Three hundred delegates from all parts of the country are expected to gather in Atlantic City for the fifteenth annual convention of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which will open on November 14 at the Ambassador Hotel. Sessions will continue through Sunday, November 17. The delegates represent 40,000 members of 292 Chapters. The Hadassah meeting will be the first Zionist convention held in America since the Palestine outbreak. It has attracted wide attention, and many organizations are represented.
Mrs. Felix M. Warburg will be a guest of the convention.
On the day before the convention, a regional institute and a meeting of the national board will be held.
The agenda of the convention calls for the formal opening by Mrs. Robert Szold, acting national president. Welcome to the delegates will be made by Mrs. Samuel Shils, president of the Atlantic City Chapter. The annual report of Hadassah’s work for the past year and plans for the future will be given by Mrs. Szold. Mrs. David Greenberg will render the treasurer’s report.
During the second session, reports will be made on the Jewish National Fund, senior-junior relations, Junior Hadassah and cultural activities. At a reception in the evening, with Mrs. David de Sola Pool, national vice-president, as presiding officer, Miss Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, will speak on “Progress in Palestine.” Louis Lipsky will bring greetings from the Zionist Organization of America; Mrs. J. C. Friend for the National Council of Jewish Women; Mrs. Maurice Steinfeld, the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods; Miss Leah Biskin. Pioneer Women’s Organization; Mrs. Samuel Spiegel, Women’s League of United Synagogue of America; Mrs. Herbert Goldstein, Women’s Branch of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and Miss Frances Lesser, Junior Hadassah.
Mrs. Rose Halprin, who was in Palestine for six months as official representative of Hadassah, will address the session. Mrs. Rebecca Kohut, and Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, chairman, American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, will be the speakers at a banquet Friday night. Mrs. Henry Harris, of San Francisco, will be toastmaster.
A round table discussion will be held Saturday afternoon. The subject for consideration will be “Hadassah’s Contribution to the Spiritual Growth of American Jewish Womanhood.” The discussion will be led by Mrs. H. H. Rubenovitz, of Boston.
Hadassah’s medical and health wok in Palestine, involving the Hadassah Medical Organization, infant welfare, Palestine supplies and school luncheons, will be reviewed and future plans made.
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