Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacred moment. The bereaved family and other mourners were gathered one day last week around a gravesite in National Memorial Park cemetery, near Falls Church, Va. across the Potomac from Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly music disrupted the burial ceremony. As the casket was lowered into the earth, it was accompanied by another chorus of mooing mountain music. Afterward, when 20 shocked and weeping mourners protested, Robert F. Marlowe, proprietor of National Memorial Park, was sorry but not surprised. The hillbilly music was just another episode in a running battle...
Back to God (Sun. various times, all radio networks). Special American Legion program, with President Eisenhower, Bishop Fulton Sheen, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, Rabbi Norman Salit...
Emphasizing the psychological rather than the sociological factors surrounding the issue, three of the group--Mrs. Emily Mudd, Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond, and Reverend Robert C. Dodds--felt that religious inter-marriage was always a risky affair...
Director of the Hillel Foundation at Harvard, Rabbi Maurico L. Zigmond said, "The particular religious denomination to follow after marriage should be decided before union. If both parties do not agree to Judaism then it would be hypocritical for me to perform the ceremony and I would have to send them to a civil officer...
...series of compromises between the secular and sacred. The rabbinate has even made a few tactical concessions (most recent: rescinding the rule that before marriage all brides must produce a "certificate of purity" given after a visit to the ritual bath). But for the most part, Polish-born Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and his fellow rabbis have dug in their heels and refused to budge, confident in the prophecy of the great 12th century philosopher, Maimonides, that "in the end Israel will return...