Saturday, December 22
The Talk of the Town Club, 119 West Fifty-seventh street; Dr. Ernest R. Trattner, “The Secret of a Strong Personality”; 8:00 p. m.
Young Israel of Manhattan, Play and Dance, 229 East Broadway: evening.
Thirteenth Annual Convention, Kappa Alpha Tau Fraternity, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Park avenue at Fifty-first street; all day session.
Maccabaean Festival of the New York Zionist Region, Armory, Park avenue at Thirty-fourth street; evening.
Mid-winter dance of the Jewish Center Junior Society. Jewish Center Auditorium, 131 West Eighty-sixth street; 8:30 p. m.
Dinner to Heinz Liepmann and Professor Albert Einstein, Brooklyn Jewish center, 667 Eastern parkway; evening. Speakers: Professor Albert Einstein, Heinz Liepmann, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, and others.
Youth groups of the Pioneer Women’s Organization for Palestine. Chassidic “Oneg Shabat.” Jewish Teachers’ Seminary, 427 Lafayette street; 3 p. m.
Institutional Synagogue. 27 West 116th street; evening. Presentation of Jacob Gordon’s Yiddish King Lear, under the auspices of the Works Division of the Department of Public Welfare.
Fifth annual convention of the Federation of Palestine Jews, Hotel Pennsylvania, Seventh avenue and Thirty-fourth street; opening session, 7:30 p. m. Speakers: Rabbi Joseph Gabriel, Hirsch Manischewitz, J. M. Charlap.
Sunday, December 23
Fifth annual convention of the Federation of Palestine Jews, Hotel Pennsylvania, Seventh avenue and Thirty-fourth street; all day session.
Bronx Y. M. and Y. W. H. A. Symphony Orchestra concert, auditorium, Fulton avenue and 171st street; 8:45 p. m. Under direction of Isador Kleinman.
Beruriah College League of the School of the Jewish Woman, social and dance, Temple Ansche Chesed, 100th street and West End avenue; 8 p. m.
Conference of Bronx Jewish Organizations, Elks Club. Grand concourse, 2 p. m. Speakers: Dr. George Landauer, Dr. Rosenblueth, Maldwin Fertig. Dinner session, Burnside Manor, 7 p. m.
Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third street; 10:30 a. m. Maurice Samuel. “Beyond Woman—The Modern Woman’s Influence on Modern Man.”
Sunday, December 23
Annual meeting and dinner of the Deborah Jewish Tuberculosis Society, Hotel Astor. Broadway at Forty-fourth street; evening.
Dinner in honor of Rabbi William S. Malev. Jamaica Jewish Center, Amherst and Flushing avenues, Jamaica; 7 p. m.
Thirteenth Annual Convention, Kappa Alpha Tau Fraternity, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Park avenue at Fifty-first street; all day session.
Student rally under auspices of Brownsville and East New York Avukah, 1703 Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn; 8 p. m. “Palestine Humoresque,” Ida Flatow.
Labor Zionist Youth Alliance, symposium, Central Jewish Institute, 125 East Eighty-fifth street; 8:30 p. m. “Jewish Youth in America;” “Jewish Youth in Europe”; “Youth in Palestine,” Sadia Gelb, Jacob Katzman. Harry Steiner.
Meeting of New York City Young Judaea, Y. M. H. A., Ninety-second street and Lexington avenue; 8:30 p. m.
“Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Problem,” Rabbi Benjamin Goldstein, 2744 Broadway; 2:30 p. m. Under the auspices of the West Side Icor.
East Midwood Jewish Center, 1625 Ocean avenue, Brooklyn; demonstration lesson in the teaching of Jewish history. sponsored by the Jewish Teachers’ Association; evening.
Institutional Synagogue, 27 West 116th street; evening. Presentation of Jacob Gordon’s Yiddish King Lear, under auspices of the Works Division of the Department of Public Welfare.
Concert and reception in honor of Z. Rubashov, Hotel Pennsylvania, Seventh avenue at Thirty-fourth street; 8 p. m.; under auspices of the Hebrew Educators’ Committee. Address by Mr. Rubashov.
Manhattan branch of Hashomer Hatzair Organization, 234 East Broadway; 8:30 p. m. “Education in United States. Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Palestine,” Israel Chipkin.
Open meeting of Hunter College Chapter of Avukah. Central Jewish Institute, 125 East Eighty-fifth street; evening. “The Emergence of Zionism in Jewish History,” Israel Botnick.
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