Word: rabby
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Died. Dr. David de Sola Pool, 85, retired rabbi of New York City's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and a world leader of Judaism; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Pool was one of three Americans on the Zionist Commission to Palestine in 1919; the next year he was in charge of the distribution of American funds to Jewish war victims in Palestine and Syria. An authority on the history of Jews in America, he made it his mission to promote understanding of their important role in settling the New World. In Portraits Etched in Stone (1952), he described the arrival...
...Cartoonist Capp ignored that, launching into a brief monologue that included the evening's best one-liners: "Who would ever have thought you could elect a conservative from New York [Senator-elect James Buckley]? It used to be that you only admitted to being a conservative to your rabbi or priest or family doctor. Now it is legal to practice conservatism between consenting adults...
...culture that made pragmatism, step saving and time saving virtues in themselves. Because there are different values and plenty of free time in the new culture, gardening (organically), grinding wheat, baking bread, preparing yogurt and making a quiet ceremony of cooking and eating are all parts of the scene. Rabbi Arthur Green, member of an experimental community in Cambridge, Mass., has even suggested that "maybe in our day keeping kosher should mean eating natural foods and keeping away from cellophane and TV dinners...
...priest of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Chicago, announced that careless driving is a "serious sin against society, fellow man and God" and that "traffic safety is a religious and moral problem as well as a physical and educational one." Last April 15 in the Herald Traveler, Rabbi Judea B. Miller of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, objected to that paper's picturing grapes as part of Passover Feasts. He said the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis was supporting the California grape boycott, had determined it to be a religious and moral issue, and, basing its decision...
...theologian Rev. Hans Kung reports that a secret Vatican document recently circulated among selected bishops would use Vatican II "letter" to revert to Vatican I "spirit," leave only the Pope with real power, make "legalisms of dogma and dogmatize law" -this last, the kind of fusion Father Cunningham and Rabbi Miller seem to be approaching with their sinful driving and tref table grapes...