Mrs. Felix M. Warburg will head the women’s division of the New York Allied Jewish Campaign, it was announced yesterday by Chairman James N. Rosenberg. Associated with Mrs. Warburg, as an advisory committee to organize the Jewish women of the five boroughs for participation in a drive, which will begin shortly, to raise $2,500,000 toward the $6,000,000 which the Allied Jewish Campaign is raising nationally for the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, will be the following:
Mrs. Paul Baerwald, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Mrs. Nathan Straus, Jr., Mrs. Sol Rosenbloom, Mrs. Jerome Hanauer, Mrs. Isaac Polstein, Mrs. Henry Ittleson, Mrs. Arnold Gottlieb, and Mrs. Robert Szold.
Mrs. Warburg is inviting a number of women who are most active in social life and Jewish philanthropic endeavor to tea, at her home, next Wednesday afternoon, to confer with her on ways and means to secure the maximum cooperation of the Jewish womanhood of New York with the campaign. Headquarters of the women’s division will be at the Hotel Biltmore, with Mrs. Newman Levy as secretary.
Paul Felix Warburg, who is one of the chairmen of Manhattan Borough for the New York Allied Jewish Campaign, will be the principal speaker at a meeting which will be held on Sunday evening in the auditorium of the Hebrew Ladies’ Day Nursery, 521 Hopkinson Ave., Brooklyn, to organize Brownsville, East New York, New Lots and East Flatbush for the campaign. Heads of all Jewish organizations and presidents of synagogues in these sections will participate in the meeting.
Mr. Rosenberg also announced that organization of the Washington Heights and Inwood Committee of the campaign has been effected with the election of Louis P. Rocker as chairman. David M. Bressler, one of the national chairmen of the Allied Jewish Campaign, addressed the meeting at the Washington Heights Y. M. H. A. at which the Washington Heights and Inwood sections were organized.
Justice Albert Cohn has called a dinner-meeting of representative Jewish residents of the Bronx at the Concourse Plaza Hotel to organize that borough for the campaign. The speakers will be Judge Otto A. Rosalsky and Harry Glucksman.
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