Word: synagog
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...Home Missions Council found itself sharply divided on the advisability of converting young Jews who regard their own religion with apathy. Said Dr. Ernest Milton Halliday: "... I would say to a young Jew who has left his synagog: 'go back to your rabbi and your synagog and the God you and I hold in common...
...Although more than 400 of the student rioters were arrested when they returned by train to Bucharest and Jassy, last week, dispatches continued to report sporadic outbursts against Jews. At Jassy itself the police were not able to restrain friends of the imprisoned students who "demonstrated" by invading a synagog, while the congregation was at prayer and thrashing 30 Jews & Jewesses. When at Bucharest the arrested students were searched, their pockets were found crammed with loot, and around the waists of many young women students were discovered up to half a dozen pairs of silk stockings which they had removed...
...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...