Wednesday, March 13
Joint Conference of the New York Chapter of Hadassah, Ivriah, and the Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America, Jewish Theological Seminary, 122nd street and Broadway, 3 p. m. Address by Professor Henry Slonimsky; subject, “Maimonides.”
Gala Purim Gathering at the Jewish Center, 131 West Eighty-sixth street, 8 p. m. “Jewish Legalism,” Dr. Leo Jung.
School of the Jewish Woman, 251 West 100th street, 8:30 p. m. “Jewish Customs and Ceremonies,” Dr. Aaron Rosmarin; “Appreciation of Biblical Literature,” Dr. Trude Weiss Rosmarin; Hebrew classes, 7:15 p. m.
Physician’s Wives’ League, Hotel Astor, Broadway at Forty-fourth street, 3 p. m. “Women as Bearers of Jewish Culture,” Dr. Trude Weiss Rosmarin.
School for Adult Jewish Education, 35 East Sixty-second street, 7:45 p. m. “The Economic Factors in Modern Jewish Life,” Nathan Reich. “Main Currents of Jewish Thought in Modern Times,” Koppel S. Pinson. 8:30 p. m.
Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Ninety-second street and Lexington avenue, 8:30 p. m. presentation of “Thunder Over Mexico.”
Men’s Club of Free Synagogue, 40 West Sixty-eighth street, 8:30 p. m. “Jewish Self-Hate,” Dr. Shalom Spiegel.
Meeting of the Senior Sisterhood of Temple Ansche Chesed, 100th street and West End avenue, 2:00 p. m.
Temple Ansche Chesed, 100th street and West End avenue, 8:30 p. m. Presentation of “Little Symphony Orchestra” by the CWA Players.
Meeting of the West Bronx Women’s Division of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, Order Sons of Zion Center, 55 West Burnside avenue, 8:00 p. m.
Robert Clavering, Bishop of Peterborough and professor of Hebrew at Oxford, translated into English in 1705, several of Maimonides’ works.
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