Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder & editor of The Current Jewish Record is frail, earnest Sidney Wallach, 26, lately managing editor of the defunct Jewish Tribune. For active associates Editor Wallach enlisted Rabbi Louis Israel Newman as an authority on religion; Harry Schneiderman, assistant secretary of the American Jewish Committee (of which the late Louis Marshall was president) as an expert on Jewish foreign affairs; and Dr. Israel Schapiro, chief of the Division of Semitic & Oriental Literature of the Library of Congress, authority on Jewish scholarship...
...Menuchim. They were about to send for him when the War broke out. When the U. S. went in, Shemariah enlisted; the news of his death killed his mother. Miriam, now a nymphomaniac, had to be put in an asylum. Pious Mendel Singer turned at last against his religion, put away his robes and holy books. "People gossiped about him, saying that he went now and then into the Italian section, in order to eat pork and irritate...
...first place, he is unjust to the two men who give the course in an excellent and scholarly fashion without any undue obeisance to the hallowed anachronisms which characterized early Christian institutions, to say nothing of its latter day successors. Institutional religion (which, I fear me, Cuthbert confuses with Religion) has been subject to trial and error and the absurd circumlocutions of the early church fathers justly merit amusement for their logic as well as veneration for their audacity. I suggest that if liberality of approach be too much for Cuthbert he might strike his tents from the pleasances...
...Reverend Thomas Leonard Harris, Adviser in Religion, will conduct the services in the Faculty Room of University Hall this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...gather, from the theological lectures in History 57 that the religious formulations of our culture are based entirely on ignorance and an almost deliberate perversity. But to dwell on the intellectual absurdity of a theological doctrine is as irrelevant, to an understanding either of the doctrine itself or of religion in general, as ridicule of the linear distortions of El Greco or Diego Ribera would be to an understandings of art. These distortions must of course, be studied, and may be laughed at, but not at the expense of the deeper meaning. That there is any deeper meaning seems...