A dinner at the St. George Hotel, Brooklyn, on February 17 will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Beth Moses Hospital, Stuyvesant avenue and Hart street, Brooklyn.
“Beth Moses Hospital annually treats many thousand patients free of charge,” Morris Walzer, chairman of the dinner committee, points out in an appeal for public support of the affair.
He estimates that the hospital, which is a constituent of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, treated between 5,000 and 6,000 patients during 1934, exclusive of 65,000 needy persons who visited the hospital dispensary.
Aaron Zebi Friedman, who came to New York in 1848 where he continued his profession of shochet, wrote a defense of shechita against charges of cruelty that had been made by the president of the A.S.P.C.A.
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