Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is seeking to expand its community services which include tutorial, lunch and old-age programs, into a close working relationship with local Job Corps Center, Mrs. D. Leonard Cohen, American Affairs chairman, reported today at Hadassah’s mid-winter conference here. “This new role for Hadassah is in addition to the ongoing services Hadassah volunteers have provided in its two-year-old ‘Action Program'” Mrs. Cohen declared.
“Hadassah’s association with the Job Corps is the outgrowth of mutual interest,” she added. “When Dr. Charles Gershenson, the head of research of the United States Children’s Bureau, attended a Youth Aliyah Hadassah-sponsored international seminar on Group Care in Israel in the summer of 1969, he was convinced that there is relevance in the application of the Youth Aliyah techniques to youth programs in the United States. When Job Corps representatives came to him for advice, he told them about the Israeli programs.” She added that later Dr. Stephen K. Hoyte, chief of personal and social development programs of the Job Corps, met with Hadassah leaders. “They discussed youth care problems as they exist here and in Israel. It became obvious that Hadassah, with its experience and know-how could relate itself to the Job Corps on the American scene,” she said.
American Affairs chairman of Hadassah chapters, Mrs. Cohen said, will be asked to contact Job Corps directors and offer to supply specific services to them such as recreation, tutoring, and trips with the corps-men. “This volunteer activity will give Hadassah members a chance to share with Job Corps trainees their expertise gained in their Israeli work,” she said. The Hadassah leaders adopted two resolutions. One called upon Congress to restore the cuts made in the national medical research budget and the other asked for the reform of the Welfare System.
More than 500 Hadassah national, regional and local leaders representing the organization’s 318,000 members throughout the United States and Puerto Rico attended the conference here, which dealt with American and Zionist affairs. The meetings will be reconvened in Israel on Saturday night, Feb. 6. The Hadassah national board will meet there Feb. 6-9 and regional and local leaders will attend special meetings and dedications in Israel from Feb. 10 to Feb. 21.
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