The Thirtieth Anniversary Banquet of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob will be held tonight at the Hotel Astor.
Mayor James J. Walker, and other State and City officials are expected to attend.
The Organization’s campaign for $100,000 for needed improvements and facilities for the comfort of 500 aged inmates in its care, 200 of whom are confined to the hospital wards, will be launched at the banquet, at which the 1,000 guests will pay $50 per plate.
Friends of the United Israel-Zion Hospital, Brooklyn, which required additional maintenance funds for its work in 1927, attended a benefit dinner at the Hotel Commodore Sunday night, for which each diner paid $50 a plate. The total amount raised aggregated more than $60,000.
This fund was all net for the hospital, as it did not have to deduct a cent for the payment of the dinner. A group of twenty-two men arranged to underwrite its cost.
It was the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the hospital.
Preliminary to opening a campaign to raise funds to complete the building of a new home at the Grand Concourse and 205th Street, the Bronx, the Independent Ladies’ Aid Society of the Hebrew Children’s Home for Temporary Shelter will hold a dinner next Sunday evening at the Astor. Assistant District Attorney Rose Rothenberg, who was instrumental in obtaining a charter for the organization, will be the guest of honor. Judge Max S. Levine will be toastmaster.
An urge to rally to the support of Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, was expressed at a rally in Temple Israel, held under the auspices of the New York Committee on Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. This meeting, at which Dr. Jonah B. Wise, rabbi of Central Synagogue; Henry M. Toch, and Rabbi Maurice Harris spoke, was the first of a series to be held this month to stir New York Jewry’s interest in perpetuating Judaism in America.
BREVITIES
Mrs. Jacob J. Lesser announced that the Women’s League Palestine Foundation Fund is offering $150 in prizes for the best essays by New York City school children on “Why Palestine Should Be Rebuilt.” The first prize is to be $50, second $25, third $15, and fourth $10; $25 will be given to the teacher of the child receiving first prize. The essays must be sent to the Foundation, care of the Waldorf Hotel, and mailed by Friday night.
Many Jews were contributors to the United Hospital Fund drive in New York, which reached $325,000.
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