The countrywide celebration of the Young Judaea Month will be climaxed on Sunday, March 18, which is the National Young Judaea Day marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the organization.
Purim carnivals marked the opening of festivities the first week of the month. Next Friday evening and Saturday mornings have been designated Young Judaea Sabbath when the organization’s role in American Jewish life is to be stressed in sermons. Radio programs, banquets, dances, reunions are scheduled for all parts of the country, as well as exchanges of greetings among clubs and individual members. Parents and leaders are joining with Young Judaeans to make the celebrations an outstanding event.
A reception will be held in New York by National Young Judaea, with a reunion of former members and a musical program. It will take place at the Ansche Chesed Temple on the evening of March 17, with Dr. David De Sola Pool and Emanuel Neumann, who has just returned from Palestine, as speakers.
On the same day a special broadcast over WEVD has been arranged for 10 p. m., with Dr. Louis I. Newman, former president of National Young Judaea, as the principal speaker. Sunday, March 25, is Keren Hanoar Day when various events for the benefit of the organization’s Palestine Scout project will be staged.
Among the sponsors of the group are Governor Herbert H. Lehman who is also honorary chairman; Clarence Y. Palitz, chairman of the national advisory board, and Louis P. Rocker, treasurer. Those who have already accepted membership on the national committee are: Former Congressman William W. Cohen, Dr. David De Sola Pool, President Bernard S. Deutsch of the Board of Aldermen, Dr. Israel Goldstein, Abraham Goodman, Jacob Goodman, Mitchell Klupt, Charles Kroll, Irving Lehman, Israel Matz, Dr. Louis I. Newman, Louis S. Posner, Theodore Racoosin, Miss Miriam Raphael, all of New York, Rabbi Leon S. Lang of Newark, and Henry Yozell of Boston.
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