rage zighteen Friday, December 5, 047 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Brief Biography of Mrs. Halprin I f ail 30111 Year of Balfour Declarationl Courteous Baruch Helps Friend Out Anecdotes Multiply on U.S. Statesman By ELYEll NATIIANS INEVITABLY, WHEN a man acquires national and interna- tional importance, anecdotes ac- cumulate around his person. First in Iladassalt on World Executive By LILLIAN D. NELSON One of the most active of women leaders among the Zion- ists of America is Rose Ha1prin, newly-reelected national presi- dent of Hadassah. Mrs. Halprin has been on the executive of various Zionist bod ies and organizations since she began to take an active interest in Zionism. She was born in New York, and by profession, is a teacher. Her early education- al training was received at Washington Irving High School, in New York, and upon gradua- Diplomatic guests at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of tion she went on to take her the Balfour Declaration at the Washington office of the Jewish teaching degree at Teachers' Agency are, left to right, Dr. Vladimir Houdek, counselor College, Columbia University. of the Czechoslovak Embassy, Mrs. Boudek, Mrs. Eliaint In 1914, she married Samuel Epstein, and her husband, who is director of the Agency's Halprin, and for a long time, de- Washington office. voted herself almost exclusively to her houshold duties and the problem of raising her two chit- tee, legislative council for Zion- can Jewish Conference; from 1939 to 1941, she held the posi- dren. ist Affairs. tion of Palestine Chairman for However, she did not mention From 1939 to 1946, she served the Zionist groups to which she as Hadassah representative to Hadassah, and since 1941, has had belonged, but for the most the Actions Committee. Concur- been political chairman of the part, her activities there con- rent with these activities, she same organization. sisted of little else besides at- was, in 1942, representative on WORLD LEADER tending meetings and learning the American Zionist Emergency It was in the year 1946 that about the problems and solutions Council (and since its inception Mrs. Halprin reached the pin- of problems in the Palestine played an active role in its de- nacle of achievement in the zommunities. velopment); in 1943, she was a Zionist organization. In that member of the secretariat for year, she became a member of ELECTED IN 1932 the organization of the Ameri- the American Committee of Her work and her achieve- ments as a member and latoc, as executive member of some smaller groups, won her the re- spect and admiration of her col- leagues. In 1932, she was elected national president of the Hadassah for the first time. Mrs. Halprin went on from one top-ranking post to another in rapid succession. In 1934, she was on the executive of the Hadassah Medical Organization for Palestine. She worked in HO. 1010 4737 ELMHURST . this capacity from 1934 to the outbreak of World War II, and .. was selected as alternate repre- sentative to the Actions Commit- CHANUKAH GREETINGS Eight of World Zionist Organi- zation, a delegate to the Paris Conference of the Jewish Agen- cy Executive, one of the Had- assah delegates to the 22nd Zion- ist Congress, December, 1946, and the first Hadassah member to be elected to the World Zion- ist Executive at the Congress. It is women like Mrs. Halprin, characterized by constant en- thusiasm and boundless energy for work, who have helped the Zionist cause in America to an extent where it has played so large a role in the solution now being put forward.to the prob- lem of Palestine. Her example will undoubtedly inspire many of the younger generation to follow in her foot- steps and to work with the For some 3,125 orthodox Jews same vigor and constancy, with the same ardor and zeal, and to in Italy, the Joint Distribution give of themselves to the cause Committee provides kosher food in special canteens. in which they believe. CHANUKAH GREETINGS Boyer's Haunted Shacks FAULTLESS CURTAIN LAUNDRY & CLEANERS SINCEREST GREETINGS Chanukah Greetings FOR CHANUKAH Bernard Baruch is world-famous today and the stories about him are legion. To a previous list, we now add the following one. Several years ago the famous Jewish statesman invited a friend to his estate in South Carolina for some hunting. The friends had the desire but not the ability. Although he roamed the woods hunting for wild tur- key, his every shot missed. Baruch was too courteous a host to pass any comment. How- ever on the last afternoon the friend was strolling dejectedly through the woods when he saw a fat turkey in a tree. He raised the rifle, took careful aim and pressed the trigger. To his de- light, the turkey tumbled from the tree and fell on the ground. As the jubilant hunter stooped to pick it up, he noticed a card around the bird's neck which read simply, "With the compli- ments of Barney Bat -Lich.' 1331 BROADWAY SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM WJLB are rylr;o1ril In our many friend.* 31st Floor, David Broderick Tower and polronv, with vincrrevl wivItra for a Happy and .10)ouv Chan- CAdillac 7600 FINTEX CIA)TIIES ukah. LUSTER - TEX RFNUVENATE PROCESS MICHIGAN'S LARGEST CLOTHIER DRY CLEANING — BY CHANUKAH GREETINGS CHANUKAH GREETINGS .. . AND BEST WISHES TO ALL 1111331DVS CIA "ANVILS MAINATORF, AND 111 1 FICK: MAUHICE SHOPPE 11618 DEXTER 4465 BEAUBIEN 11.11%%1 11 EN 131 John K 11105 Ping roe 13036 Dealer 117, 1 Mir hiusa 3314A Brand River 1111.0 E. 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