Provision for home and education in Palestine for forty-three German Jewish children will be the major consideration of the eleventh annual convention of Junior Hadassah, to be held at the Hotel New Yorker from Sunday to Tuesday, it was announced yesterday by Alice Bernstein, executive secretary.
The 1,000 delegates who will attend will be asked to ratify a plan to admit the refugee children to Junior Hadassah’s model home-farm school at Meier Shfeyah, near Haifa, and to an agricultural training farm to be established at Pardess Anna, where the organization now has a large orange grove Junior Hadassah has undertaken this new project to help solve the problem of settling German refugees in Palestine. A report on the progress of the Hadassah nurses’ training school in Jerusalem, which Junior Hadassah supports, will also be presented to the convention.
A review of the cultural activities of the 10,000 members of the organization will be followed by the presentation of gold “fellowship” keys to the sixteen members who this year attained the highest record of achievement in a prescribed course of study in Jewish history and literature, Hebrew and religion. Mrs. Frieda S. Ullman, of Boston, honorary president of Junior Hadassah, will make the awards. A symposium will be held on “Palestine Today.” Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, national president of Senior Hadassah, will speak on the political and social life of Palestine; Robert Szold, former president of the Zionist Organization of America, will discuss the economic development of the country, and Dr. Samuel Wohl, president of the League for Labor Palestine, and Elsie Gluck, educational director of the Women’s Trade Union League, will talk on labor.
The convention will be opened by Celia B. Slohm, of Buffalo, national president of Junior Hadassah, who will report on the year’s activities. Rabbi Israel Goldstein, of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, will speak.
An exhibit showing Junior Hadassah institutions and their surroundings in Palestine will be held.
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