An increase of 5,500 members in Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, raising the national total to 45,000 in the senior and junior divisions, was announced yesterday by Mrs. Alexander Lamport and Miss Nell Ziff, membership chairmen of the senior and junior organizations.
Of the new enrolment 4,000 are in the senior group and 1,500 in the junior section, according to the statement, which added that thirteen new senior chapters were organized, bringing the total throughout the country to 273, and sixteen new junior units, increasing the total to 206.
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Mrs. Lamport pointed out that with its present membership Hadassah is the largest Jewish women’s organization in the United States. The increase in the past four months is almost equal to the entire year’s increase from October, 1933, to October, 1934, she said. This record, she declared, indicated the accelerated interest in the movement to develop Palestine as the Jewish homeland.
“Hadassah’s specific undertaking in Palestine, the development and maintenance of modern health institutions for all creeds, has a strong appeal to the Jewish women of this country,” Mrs. Lamport said. “As women they can best contribute to the renascence of Palestine by performing a work that is clearly tied up with home and children, as is the problem of health.”
Miss Ziff pointed out that the Jewish youth of America is taking a greater interest in things Jewish than ever before, attested by the popularity of the Jewish program of education conducted by Junior Hadassah and by the growing membership in the organization. Junior Hadassah supports a model home-school, training farm and the only Jewish nurses’ training school in Palestine.
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