Admiration of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt for not being content to be only the first lady of the land and for doing her own share toward making a better society was expressed by Magistrate Anna Moskowitz Kross speaking yesterday afternoon at the annual B’nai Jeshurun Sisterhood Harvest luncheon.
Urging women, and particularly Jewish women, to take a greater part in civic affairs, Mrs. Kross said, “It is not enough for women to be a wife and mother, to rest on her laurels after rearing a few children and be satisfied to keep receiving comforts without going out into the world to help solve some of its problems in the social, economic and political spheres.”
Dr. Israel Goldstein, rabbi of B’nai Jeshurun declared that “The Jewish congregation of America has become a rallying point for the advancement of our general community relationships as well as being an institution for Jewish self-preservation. The sisterhood organizations affording Jewish women a means of enriching their own and of strengthening the fibre of communal living.”
Mrs. Benjamin J. Levy, chairman of the luncheon committee, was assisted by Mrs. Max Schwarz, president of the Sisterhood.
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