Religion: Pathological Addiction

Than Stephen Samuel Wise there is no more famed rabbi in the U. S. He has a son, James Waterman Wise. Son Wise is 27. Preparing for the Jewish ministry, in which the preceding seven Wise generations have been engaged, he suddenly recanted after studies at Columbia University and Cambridge.

In the book entitled Jews Are Like That young Wise discussed Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court, Nathan Straus, philanthropist, and seven others, including his father. Of Rabbi Wise, young Wise wrote:

"He has an almost pathological addiction to antitheses, a delight in epigrams which borders on the abnormal,...

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