The First U. S. Jewish Prayer Book

UJA 'Ambassador' Jesse Meets With Ben-Gurion

An American Jewish Press Feature

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To Isaac Pinto (1721-1791), who was an active member of the
Shearith Israel Synagogue in New York, goes the credit for having
.prepared what is believed to have been the first Jewish prayer
book to be published in America.
The title page of this Prayer Book, published in New York in
1766, is reproduced in the Jewish Encyclopedia which appeared at
the turn of the century, and reads:

PRAYERS
for
SHABBATH, ROSH-HASHANAH, and YOM KIPPUR
or
The SABBATH, the BEGINNING of the YEAR,
and
The DAY of ATONEMENT:
With
The AMIDAH and MUSAPH of the MOADIM,
or
SOLEMN SEASONS
According to the Order of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Translated by ISAAC PINTO
And for him printed by JOHN HOLT, in New York
A.M. 5526

It was serious business to GEORGE JESSEL
(right) as he conferred in Jerusalem with Prime
Minister DAVID BEN-GURION (center) and
MORITZ M. GOTTLIEB, United Jewish Appeal
chairman for regions, on the need for immedi-
ate cash to help Israel through its current eco-
nomic crisis. With his 11-year old daughter
Jerilyn, the noted Hollywood producer toured the

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By LEON GUTTERMAN

Copyright 1952, Jewish Telegraphic
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Jerry Lewis: "If the world
laughs at you, laugh right back
at it. It's as funny as you are."
Ha•po Matx: "Many people
think it unlucky to postpone a
wedding. The superstition has
no foundation as long as you
keep on postponing it."
Artur Rubinstein: "To keep
young, associate with young peo-
ple. To get old in a hurry, try
keeping up with them."
Oscar Levant: "The modern
cautious lover checks into how
steady she is in her job."
Norman Corwin: "A lot of
people too polite to talk with full
mouths will go around talking
with empty heads."
Hank Greenberg: "The short-
est perceptible unit of time is
that between the traffic light's
change and the honk from the
driver behind you."
Groucho M a r x : "Another
thing about being poor is that
your kids in your old age don't
break your heart by asking a
court to declare you incom-
petent."
Alan Jay Lerner: "Some men,
are known by their deeds,
others by their mortgages."
Leonard Bernstein: "The man
who ,invented the eraser had
the human race pretty well
sized up."
Phil Silvers: "The upper crust
is often made up of a lot of
crumbs held together by their
own dough."
Molly Picon: "Our friend has a
neighbor who carries so much
life insurance that his wife is
mad at him every morning, when
he wakes up."
Paul Muni: "Ever notice? The
man who never made an enemy
never made anything."
James J. Brown: "Let's profit
by the mistakes of others. We
may not live long enough to
make them ourselves."
George Burns: "There are said
to be only seven original' jokes,
and all but one of them go clear
back to Adam. They can't blame
him for the mothe•-in-law one."
Harry Hershfield: "A small
town is where the telephone op-
erator gives you the right num-
ber when you ask for the wrong
one."
Billy Rose : "What this country
needs is a machine that does the
work of one man and takes 15
men to operate it."
Sophie Tucker: "There's one
place where inflation has not
set in. A good mother still is
worth a dozen youth reform
groups."
Helen Rubenstein: "Do unto
others as though you were the
others."
Cary Grant: "I'd hate to have
to shuffle off before we see how
civilization wriggles out of this

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But the maharnat of the London congregation would not per-
mit the use of Pinto's translation. Yet Ezra Stiles, president of
Yale University whom Pinto befriended, referred to him in his
diary on 1790 as "a learned Jew at New York." Stiles considered
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immigrant camps, and completed scenes for a him a good Hebrew scholar.

UJA film. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion lauded
Jessel's efforts as a good-will ambassador for the
UJA. On arrival home, Jessel called upon all
communities to support the UJA's current $35,16
000,000 cash campaign as the best way to help
Israel safeguard and extend the "miraculous
achievements" of its first four years.

Eddie Cantor: "There's a sim-
ple way to keep up with the
Joneses. Just slow down and in
a few years you'll meet them
coming back."
Jack Benny: "A pessimist is
a fellow who sizes himself up
and gets sore about it."
Joe E. Lewis: "A' spendthrift
is a mighty nice person to be
around."
Ruth Roman: "You go up
in life, and you come down.
And it's a toss-up on which
trip you - meet the nicer peo-
pie. ,

Hedy Lamarr: "Maybe it's
good that men don't understand
women. Women understand
women, and don't like them."
Artie Shaw: "If you must tell
your troubles to someone, the
psychiatrist costs more than the
old-time bartender, but not as
much as the other woman."
Judy Holliday: "Civilization
doesn't always time things right.
Lipstick would have wiped off
the old celluloid collars."
George Jean Nathan: "Some
people are like blotters; they
soak it all up but get it back-
wards."
Irwin Shaw: "If there's any-
thing that hurts more than pay- ,
ing income tax, it is not having
to pay income tax."
Dorothy Parker: "Six feet of
moist earth is said to be effec-
tive protection -against atomic
bombs. So all you have to do
to be safe after death is to keep
the earth moist."
George S. Kaufman: "One of
the reasons we have divorce
courts is because many hus-
bands who promised they would

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Shelley Winters: "It's always
a good plan to carry your bride
over the threshold. Thus, you
always can feel that you sup-
ported her until she put her foot
down."
Paulette Goddard: "Now the
scientists are trying to dehy-
drate water. It's something like
taking the him and her out of
love."
Ben Hecht: "I would like to
live on 1.951 wages, 1932 prices,
1926 dividends, 1910 taxes."
Moss -Hart: "The trouble with
depressions is that they come at
such inconvenient times . .
when everybody is out of work."
Chico Marx: "In the good old
days when you wanted a horse
to stand still, you tied him to a
hitching post. Today you place
a bet on him."
Sholem Asch: "The best se-
curity for old age is to be
respectful to your children."
Marlene Dietrich: "The kind
of beauty that wears best is
the kind that grows on one."
Vicki Baum: "You don't get
ulcers from what you eat. You
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