Word: synagog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religious section of your issue of Dec. 7, p. 20, announcement is made of the sale of the Temple Emanu-El, famous synagog of New York, for $7,500,000 to a "Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements...
Temple Emanu-El, famed synagog on the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 43rd St., Manhattan, erected 57 years ago on land which cost $55,000, was sold last week for $7,500,000 to a Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements. As the site for a new temple, the congregation (the Reformed Hebrew Society) has purchased the large marble dwelling at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave., and 65th St. owned by Vincent Astor, and upon its ruins will erect a magnificent temple...
Unclean entered the wailing place, full synagog. They listened thunderstruck to his blasphemy. They growled. They arose to rend him. Leah, whose beloved life he had had to break and to whom he was "dead," cried them from defilement, cried their thumbs to their ears to defeat his sacrilege. After the fast she saw the face of her guilt a last time, calling her Yahweh's Avenger, by night to go to Eli with a knife and at dawn to the police station. Little Reuben was left to cry in the wilderness, to hate Christ and Yahweh alike...
...Brooklyn, at Beth Hakneses Anshei Bialystok Synagog, 500 guests in cloaks and suits had assembled to witness the marriage of one Ann Shapiro to one Harry Levy. At 6 p. m., the bride uttered a scream. She had forgotten the marriage license. A wedding guest, dispatched for it, was stopped by a traffic policeman. At 3 p. m., the limp guests stood up, rejoicing that Cantor J. Briah had begun the ceremony. Came a stern, interrupting voice-that of the cantor of the synagog, one A. Gartenhaus. He forbade the function to proceed unless he conducted it. The haggard wedding...
Three pickpockets went on business to a Jewish synagog in Manhattan. Pickpocket Levine (Jewish) warned Pickpockets Alternaro and Presco (Italians) to buy Jewish Bibles, which they did. The rabbi caused their arrest. "How did you suspect them," asked the Magistrate of the rabbi. "Alternaro and Presco took off their hats in the synagog," replied the rabbi...