Mrs. Harry H. Traccey, chaiman of the women’s division for the Emergency Campaign for the Settlement of German-Jewish Refugee Children in Palestine, has called a conference of the Jewish junior groups of Brooklyn for Monday evening at the organization’s headquarters at Hotel St. George, Brooklyn. Distict committees will be formed to support the campaign. Miss Dora Kahn is chairman of the junior groups.
HADASSAH AIDS CHILDREN
Preparations to supervies the health of thousands of German refugee school children who will be brought into Palestine, are being made by Hadassah throgh its health facitlities there. The chilren are being brought in through the Bureau for Settlement of Refugee Children in Palestine, of which Henrietta Szold founder of Hadassah, is chairman.
Additional nurses are working with the school hyfiene department which is in charge of health work among children in Jewish Agency schools. Hadassah has also been asked to suppy lunches to about 100 German needy children. Hanassah nurses are also placing new arrivals in the immigrant shelters at Haifa.
Speaking of the children, Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, president of Hadassah, said, “Many who arrive in Palestine are nernous and weak from their experiences in Germany and the arduous trip to Palestine. Coming from a temperate to a semi-tropical climate they are more easily susceptible to the endemic diseases of the country.”
CHOOSE ‘BULLETIN’ TOPIES
The West Bronx division of Ivriah will meet at the Burnside Manor, 85 Burnside avenue, Bronx, tomorrow afternoon. A discussion of Jewish current events, culled from the Jewish Daily Bulletin, is on the program.
In Bensonhurs, Ivriah members are meeting Saturday afternoons at the the Jewish Community House at Bay Parkway, for a cultural program. The meetings are closed each week with a program of Jewish songs.
DISCUSS SOCIAL SECURITY
Among the most important activities of the National Council of Jewish Women during the past week was the discussion on the “Institute on Social Security” held under the auspices of the Philadelphia section on Tuesday. Speakers included Leroy Bowman, Dr. Harry Lurie, Dr. Shirley Wynne, Abraham Epstien and the Rev. Everett Clinchy.
Mary G. Schonberg, exective secretary of the Council, is to represent the Coucil at the Conference of the Economic Education Committee for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut which is to be held today at the Hotel Astor.
JOURNALIST SPEAKS
Miss Libby Benedict, journalist, will give impressions of her recent trip to Palestine and Germany in a talk before the Menorah Graduate Society at the London Terrace pent house next Subday evening.
HADASSAH BUDS GROW
The Hadassah Buds, girls up to the age of 16, now have eighteen groups in Brooklyn. They are studying headlth problems in Palestine and Hebrew. They save their pennies and contribute to the welfare campaign. Mrs. Schwabacher is chairman of the movement. Other officers are Mrs. L. J. Liebow and Mrs. M. Winkler.
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