Temples

At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem last week a 90-year-old rabbi with a flowing white beard prayed for peace in a quavering voice. But this year's most notable observation of Rosh Hashanah, was in Manhattan, where the new and beautiful Temple Emanu-El, costing $8,000,000, was opened. Famed members of this synagog include, besides the late great Louis Marshall (TIME, Sept. 23), Daniel Guggenheim, Benjamin Mordecai, Adolph S. Ochs, Roger Williams Straus. Rabbi Nathan Krass told them the temple signified that "man doth not live by bread only."

Still uncompleted is the $4,000,000 Rockefeller-given Riverside Church of Manhattan. Last week Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who will be its pastor, gathered his flock into Temple Beth-El and there preached. Beth-El members now attend the new Emanu-El, and are therefore glad to accommodate the Christians by loaning them the vacated synagog.

Also last week Dr. Fosdick held informal dedication of the finished part of the Riverside Church. First in the opening program was a 65-c- supper, cooked in the church's large kitchen, served in the gymnasium to 500 church members.