Sunday, December 17
Annual benefit concert and Chanukah celebration, Bronx Y.M.H.A., 171st Street and Fulton Avenue.
Youth Chanukah celebration, Young Poale Zion Alliance, (1225 Broadway) at Jewish Teachers’ Seminary, 427 Lafayette Street near Astor Place. 7:30 P.M.
First annual entertainment, Chanukah Hillel Hebrew School, Rabbi Theodore F. Joseph, principal, at Unity Democratic Hall, 2461 Davidson Avenue and Fordham Road. 2:30 P.M.
Concert by Symphonic Ensemble, Y.W. H.A., 31 West 110th Street. 8:00 P.M.
Installation of new officers, Congregation Ahavas Chesed, 742 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn. Evening.
Chamber music at Y.M.H.A., 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. 8:15 P.M.
Jewish Education Association dinner, Hotel Waldorf Astoria, attended by faculty members of the University in Exile and other notables. Evening.
Symposium, “The Jewish Women of Today and Tomorrow”, at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Broadway and 88th Street. Morning.
The Jewish Fellowship, Hotel McAlpin, 34th Street and Broadway. Chanukah festival. Speakers: Rabbi I. L. Bril and Senator Albert Bril, president Synagogue Council of America.
Seventh annual Chanukah dinner, Metropolitan Conference of Temple Brotherhoods, Hotel Astor. Evening.
Monday, December 18
West Bronx Division Ivriah holds Chanukah card party at Stockton Street Day Nursery.
Junior Hadassah Borough Park, Chanukah party at 5802 – 15th Avenue, Brooklyn. Songs and addresses.
Walter B. Pitkin speaks on “Why Life Begins at Forty”, Brooklyn Jewish Center forum, 667 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. Evening.
Tuesday, December 19
West Side Ivriah, Rutgers Club, 314 West 19th Street. Chanukah program.
Rabbi Harry Halpern of East Side Midwood Center speaks at North Queens Division of Ivriah at Astoria Center of Israel. Musicale and Chanukah program.
Federation Building, 71 West 47th Street. Miss Elizabeth H. Dexter, case work director, Jewish Board of Guardians, will discuss “Initial Approaches to Case Work” and “The Role of the Jewish Big Sister in the Work of the Jewish Board of Guardians.”
Weekly forum, Bialystoker Bikur Cholim, at The Manor, 5 Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn.
Former U.S. Attorney George Z. Medalie speaks at forum, Congregation B’nai Sholom, Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn. Evening.
Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations, 1 East 65th Street. Branson DeCou, illustrated travelogue, “Mexico”.
Dr. A. A. Brill speaks on “The Jew and His Adjustment” at the American Women’s Ort, 333 West End Avenue. Evening.
Wednesday, December 20
Bensonhurst, East New York and Eastern Parkway Jewish Community Centers, Chanukah celebrations sponsored by Ivriah.
Women’s League Day, Hotel Commodore, New York City Branch of the Women’s League of the United Synagogue. Music, addresses, refreshments.
Lecture, Brooklyn Jewish Center, 667 Eastern Parkway. Prof. Henry Slonimsky, of the Jewish Institute of Religion: “The Psychological Background of Anti-Semitism.”
The Center German-Jewish Club, 210 West 91st Street. Arthur Schweriner, formerly of Berlin Central Verein, will discuss “German National Socialism Wants to Spread Anti-Semitism All Over the World.” 8:30 P.M.
Thursday, December 21
Lecture, Temple Beth Emeth of Flatbush, Church Avenue and Marlboro Road, Brooklyn. L. Perlman, director of Associated Guidance Bur#au: “Sex and the New Psychology.”
Saturday, December 23
Young Folks’ League, Congregation Shaari Zedek, Kingston Avenue and Park Place, Brooklyn. Dance.
Annual Chanukah festival, Madison Square Garden. Pageant with cast of 600: “Reunion in Tel Aviv”. Notables to attend. Second performance.
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