Dr. Elmer E. Brown, Chancellor of New York University, Dr. David do Sola Pool, Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein. president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and Professor Nathan Isaacs of Harvard University. Chairman of the Rev. Dr. H. P. Mendes National Tribute Committee of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America will be the speakers at the “Invisible Dinner” to Dr. H. Pereira Mendes this evening on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Mendes’s services. The program will be broadeast over Station WJZ from 7.00 to 8.00 o’clock.
The establishment of the Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes Educational Endowment, to subsidize Talmud Torahs in small towns and rural communities, publish curricula and text-books and promote Jewish education in the United States, was announced on the occasion of the celebration.
Dr. Mendes was guest of honor at a reception Sunday night given by the League of the Congregation in the Sunday School room of the synagogue at Central Park West and Seventieth Street. Dr. Mendes is sailing for Palestine on Friday, it was announced.
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