Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbi!" Saul Alinsky and Joe Meegan were also there last week for the bishop's 25th anniversary. The Jewish sociologist and the Irish playground director were the bishop's right & left hands in the late !30's when he set out to fight Communism among the tough, discontented unemployed of Chicago's stockyards. The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council brought democracy and self-respect into an explosive situation. The packers, who at first did not like the unionization that went with it, learned to be grateful for the bishop's work...
...virago pushed her way towards him as he was leaving. "I'm a Catholic!" she screamed. "You're not a Catholic-you're a nigger-lover and a Jew-lover. You call yourself a bishop. You're not a bishop, you're a rabbi." And she spat in his face...
Bishop Sheil did not move a muscle. "I thank you. madam, for the compliment of your action and your words." he said calmly. "Rabbi? That is what they called our Lord...
...Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein of Temple Brith Kodesh in Rochester called for more religion in Reform Judaism, even though it be at the expense of social action. "Hitherto," he said, "we have concentrated on defending ourselves against bigots and supporting our brethren overseas . . . Now the American Jewish community is becoming free to give primacy to the task of making itself a strong moral force in this country...
...glimpse of something greater and truer than anything I had hitherto seen in the worldly world." He said goodbye to Mimi and rejoined his outfit, but after another tiff with his C.O., he quit the army for keeps. He turned to exploring. First mastering Hebrew, he posed as a rabbi in order to go into the Rif (the hill country of Morocco), something no more than half a dozen white men had done by 1882. After eleven months and as many hairbreadth escapes, he came out, having mapped 1,100 square miles of previously unexplored territory...