Officers, board members and workers of the Jewish Education Association attended a dinner in the college room of the Astor Hotel yesterday, in honor of Abraham Gevirtz and Benjamin Leibel, members of the board, for their services to the Association during the past year. They were instrumental in enabling the organization to cover a large part of the deficit incurred in its work.
Bernard Semel, honorary secretary of the Association, toast-master at the dinner, announced that Leibel has been named chairman of the active committee in charge of arrangements for the Bar Mitzvah anniversary of the Association, to be celebrated at its next annual Chanukah dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel December 2. Mrs. Max Lazare, co-chairman of Ivriah, the women’s division of the Association, is co-chairman of the committee. The guests pledged themselves to cooperate with Leibel and Mrs. Lazare for the event and constituted themselves the committee of which he is chariman.
Others at yesterday’s dinner were Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, acting president of the Association; Samuel Rottenberg, chairman of the board; Jacob Wener, vice-chairman; Judge Samuel H. Hofstadter, chairman of the committee of sponsors for the Bar Mitzvah anniversary; Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Judge Nathan Sweedler and Mrs. Gabriel Hamburger, honorary vice-chairman. Cantor Morris Nathan of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism sang.
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