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SUPPLEMENTS TO THE REVIEW OF THE YEAR ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS UNITED STATES July 9, 1942. Boston, Mass.: Seventy-fifth birthday of Louis E. KIRSTEIN, communal leader. August 9, 1942. Cincinnati, Ohio: Eightieth birthday of DAVID PHILIPSOX, rabbi and pioneer in Reform Judaism. September 1, 1942. Baltimore, Md.: Fiftieth anniversary of WILLIAM ROSENAU as rabbi of Oheb Shalom Congregation. October 18, 1942. Philadelphia, Pa.: Eightieth birthday of FELIX N. GERSON, publisher of The Jewish Exponent. October 28, 1942. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION ANSHE LEBOVITZ. October 30, 1942. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of seventieth birthday of DAVID PINSKI (b. April 5, 1872), Yiddish author and playwright. October 31, 1942. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of seventieth birthday of EMANUEL LIBMAN (b. August 22, 1872), noted specialist in internal medicine. November 2, 1942. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni- versary of BALFOUR DECLARATION. November 15, 1942. St. Louis, Mo.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni- versary of ABRAHAM E. HALPERN as rabbi of Congregation B'nai Amoona. November 20-24, 1942. Easton, Pa.: Celebration of one hundredth anni- versary of founding of TEMPLE COVENANT OF PEACE. November 29, 1942. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni- versary of the FEDERATION FOR THE SUPPORT OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETIES OF NEW YORK. CITY (founded April 27, 1917). December 4-6, 1942. Brookline, Mass.: Celebration of one hundredth anniversary of founding of TEMPLE OHABEI SHALOM. December 9, 1942. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of eightieth birthday of MOSES HYAMSON (b. September 3, 1862), rabbi and scholar. December 11-13, 1942. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of one hundredth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM. December 18, 1942. Brookline, Mass.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni- versary of founding of CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL. December 18, 1942. New York, N. Y.: Eightieth birthday of MORIZ ROSENTHAL, pianist. December 19, 1942. New York, N. Y.: Sixtieth birthday of BRONISLAW HUBERMAN, violinist, founder of Palestine Symphony Orchestra. December 27, 1942. Louisville, Ky.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver. sary of JACOB J. GITTLEMAN as rabbi of Congregation Adath Jeshurun. January 2, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Eighty-fifth birthday of BERNARD SACHS, neurologist, past president of New York Academy of Medicine. 365 366 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK January 3, 1943. Omaha, Nebr.: Fiftieth anniversary of founding of OMAHA HEBREW CLUB. January 6, 1943. Official celebration of HAYM SALOMON DAY in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other cities, marking 157th anniversary of the death of HAYM SALOMON. January 16, 1943. Hartford, Conn.: Celebration of one hundredth anni- versary of founding of CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL. January 16, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Seventy-fifth birthday of FRANZ ULLSTEIN, former head of publishing house of Ullstein & Co., Germany. January 24, 1943. San Francisco, Calif.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION CHEVRA THILIM. February 7, 1943. Milwaukee, Wis.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of HEBREW SHELTERING HOME. February 21, 1943. Louisville, Ky.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION ANSHEI SFARD. February, 1943. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of one hundredth anni- versary of founding of JULES E. MASTBAUM LODGE, B'NAI B'RITH. April 2, 1943. Kingston, N. Y.. Celebration of ninetieth anniversary of founding of TEMPLE EMANUEL. April 7, 1943. Galveston, Tex.: Eightieth birthday of HENRY COHEN, rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, since June, 1888. April 11, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of JEWISH FORUM, monthly publication. April 13, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of HISTADRUTH IVRITH (National Hebrew Culture Organiza- tion.) April 26, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Fiftieth anniversary of STEPHEN S. WISE in the rabbinate. May 2, 1943. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of seventieth birthday of JULIUS HILLEL GREENSTONE (b. April 17, 1873), rabbi, author, educator. May 8-15, 1943. New York, Detroit and Cincinnati: Celebration of one hundredth anniversary of birth (May 10, 1843) of KAUFMANN KOHLER, pioneer in Reform Judaism, theologian and president of Hebrew Union College from 1903 to 1922. May 14, 1943. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary in the rabbinate of SOLOMON GOLDMAN, rabbi of Congregation Anshe Emet. May 15, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of establishing of LEBANON HOSPITAL, Bronx. May 17, 1943. Chicago, 111.: Seventy-fifth birthday of THEODORE REGEN- STEINER, pioneer in color printing and rotogravure. May 23, 1943. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of SHAARE ZEDEK LOGAN SQUARE CONGREGATION. May 24, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT AND VISITING NURSE SERVICE by Lillian D. Wald. June 3, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of seventieth birthday of Orro LOEWI, Austrian co-winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. June 4, 1943. Hartford, Conn.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary in rabbinate of ABRAHAM J. FELDMAN, rabbi of Temple Beth Israel. ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS 367 June 8, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of HIRAM N. VINEBERG as consulting gynecologist of Mount Sinai Hospital. June 22, 1943: One hundredth anniversary of the birth of MAYER SULZ- BERGER, jurist, communal leader, book collector and first president of the American Jewish Committee. OTHER COUNTRIES July 26, 1942. Paarl, Union of South Africa: Celebration of fiftieth anni- versary of founding of PAARL HEBREW CONGREGATION. July 29, 1942. Jerusalem, Palestine: Fiftieth anniversary of opening of B'NAI B'RITH LIBRARY, nucleus of the Jewish National and University Library, Mt. Scopus. August 1, 1942. London, England: Ninetieth birthday of JAMES HENRY LOWE, publisher. September 5, 1942. Toronto, Canada: Seventy-fifth birthday of SAUL BENNETT, Zionist, communal worker. September 6, 1942. Hampstead, England: Celebration of fiftieth anni- versary of founding (March 13, 1892) of HAMPSTEAD SYNAGOGUE. September 8, 1942. England: Eightieth birthday of BENNO JACOB, formerly rabbi of Dortmund, Germany. September 20, 1942. London, England: Sixtieth birthday of ARTHUR MARMORSTEIN, lecturer, Jews' College. September 25, 1942. London, England: Celebration of seventieth birthday of JOSEPH H. HERTZ, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire. November 2, 1942. London, England: Seventy-fifth birthday of SIR PHILIP HENRIQUES, K. B. E. November 2, 1942. London, England: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni- versary of BALFOUR DECLARATION. November 10, 1942. Oxford, England: Eightieth birthday of ADOLF WAL- LENBERG, neurologist, formerly head of State Hospital at Danzig. January 1, 1943. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of DIE PRESSE, Yiddish paper. January 15, 1943. Basle, Switzerland: Eightieth birthday of ADOLF GOLD- SCHMIDT of Hamburg, formerly Professor of Fine Arts, Berlin University, Germany. January 27, 1943. Jerusalem, Palestine: Seventy-fifth birthday of HAIM KATZENELSON, journalist. February, 1943. Oxford, England: Fiftieth anniversary of founding of OXFORD SYNAGOGUE. March 20, 1943. 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Hove, England: Celebration of eightieth birthday of BARNETT MARKS, J. P., Alderman, Hove Borough Council, since 1902. June 3, 1943. London, England: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. June 5-6, 1943. London, England: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of WEST CENTRAL JEWISH CLUB AND DAY SETTLEMENT. June, 1943. Manchester, England: Celebration of eightieth birthday of ISRAEL SUNLIGHT, communal worker. June, 1943. Manchester, England: Seventieth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION or SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE JEWS. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS UNITED STATES AARONSON, BENJAMIN, Brooklyn, N. Y., lieutenant, New York Fire Dept., awarded Thomas A. Kenny Memorial Medal and Dept. Medal for valor on duty, June 4, 1942; reported June 15, 1943. AUSTIN, BERNARD, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Assembly, Nov. 3, 1942. BARUCH, BERNARD M., New York, N. 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