Thursday, May 3
Annual Springtime Breakfast of Ivriah, speaker, Dr. Solomon Goldman;: Hotel Waldorf Astoria, Park avenue and Forty-ninth street; 11 a.m.
Jewish Youth Movements of the City of New York, anti-Nazi organization meeting, Temple Adath Israel; 169th street and Grand Concourse, Bronx; 8:15 p.m.
New York Academy of Medicine, meeting, speaker, Arthur J. Bedell, “Causes and Prevention of Blindness;” Fifth avenue and 103rd street; 8:30 p.m.
Lag B’Omer festival concert, Jewish Choral Society, readings, Nahum Zemach, Mirlam Goldina: Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Lexington avenue and Ninety-second street; 8:15 p.m.
Manhattan-Washington Lodge, B’nai B’rith, lecture, Henry L. Heinshelmer, “The Jews of Germany in the Middle Ages;” 36 West Sixty-ninth street; 9 p.m.
Hadassah, reception to Dr. Judah L. Magnes; home of Mrs. S. C. Lamport, 1125 Fifth avenue; afternoon.
Central Brooklyn Zionist District, Lag B’Omer festival: 687 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn; 8:30 p.m.
Morris Schwartz Progressive Association, concert and literary evening; 15 Second avenue; evening.
Federation for Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, dinner meeting, speakers: Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, Samuel D. Leidesdorf, Waldemar Kops: Hotel Plaza, Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street; 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Council of United Synagogue of America, annual Lag B’Omer field day; George W. Wingate Athletic Field, Brooklyn; afternoon.
First Inter-seminary Conference Against War and War Preparations, speakers: Kirby Page, Dr. Leo Jung, Professor Reinhold Niebuhr, Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein; Jewish Theological Seminary, Broadway and 122nd street; 8:15 p.m.
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