Friday, Sopferabef 15, 1944 JEWISH NEWS Jewish Women in the News Eminent Figures Among Great Heroines, Palestine Builders By SHIRLEY HOROWITZ As we review the achieve- that meager start, hospitals, ments of the past year in a medical schools, and clinics have search for Jewish women who been built—open to Jew and have distinguished themselves, Arab. we select from lists of musicians, Today Henrietta Szold brings scientists, humanitarians, a n d all her wisdom and compassion writers, for the suffering to help young Henrietta Szold, that valiant refugees feel at home in Pales- lady who founded Hadassah, is tine. She personally meets the boats, and the trains that bring . .7! children by the overland route, pitiiiCc?k i .: and talks to them and escorts , . them to their new homes, usually co-operative agricultural settle- ments. Zivyah Lubetkin, Heroine Another woman who rescues children from German ruthless- ness is Zivyah Lubetkin, a 28- year-old Zionist from Poland. She has become a legend, tak- ing her place alongside the im- mortal Jewish heroines of an- cient days. She was a leader of the Warsaw - Ghetto battle in May, 1943. She smuggled pass- ports — crossed dangerous bor- ders. And then she had been killed, it was believed. But ac- MISS HENRIETTA SZOLD cording to latest reports, Zivyah still working for her people at Lubetkin is alive and active in the age of 83. For a decade she the underground where h e r has been associated with Youth courage and resourcefulness are Aliyah (immigration), respon- put into use every day. sible for saving more than ten Lillian Hellman's Services th9,usand Jewish children from Lillian Hellman, American the Nazis, dramatist, has again contributed Jewry's Grand Old Lady in her way to the fight against Miss Szold has - been called Hitlerism by putting her trench- the foremost American Jewess. ant pen into action to denounce It was s h e who introduced hatred's universal ally—the ap- American standards of health peaser. Not long after her great and hospitalization to Palestine. In 1909, on her first visit to prizewinning anti-Nazi p 1 a y, "Watch on the Rhine," Miss Hellman has produced another powerful drama, played to a full theater ever y night — "The Searching Wind." As a Jew she has done a great service to her people, and as an American she has helped her country and the world to clarify the issues of this war and reveal the dan- gers of apathy. She Made the Met The Metropolitan Opera Com- pany has gained a new dramatic soprano, and Miss Regina Resnik, graduated from Hunter College two years ago, achieved in that short time a place for which hundreds vainly strive for years. Page Forfy-three In the Ninth Annual Metropoli- Revionists Oppose tan Opera Auditions of the Air, Miss Resnik was chosen from Partition Proposal over a thousand as the only girl NEW YORK (JPS)—Warning to receive a contract to sing with against a partition of Palestine, the Met. Col. Morris J. Mendelsohn, presi- Soviet Scientist dent of the New Zionist Organi- In the field of science high zation of America, called for the place goes to Prof. Lena Stern scrapping of the Mandate and of the Soviet Union, 1944 win- said that until all of Palestine ner of the Order • of the Red is made "an autonomous home- Banner of Labor for outstand- land for the Jews as contem- ing service in physiology a n d plated by the Balfour Declara- bio-chemistry. Born in Riga, Lat : tion," the Jewish problem will via, she came to the U.S.S.R. not be solved. when she completed her school- welfare work in New York. She goes to Washington to confer with President Roosevelt twice a week. Mrs. Wise—"A Great Lady" A woman well-known in and out of Jewish circles is the presi- dent of the Women's Division of the American Jewish Con- gress, Mrs. Stephen S. Wise. At a recent luncheon Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt referred to Mrs. Wise as "a great lady." In this year of war Mrs. Wise's efforts have been directed toward helping the men a n d women of the armed forces. Her pet project is the American 414P Jewish Congress "defense MRS. STEPHEN S. WISE houses," three brownstone houses ing, and stayed to become the on West 68th Street in New York director of the Institute of Phys- City, which are filled every night with servicemen sent by iology. the Jewish Welfare Board. Anna M. Rosenberg's Work "Defense houses" have made A Hungarian Jewess who es- an important contribution to in- caped the fate of her countrymen terfaith, f o r boys leave there by coming to America 28 years with nothing but praise and ap- ago, has been keeping busy this preciation f o r their Jewish year. She is Anna M. Rosenberg, brothers. administrator and adviser. Only Copyright, 1944, -by 5' tall and 115 pounds, she is a Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc. constant source of amazement to big, blustering officials who are not prepared for her forceful personality. As Regional head of the U. S. War Manpower Com- • V U 1 • mission, she has tackled t h e weighty problems connected with conversion of labor to wartime production, the shortage of farm 1 k, labor, arbitration of labor dis- putes, and providing employment for men discharged from t h e army. Besides this, she is Re- gional Director of the Social Security Board, and co-ordinates Wonderful,'Pons' Palestine Report NORWALK, Conn. (JPS) "Wonderful" is Lily Pons' opin- ion of Palestine, where the Met- ropolitan Opera star spent four days in the course of a 25.000- mile USO tour of U. S. camps in the Middle East and Italy. She toured with her husband, Andre Kostelanetz, CBS conductor. Describing the country as "an oasis in the Middle East," she re- gretted "that we had only so short a time there." Mr. Kostelanetz said that the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, which they heard in Jerusalem, "ranks with the finest." After -a visit to the communal settleMent Givath Brenner, Mr. Kostelanetz said, he came away witri "a feel- ing for the soil." Palestine's sani- tary facilities and agriculture surpassed, in their opinion, any in the Middle East. A Happy New Year The RODIN CLUB Mrs. Paul Winkelman, Pres. WAR BONDS Greetings and Best Wishes New Years Greetings STAFFORD Greetings— Restaurant From the Staff and Fine Food Management of MISS REGINA RESNIK Palestine, she was amazed and saddened by the prevalence of malaria, trachoma, and the high infant death rate there. She was determined to bring medical aid to the country. For the next few years she worked tirelessly on behalf of Hadassah. The first two nurses were sent to Pales- tine by that organization. Since 8333 LINWOOD Louis Serlin DRUGS 11848 Dexter LOMBARD'S SEA FOOD RESTAURANT 13223 W. McNICHOLS ROAD Greetings on the New Year! May it bring you and yours a full measure of Peace and Happiness • . 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