More than 10,000 Jewish women, who are members of B’nai B’rith Women’s Auxiliaries in one hundred cities from coast to coast, are celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of their organization.
The first B’nai B’rith Women’s Auxiliary was founded in San Francisco in 1909, sixty-six years after the order was established. As the women’s movement grew, a district organization, patterned after that of the men, was formed by them in District No. 4, the Pacific Coast region. Later a similar district organization was founded in No. 1 New York and New England-and two years ago District No. 6-the north Middle west followed suit. Only this month at the St. Louis convention of District No. 2, a Women’s District Grand Lodge No. 2 was established.
New auxiliaries are being founded rapidly. Within the past few months they have been organized in Detroit, Aberdeen, Wash., Beloit, Wis., Wichita, Kan., and several other cities.
A new Auxiliary in Columbus, Ohio, with seventy founders, was established yesterday.
On June 5 in Los Angeles the officers’ conference of Southern California B’nai B’rith Auxiliaries will present a pageant depicting the various phases of B’nai B’rith work, in honor of the auxiliary movement’s silver jubilee. On June 13 San Francisco Auxiliary No. 1, the original group, will celebrate.
Similar celebrations are being held throughout the country.
New York and Chicago have the greatest number of auxiliaries-six in each city. In sparsely populated sections of the country it requires six cities to furnish membership for one auxiliary.
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