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...scoring the persecution of Jews as unChristian, and writing: "If we do not compromise, if we are willing to suffer for our faith, we will find the path to the heart of our people. There are in Holland more than 7,000 who do not want to bow before Baal. And behind these 7,000 and more, stand millions who are united today in one common creed. This union needs no demonstrations. One demonstration is made by them each week, every Sunday morning, when they go to church." To the Nazis' annoyance, Dutch churches still pray for "Her Majesty...
Rabbi Schneersohn is head of a Hasidic sect (150,000 in the U. S.) called the Habad. Hasidism is the faith which Baal Shem Tob, Polish mystic and healer of the 18th Century, offered to downtrodden Jews who had turned away from the dogmatic formalism of their rabbis. The Hasid sang, danced, took joy in his faith, felt himself close to God. At his worst a dreamy, soft-handed, mystical fellow, the Hasid became the butt of many an Eastern European joke. After the time of Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged...
...story is made strangely new by unexpected flashes of modern psychology analyzing Jonah's weakness and his strength, by the scene inside the belly of the whale, in which the whale out of consideration for Jonah's position has had nothing to drink, or the scene at the Hotel Baal in Nineveh, where the Lady chairman of the Semiramis Club, a sort of women's Rotary, a part ably acted by Miss Evelyn Stern, speaking of the post-war generation of young people with their fondness for mixed Greek wines and Ethiopian music, calls upon the Prophet from...
...only 25 minutes to pronounce Mr. Sterry guilty. They had found no worth in his defense, led by Negro E. Lionel Cross, that his attack was upon "the old Jewish God" and that there is "no more blasphemy in talking against this God than there is against Jupiter or Baal." The judge sentenced him to 60 days in jail...
...again a choice between God and Baal; it is also a renewal of the issue in Pilate's court. In that historic trial- the greatest in history-force, impersonated by Pilate, occupied the throne...