Rabbi Mendel Lewittes of New York, one of the youngest orthodox rabbis in the country, is being considered as a successor to Rabbi Reuben J. Magil, who resigned from Kodimoh Synagogue March 1 to go to Buffalo.
Rabbi Lewittes has been invited to fill the Kodimoh pulpit for a week end as a test. He received his A. B. degree from the Rabbi Isaae Elchanan Yeshiva in 1932. Rabbi Lewittes is twenty-three years old and is considered an accomplished scholar and orator. He was asked to come here by a Synagogue committee which heard him preach in New York. The committee consisted of Nathan E. Goldstein, Louis Katz, Benjamin Bearg, Louis Saffer, Benjamin Swirsky and Max Katz.
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