The social service and educational work the Emunah Women of America carries out in Israel will take a giant step forward when their new $3 million-$4 million all women’s School for Technical/Arts Education in Jerusalem opens its doors to some 350 students next July.
Beverly Segal, president of Emunah Women, said the school “will provide important and much-needed new career opportunities for Israeli young people in computer science, graphic arts, business skills and Judaic studies.”
Admission to the school will be contingent on whether the applicant is a high school graduate, scores on aptitude tests in her area of interest, and on the outcome of her interviews and recommendations. An Emunah spokesperson said that while most students will pay “a couple of hundred Shekelim,” the fee will be based on the student’s income, with a majority being subsidized by scholarships, or by Emunah and other organizations.
VARIOUS CENTERS IN THE SCHOOL
The school, whose opening was announced at the recent Emunah diamond key dinner here attended by some 1,000 people, will consist of the Jossi Berger Holocaust Study Center; the Appleman School of Computer Science, dedicated by Florence and Joseph Apple man, longtime contributors to Emunah and in whose honor the entire new school is named; the School of Business Education; the School of Judaic Studies; and the Charlotte and Harold Dachs School of Graphic Arts.
The Holocaust Study Center will be devoted to a continuous study of all aspects of the Holocaust and its effects on succeeding generations, as well as the lessons to be derived from it. The area devoted to the Center will contain 14 stained glass windows designed by Israel artist Yaacov Agam who was presented with the Emunah Women of America’s Man of Vision Award last November.
Charlotte and Harold Dachs were the guests of honor at the diamond key dinner at the New York Hilton for dedicating the Graphic Arts School and for their 25-year commitment to the organization. Charlotte Dachs has served Emunah in a number of offices, including chairperson of the Board, and as Emunah president.
Also honored at the dinner were Sali and Michael Berger who dedicated the Holocaust Center to their son, Jossi, who was always preoccupied with his parents’ memories of the Holocaust and with what happened to the Jews of Europe.
ISRAEL’S IMPROVED POSITION IN THE UN
Addressing the dinner, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Binyamin Netanyahu, said that “Israel’s position in the UN is better than it has ever been before–as reflected in the General Assembly and even in UN resolutions.” He said that “despite vicious attacks periodically,” Israel’s position “is up” and that of its enemies, who are divided and have lost considerable economic and political power, “is down.”
Netanyahu said that those who slander Israel and Zionism are most often “representatives of ghettos–masses of humanity that are held by … gangsterism–who rule over poor people who cannot utter a whisper in their defense, who suffer hunger and depravation.”
He pointed out that, in keeping with the values of Moses and the Prophets, and contrary to the false charges of “racism” levelled at her, Israel “is the only country in the world which has brought Blacks out of Africa not to enslave them but to liberate them.” He urged that the Jewish people not only refute the slanderous view that Zionism is racism but also assert the Zionist concept of commitment to liberty and justice.
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