Saturday, January 12
Rand School of Social Science. 7 East Fifteenth street, 8:30 p. m. “Escape From the Soviets.” Tatiana Tchernavin.
Young America Institute, Great Northern Hotel, 118 West Fifty-seventh street, 8:30 p. m. “What Next— Democracy or Dictatorship?” Joseph Brandon.
League for Political Education, the Town Hall. 123 West Forty-third street, 11 a. m. “Current Books and Plays,” William Lyon Phelps.
Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Ninety-second street and Lexington avenue, 8 p. m. Musical program by the students of the Y. M. H. A. Music School.
Eighty-eighth anniversary of the birth of the late Jacob H. Schiff, and the tenth anniversary of the Jacob H. Schiff Center, services, Jacob H. Schiff Center. 2510 Valentine avenue, 10 a. m. Addresses by Dr. Israel Goldstein, Rabbi Alexander Basel.
The School of Philosophy, Steinway Hall, 113 West Fifty-seventh street, 9 p. m. “Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,” Max Fishler.
Dance of the Junior Hadassah of Boro Park, Hotel St. George, evening.
Annual convention of the New York State Federation of Young Folks’ Temple Leagues, Eighth Avenue Temple, Eighth Avenue and Garfield place, Brooklyn, all day session.
Social Art Center, 119 West Fifty-seventh street, 8 p. m. Dramatic presentation under the direction of Jacques Bril.
Beth Israel Hospital Auditorium, Sixteenth street and Stuyvesant Park East, 8 p. m. Presentation of “The Thirteenth Chair,” under the auspices of the Junior League of Beth Israel Hospital.
Washington Heights Branch of the Youth Zionist Revisionist Organization of America, Temple Gates of Israel Vestry Room, 560 West 185th street, 8:30 p. m. “The Projected Camp Plan,” M. Dickstein.
Mass meeting and Palestinian Evening of the Laurelton, Long Island, Branch of the Youth Zionist Revisionist Organization of America, 135-08 228th Street. Laurelton. 9 p. m. Speakers: Sam Weinstock, Dennis Gribetz, M. J. Beer.
Yorkville Youth Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism, Labor Temple, 243 East Eighty-fourth street, evening. “Anti-Semitism and Youth,” Rabbi Ben Goldstein.
Debate: Yeshiva College and Albany State Teachers’ College; Yeshiva College, Amsterdam avenue and 187th street, 8:30 p. m. “Resolved That the Government Control the Manufacture, Sale and Exportation of Munitions in the United States.”
Sunday, January 13
Annual dinner, Pride of Judea Children’s Home. Brooklyn Jewish Center, 667 Eastern Parkway, evening.
Free Synagogue, Carnegie Hall, Seventh avenue at Fifty-seventh street, 10:45 a. m. “Character and Freedom,” Prof. William Lyon Phelps.
Community Forum, 550 West 110th street, 8 p. m. “The Jungles: A Study of Racial Hatreds,” Maurice Samuel.
Annual concert, Boro Park chapter of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization, Menorah Building, 5000 Thirteenth avenue, Brooklyn, evening.
Meeting of the Bronx Civic Center, 161 East Burnside avenue, 7:30 p. m.
Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East Eighty-seventh street. 10:45 a. m. “Shall Jews Accept High Public Office?” Rabbi Milton Steinberg.
Modern Youth League, Hotel Cameron, 41 West Eighty-sixth street, 8:30 p. m. Address by Marie Levinson Warner.
The Society for Social Re-Education, 88 South Seventh avenue, 8:30 p. m. “Hitler: Stalin and Mussolini,” Ludwig Lore.
The School of Philosophy, Steinway Hall, 113 West Fifty-seventh street, 9 p. m. “Contemporary Drama: Elmer Rice’s Judgment Day,” F. D. Drucker.
Annual convention, New York State Federation of Young Folks’ Temple Leagues, Eight Avenue Temple, Eighth avenue and Garfield place, Brooklyn, all-day session.
Young Women’s Hebrew Association, 31 West 110th street, 8:30 p. m. “Aspects of Jewish Music,” A. W. Binder.
Mizrachi Youth of Linden Heights. Temple Torath Chaim. Tenth avenue and Forty-fourth street. Brooklyn, 8 p. m. “Modern Jewish Youth. Whither is it Drifting,” Rabbi Isaac Toubin.
Meeting of Metropolitan Avukah, Central Jewish Institute, 125 East Eighty-fifth street, 8 p. m.
Bronx branch of the Youth Zionist-Revisionist Organization of America, 1427 Franklin avenue, 8:30 p. m. “Joseph Trumpeldor’s Life and Role in Jewish History,” Edith Robin.
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