The Jewish needy and sick will not be forgotten this Thanksgiving, for the traditional turkey dinner, with all the trimmings and good cheer that go with it, will grace the tables of thousands of them, men, women, children and orphans.
The Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, which is giving this huge party, will feed these hungry and needy thousands at its ninety-one institutions, hospitals, old-age homes and orphan asylums.
Governor Lehman will play unseen host to 350 men and women inmates of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews at the annual dinner sponsored by him in memory of his mother, Babette Lehman. A special service, at which Rev. Isidore Perlman will officiate, will be
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