Friday, AAorch 29, 1957
JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
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Toronto Hadassah leader conducts workshop here next Wednesday
A leadership workshop is being sponsored here next Wednesday, April 3 by the Vancouver Hadassah Council with Mrs. Bert Cooper of Toronto as guest si>eaker and consultant. The workshop will take place in the Hudson's Bay Company Auditorium, beginning at 10 a.m. and all Hadassah members are welcome to attend.
Mrs. Cooper, who is the leadership training chairman for Canadian Hadassah, is now visiting Hadassah groups throughout western Canada Associated with Zionist causes since childhood, Mrs. Cooper was a Young Judaea leader in her youth. <.
A graduate of the ^University of Toronto, Mrs. Cooper returned to her alma mater a few years ago to do post graduate work in Psychology. She is a past president of Goel Tzedec Sisterhood in Toronto and has actively participated in the Jewish organizational life of that city.
Mrs. Cooper served on the Toronto Hadassah Executive for 10 years and she was the Hadassah National Constitution Chairman from 1951-55. She acted as Workshop and Program Chairman for the 16th Biennial Con-ventipq wliere for the first time a Workshop plan was introduced at a Canadian Hadassah Convention.
Mrs. Cooper is 'the only woman member of the Administrative Board of the Central Region of the Canadian Jewish Congress and has represented Congress as a speaker in many communities throughput Ontario. She made history at a recent Regional Conference in Toronto as the first woman to chair a plenary session at a Congress Conference.
An executive clinic for presidents, vice-presidents and executive mem-
MRS. BERT COOPER
bfers of Hadassah groups will be held with Mrs. Cooper on Thursday, April 4 in the Community Centre, beginning at 10:30 a.m. For further details see women's news on page four.
DROPSSE COLLEGE FELLOWSHIPS
PHILADELPHIA —The Institute for Israel and the Middle East of the Dropsie College, Philadelphia, has announced for the academic year 1957-1958, fellowships of $1,000 and $600 each, available to qualified students who wish to specialize in Middle Eastern studies leading to the Ph.D. degree.
Applications for fellowships should be submitted before April 15, .1957. Candidates are invited to write for further information to the. Regis-rar, The Dropsie College, Broad and York Streets, Philadelphia 32, Pa.
NCJW SABBATH AT BETH ISRAEL
Rabbi Bert A. Woythaler has invited the members of the Vancouver section of the Nationa Council of Jewish Women to observe their annual Council Sabbath at Beth Israel this Friday, March 29.
Mrs. M. Freiman, president, will represent the membership and participate in the services, which will be followed by an Oneg Shabbat sponsored by the National Council, with Mrs. M. Matoff and Mrs. E. Hector serving as Conveners.
Rabbi Bert A. Woythaler will speak on the subject "Ideals and Reality and Cantor Abraham Deutsch will chant the prayers, assisted by the Beth Israel Choir, under the. direction of Sol Pelman. /
Perry Seidelman will chant the Kiddush in observance of his Bar Mitzvah, and his mother, Mrs. H. Seidelman, will recite the Sabbath Prayer.
Sabbath Morning Services begin at 9 "a.m. with Rabbi Bert A. Woythaler and Cantor Abraham Deutsch officiating.
Children's Sabbath Morning Services are conducted by the Junior Congregation at 10:30 a.m., at the Chapel, under the supervision of Jack Horowitz, Principal and Youth Director.
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KINNERETH CLUB PURiM BALL SAT., MARCH 30
Kinnereth Club of Pioneer Women are holding a Purim Supper Ball- on Saturday, March 30, at 9:00 p.m., at the Schara Tzedeck Auditorium. In addition to dancing and a fine floor show, this ball will feature a Sephardic supper. Such exotic dishes as meat pallau, samoochs, • machmurras zalatak, and traditional purim baking will be served.
Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal in 1492 settled in North Africa, Iraq and India Eastern Jewish food is basically traditional Jewish dishes with the added color of the countries in which the Sephardic Jews settled. Cardamun, cloves and cinnamon sticks are the spices generally used and the vegetables are the ones that are most abundantly grown in India, North Africa and Iraq.
The interesting floor show will in elude Kenny Hamilton, star of stage and television; Lloyd Edwards and his Calypso Quartet direct from Trinidad; Tenor, Morris Moses; Harvey Sinders as Master of Ceremonies and Tommy Haynes' Orchestra.
Admission is $5.00 couple. Proceeds are ^or Pioneer Women's Child Welfare Work.
Hoggoda class at Scharo Tzedeck
Beginning tthis Saturday, March 30, Rabbi Bernard Goldenberg's weekly Yiddish class in Bible and Commentaries will be devoted to a study of the Passover Haggada.
The class in Haggada will meet for three successive Saturday afternoons (March 30, AprU 6 and AprU 13) at about 5:30 p.rfi. The group will also discuss some of the more iaaportant laws and customs relating to Passover and to the Seder ritual.
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Kupat Holim leads way in Israel health gains
JERUSALEM—The 6th Convention of Kupat Holim, medical arm of Histadnit, took place here recently with close to 500 delegates attending. Israel Barzilia, Israel's Minister of Health who greeted the Convention at His-tadrut House, pointed out that two figures—700 agricultural settlements served by Kupat Holim and its absorption of half a million new immigrants since the establishment of the state—^"illustrate most strikingly the dynamic nature of Kupat Holim as a vital mstniment in the absorption of new immigrants and in the development of the coimtry."
The phenomenal growth of Kupat Holim was reflected in the Convention report. Since 1948 the membership of Kupat Holim more than rebled,. rising from 328,000 to 1,-050,000. Of those, 600,000 are new immigrants and 160,000 were either jorn in the country or have resided lere for a considerable time. New immigrants receive special privileges to ease the first painful period of adjustment to new surroundings. A new immigrant pays only 40 per cent of the usual dues and pays nothing if he is unemployed.
A prunaiy mission of Kupat Holim has been to assist in ttie agricultural development of die country, particularly the movement southward. Although the popula-
tion of die Negev is still sparse, Kupat Holim maintains 92 clinics and medical aid stations there, incurring an annual deficit of half a million pounds.
Since 1948, the number of Kapat Holim clinics increased from 387 to ^887 and the number of hos^tal beds
from 500 to 2,140. This epansion cost Kupat Holun IL 11,000,000..
GREAT IMPROVEMENTS
With 67 percent of Israel's population benefitting from the service of Kupat Holim, there has been a remarkable improvement in puUic health in the past few years. The mass immigration following independence brought with it a sharp rise of infant mortality, from 27 per thousand to Sh, but in 1955 the figure went down to 32 and is still on the decrease. Infant mortality in immigrant camps (ma'abarot) which started with 157 per thousand is now 47. Cases of death in childbirth are now only 0.8 per thousand.
Even more remarkable is the progress in the fight against a number of endemic diseases. Bilhanda and trachoma, tiie two scourges of tiie Middle East, are disappearing in Israel, and the most ancient of all social diseases, tuberculosis, has declined from 18 cases per 100,000 in 1957 to 7 in 1955, a rate achieved only by siich advanced countries as Denmark and Holland.
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