Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rabbi) IRVING F. REICHERT...
...unique Council of Christians and Jews whose joint presidents are Britain's five top-ranking ecclesiastics-the Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican), the Moderator of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (Nonconformist), Arthur Cardinal Kinsley (Roman Catholic Primate of England), and Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz of the British Empire. Only remotely similar organization is America's National Conference of Christians and Jews-and it has no such official church backing, especially among Catholics...
Born in the small town of Rhaunen, near Germany's Ruhr Basin, Kahn arrived in the U.S. as a gangling boy of twelve. Son of an impoverished smalltown Rabbi who peddled fruit for a living on Detroit's streets, young Albert seemed destined to be an infant prodigy musician. But the vicissitudes of fruit peddling made it necessary for young Albert to enter the offices of a Detroit architect as office boy. He was fired from the job because he smelled too strongly of his father's horse, whom he dutifully curried every...
Divorced. James Waterman Wise, writer son of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; by Elizabeth Kraus Wise, his second wife; in Reno...
...Glueck succeeds Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore, who died of a heart attack last October just before he was to be installed. In a troubled period for Jews everywhere-and especially at a time when Reform Jewry has shown a decided trend toward Orthodoxy and a much greater interest in Jewish history-Dr. Glueck is a good choice. He is an outstanding Biblical archeologist, was the youngest director in history of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, proved the veracity of many a moot Old Testament text by his diggings...