Nathan D. Shapiro, newly-elected president of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, was the guest of honor last night at a dinner given by the Lawyers Club of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities at the Hotel St. George.
Mr. Shapiro, a former member of the State Legislature and a leader in Brooklyn’s communal and philanthropic activities for the past twenty years in acknowledging the tribute paid to him by the Lawyers Club, asked that the Club join in the effort of his administration to increase Federation’s membership from 10,000 to 30,000.
“There are at least 20,000 owners of real estate in Brooklyn,” Mr. Shapiro stated, “who give nothing to Federation. Our task is to reach these persons, many of whom are active in Jewish communal affairs in their own neighborhoods but who so far have failed to join in the broader and more centralized form of philanthropy such as Federation represents. No class is better equipped to carry the message of Federation than our lawyers.”
Herman Brickman, chairman of the Lawyers Club membership drive, announced at the dinner that forty new members have been enrolled in the club in the past two weeks. The Club is planning upon the conclusion of its membership drive to purchase a site for a clubhouse. Other speakers at the dinner were Adolph Feldblum Bernard Bloch, president of the Club and Dr. Samuel C. Kohs, executive director of Federation. Moving pictures depicting the activities of Federation’s affiliated societies were shown.
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