Thursday, December 6
Eastern Parkway Zionist district meeting; Crown Heights Talmud Torah, Crown street and Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn; Morris Rothenberg, president, Zionist Organization of America, speaker; evening.
New York Junior Hadassah, monthly meeting and Chanukah gathering; Y. W. H. A., 31 West 110th street; Chanukah “operetta”; speaker, Rabbi William Margolis. “What’s Wrong with Us Jews?”; 8:30 p. m.
Hadassah, Bedford group; annual linen shower and bridge; home of Mrs. J. D. Booth, 1338 President street, Brooklyn; 2 p. m.
School of the Jewish Women, 251 West 100th street; Talmud, Rev. Dr. Aaron Rosmarin; Broadcast, “The Spirit of Hanukah,” Rabbi Philip R. Alstat, WNEW; 4:15 p. m.
Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 15 West Eighty-sixth street; Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, “The Saar Plebiscite”; 8:30 p. m.
School for Adult Jewish Education, 35 East Sixty-second street; “The Jewish Genius as Reflected in Literature and Language,” John Tepfer, 7:45 p. m.; “Yiddish Prose since the ‘Classical’ Writers,” Israel Knox, 8:50 p. m.
School of Philosophy, Steinway Hall, 113 West Fifty-seventh street; A Study of Spinoza’s “Ethics,” Max Fishler; 7 p. m.
Y. M. H. A., Ninety-second street and Lexington avenue; “Education in a Changing Civilization,” Nathaniel Peffer; 8:30 p. m.
Bronx Zionist membership rally; Elsemere Hall, 284 East 170th street, Bronx; Mrs. Archibald Silverman, speaker; evening.
Fiftieth anniversary dinner Montefiore Hospital, Waldorf-Astoria, Park avenue and Forty-ninth street; evening.
Meeting of the vacation camp and dormitory auxiliary of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind; Metropolis Club, 105 West Fifty-seventh street; speakers, Mme. Rosika Schwimmer and Albert Van Dekker; 2:15 p. m.
Youth Zionist-Revisionist Organization meeting, Branch 6; 227-06 Merrick road, Laurelton. L. I.; speakers; evening.
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