Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrested was a buck-toothed spinster of 36 named Mary Berd. Miss Berd has for some years been private secretary to one Zeida Schmellner onetime "Grand Rabbi" of Rumania before he arrived in the U. S. in 1925 amid the greetings of the acting Mayor of New York and a delegation of Jews. Inspecting the files of Miss Berd and Rabbi Schmellner last week, police and 25 accountants said they uncovered records of nearly $2,000,000 taken in as "loans." According to police who questioned both the rabbi and his secretary, the "racket" worked as follows...
...believed in the rabbi's reputation for sanctity would pay for benefits, understanding that the payment was merely an earnest of his good faith, that it was to be used for charity. Rabbi Schmellner and Miss Berd insisted that these payments were loans, secured by promissory notes. The fact that many of the loans were never repaid they explained as resulting from pious generosity. But police said they found that Miss Berd employed nine men at $100 per week in her transactions, which extended as far as Canada. Riding around in a big limousine, she maintained personal contact with...
Everybody expected that the crisis would be reached during the noonday Friday (Moslem Sunday) service in Jerusalem's Mosque of Omar. The orthodox extremist Rabbi Moses Blau asked the Government to keep Arab villagers out of Jerusalem on that day, was told that the Government could not interfere in the religious affairs of the Arabs. Said the Rabbi: "That is the same reply I received on Aug. 23, 1929, just one hour before the big massacre of Jews began" (TIME, Sept...
...Ohio State University, a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister jointly conducted Holy Week services designed to allay the widespread Christian conviction that Jews alone were responsible for crucifying Jesus Christ. C. Near Albuquerque, N. Mex. on Good Friday, Los Hermanos Penitentes re-enacted their bloody version of Christ's Passion, with increased attention from sightseers and the Press (TIME, March 9). C. In Quebec, Good Friday was celebrated as many Catholics believe it should be everywhere. By proclamation, Mayor J. E. Gregoire ordered all theatres, public buildings, shops closed...
Though Janitor Bibb's dust also was given the final blessing of the African Methodist Church, he was a member of neither sect which honored his memory. Reverently Rabbi Isserman declared: "His psalms were his services faithfully rendered and his prayers were his scrupulous conscientiousness. . . . There was almost an ecstatic rhythm in his dusting of the pews...