Word: synagog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spiritual leadership of that congregation three years ago went Rabbi Solomon Goldman, more learned in Talmud than even Mr. Katz, but slightly, very slightly less Orthodox. He suggested and, through synagog politics, persuaded the men & women to sit together during his services. That innovation was terrible to righteous minds. It violated ancient Jewish, Semitic, Oriental traditions. Women should hide themselves in the House of God.* Mr. Katz was vexed. Many of the congregation left. In Cleveland where the P'selvah Katz clan numbers almost a thousand, there is a saying: "to fight like a Katz." Abraham A. Katz remained...
Last week Mr. Katz was in Manhattan for the Orthodox Congregations convention. There he heard the convention asked to approve men & women sitting together in synagogs, and he blazed. "Jewish law is clear on the subject. We need no argument on that here. Five hundred years from now the Orthodox synagog will find the women and the men still seated separately, and we do not want to depart from the law today!" The rabbis agreed with him. They decided to establish a national board of Jewish education to train children of the Orthodox in Hebrew knowledge and Jewish religion. Already...
...three opponents; and six times he helped his mates in plays. He made no errors. But Buffalo scored no runs. Toledo made four, and won the game & the series. Andrew Cohen's share of the series' receipts was $750. Toledo players, victorious, received $1,000 each. ¶Past Brooklyn synagogs on Yom Kippur Day screeched fire trucks; from Brooklyn synagogs ran children and fasting members of congregations. The owner of the Boston Laundry had neglected to turn off his gas iron the eve of Yom Kippur, and, pious, would not approach his place of livelihood on the holy...
...this day courtiers at the Hague recall the Queen Mother's words of blistering scorn when Crown Princess Juliana, precocious at 15, became innocently infatuated with a 30 year old Jewish widower, Gabriel Alara, a sweet-voiced, black-eyed cantor in an Amsterdam synagog (TIME, Dec. 8, 1923.) But such is the winsomeness of Princess Juliana that, in her presence, all is soon forgiven...
...Jews consider his portrayal of the synagog as a fallen, ineffectual institution, a libel on their religion. Vandals befouled this particular mural with ink some years back...