36—Friday, February 1, 1974 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israeli Women Lack Training, Says Head of Hadassah Education Yeshiva Leader Weingarden Recovers; to Be Feted at Party JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Yom Kippur War revealed that Israel neglected to util- ize half of its manpower be- cause of its inadequate train- ing of women, according to Dr. Helen Kittner, director of the Hadassah Israel Edu- cation Services. Addressing H a d a s s a h's midwinter conference here, she said: "Our women do not have the education or the technological training to re- place the men in their jobs. Many of them cannot even balance the family check- books." Dr. Kittner stressed that t h e Hadassah Seligsberg/ Brandeis Comprehensive High School has "finally broken the educational and vocational stereotype about male-female careers." Women are currently en- rolled in printing classes, computer technology courses and management courses at the Hadassah Community College. Yeshivath Beth Yehudah will honor Meyer Weingarden with a melave malka in cele- bration of his recent recov- ery from a serious illness. 8:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Yeshiva. ganizations and contributed generously to many others. How e v e r, Weingarden's primary interest is Yeshi- vath Beth Yehudah. He has Former president of Cong. Bnai Zion, Weingarden, 78, is current president of Cong. K'hal Kharedim in Oak Park. As a building contractor, he constructed eight synagogues in the area and built the Mikva Israel edifices. He has been active in charitable or- MAGICIAN Available For All Occasions 20 years experience 1 MAGICAL MEL 547-2464 MEYER WEINGARDEN been honorary treasurer for many years and devoted a major part of his energies to MICHAEL KAPLIT its maintenance and growth. Photography He and his wife Sarah have two sons, two daugh- Weddings • Bar Mitzvas ters, 13 grandchildren and 642-1039 seven great-grandchildren. National Commander Ains- Eugene Greenfield will be toastmaster for the evening, lee R. Ferdie of the Jewish COMING SOON and the Beth Yehudah Choir War Veterans of the U.S.A. will perform selections in will visit the Department of Weingarden's honor. Rabbi Michigan Wednesday and MEN'S BOOTERY David Lieberman, dean of Thursday, it was announced Yeshivath Beth Yehuda will by Department Commander To New Orleans Mall Joe Bale. be guest speaker. Seymour 10 Mile & Greenfield Ferdie, of Coral Gables, Rabinowitz is chairman. Fla., will meet with admin- ■ istrators of the Veterans Hos- pital in Allen Park, directors Let The Professionals Perform of the Veterans Administra- tion Regional Office, com- manders of other veterans organizations and community Jeep Sm ith — Dick Stein leaders. - Shelby Lee — Patty Grant He also will attend the De- Mori Little — Leonard McDonald Etc. partment of Michigan Broth- erhood Award presentation to From one to any number of musicians Leonard Woodcock Thursday Complete Party Planning on Request at the UAW Solidarity House 358-2777 and will be honored that eve- ning at a "Meet the National "Music The Stein Way" Commander" open house at the department's headquar- ters. All Jewish War Veter- ans have been invited. At 43. Ferdie is one of the youngest national command- er in the history of the Jew- ish War Veterans. Following the Yom Kippur War. he was Call Our on the first tour to Israel. An army veteran, the Illi- nois native is an attorney. He is past president of the at Coral Gables Bar Association and former co-president of the Younger Lawyers Asso- We Cater for All occasions—Seating for 400. ciation of the Inter-Ameri- can Bar Association. Ferdie has served as Flor- ida JWV department com- mander and as chairman of the Conference of Depart- Hadassah presented its highest honor, the Henrietta Szold Award, to the Nether- lands government and its people. The award was accepted by Prof. Simon Giter, a Dutch citizen currently teach- ing in Israel, at his govern- ment's request. Charlotte Jacobson, chair- man of the Hadassah Medi- cal Organization Building and Development, announced that Edith and James Ross of Youngstown, Ohio, have pledged $500,000 toward an information center at the Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus. and YA'AL (volunteer) de- a major tree-planting and partments of Hadassah. landscaping program de- There will be a special signed to make three Negev room to memorialize and development towns into more house the last effects of Hen- attractive a n d residential rietta Szold, founder of Ha- places. Some 120,000 trees are to dassah, who died in the orig- inal Hadassah Hospital there be planted under the pro- gram in the towns of Sderot, in 1945. Mr. and Mrs. Ross previ- Netivot and Ofakim—all de- ously contributed to Hadas- velopment towns with main- sah the building for the ly Oriental populations.. Hadassah has undertaken school of occupational ther- apy now functioning on to raise $2,700,000 over three Mount Scopus and a research years to pay for the project. floor at the Hadassah-He- brew University Medical Cen- ,J. J. CLARKE STUDIO Portraiture of Distinction; ter at Ein Karem in western For Your Wedding Jerusalem. Forinals - Candids - Direct Color Meanwhile, it was an- nounced that the Jewish Na- 3223 W. McNichols' The information center, tional Fund and American Nr. 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Ex-Toronto Publisher Honored by JNF Leonard Woodcock, inter- national president of the United Auto Workers, will be presented with the Jewish War Veterans Brotherhood Award at ceremonies 10 a.m. Thursday at Solidarity House, it was announced by Joe Bale, commander of the De- partment of Michigan. Woodcock will receive the award "in recognition of his efforts to further respect for labor, and for the promotion of the welfare of his fellow man." Arthur M. Lang, depart- ment judge advocate, is award chairman. National Commander Ainslee R, Fer- die of Coral Gables, Fla., will participate. UNITED TABLE PAD CO. SOOPER SALE DICK STEIN Inc. For All Occasions MADc IN MICHIGAN Our 30th Year Mr. Alan's Shemithak Comitry Club PHONE 345-535 • PROMPT DELIVEkY TORONTO (JTA) — At the Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner held here December 1971, 11 families each sub- scribed $25,000 in honor of John W. H. 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