Jewish Activities in the Metropolitan Area

Mrs. Samuel Halprin, national president of Hadassah, issued a special Purim Message to American Jewish women on the occasion of the twenty-second anniversary of Hadassah, urging them to engage in relief work especially for the stricken Jews of Germany.

During the coming wee, Hadassah chapters in 300 cities throughout the country will hold spoecial celebrations to mark the anniversary.

On the Purim holiday twenty-two years ago, Henrietta Szold gathered together a small group of women who decided ot devote their efforts toward the development of health work in Palestine. They decided upon the name Hadassah, Hebrew for Esther, not only because of he day on which they met, but because in the symbolic significance of Esther as a savior of her people they saw an objective for the organization.

Today Hadassah has 40,000 members. Hadassah hospitals are in all the large cities in Palestine has been lowered, and skin diseases and trachoma have almost attending Jewish Agency schools.

The high standards maintained by Hadassah medical and health agencies in Palestine are felt throughout the Near EAst. The organization has undertaken another major project in Palestine health work. Hadassah is now in the midst of a campaign, together with the American Jewish Physicians committee, to build the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, which will be a model hospital, research institute and graduate school of medicine, all part of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Eminent scientists and medical specialists exiled from Germany will be on the faculty and medical staff.

Henrietta Szold rettred as active president of Hadassah in 1926, after fourteen years of energetic service. She is now chairman of the Bureau for the Settlement of Refugee Children in Palestine, with headquarters in Jerusalem.

WEEKLY LECTURES

P.M. Raskin will inaugurate a series of weekly lectures at the Zionist Seminar, sponsored by the Zionist Seminar, sponsored by the Masada Youth Zionist Organization, Sunday morning at 111 Fifth avenue.

A. J. C. YOUTH DINNER RALLY LAUNCHES FUND, MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

The Youth Division of the American Jewish Congress this week inaugurated the first of a series of rallies intended to enlarge the enrollment of the organization and raise funds which will be contrituted ot the treasury of the parent body. A meeting was held in Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third street.

Rabbi Louis I. Newman, who addressed the meeting, said that the forthcoming Madison Square Gerden meeting of Jewish organizations on March 7, will “make known the rightfulness and justice of the Jewish cause before the bar of public sentiment.”

He voiced condemnation of the Nazi policise which he called “barbaric,” and added that “the Nazi tyranny.” Caroline Greenfield, a lecuture, discussed the difference between the life of the Jew in various countries of the world and in Palestine. She described the life in the Holy Land as “beautiful and strengthening to the Jew individually and collectively.”

CIRCLE HONORS MEMORY OF PHILANTHROPIST’S WIFE

Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, daughter of the late Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, will speak Monday afternoon in the synagogue of the Jacob H. Schiff Center, Fordham road and Valentine avenue, Bronx, at services commemorating the first annuversary of Mrs. Schiff’s death.

Services will be conducted by Rabbi Alexander Basel, executive director of the institution. Rev. Isadore Doppelt will chant a memorial prayer. Students of the various departments, the Parents’ Association and the Sisterhood will participate. Representatives of the six classes graducated from the Center, confirmants since 1929 and members of the Schiff Center Allumni Association will also attend.

AVUKAH SPONSORE FORUM

The national Avukah Society will conduct a series of five teas and informal discussions on “World Movements and Their Effect on the Jew” at the studio fo Rose L. Steinberg, vice-president, at 166 Second avenue. The initial forum will take place Sunday, March 4, and on alternate weeks.