Friday, December 14
Meeting of the lecture group, women’s division of Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, Hotel Savoy-Plaza, 7 East Fifty-eighth street; 11:00 a. m.; "The Modern Theatre," Lawrence Langer.
Mecca Temple, 130 West Fifty-sixth street; 8:00 p. m.; "American Super-Rackets, War and Fascism," Major Smedley D. Butler.
Carroll Club, 120 Madison avenue; 8:30 p. m.; "Nationalism in Germany," George N. Shuster.
Open meeting of the Eastern Medical Society. Pythian Temple, 135 West Seventieth street; 8:30 p. m.; "Jews in the Professions," Prof. Morris R. Cohen.
Meeting of the Caravan, Grand Street Boys’ Club House, 106 West Fifty-fifth street; 8:30 p. m.; "World Religion and World Religions," Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
School of the Jewish Woman, broadcast; "Jewish History Repeats Itself," Dr. Trude Weiss Rosmarin, Station WLTH; 3:15 p. m.
Yeshivah of Bensonhurst, Seventy-ninth street near Twentieth avenue, Brooklyn; "The Economic Views of the Jews," Dr. Bernard Drachman; 8:30 p. m.
Forum of Young Israel Synagogue of Manhattan. Dukler Mogen Abraham Synagogue, Attorney and Delancey streets; 8:30 p. m.; "Conservative Judaism," Dr. Aaron Rosmarin.
Open forum, Jacob H. Schiff Center, 2510 Valentine avenue; "Modern Jew, A Challenge to the World." Dr. Koppel S. Pinson; 8:30 p. m.
Mosholu Jewish Center, 3044 Hull avenue, Bronx; symposium on Jewish Youth, Arnold Salzman, E. Z. Sonnenreich, Harry S. Samuels; 8:30 p. m.
Forum of Young Israel of Rugby. Yeshivah Rabbi Meyer Simcha Ha-Cohen, Fifty-third street and Church avenue, Brooklyn; 8:30 p. m.; "Current Jewish Problems and a Glimpse Into History," Ralph Silverstein.
Jewish Community House of Benson-hurst, Bay parkway and Seventy-ninth street; 8:30 p. m.; "Influence of the Chassidic Movement on Judaism," Dr. Isaac Fein.
Tifereth Misrachi Hatzair, 511 Bedford avenue; 8:30 p. m.; address by Aaron A. Lasker.
Bazaar for German refugees, 225 West Thirty-fourth street; concert under the auspices of the Friends of German Democracy, Ashley Pettis, guest artist; 8:00 p. m.
"The Restitution of the Human Rights to the Jews by the French Revolution,"
Dr. Mark Soliterman, 277 Kingston avenue, Brooklyn; 8:00 p. m.
Saturday, December 15
Dance, Junior League of Temple Israel, 210 West Ninety-first street; 8:30 p. m.
Fifteenth annual dance, Young Israel of the Bronx, Hotel Pennsylvania, Seventh avenue at Thirty-fourth street; evening.
Dance of the Junior League of Jewish Memorial Hospital, Hotel Astor, Broadway at Forty-fourth street; evening.
Dance of the Junior Society of Congregation Emanu-El, 1 East Sixty-fifth street; 9:00 p. m.
Sixth anniversary banquet of the Academy Torath Emeth of Borough Park, Park Mansion, Forty-fifth street and Sixteenth avenue, Brooklyn; evening.
School of Philosophy, Steinway Hall, 113 West Fifty-seventh street; Professor Ernest P. Horrwitz, "The Cultural Trend in the U.S.S.R."; 8:00 p. m.
New York Zion Club, Chanukah ball and concert, Prospect Mansion, 722 Prospect avenue; evening. Address by David Mogilensky.
Opening of the New Revisionist Center, 122 Second avenue; concert and dance; evening.
Concert, puppet show and studio party auspices of Washington Heights Anti-Nazi Committee, 1442 St. Nicholas avenue; evening.
When the Council of Beziers in 1246 forbade Jewish physicians to practice, Abraham of Aragon for a long time disregarded entreaties to treat a brother of Louis IX for an affliction of the eye.
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