There was much spirited activity among the Jewish organizations in this city during the past month.
The Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent and Free Loan Society staged a performance of “That Ferguson Family,” in conjunction with the United Hebrew School to raise funds for the School and the Society’s home for tubercular patients at Browns Mill, N. J.
The recently organized New Brunswick Dramatic Club raised funds for the local Hebrew Sheltering Home with its presentation of the four act drama “The Lunatic” at the Workmen’s Circle Institute last Sunday.
February saw evidences of a growing race consciousness by the drive of the United Hebrew School to increase its enrollment.
Rabbi Nathaniel Keller, of the Temple Anshe Emeth, has started his second series of lectures for education of Jewish adults. Before the serices will run its course local adults will hear the story of the Jew in agriculture, medicine, law music, literature and philosophy by specialists in each field. On March 21, as part of this series, Dr. S. A. Waksman of Rutgers University will speak on “The Jews and His Neighbors in Germany and in Russia.”
A gap in Jewish organizations in New Brunswick was filled when the past month saw the beginning of a Jewish Women’s Club in connection with the local Y.M.H.A. At the first meeting more than sixty women turned out to enroll in the new club. Mrs. Abraham Jelin, Mrs. Morton Brody, Miss Mary Miller and Miss Bess Gross are among members and officers.
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