Saturday, March 23
Annual all-star show and fashion review for the benefit of the Israel Orphan Asylum, Madison Square Garden, Eighth avenue and Forty-ninth street, 8 p. m.
Annual convention of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society of Denver, Hotel Astor, Broadway and Forty-fourth street, 8 p. m. Speakers: Bernard S. Deutsch, Dr. Israel Goldstein, Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, Milton A. Greenbaum, Judge William M. Lewis.
Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, 2 West Seventieth street, morning. “Appearances,” Dr. D. de Sola Pool.
Mt. Neboh Temple, Seventy-ninth street at Columbus avenue, morning. “How Shall We Meet Religious Bigotry,” Rabbi Pizer Jacobs.
Purim Carnival sponsored by the Young Folks League of Young Israel of Flatbush, Avenue I at Coney Island avenue, Brooklyn, evening.
Dinner dance and card party sponsored by the Astoria Junior Hadassah, Si Hings, Broadway at Thirty-ninth street, evening.
Sunday, March 24
Young Israel of Manhattan, 229 East Broadway, evening. Purim carnival and costume dance.
Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third street, 10:45 a. m. “‘Heaven’s My Destination’—Thornton Wilder’s Message,” Rabbi Louis I. Newman.
Society of Jewish Science, 150 West Eighty-fifth street, 11 a. m. “Spiritual Help From the Psalm,” Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein. Purim festival and dance, True Sisters Building, 150 West Eighty-fifth street, 8 p. m.
Modern Youth League, Hotel Cameron, 41 West Eighty-sixth street, 8:30 p. m. Address by Marjorie Bell.
Meeting and Purim celebration of the Jewish Honor Legion. Chanin Building, 122 East Forty-second street Room 582, 7:30 p. m. Speakers: E. H. Sonnenreich, I. Arthur Rosenberg.
Meeting of the Society for Jewish Scholarship. Jewish Theological Seminary, Broadway at 122nd street, 8 p. m. Speakers: Dr. Robert Gordis, Dr. Michael Higger.
Ahavath Israel Hebrew School, 502 West 157th street, 2:30 p. m. Presentation of Purim play and musical program.
Free Synagogue, Carnegie Hall, Seventh avenue at Fifty-seventh street, 10:45 a. m. “The Coughlin-Long-Johnson Controversy: Some Jewish Aspects,” Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
Sixth annual dinner of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society of Denver, Hotel Astor, Broadway at Forty-fourth street, 7 p. m. Broadcast of entertainment over Station WMCA, 9:30 p. m.
Young People’s Conference, West Side Branch of the Institutional Synagogue, 148 West Eighty-fifth street, 4 p. m. “The Life and Works of Maimonides,” George Horowitz.
Purim party sponsored by the Mizrachi Youth of Linden Heights, Temple Torath Chaim, Tenth avenue and Forty-fourth street, Brooklyn, evening.
Testimonial dinner dance in honor of Mrs. Bertha Grad. Starlight Roof, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, Park avenue at Fiftieth street, evening. Under auspices of the Young Women’s League of the Home of the Daughters of Israel.
Temple B’nai Jeshurun, Eighty-fifth street, West of Broadway, 11 a. m. “Are the Dark Ages Returning?” Lewis Browne.
Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue. 2 West Seventieth street, 11 a. m. “Race Relations in India,” P. Kodanda Rao.
Junior League of Beth Israel Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital Auditorium, Sixteenth street and Stuyvesant Park East, 7 p. m. Dance program by Doris Humphrey. Address by Dr. Hyman L. Rachlin.
Annual Purim celebration sponsored by the Paterson B’nai B’rith, Majestic Theatre, Paterson, N. J. Address by Rabbi Irving Silman.
Mecca Temple 130 West Fifty-sixth street, 8 p. m. Debate, “Resolved: That the Present Crisis Can Be Solved Only by Communism,” Everett Dean Martin and John Strachey.
Purim festival sponsored by the German-Jewish Club, Mecca Temple, 133 West Fifty-fifth street, 7:30 p. m. Guest of honor, Prof. Albert Einstein.
Purim entertainment, sponsored by the Activities Division of the Jacob H. Schiff Center, 2510 Valentine avenue, afternoon. Address by Dr. Alexander Basel.
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