Wednesday, December 5
Celebration of Chanukah (The Maccabean Festival) by the New York City branch of the Women’s League of the United Synagogue; Hotel Commodore, Lexington avenue and Forty-second street; 3 p. m. Speakers: Mrs. Charles Stroock, Mrs. Barnet Kopelman.
First commencement exercises of the Institutional Synagogue Talmud Torah, 148 West Eighty-fifth street, 8 p. m. Speakers: Isaac Siegel, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Lester Udell, Abraham Bernstein, Rabbi Philip Goodman.
New School for Social Research, 66 West Twelfth street; “Contemporary Drama in Russia,” Anita Block: 8:20 p. m.
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, 270 West Eighty-ninth street; 8:30 p. m. “Educating Our Children for Character,” Professor M. M. Kaplan, Professor Adele Case, Dr. Jacob Greenberg.
Brooklyn Jewish Center, 667 Eastern parkway; 8:30 p. m. Dr. Nima Adlerblum, “The Periods of Transition in the Course of History.”
Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Ninety-second street and Lexington avenue; 8 p. m. “Survey of Jewish History,” Rabbi Henry M. Rosenthal.
School of the Jewish Woman, 251 West 100th street; 8 p. m. “Appreciation of Hebrew Literature,” Dr. Trude Weiss Rosmarin.
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, 117 East Eighty-fifth street; 8 p. m. “In Judea with the Macabees,” Jacob De Haas. Under the auspices of the Adult School for Jewish Studies.
Young Israel of Manhattan, 229 East Broadway; 9 p. m. “Jewish Philosophy,” Rabbi Benjamin Pleisher.
Chanukah celebration of the West Bronx Zionist Youth Group, Burnside Manor, Burnside and University avenues; evening.
New School of Social Research, 66 West Twelfth street; Composers’ Forum, premiere of A. W. Binder’s “Two Chassidic Moods”; string quartette; evening.
Y. W. H. A.. 31 West 110th street; Chanukah celebration; Chanukah Music, Halevy Singing Society; 8:30 p. m.
Affiliated Young Folks League of Brooklyn of United Synagogue of America; meeting, dancing and refreshments; Temple Petach Tikvah, Rochester avenue and Lincoln place, Brooklyn; evening.
One of the first entries in the pipe-rolls (ancient records) of Winchester refer to a fine paid by a Jewess for the privilege of not marrying a certain Jew.
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