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This is what was printed in the story: "To the conference members who, wearing no such beards of yarmulki as do their Orthodox brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...beard is a beard and a yarmulki is a skullcap and you need a Jewish proofreader instead of a goyishc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

What you undoubtedly meant is: To the conference members, who wearing no such beards or yarmulki. . . ." Yarmulki is the Slavic for skullcap; hence your sentence conveys no sense as it stands in the original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...years the Pittsburgh Platform has stood unchanged. To the conference members who, wearing no such beards of yarmulki as do their Orthodox brothers, looked much like a convention of doctors or dentists, Rabbi Samuel Goldenson key-noted in the Platform's vein: Let Jews beware of any current secular movement which tends to consider Judaism a civilization rather than a religion. But Rabbi Philipson declared the time had come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 50 Years After | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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