Rabbi Morris Silverman of Emanuel Synagogue here will lecture tonight (Monday) on “The Life and Works of Maimonides,” before the faculty and student body of Connecticut State College, where he conducts a course on the history of Jews.
Rabbi Solomon N. Bazell of Temple B’rith Sholom of this city, delivered the principal address at an octocentennial Maimonides meeting sponsored by the Indianapolis Zionist District at Indianapolis yesterday (Sunday).
The Community Synagogue will celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of Maimonides with the inauguration of a Maimonides Society.
The sum of $115,000 has been set as Pittsburgh’s contribution toward the United Jewish Appeal Campaign for $3,250,000. The drive will continue here for ten days beginning May 19 under the direction of Leo Lehman.
Rabbi Herbert Simches of Allentown has been named guest rabbi of the Tree of Life Synagogue at Uniontown.
Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman and Mrs. James A. Farley yesterday accepted the invitation of Mrs. Peter J. Schweitzer, president of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, to act as patronesses at the thirty-eighth anniversary ball of the Home to be held May 18 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
James Marshall, attorney and member of the Board of Education, spoke on “Jewish Institutions in a Fascist State” at the monthly meeting of the youth division of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies yesterday afternoon. Irving Berkelhammer, president of the division, presided. The meeting was held at Temple B’nai Jeshurun, 270 West Eighty-ninth street.
Isaac Zaar, contributing editor to the Jewish Morning Journal, last night conducted an open forum on the subject, “Problems of Present Day Socialism” at the Jewish Teachers’ Seminary, 425 Lafayette street. The forum is the first of a series under the joint sponsorship of the Young Poale Zion Allance and the Young Pioneer Women.
Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, a graduate of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, who resigned from Temple Israel, New York, five years ago and has not been active in the ministry since, has been called to occupy the pulpit of Mt. Neboh Congregation, 130 West Seventy-ninth street, it was announced yesterday by Edward R. Cohn, president of the congregation.,
Mrs. Irwin Untermyer will be hostess on Tuesday afternoon to fifty Manhattan leaders in welfare and civic work at the first organization meeting of the newly-formed Park West chapter of the women’s division of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, of which she is chairman, at her home, 483 West End avenue.
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