Word: rabbis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...announced that U.S. Judaism was hoping to close the gap. It had commissioned Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a synagogue which would "wed the American spirit to the ancient spirit of Israel." Wright's synagogue began as a gleam in the pastoral eye of Mortimer J. Cohen, rabbi of the Beth Sholom Congregation...
...Rabbi Cohen took his ideas on what a modern synagogue should be to Wright, asked him to design the temple. Wright, the son of a Unitarian minister, was intrigued with the challenge. After working out the design in his studio in Arizona, he delivered his plans to Rabbi Cohen...
Columnist Sokolsky became involved with Communism a long time ago. Born in Utica, N.Y., the son of a rabbi, he graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism and was so attracted by the Russian Revolution that he went to Russia in 1917 to see it firsthand. In Petrograd he got a job editing the English-language Russian Daily News. But after the Bolsheviks seized control from the Kerensky government, he quickly became disillusioned with the revolution and fled to China. There he worked for English-language newspapers, later became a special correspondent, whose reports appeared in U.S. and British dailies...
...assortment of freight cars making their way across the nation last week was obviously on no ordinary mission. When the cars left Manhattan, they had been blessed by a cardinal, a rabbi and an Episcopal bishop, had pulled out to a chorus of God Bless America. They carried boxes and crates of supplies ranging from drugs and machinery to pencils. Destination of the cargo: Korea...
...July n, 1949) with prelates such as Pittsburgh's Episcopal Bishop Austin Pardue, who trains prospective ministers for his diocese by having them work in steel mills and coal mines (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951), or they may be stories on such figures as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Rabbi Louis Finkelstein (TIME, April 14, 1952; Oct. 15, 1951). The third aim of the section is to report the news in the field - the meetings, mergers, appointments and pronouncements of the world's churches...