The vanguard of the officers and directors coming to the meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Council of Jewish Women, to be held at the American Woman’s Association Clubhouse, 353 West Fifty-seventh street, April 10-13, will arrive in this city today. The chief business to be discussed at the meeting will be plans for the Triennial Convention to be held in New Orleans in March of 1935, and the program of study of the Committee of One Thousand.
On the evening of April 9, Mrs. Arthur Brin of Minneapolis, president, Mrs. Louis Dreier of Bridgeport, and Mrs. Ben Hirschland of Oklahoma City will attend the dinner given by the New York branch of the Women’s Trade Union League in honor of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. On the following evening all members of the board will be the guests of the New York Section at the World Affairs Institute at the American Women’s Association Clubhouse.
THIRTEEN UNITS REPRESENTED
Thirteen junior council sections in the New York State Conference of the National Council of Jewish Women will be represented at the Junior State Conference on April 16, in Syracuse. Miss Ethel Rosenzweig of Brooklyn will preside.
WOMEN’S LEAGUE CONVENTION
The seventeenth annual convention of the Women’s League of the United Synagogue will take place at the Hotel Willard in Washington, from May 6 to 8. Mrs. Samuel Spiegel of New York, president of the League, has announced a number of talks on questions affecting the Jewish woman as a feature of the program.
Among the committee chairmen for the convention are Mmes. Robert S. Ginns of Philadelphia, Elias L. Solomon of New York, George Levy, Morris Gewirz, A. I. Davidson, of Washington, D. C., and Abram Berg of Philadelphia.
“SPRINGTIME BREAKFAST”
All Ivriah districts are devoting their efforts toward raising their individual quotas for the “Springtime Breakfast” which, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Max Lazare, will take place on May 3 at the Waldorf Astoria. Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chicago will be guest speaker. Mrs. A. J. Ostriker, chairman of the program committee, is arranging for the assistance of several outstanding concert artists.
HADASSAH MEETS APRIL 12
Membership and fund-raising will be discussed at a Regional conference of the Northern New Jersey Unit of Hadassah, to be held at the Jewish Community Center of Jersey City April 12. Miss Sarah Kussy will preside.
SHEEPSHEAD BAY ACTIVITIES
A series of activities sponsored by the Sheepshead Bay Group of Hadassah during March included a Purim Ball, a theatre party at the Ludwig Satz production. “Moshiach Kumt,” a reading on “Palestine in Modern Hebrew Poetry” by Mrs. J. Iser, and a Hadassah Hagaddah Service rendered by Mrs. Abraham D. Podell.
A card party for the benefit of the Infant Welfare Fund is planned for April 18 at the home of Mrs. Charles Dumay, 241 Penn street.
GIRL SCOUTS CALL FOR LEADERS
The Brooklyn Girl Scouts have issued a call for more Jewish leaders for Jewish girls. Women of scientific, artistic, professional and business training are earnestly solicited, as well as those versed in the household arts. The modern minded parent, the psychologist and the progressive teacher are assured that the scout program is sufficiently flexible to allow for experimentation that might well be important to their careers.
Those interested should communicate immediately with Miss Henrietta Rosenspan, Jewish Field Worker, at the Brooklyn Girl Scout Headquarters, 102 Prospect Park West.
GUARDIAN MOTHERS CELEBRATE
The Guardian Mothers of Pleasantville Orphanage will celebrate their fiftieth anniversary at a Golden Jubilee on April 18 at the Biltmore Hotel. Mrs. I. N. Levy is chairman of the event. Mrs. J. K. Rittenberg has arranged for a musicale to precede the luncheon. The organization, of which Mrs. Joseph Layman is president, represents the Hebrew Sheltering Society, Fellowship House and Home Bureau of the Pleasantville Orphanage, and the scholarship committee for graduates of the institution.
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