More than 1,000 women will attend the annual membership tea of the Brooklyn chapter of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization, to be held at the Hotel Commodore today, according to an announcement by Mrs. David Sobel, chairman of the committee. The event will be the culmination of a membership campaign conducted by the chapter in connection with the national drive to raise Hadassah’s enrollment to 50,000.
Dr. Olga Knopf, an associate of Dr. Alfred Adler, the Vienna psychologist, will make an address on mental hygiene and will speak of this phase of the work as it is being done in Palestine. Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim, former national president of Hadassah, who returned from Palestine recently, and Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, national secretary of Hadassah, will be the other speakers. Maurice Schwartz, director of the Yiddish Art Theatre, and Miss Ottilie Metzger, contralto, will sing. Mrs. Adolf Slomka, president of the chapter, will preside.
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