Word: synagog
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...writ of divorcement) before a rabbi. But many another Jew gets a civil divorce or deserts his wife, without bothering to give her the get which, religiously at least, sets her free. This leaves the woman an agunah, neither wife, maid nor widow, who cannot remarry in the synagog...
Composer Saminsky is neat, bald, hardly more than five feet high. He helped found the League of Composers, persuaded it to put on modern operas and ballets. Since 1924 he has been music director at Temple Emanu-El, biggest synagog in Manhattan...
...Providence the Zionists adopted a resolution demanding arms for Palestine Jews, another condemning Jewish Communists for inciting disorder in the homeland. Then they adjourned, many of them still marveling that they had managed to elect Rabbi Wise their leader. That head of Manhattan's Free Synagog has a large collection of enemies and critics, most of them Jews who dislike the American Jewish Congress, of which he is president. Dedicated to the principle of holding periodic World Jewish Congresses, the U. S. group elected delegates last month who in Geneva next month will probably elect Rabbi Wise their world...
...that drawing room are a marine Virgin Mary painted by Kenneth Denton Shoesmith, a sacristy and robing room for traveling churchmen. The Queen Mary also has a synagog. But neither pictures nor description of this Jewish house of worship have emanated from Cunard publicity offices, which have boasted about everything else aboard...
...Southampton, where the Queen Mary was berthed last week, her synagog was quietly consecrated by Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire. Bearded Rabbi Hertz gazed appreciatively at the handsome seagoing synagog, complete with Shulcran (reading desk). Holy Ark containing the Torah (scroll of Hebrew law) and everlasting lamp. Then he made a little speech pointing out that this was the first time a synagog had ever been included in the original plans of a ship. France's Normandie recently added a synagog seating 48 to take care of Jewish...