Prominent members of the Jewish community in New York will attend a dinner on Sunday evening at the Hotel Astor, which will be given by the New York Wider Scope Committee of the Independent Order B’nai Brith. The evening will be celebrated as "Hillel Night," the dinner being given in behalf of the Hillel Foundation of the Order.
Dr. Edward Chauncey Baldwin, Professor of English literature at the University o Illinois, will be one of the principal speakers at the dinner. There will also be addresses by Alfred M. Cohen, president of the Independent Order B’nai Brith, Rabbi Nathan Krass, of Congregation Emanu-El. Maurice P. Davidson, chairman of the New York Wider Scope Committee, Assemblyman Maurice Bloch, President of District No. 1 of the Order. Leonard J. Obermeier will preside.
REMINDS RABBIS OF JEWISH BOOK WEEK
Communication to the Editor:
Sir:
May I employ the medium of the Jewish Daily Bulletin for the purpose of reminding the Rabbis of America, particularly those who have sent inquiries to me, that Jewish Book Week will this year be observed from Friday, May 4, to Friday, May 11, which is the week of Lag B’Omer.
Last year, thanks to the nation-wide publicity which the entire idea received through your worthy journal, Jewish Book Week was observed effectively in many congregations all over the country. Rabbis preached sermons on the position of the book in Judaism and they have thereby influenced their congregants to purchase Jewish books as gifts for confirmants.
While the entire Jewish press wrote hearty endorsements of the movement no organization has as yet undertaken to popularize Jewish Book Week and the Rabbis to whom the idea appeals will again have to use their own initiative in popularizing it. Jewish Book Week represents a great opportunity for bringing Jewish culture into our homes and it should not be neglected.
I shall be very happy to hear from Rabbis who are going to embody the observance of Jewish Book Week into their congregational calendars.
Very sincerely yours.
(Rabbi) S. Felix Mendelsohn. Chicago, Illinois.
Rabbi Louis I. Newman of Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, arrived in New York yesterday for a month’s visit. Rabbi Newman will speak at the Menorah Journal Dinner on April 19th: the Free Synagogue on April 22d: the Community Church on April 29; the Anniversary Banquet of the American Jewish Congress on April 29th: the Women’s Organization of the Free Synagogue on May 1st, and elsewhere. He will also speak in Boston and other Eastern cities.
Rabbi Leo Jung in a communication to the Jewish Daily Bulletin announced that he has withdrawn his name from the Committee that sponsored Rabbi Jerome Widisky’s translation of the Talmud. A number of matters have come to Rabbi Jung’s attention, which make his withdrawal from that Committee necessary.
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