Women’s News

Local sections of the National Council of Jewish Women throughout the country are doing highly effective work in the problem of German Jewish refugees, according to the report of Miss Cecilia Rosovsky, field counsellor for the Council, who has just returned from a survey extending to Texas, Included among the organizations which Miss Rosovsky addressed on the subject “the Plight of the German Refugees” and “Fascism versus Democracy were the entire student body of Austin College, the non-Jewish Artists’ Guild of St. Louis, and a Quaker congregation in Chicago.

Mrs. William Dick Sporberg, former president of the council, and Mrs. Francis D. Pollack, chairman of the Section Programs Committee and a member of the Board of Directors, represented the National Council at the meeting of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War at its office in the Grand Central Terminal Building last week.

The Junior Division of the Greater New York Campaign of the United Jewish Appeal will hold a bridge in the Garden Restaurant of Bloomingagale”s on Tuesday afternoon. Mme. Edward Popper and Edward Buegeleisen head the committee on arrangements.

The recently organized Women’ Auxiliary of the Jewish Braille institute has organized a rummage sale for the benefit of the Jewish Braille Revie, the only Anglo-Jewish periodical of its kind in circulation. Officers of the organization are: Mrs. Edgar Lowell, chairman; chairman; Mrs. Rae Dubner, vice chairman, and Mrs. Rae Dubner, vice chairman, and Mrs. William Wittleman, secretary.

Bensonhurst Ivriah

The Bensonhurst group of Ivriah will conclude the years??? activities with conclude the year’s activities with a luncheon and installation of officers tomorrow afternoon at the Jewish Community Center, Bay parkway and Seventy-ninth street, Brooklyn. Oaths will be administered by Mrs. Gabriel Hamburger, national chairman of Ivriah, and Dr. George Bacarat will pronounce the invocation.