About $7,000 was realized by the Women’s Division of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities yesterday at its annual luncheon at the St. George Hotel.
The amount will be applied to the division’s quota of $15,000 in the Federation’s $500,000 twenty-fifth anniversary campaign which is now in progress.
Nearly 1,000 people, mostly women, prominent in philanthropic, civic and social activities, attended the luncheon, which was featured by elaborate entertainment provided by stars of the stage and radio.
Magistrate Jeanette G. Brill, chairman at the luncheon, declared that the occasion marked the real opening of the Women’s Division’s part in the Federation drive.
“It is not an effort confined to Brooklyn,” Magistrate Brill maintained, “we also look to Manhattan for help in our endeavor to relieve the condition of the thousands of suffering and destitute people who daily appeal to our twenty-five constituent societies for help.”
BROOKLYN RECEIVES SMALL SHARE
Recalling that Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the world, Magistrate Brill stated that out of the charity dollar distributed to the needy Jews of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan, only ten cents goes to Brooklyn.
Others who spoke included Mrs. Clarence G. Bachrach, chairman of the Women’s Division; Irving Ben Cooper, special counsel to the Commissioner of Accounts and personal representative of Mayor LaGuardia; Presiding Justice Edward Lazansky of the Appellate Division, County Judge Algeron I. Nova, Magistrate Anna Moscowitz Kross, Rabbi Isaac Landman, who delivered the invocation; Rabbi Harry Weiss, who pronounced the benediction; Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, executive leader of the Federation; Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman and Mrs. David E. Goldfarb.
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