Al Singer, former world’s lightweight champion, will be co-sponsor with the Sunshine League for orphan children of New York City of a Purim Festival next Tuesday night at his Club Variety in the Paradise Theatre Building, the Bronx.
A women’s auxiliary has been organized by the Bronx Maternity and Woman’s Hospital to help defray expenses of the Free Clinic. Officers are Mrs. Barnet Kopelman, president; Mrs. Murray Moskowitz, vice-president; Mrs. Hyman Goldman, second vice-president; Mrs. Alexander Weiss, financial secretary; Mrs. David Levien, recording secretary, and Mrs. Joseph Zucker, treasurer.
The Bensonhurst group of Ivriah will give a Purim Festival tomorrow evening at the Jewish Community House, Bay parkway and Seventy-ninth street.
Many requests for speakers have been received during the past weeks by the Speakers’ Bureau of the School of the Jewish Woman, 251 West 100th street. The speakers are supplied free of charge, and a limited number of engagements are yet open, it was announced by Dr. Trude Weiss Rosmarin, director of the institute.
The 800th birthday of Maimonides will be celebrated this afternoon by a joint meeting of three of the largest women’s organizations in the city, in the auditorium of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 122nd street and Broadway, under the auspices of the Israel Friedlaender Classes. More than 300 members of the New York chapter of Hadassah, the Women’s League of the United Synagogue, and Ivriah, the women’s group of the Jewish Education Association, will hear Dr. Henry Slonimsky, member of the Maimonides Octocentennial Committee, tell of the life and works of the eminent Jewish physician, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
Maurice Levin, president of Hearn’s department store, will be the principal speaker at a fund-raising tea for Hadassah at his home, 211 Central Park West, tomorrow afternoon. In addition to Mrs. Levin, the hostesses for the tea will include Mrs. David de Sola Pool, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, Mrs. Mordecai Kaplan and Mrs. Jacob Sincoff.
Sergei Eisenstein’s “Thunder Over Mexico” will be shown tonight at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Ninety-second street and Lexington avenue, as the fifth in a series of ten outstanding motion pictures presented by the Cinema Guild of the Y.M.H.A.
Six hundred invitations have been sent out to as many Brooklyn congregations, philanthropic and fraternal organizations, to appoint delegates who will officially represent their respective organizations, on Monday evening, April 8, at the Brooklyn Jewish Center, when the Brooklyn Jewish Ministers Association will celebrate the octocentennial of Maimonides.
Dr. Harry Slochower, critic and authority on German economic and cultural life, will speak on “What Hitlerism Has Done to the German People,” Friday evening, at 168 West Twenty-third street.
Dr. Alexander Lyons of the Eighth Avenue Temple is active rabbi there and not rabbi emeritus as was recently reported in a story of his reappointment to the Brooklyn Library Board of Trustees.
Juan de Faria, Marano poet who lived for some time in Brussels in the late seventeenth century, was called “A nightingale of the Mosaic nest.”
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