Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first instance came in the famed Chicago garmentworkers' strike of 1910. Until then Sidney Hillman had been just an $8-a-week pants cutter. Born in Lithuania, son of a mill owner, grandson of a rabbi, he had studied Russian, absorbed some revolutionary doctrines, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1907, aged...
...Preaching in Rome's newly reopened synagogue, Chief Rabbi Israele Zoller paid a warm tribute to Pope Pius. He told his congregation, which included many a U.S. serviceman, that the Vatican had worked indefatigably to mitigate the suffering of Rome's Jews during the Nazi occupation. The Rabbi said that the Pope himself had sometimes interceded with the Nazis. In some cases he saved Jewish lives, in others he was able to soften Nazi penalties...
...year-old hoodlum, out on parole from reform school, met a 65-year-old rabbi. First the hoodlum insulted the rabbi, then knocked out two of his teeth. A month later Hoodlum John Peluso and Rabbi Sholem Cohn met in a New York court. The charge against Peluso: felonious assault. Said Rabbi Cohn in Yiddish (he cannot speak English): "As a rabbi, I forgive him. I don't want him punished...
...always been a generous G.O.P. contributor; has been a Dewey confidant since 1936. He helped found the National Conference of Christians & Jews. George Zerdin Medalie, 60, Manhattan lawyer's lawyer, who gave Tom Dewey his first public job - that of assistant U.S. district attorney. The son of a rabbi, George Medalie worked his way through Columbia University, became a brilliant trial lawyer. As U.S. District Attorney he convicted the late Jack ("Legs") Diamond of running a still; in private practice, he won Diamond's freedom on a murder charge. Dewey and Medalie admire each other's legal...
...Rabbi Harold H. Mashioff, at whose Temple of the Covenant the desecration scene was filmed, gave consent because the synagogue has been desecrated several times. He found it "difficult to see how any group could take offense at this film." Said he: "In no part of the script was suspicion cast upon any minority or group. All religions are facing this difficulty and we cannot correct an evil without showing what...