Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbi Zigmond thought it would be "almost impossible to represent all religions...
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was the rabbi of a Manhattan congregation at 22, but he was torn between his own theological liberalism and the unbending Orthodox Judaism he preached. "I worked hard," he said later, "to say something in my sermons that I believed and that would also appeal to the people in my congregation." Discouraged, he seriously thought at one point of switching to selling life insurance...
...University will be endorsing Protestant Christianity. The Chaplain will obviously work in close cooperation with the Roman Catholic chaplain, and the Jewish rabbi as is now done at Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. As a matter of fact, the majority of affiliated students are Protestants...
...respect it as one of several simple maneuvers which have the same meaning of reverence . . . The mutual stimulation, reinforcement and encouragement that the individuals of a group receive from one another are well known to psychology, and the effect of a common relationship to a leader-pastor, rabbi or priest-has been carefully examined by many scientists, including Freud. Singing together has so great and obvious a value in furthering interpersonal linkages and enthusiasm in a common purpose that it is surprising that it was so long neglected by the Christian church ' and only introduced by Luther (and thereafter...
...Died. Rabbi Zvi Rabinsohn, 88, father of Communist Boss Ana Pauker of Rumania ; after long illness; in Tel Aviv, Israel. Fanatically Orthodox himself, he brought his ungainly daughter up strictly, left Rumania for Israel after the Reds (aided by Ana) took over, never saw Ana again...