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Among the hundred-odd fairly odd characters who live through the two decades (1910-30) spanned by the book, the least forgettable are: Mrs. Tregunter who lives on weak tea, lettuce leaves and hatred of the Jews; Rabbi Shulman who has the Talmud on the brain; Benny Edelman whose rescue of Tommie Wright from drowning induces Philanthropist Emmanuel to give a Magnolia Street party, which brings the Jews and gentiles together temporarily. But Mrs. Wright sees Benny naked after the rescue; their subsequent marriage cuts Benny off from his Jewish family for good...
...Rabbi Harry Levi of the Temple Israel synagogue in Boston has been selected as the first Jewish authority to lecture to Harvard theological students since the Theological School was founded nearly three centuries ago. The Reverend W. L. Sperry, dean of the Theological School, yesterday requested Rabbi Levi to talk to the students during one week in June, preferably on the subject of Judaism...
...Rabbi Levi has lead the Adath Israel congregation, one of the largest and most influential in Boston, for 20 years. He came to Boston from Wheeling, West Virginia, where he had served as leader of the Jewish community after being ordained as a rabbi directly on graduating from the Hebrew Union College. Besides his researches in Jewish theology he is recognized as an authority on Hebraic history and literature. In 1899 he published an authoritative volume on "Jewish Characters in Fiction...
...their names, paired as tightly as Sacco & Vanzetti, Mooney & Billings, became Symbols. Last October, under the leadership of vigorous Professor Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, was published a manifesto signed by 49 U. S. religious leaders. They -Harry Emerson Fosdick, Mary Emma Woolley, Sherwood Eddy, Kirby Page, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, et al.-said they, too, would weigh issues before fighting. Some swore they would never war. Last week, under the leadership of Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, the U. S. religious press-both conservative and liberal, urban and provincial-squared off, prepared to line...
...appeal for support, signed by Rabbi Nathan Krass, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bishop William Thomas Manning, Manhattan's Committee of Fourteen (antivice) declared the Depression is forcing many young women "either directly into prostitution or at least into borderline occupations from which the ranks of prostitution are most generally recruited," and that the underworld is ''taking advantage of this situation...