Hadassah Drive for $300,000 Gets Under Way

A campaign to raise $300,000 to build the first medical center in Palestine begins today under the auspices of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, and the American Jewish Physician’s Committee. The drive will be continued throughout April in all parts of the country.

The proposed medical center will consist of a modern 300-bed hospital, a graduate medical school connected with the Hebrew University, and a nurses’ training school and residence. According to Mrs. Epstein, the center will have many American aspects, both in physical appearance and in methods of practice and teaching. A number of exiled German specialists will head hospital and research departments, Mrs. Epstein said.

Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, national vice-president of Hadassah and the national chairman of the campaign, yesterday made public the names of medical and lay sponsors of the project. The list includes: Dr. A. A. Berg, Dr. Jacob J. Golub, Dr. Louis I. Harris, Dr. Jacob Jarcho, Dr. Ira I. Kaplan, Dr. Marcus Rothschild, Dr. I. C. Rubin, Dr. Israel Straus, all of New York; Dr. Moses Barron, Minneapolis, Minn.; Dr. S. Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia; Dr. Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore; Dr. Milton Rosenau, Boston; Dr. Charles F. Wilinsky, Boston; Jane Addams, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Bernard S. Deutsch, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, the Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Dr. Alvin Johnson, Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, Magistrate Anna Moskowitz Kross, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, Ludwig Lewisohn, Louis Lipsky, Solomon Lowenstein, Circuit Court Justice Julian W. Mack, James Marshall, Dr. Langley Porter, University of California, Rabbi David de Sola Pool, Mrs. Morris Rothenberg, Nathan Strauss, Jr., Dr. C. E.-A. Winslow, Yale University, Lillian D. Wald, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Stefan Zweig.