Saturday, February 16
Testimonial luncheon in honor of Morris E. Sigel in appreciation of his services in behalf of youth and adult education. Hotel Pennsylvania, Seventh avenue and Thirty-fourth street, 1 p.m.
Meeting of the Youth Groups of the Pioneer Women’s Organization; Jewish Teacher’s Seminary, 427 Lafayette street; 3 p. m.
Tea of the American Association of University Women in honor of women professors and wives of professors of the “University in Exile,” Women’s University Club, 108 East Fifty-second street, 4 p. m.
Temple Ansche Chesed, West End avenue and 100th street, 10 a. m. “Racial Theories. Are They Justified?” Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin.
Sixth Annual Charity Ball of the Junior Federation of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, Hotel Plaza, Fifth avenue at Fifty-eighth street, evening.
Young America Institute, Great Northern Hotel. 118 West Fifty-seventh street, 3:30 p. m. “What Ails the American Collar Worker?” Irving D. Robbins.
Sunday, February 17
Twentieth Anniversary Dinner of Beth Moses Hospital, St. George Hotel, Brooklyn, evening.
Twenty-sixth Annual Convention of the United Rumanian Jews of America, Broadway Central Hotel, Broadway at Fourth street, all day session. Speakers: J. Rosenthal, Leo Wolfson, Herman Speier, Dr. Samuel Margoshes, Abraham Hirsh, Bennett E. Siegelstein, Isaac Lippman.
Temple Emanu-El Student Forum, 1 East Sixty-fifth street, 3 p. m. “The Moral Challenge of Our Economic System,” Algernon Black. Under the auspices of the Junior Society.
Jewish Club, 23 West Seventy-third street, 2:30 p. m.; lecture recital by Frederic Jacobi, “American Jewish Composers of Today;” under the auspices of Mailamm.
Kiddie party under the auspices of the Borough Park Mizrachi Women’s Organization. Y. M. H. A. Building, Fiftieth street and Fourteenth avenue, Brooklyn, afternoon.
The Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 15 West Eighty-sixth street, 8:30 p. m. “Background of European Dictatorships.” Prof. Emil Lederer, Prof. Eduard Heimann.
Entertainment and dance sponsored by the Junior League of Beth Israel Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital Auditorium, Sixteenth street and Stuyvesant Park East, 8 p. m.
Annual Mid-Winter Conference of the National Council of Young Israel. Yeshiva College. 186th street and Amsterdam avenue, 9:30 a. m.
Young America Institute, 118 West Fifty-seventh street. 8:30 p. m. Presentation of a program of modern Jewish plays by the New Workers Theatre Players.
Meeting of the Zionist Circle, 62 St. Marks place. 7 p. m. “The History of Zionist From the First Congress to the World War,” Morris Solon.
Twenty-first annual meeting of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, Guild Home. St. Johns and Crotty avenues, Yonkers, afternoon.
Meeting of Manhattan Chapter of Avukah. Young Women’s Hebrew Association, 31 West 110th street, 7:30 p. m. “Jewry Must About Face.” William B. Ziff.
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