A Committee of 100 to direct a campaign for $300,000 for the erection of the first medical center in Palestine, and a committee of academic sponsors for the project to include university heads from all parts of the country, are being organized by Hadassah and the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, it was announced Friday by Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, national vice-president of Hadassah.
Mrs. Felix M. Warburg is honorary chairman of the committee and Mrs. Epstein and Mrs. Samuel C. Lamport are co-chairmen. Among the New York members of the committee are Mrs. David de Sola Pool, Mrs. Ida I. Kaplan, wife of Dr. Kaplan, head of the cancer division of the New York Department of Hospitals; Mrs. Rive K. Weinstein, through whose efforts an ambulance was recently purchased and sent to Palestine; Mrs. A. Liebovitz, Mrs. Nathan Perlman, Mrs. Eugene Blumenthal of New Rochelle, sister of Dr. J. L. Magnes, Chancellor of the Hebrew University; Magistrate Anna M. Kross, Mrs. A. Slomka, Mrs. L. Taub and Mrs. Sol Rosenbloom of New York and Pittsburgh. Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, director of Beth Israel Hospital and president of the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, is organizing the academic committee of sponsors.
CONNECTED WITH UNIVERSITY
The Rothschild – Hadassah – University Hospital will be built on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, near the Hebrew University, and will serve as a graduate school of medicine connected with the university. Mrs. Epstein said the medical complex will contain three units: a model hospital of 300 beds; the medical school with complete laboratories for research and a special division for cancer study, and a nurses’ training school and residence. A number of noted exiled German professors will head some of the hospital and teaching departments.
The campaign will be culminated in April to mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Hebrew University, which occurs April 1, Mrs. Epstein announced. The 300 chapters of Hadassah in as many cities are organizing local committees for campaign purposes to raise the chapter’s pledges of from $5,000 to $25,000. The bulk of the individual contributions sought will range from $100 to $1,000, Mrs. Epstein said.
“The success of the campaign will mean enlarging the Hebrew University by establishing its medical department,” Mrs. Epstein declared. “This will be the first Jewish medical school in history, and while at present it will be only a graduate school, for which the need at present is most urgent, eventually it is hoped to establish an undergraduate medical college as well.
ANNIVERSARY GIFT
“No way to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the institution is more appropriate than a gift toward expanding the curriculum and adding to the prestige and influence of the first university of the Jewish poepie. Ten years ago Mount Scopus was a barren hill: today on its summit are grouped the structures of the Hebrew University around a beautiful campus, symbolizing the intellectual revival of the Jewish people on its historic soil.
“Now Hadassah, for nearly twenty-five years a leader in modern medical practice in Palestine, will become affiliated with the Hebrew University in advancing the medical sciences in the Near East by establishing a medical center for research and teaching as well as h###aling.
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