Word: synagog
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Through the squalid streets of Zlatshev, a small Polish town near Lemberg. hurried excited Jews one day last month. They had heard-as had many a Jew throughout Galicia-of a wonderful thing that was happening at their synagog. Other Poles might call the Galician Jews vulgar and ignorant. But they had a saint, pious Pinchas Bloch. He was even now crouching on the synagog steps. Chanting psalms, clutching his long beard, he was praying God to send the Jewish people a Messiah. Until then, Pinchas Bloch would eat no food, move not from the synagog. The Zlatshev Jews prayed...
...Popsy") Welch, Dean of U. S. Medicine, board president of Rockefeller Institute, professor of history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University ...... Sc.D. Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, N. Y. U. alumnus ...... Mus.D. Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange ..... C.S.D. Jonah Bondi Wise, rabbi of Manhattan's Central Synagog, editor of The American Israelite ..... Litt.D...
...Church of the Air," beginning Sept. 13. Two half-hour services would be broadcast nationally: one for Protestants at 10 a. m., one for Catholics and Jews on alternate Sundays at 2:30 p. m. Superintended by religious leaders cooperating with Columbia, the services would approximate church or synagog devotions as closely as possible. The Rt. Rev. Irving Peake Johnson will open for the Protestant period, Cardinal O'Connell for the Catholic, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise for the Jewish...
Orthodox rabbis with year-round synagog jobs last week started a selfish campaign against "mushroom" synagogs wherein a large part of Jewry celebrates Rosh Hashonah (New Year's day) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Those holidays respectively occur this year Sept. 23-24 and Oct. 2. Already many a rabbi without a post is canvassing unchurched Jews to buy seat tickets in his temporary schnl'. On the other hand the unchurched, after trying vainly to buy seats in regular synagogs, are seeking to hire rabbis to lead them in high holiday ritual. This is basically not very...
Last week Dr. David de Sola Pool, rabbi of Manhattan's Spanish & Portuguese Synagog, presided over the Union of Sephardic Congregations.? The chief problems are to make a new English translation of their Hebrew prayer book; to organize a U. S. school to train rabbis in their ritual, which is slightly different from the Ashkenazic ritual. (Sephardic rabbis now must be imported. Rabbi Pool was trained in England...