Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began his oration by attacking the bishops of the Catholic Church; "All these men do is be photographed for the pages of the newspaper with a rabbi on one side of them and a minister on the order. They forget all about their own faith. No one was ever martyred for supporting the March of Dimes...
...Walking with him on the street one day, Dr. Schechter stopped at a newsstand to read the latest World Series scores. "Can you play baseball?" he asked. "No," admitted Finkelstein. "Remember this," said the old man. "Unless you can play baseball, you'll never get to be a rabbi in America...
...talked to the 16-year-old boy whose father runs a chain of retail stores. Father wants me to go into his business, he said. I am the only child. But why should I waste my life in business? I want to go to the seminary and become a rabbi...
...women of Jewish origin have renounced Judaism as their spiritual country. Such men & women think (or say they think) that the word "Jew" should be on a par with "Baptist," "Congregationalist" or "Catholic"-and should apply only to the Jews who have elected to be, or to remain, Jews. Rabbi Finkelstein's Torah teaches him that the covenant God made with Israel is an inescapable covenant. "The choosing by God," says he, "was like Selective Service." It is binding on all Jews, to the last generation on earth...
Three times Rabbi Finkelstein and the congregation repeated: Blessed be His name, whose glorious Kingdom is for ever and ever. Seven times the shout arose: The Lord...