Word: yarmulki
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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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...
...beard is a beard and a yarmulki is a skullcap and you need a Jewish proofreader instead of a goyishc...
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...
...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...
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