Concluding a series of local celebrations in honor of the sixtieth birthday of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, several hundred Brooklyn representatives of all faiths and all groups of opinion will gather tonight at a dinner to be held at the Hotel St. George. The function this evening represents the beginning of a borough-wide effort to mobilize public opinion against the rise of Nazi propaganda in this country. The proceeds of the dinner will be used to finance the program of the American Jewish Congress in its campaign against Hitlerism.
Speakers at the banquet include Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, former president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; James H. Post, philanthropist; Professor Alfons Goldsmith, exiled German economist; Rabbi Sidney Tedesche of Union Temple, and Rabbi Wise. Rabbi Harry Halperin, of the East Midwood Temple, will deliver the invocation. Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May will preside.
Dr. Wise had consented to be guest of honor, Judge May declared, on the understanding that the proceeds of the affair would be used in the anti-Nazi campaign.
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