Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still Swinging. President Eisenhower also took the offensive against McCarthy, although not until after McCarthy had decided to fire Matthews. The President received a strong anti-Matthews telegram signed by the Rev. John A. O'Brien, Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath and Dr. John S. Bonnell of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.* In strong terms, Eisenhower expressed his agreement with this group. "Generalized and irresponsible attacks that sweepingly condemn the whole of any group of citizens," he wrote, "are alien to America . . . When [they] condemn such a vast portion of the churches or clergy as to create doubt...
...Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), meeting in Estes Park, Coio.. heard its president rebuke "legislators who would seal the lips of prophetic clergymen." Said Rabbi Joseph L. Fink of Buffalo, in a reference to congressional criticism of Methodist Bishop G. Bromiey Oxnam (TIME, March 30): "For any Congressman, in furious self-rectitude, to intimidate clergymen with the threat of besmirching public investigation ... is an unprecedented violation of a Congressman's trust...
...body was gone only a few minutes when Ethel Rosenberg entered the chamber. She wore a dark green print dress with white polka dots. Cloth slippers were on her feet, too, and her hair had been cropped close on top for the electrode's contact. The rabbi intoned the 15th Psalm: "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?" Just before the chair, the prisoner shook hands, then impulsively brushed a kiss on the cheek of a matron accompanying her. She sat down with taut composure, wincing only slightly as the electrode was applied to her head. The mask fell...
...lower East Side, both Julius Rosenberg and his future wife Ethel Greenglass took to Communism in their adolescent years. In so doing, they rejected the Jewish faith of their parents (a sore blow to Julius' father, a garment worker who yearned for his son to be a rabbi). So ardent was 19-year-old Ethel's devotion to the cause that she began indoctrinating her 13-year-old brother David. Then she found a comrade and a beau in Julius, two years her junior and an electrical engineering student at City College of New York...
...women and children. When the camp was liberated 2½ years later, only a few hundred were left alive, and 72 -year-old Leo Baeck was one of them. When the Russians rounded up some petty officials and turned them over to the camp's survivors for vengeance, Rabbi Baeck persuaded his fellow sufferers to leave them unharmed...