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The New Synagogue Of Chelm

The residents of the city of Chelm, known for their wisdom, decide that Chelm needs a new synagogue. After-drama speaker: Herman Katz, member of the board of overseers of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

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The Eternal Light was an American radio and television program on the NBC Radio Network, produced in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary, that was broadcast between 1944 and 1989. Featuring interviews, commentary, and award-winning dramas from the perspective of Judaism, it began on radio in 1944 and continued as a weekly radio program through 1989. A 1946 program, for example, dramatized humanitarian Lillian Wald's founding of New York City's Henry Street Settlement in 1895. The May 31, 1959, program featured a tour of the Holy Land narrated by Ralph Bellamy.

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“The New Synagogue Of Chelm.” The Eternal Light. Radio broadcast, May 25, 1952.

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