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...touch on Arguello Boulevard. The coruscant half-globe catches the sun's rays, seems to blaze with its own light. On an especially sunny day, last week, when the dome was very bright 600 Jews of the "reformed" faith gathered underneath it. One of them, glancing at the synagog, quoted "How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places, O Israel." Thus opened the 31st Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hebrew Council | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Soon the synagog echoed with prayers, speeches, music. From 60 voices rang the triumph of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah* The speeches had to do with various aspects of Judaism, youth, science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hebrew Council | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...joins a show, again gulps huzzas. Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Bulldog into Synagog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Albert Begleite, Seymour Cohen, Bernard Silver, George Zuckerman, Philip Ausuacks ran howling down a ^treet, pursued by a black bulldog. At the corner was a synagog; knowing well that the bulldog would never dare to follow hem inside, the five screeching urchins scampered toward its door and jostled .hrough. When the bulldog reached the door, he pushed it open with his flat snub nose and dashed inside. Barking furiously and growling in the solemn gloom, he cornered the five boys and bit each on one or both legs. After that, the bulldog, still snarling, was taken to the Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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