Last week’s high light was Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman’s tea for the officers and members of the Women’s Division of the Federation. The tea was held in Mrs. Lehman’s New York home, 820 Park avenue, and was sponsored by a special committee under the chairmanship of Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard.
The hospitality shown to the Federation Group is again proof of the warm interest the First Lady of the State has always taken in the various philanthropic activities of Jewish Women Organizations.
Of interest also was the first regular membership meeting of the season of the Women’s American ORT held last Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lande, 28 West Eighty-ninth street.
The B’nai B’rith Ladies are planning a busy Fall and Winter season and the various women’s auxiliaries to the men’s lodges are evidently determined to make 1934-35 their most successful year. Already several interesting meetings have been held. The Reho-both Women’s Auxiliary No. 65 is foremost among the B’nai B’rith groups in planning evenings and afternoons which are for members and guests full of stimulating interest. On October 17 such a meeting will take place at the Clubhouse, 36 West Sixty-ninth street. An interesting forum is planned. Non-members are invited.
The Council of Women’s Auxiliary Lodges of the B’nai B’rith comprises in New York City the following units: Manhattan-Washington No. 21—meets the second Thursday evening of the month at the Clubhouse, 36 West Sixty-ninth street. New York Women’s Auxiliary No. 22—meets the second Tuesday evening of the month, also at the clubhouse. Jordan’s Women’s Auxiliary No. 26—Meets first and third Wednesday afternoons, likewise at the clubhouse. Also Yonkers City No. 33 which meets every second Monday afternoon at the B’nai B’rith Home, Amberson avenue and Lehman terrace, Yonkers, N. Y.; the Chananiah No. 39 group which meets second Sunday afternoon at the New York Clubhouse; the Henry-Jones Lebanon No. 57 auxiliary which meets fourth Tuesday evening of the month at 36 West Sixty-ninth street, and Rehoboth No. 65 which has designated two meeting places. It assembles the first Wednesday evening of the month at Vasa Castle Hall, Bronx, 149th street and Walton avenue, and the third Wednesday evening at the Clubhouse at West Sixty-ninth street.
President of the Council is Mrs. Lilyan E. Nathan of Springfield, Mass. Vice president, Mrs. Fannie Klein of New York City.
“The Sophisticates,” a club composed of young Jewish girls between the ages of twenty-one to twenty-three are going to hold their second annual dance at the Hotel Montclair’s “Casino in the Air,” Forty-ninth street and Lexington avenue, on November 11.
Tickets can be obtained from### Miss Jean Krauser, 1955 Park avenue, New York City, or from the secretary, Miss Dorothy Sockloff, 424 East 161st street, the Bronx###
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