Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, with the future of Jewry in Europe darker than ever, two of these U. S. branches met in Michigan for rabbinical conferences, voiced clearly what was troubling Zion in the world's No. 1 Jewish country. At-Charlevoix, 130 members of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform ) discussed "The Jewish People in the World of Today: Its Status and Its Problems." At Detroit the Rabbinical Assembly of America (Conservative) chose as its theme "The American Rabbi in the Modern World...
More philosophical was short, sad-eyed Rabbi Emil William Leipziger, well-loved rabbi of New Orleans' Touro Synagogue, president of the Central Conference, in addressing his brother rabbis at Charle voix: "Remedies for Israel's agony and the world's pain will not come from what we say here nor do here. We may even in our human frailty or under controlled forces do that which deviates from the main stream of the ideal-but right or wrong, in victory or in defeat, in self-fulfillment or in frustration, we will not dissolve our partnership with...
...most clergymen who have been preaching pacifism and U. S. neutrality now favor all help to the Allies short of war. Typical are two Chicago churchmen: Methodist Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf and Dr. Louis Leopold Mann, influential rabbi of Sinai Temple. They believed stanchly in the Johnson Act. thought U. S. defense ample. But last week they strongly urged all credit to the Allies, all speed in building U. S. defense...
Jews first celebrated Passover 3,432 springs ago when the Lord smote Egyptian first-born but passed over Jewish homes. Last week U. S. Jews instituted two innovations in the ceremony. In San Francisco, Rabbi Rudolph Coffee partook of the meal with 500 Jews and Christians. In Manhattan while Rabbi Saul Appelbaum and six of his congregation ate, the ceremonial meal was telecast...
...Churches of Christ in America, at present Chairman of the Council's Commission for the Study of Christian Unity. "The Problem of World Organization"; Dr. Gerald B. Phelan, President of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, noted psychologist, "The Problem of the Individual"; Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Rabbi of The Temple, Cleveland, O., "The Problem of Racial Relations"; and Dr. Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, "The Problem...