The annual mid-winter conference of the National Board of Junior Hadassah, fund-raising for the Palestine School Luncheon Fund and presentation of cultural programs in celebration of Chanukah, will be Hadassah events during the week of Chanukah, from December 27 to January 3.
The Junior mid-winter conference, to be attended by close to 200 delegates and guests from all parts of the country, will be held in the evening of December 28 and all day December 29 at the Free Synagogue House. Dr. Shalom Spiegel, of New York, educator and writer, will speak on the Jewish youth movement in America, and Mrs. Frieda Silbert Ullian, a vice-president of senior Hadassah, will talk on the Cultural Fellowship, a society which the juniors are planning to create for the study and discussion of Jewish affairs and thought.
One of the important subjects to be considered will be the proposed establishment of an orange grove in the colony of Rabia for graduates of Meier Shfeyah, the rural school which Junior Hadassah maintains.
The Chanukah cultural program, provided by the national cultural committee, will be presented at hundreds of meetings and social gatherings by senior chapters and junior units. It includes a brief history of Chanukah, a model entertainment, suggested topics for discussion, a bibliography, a list of Chanukah plays, sources for tableaux and dances, and a question and answer contest.
December 29 will be Palestine School Luncheons Day. Rabbis, religious school teachers and Hadassah members will speak on that day to thousands of children in religious schools on the work of the School Luncheons Fund, which provides daily hot meals to school children in Palestine. Scores of Rabbis are cooperating with the Luncheons committee to make this year’s appeal a striking success. Dr. Maurice H. Harris, Rabbi of Temple Israel, New York has addressed a letter to rabbis in all sections of the country, asking their interest in the fund-raising project. It was Dr. Harris who prompted the luncheons system in Palestine.
The need for nourishing meals in Palestine is even more pronounced at the present time, owing to abnormal conditions due to the recent riots. The budget for this work for the coming year is $18,000, an increase of $3,000 over that of last year.
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