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UTS, Ralph Weingarten was Miss Grace Letpdger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Leipciger, 224 Beatrice Street, Toronto. Mr. Weingarten is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Weingarten, Robert Street
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?oi Set Up Men's Clubs To Greet Returning Fighters
The role the synagogue must play in helping to reabsorb return* mr setfiui men of the Jewish faith into their home communities �bo hi promoting interfaith
was stressed at an meeting of a New of the National Fede-ratioB ef Jewish Men's Clobs.
A hundred representatives ot ConaeiiaMii Synagogues through-e�A tne metropolitan area attended ' " at the Jewish Theol-
Seminsry of America, and 122nd Street, to dis-
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group, which has 10,000 members �R ever the U.S. The goal is to set spawn's dubs in fifty synagogues ~"~ the Conservative doc-
"New York and outlying
As outlined by Rabbi Joel S. "'_, national adviser to the i*s dubs, the organisation will ' to farther the relationship by rMr**1?* in the armed with hundreds of thou-ef Jewish men, some of
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N. Y. Garment District
Synagogue To Cost
$500,000
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The membership of the Garment Center Congregation, Inc., at 461 Seventh Avenue. New York, approved plans for the erection of a Jewish community center and a new synagogue to replace the present quarters at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street
The projected building will cost more than 8600,000, Max A. Drusin, president, said. Sam Davis, chairman of the building committee, announced that a survey of sites available ii now befog undertaken by a special committee.. Four locations are under consideration.
The synagogue and eommun. ity center will have facilities for more than 2,000 persons. A drive for funds, to be ear-marked for the new building, win begin next month in the garment district.
Composer Of F am o u s Song D i e s
Felix W. Bernard, one of the composers of "Dardanella," the tune that captured the musical ear of the nation in 1919, died in Hollywood. He was forty-seven years cud.
Mr. Bernard began composing professionally when he was eighteen, four yean before he crashed through with "DardaneUa," written with the late Johnny '-Black and the late Fred Fisher. "Dardanella" has sold more than 6,500,-000 records and more than 1,700-, 000 sheet-music copies.
Writing- "Dardanella" resulted in many heartaches for Mr. Bernard. He sued its publishers shortly after the song became a hit,
claiming he sold his rights to them for $100 when he was broke, on their representation that "Darda-neHa" was a poor seller because it was difficult to play. At the time, he charged, 60,000 copies already had been sold. He also alleged that Mr. Black had received $50,000 in royalties.
After much dispute a settlement was made, although ita terms were undisclosed, and Mr. Bernard, Mr. Black and Mr. Fisher, then an of. ef the
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Mrs. Morris Filderman, formerly Miss Bernice Sandra Najer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Najer, Queen Street West, Toronto. Mr. Filderman is the son of David Filderman and the late Mrs. Filder-
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director of The Journal of Commerce.
He leaves a widow, Bessie; his mother, Mrs. Hattte Bondy; a daughter, Mrs, Dorothy Croft; a sister, Mrs. Blanche B. Hlrsch. horn, and a brother, Sydney Bondy.
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they had a big job to do in edu-esRns; the American people as to what the Jew really is lute.
Be said most persons, including Jcwa ihisaiialvfi, had a false im-
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__ been encouraged by "motion pictere producers who, when they the Jews on the screen, a funny and cringing __ " Some of our great j of literature also are respon* for this impression, he con. ... < pointing to the treatment of Jews by Shakespeare and Scott "We met change the very culture of the world in ill conception of the Jew," Dr. Finkelstein as-asrtsd. The opinion of America abewt we Jews will soon become the wotU conception of what the Jew really is tike. Jew and Christian as well as people from all esamtries of the world, must learn ts understand each other."
rhaplshi Aaron Blumenthal, whe is ftationed at HaOoran Hos-pital en Staten Island, said a point that had been obscured in atf dis-
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��Winter Wonderland," from the Ziegfeld FoUies of 1M4, with Dick Smith, and "Twentyone Dollars a Month, Once a Year," written in 1941 with Ray Klages.
Born in Brooklyn, . he concentrated as a youth on learning how to play the piano and how to tap-dance. He was a successful vaudeville performer, appearing in New York and 'circuit cities in the early *20a after "DardaneUa" was hailed as a hit. His act included simultaneous tap-dancing and piano playing.
Giants' Official Dies
Leo J. Bondy, vice president and treasurers of the New York Giants *n. died in the New York
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Born in Fottsville, Pa-, on Aug. 4, 1883, Mr. Bondy waa brought to New York by his parents at the age of 6 and, as he later insisted, virtually grew up **from the sidewalks," a devoted baseball enthusiast and Giant fan.
Educated in the city's public schools, he studied law at New York OniPusity and waa admitted to the bar in 1904. Soon after opening his own law firm he met Charles A. Stoneham, broker and turf man, who raced a stable of horns on the lastiopoiiUn tracks in addition to holding a controDing interest in the Tropical Park race track in Havana.
Subsequently Mr. Bondy became rounsff to Mr. StonHmm and was closely sssoriated with him in all
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duding his purchase of the New York Giants in 1919 from the John T. Piush estate. Mr. Bondy became store and in the Interests of the
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Sam and Johnnie Canuck have been doing ImsJnrst together. Today, more
than ever, we are united in a common
purpose,
Side hy side, Canadians, Ameikeans and Englishmen March along the road that leads to final victory. On the hot sands of North Af rka, on the slopes of Sicily and Italy, our men have fotagfat wefl together . . . given strength one to the other. Now, we look forward to the pence . .. and the w*ys m which we cast preserve iL
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