Cross...
First proposed in 1856, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was not begun until May 1933. To celebrate its opening, California scheduled a three-day fiesta which officially began with speeches at the bridgehead at the Oakland end. Rabbi A. A. Stern offered prayers for the 24 men who lost their lives during construction. Herbert Hoover told how the commission he appointed in 1929 first decided that the bridge was possible. Charles Henderson, an officer of Reconstruction Finance Corp., which financed the bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute...
...midweek beside the Potomac River and before the week was out had crossed the South Platte River. Wherever he was, he was in the midst of his campaign for reelection. By accident or otherwise, his visitors at Hyde Park included leaders of groups which are giving him strong backing: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan, Monsignor Stephen Connolly of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York* and A. F. of L.'s William Green, who publicly promised that 90% of Labor's votes would be cast for Roosevelt...