Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath a perpetually flickering lamp in St. Louis' Temple Israel last week rested a plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel...
...Magnin who does not attend is Rabbi Edgar Fogel Magnin of Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard Temple, a grandson whose congregation includes most of th,e famed Jewish cinema directors, producers, tycoons...
...Russian immigrant who brought him to Hibbing, Minn. at the age of two . . . Hibbing high graduate in to . . . newspaper man in his home town. . . than, three years a student in a Cincinnati theological seminary...with a desire to be a rabbi...
...Rabbi Samuel Schulman of Manhattan: The common sense of the people is bewildered by the tremendous increase of the expense of government. . . . The business sense of the people is timid. . . . The sense of the American people for the spiritual values of the American heritage is disquieted. There is a feeling that we are drifting from the spirit of American institutions...
...decided that the Second Commandment puts no ban on portraying objects, parts of the body or things, orthodox synagogs have done without art for thousands of years. On view in Chicago this week were the first strictly orthodox Jewish synagog murals in the U. S. They were commissioned by Rabbi Elias Gamze of the Loop Orthodox Synagog which used to be in West Madison Street and attracted such visitors as Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Ben Bernie, Jack Pearl, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. Last week workmen were cleaning up the Synagog's new $25,000 quarters?over a restaurant...