The dinner given by the Deborah Jewish Tuberculosis Society at the Hotel Astor for the benefit of the institution will be held on January 20. This organization is engaged in non-sectarian activities.
Next Sunday afternoon, Mailamm, the American Palestine Music Association, launches a unique and authoritative series of lecture-recitals on important Jewish topics at the Jewish Club. The series begins with a richly illustrated exposition of the evolution of Jewish music, by Cantor Gershom Ephros, the author of “Cantorial Anthologies.” Admission is $1.50 for members, $2.00 for non-members; to students are granted special rates. The purchaser of $15 worth of subscriptions earns a seat at the Victory Dinner-Dance on March 16. Mrs. Zunser is president of the organization.
Mrs. William P. Goldman of 575 Park avenue, chairman of the annual New Year’s Eve Dinner and Dance for the benefit of the Children’s Welfare League of the East Side Jewish Center, has announced that the proceeds of this year’s affair already promise to help materially the 1935 budget, Half of the $10,000 needed to carry on the work of the league is expected to be realized at the dinner, which will be held at the Biltmore Cascades.
Everyone interested in the work of Hadassah and its projective hospital in Jerusalem will reserve January 6 for the gala affair at the Hotel St. George. Eli Dantzig’s orchestra will play. A varied entertainment program has been planned.
The entire Ivriah Organization is working at top speed to make the Gala Sunday Night Opera Concert, January 13, at the Metropolitan Opera House, an outstanding success. Artists scheduled to appear are: Lily Pons, DeLuca, Helen Gleason, Charles Hackett, Gladys Swarthout, Lazzari, Clemens, and many others. The entire proceeds will be devoted to the scholarship and kindergarten funds which provides scholarships for those children whose parents are unable to send them to a Jewish religious school and who otherwise would be deprived of spiritual training. Tickets for the event may be procured at the Ivriah office, 70 Fifth avenue.
A luncheon and card party will be held at the Hotel Peter Stuyvesant, 2 West Eighty-sixth street, January 17, for the benefit of German refugee children. Proceeds of the affair will be handed over to the National Council of Jewish Women to aid in the care of those children. The single ticket is $1.25, a reserved table $5.00. This includes the luncheon, bridge prizes and musical entertainment. Mrs. Annie B. Elzas of 42 West Seventy-second street is chairman of the occasion and tickets may be procured from her.
Mrs. A. Jack Davidson is chairman for the fifteenth annual convention and luncheon of the Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations to be held January 30 at the Hotel Astor. About 2,500 are expected to attend. Mrs. Edward N. Mayer is chairman of the luncheon. The Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations, with its membership of 231 constituent societies representing approximately 125,000 women, is not a money raising group, but concerns itself solely with furthering all matters of communal, national and international interest.
“Monte Carlo in America” will be the keynote of the Midwinter Festival and Dance to be given January 11 at the Waldorf-Astoria for the benefit of the Grand Street Settlement. Stage, screen and radio stars will appear during the evening. Proceeds go to the work of the settlement, which includes medical and dental clinics, a nursery school, work shop, art and dramatic classes, and a Summer camp at Mountainville N. Y., for undernourished children. Tickets, including supper, are $12.50 the couple, and may be obtained either from Paul Adler, 15 Broadway, or Mrs. Edyth S. Shelby, Room 365, Savoy Plaza, New York.
The Guardian Mothers of the Pleasantville Orphanage will hold their annual dinner-dance on January 6 at the Manhattan Music Hall, Broadway and Fifty-third street. The entire proceeds will be devoted to the threefold work to which the Guardian Mothers devote themselves: the institution at Pleasantville, New York, the Fellowship House, and the Boarding Out Section, known at the Home Bureau of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
The Mizrachi Women’s Organization announces that a new chapter has been organized in Jamaica, L. I. Officers are: Mrs. L. Spiegelman, president: Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Stern, vice-presidents; and Mrs. Meyers, secretary and treasurer.
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