Thousands of restaurants and cafeterias in New York will contribute five per cent of their income Wednesday, June 19, to the support of German-Jewish refugees, it was announced yesterday by the United Appeal.
The largest restaurant associations in New York have designated June 19 as “Restaurant Day”, the announcement says.
Among those participating are The Metropolitan Restaurant and Cafeteria Owners Association, the Christian Germans’ Restaurant Association, the Quality Restaurant Association of Christian Greeks, the Brooklyn Restaurant Association, the Greater New York Restaurant Association, and the United Restaurant Owners Association.
LACK OF FUNDS MAY CLOSE LITHUANIAN SCHOOLS
Thousands of Jewish school children in Lithuania are faced with the imminent likelihood of the closing of their schools because of lack of funds, it was stated yesterday by Joseph C. Hyman, secretary of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who made public a report which he had just received from the Board for Hebrew Education in Lithuania.
The closing of these schools, the report points out, will not only deprive large numbers of the 16,000 boys and girls in the Lithuanian schools of all cultural opportunities, but will also add to the economic burden of the Jews of that land by increasing unemployment. The educational institutions of Lithuania have for many years, Mr. Hyman stated, been receiving assistance in maintaining themselves, from the Joint Distribution Committee,
FAREWELL RECEPTION FOR BENTWICH TNIGHT
Samuel J. Bloomingdale and William Fosenwald will be hosts at a farewell reception to be tendered to Prof. Norman Bentwich tonight at Mr. Rosenwald’s residence. Leaders of New York Jewry, with whom Prof. Bentwich has been cooperating through the United Jewish Appeal, in stimulating interest in welfare activity on behalf of the German-Jewish refugees, will attend the reception.
Prof. Bentwich will sail for Europe on the Berengaria May 30, after nearly two months of intensive relief activity in this country.
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