Hadassah, women’s Zionist organization, today decided to back the Youth Aliyah movement (for transferring Jewish youth to Palestine) in a resolution adopted at its second session.
At the opening session yesterday a praesidium was elected including Miss Celia Slohm of Buffalo, Mrs. Moses P. Epstein of New York, Miss Pearl Franklin of Chicago and Mrs. Herman Schulman of New York, secretary.
Mrs. Edward Jacobs declared in the opening ##ess that the Jews are caught in a vortex in a struggle between waning democracy and the growing forces of a regimented society. It is necessary that the Jews sponsor causes which establish Jewish rights and combat anti-Semitic intolerance, she said.
Mrs. Jacobs presented the annual report, recommending a medical center in Palestine and youth Aliyah projects “to meet the changing needs of Palestine.”
Miss Slohm, national president of Junior Hadassah, read an annual report.
Messages were received from Prof. Albert Einstein, Mayor Meier Dizengoff of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, Mrs. Arthur Brin, Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Menachem M. Ussishkin, Miss Henrietta Szold and Morris Rothenberg.
Berl Locker, member of the World Zionist Executive and the Jewish Agency executive, declared that immigration for centuries has been the problem of Jewish life.
“The only historical change that has come to the Jews has been the Zionist movement since the World War,” he added.
A resolution was proposed by Mrs. David de Sola Pool of New York to dedicate the convention to Miss Henrietta Szold in honor of her 75th birthday which falls on Dec. 21.
Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn of New York, national treasurer, reported that Hadassah has sent $315,000 to Palestine during the year, that $114,000 was raised in America toward the medical center project sponsored jointly by Hadassah and the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, and that $44,000 was given to the Jewish National Fund.
Mrs. Benjamin Gottesman of New York, national organization chairman, reported 21 new chapters and 13 professional women’s divisions organized this year.
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