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Eighteen adult Jews, members of a Bible class at Temple Israel, near Far Rockaway, L. I., last week began an organized study of the New Testament. "This is the first time," said Dr. Isaac Landman, rabbi of Temple Israel and editor of The American Hebrew, "that a class in the Bible school of a Reform congregation has ever been devoted to the exclusive teaching of the New Testament. The time has come when the New Testament should no longer be a closed book to the Jews...
...addition to league play a trip to New York is being arranged for the Christmas vacation During this time teams will play against the Harvard Club of New York and the Rockaway Hunt Club...
...Grace Levine and Eloyse Levine, aged 9, arose at 5 a.m. and, leaving Ardeth Levine, aged 1, in the Levine home at Rockaway Park, L. I., joined Handshaker Whalen on the tug Macom. Soon Hero Levine, a smaller, quieter, ruddy-blond edition of Mussolini,* and Jewish† instead of Italian, climbed off the S. S. Leviathan. He answered news-gathers questions as though he knew they were perfunctory, called at City Hall because he was expected there, lunched at the Hotel Astor because he was hungry. He was not surprised that New York did not toot its horns...
Less solemn than this, more comical was the letter sent Mr. Ford by airmail from the Welcoming Committee of the Rockaway Chamber of Commerce. The Rockaways are a group of up-&-doing suburbs of New York. Charles A. Levine, transatlantic flyer, has friends there, and it is to do him honor when he returns from Europe that the Welcoming Committee is functioning. Its Chairman, shrewd Richard M. Gipson, wrote Mr. Ford: "At this time, when you have magnanimously attested your faith in the Jewish people, it would seem fitting that you should be present at the banquet to be held...
That the Gun Club will take part in an intercollegiate Trap Shoot to be held about May 1 at the Rockaway Hunt Club, Ceaderhurst, Long Island, was recently announced. It is expected that teams from Yale, Williams. Dartmouth and several other colleges will also take part in the meet. Every year the Rockaway Hunt Club gives a series of shoots to which Harvard and other colleges are invited and last year C. P. Day '27, the captain of the Gun Club team made the highest score of the competition...