Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student: "Perhaps we students need to investigate some of our leaders for pettiness and prejudice." But most of the 500 Southern Baptists present thought that the board was right, and that the young ministers were too "interdenominational" for comfort. "I am told," said one minister angrily, "that a Jewish rabbi has been invited to speak at a Sunday night [student] forum." Added another: "A man who doesn't believe in the virgin birth is no more a Baptist than the Pope of Rome...
...President Truman rode over to St. Louis from Independence this week to honor one of his favorite clergymen : Rabbi Samuel Thurman, 71, for 40 years in charge of St. Louis' United Hebrew Congregation. Rabbi Thurman, like Truman a 33rd degree Mason, had worked with him for many years in state Masonic activities; in 1949 he offered a prayer at Truman's inauguration, the second rabbi in history to participate in a presidential inaugural.- Others at the Jefferson Hotel's banquet table were the Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of Roman Catholic St. Louis University...
...first: Rabbi Gershom Mendez Seixas, who firstook part in George Washington's first inaugural...
Sears had also been scheduled to debate Rabbi Leo Shubow on March 11 on the question, "Is Senator Joseph McCarthy an Influence for Good or Evil." Shubow was asked to take the negative side. The debate, scheduled for a Columbus Forum, was called off by the Catholic Church...
...three speakers, McQuade joined Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond of the Hillel Foundation and Professor Henry J. Cadbury of the Divinity School in stressing the need for a greater awareness and understanding of religion on the part of the student...