The rising tide of Fascism in America will be met in Brooklyn by a counter-attack made possible by the funds to be raised at the dinner to be tendered to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise at the Hotel St. George on March 22, Judge Mitchell May announced yesterday. The entire proceeds of the dinner will be utilized in financing the counter-Nazi movement, and in the mobilization of a strong anti-Fascist movement in Brooklyn, Judge May declared.
“As the largest Jewish community of the world,” he said, “Brooklyn must and will contribute its share to the work of combating the menace of Hitlerism not merely to the Jews but to the civilized standards of society and the democratic foundations on which our country is built.”
MANY CELEBRATIONS
The celebration of Rabbi Wise’s sixtieth birthday will entail a number of functions throughout the country and particularly in New York City. Besides the dinner in Brooklyn on March 22, there will be a banquet next Monday at the Hotel Astor and a luncheon Sunday at the Hotel Biltmore.
On Sunday morning, an anniversary service for Dr. Wise will be held by the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall. The services will be conducted by Rabbi J. X. Cohen and Rabbi Morton M. Berman. Among the speakers who are scheduled to appear are Joseph M. Levine, president of the congregation of the Free Synagogue; Rabbi William F. Fineshriber of Philadelphia; Dr. Frank Oliver Hall, Robert Szold, and Mrs. Rebekah Kohut. Dr. Wise will respond.
In a special musical service, an augmented choir will render Mendelsohn’s “Come Let Us Sing.”
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