12 Friiy. March 25. 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Services Rendered by Early Pioneers in Women's Zionist Movement
Recalled as Detroit Hadassah Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary
The Metropolitan Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah, one
of the oldest and largest
chapters in the United
States, will celebrate its
60th anniversary with a din-
ner-dance April 19, at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek.
Bernice Tannenbaum, na-
tional Hadassah president,
will _attend. Mrs. Oscar
Band has been named chair-
man, and Mrs. Meyer Gut-
terman co-chairman of the
event.
Planned strictly as a cele-
bration to honor all past
presidents • and current
group presidents, the din-
ner-dance will be a "family
affair" beginning with a
cocktail hour at 7 p.m. fol-
lowed by dinner, dancing
and reminiscing.
Hadassah, the major
women's movement for Is-
rael's liberation and re-
demption began its Detroit
Chapter in 1916, with a
handful of pioneers headed
by Mrs. A.M. Hershman,
wife of the spiritual leader
of Cong. Shaarey Zedek.
The Detroit Chapter, now
headed by Mrs. Peter A.
Martin, has grown to a cur-
rent roster of 6,500, inspired
by the slogan: "The Heal-
ing of the Daughter of My
People." -
Nationaly, there are
350,000 Hadassah members,
with over 100,000 enrolled
as life members. Not listed
as "members," are more
than 7600 "associates," who
make a one-time monetary
gift, the earnings from
which are used for the car-
diac intensive care unit at
the Hadassah Hospital in Is-
rael.
Presidents of the Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah have
included:
Mesdames Hershman ; Noah Arons-
1am, Henry Weinstein, Joseph H. Ehrl-
ich, Miss Hattie Gitleman, Mesdames
Ralph Davidson, Harry L. Jackson,
David S. Diamond, Maurice Landau,
Max Frank, Jack Gould, Morris
Adler, Frank Wetsman, Loges Glasier,
Harry L. Jones, Theodore Bargman,
Morse Saulson, Wiliam B. Isenberg,
Norman Rom, David Schachter, I. Je-
rome Hauser, Max Lichter, Jack Per-
lman, Charles Snyder, Sidney J.
Winer, Albert Newman, Jerome Kauf-
man and Mrs. Martin.
Koor Profits
Reported Up
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Koor,
the giant Histadrut corn-
pany, has announced that
its subsidiary, Koor Inter-
trade-America. which in-
troduces Israeli products to
the United States, is ex-
pected to earn $100 million
this year. Its turnover last
year was $84 million. _
Koor also said that its
pharmaceutical company.
Plantex, has received Amer-
ican approval to export $4.5
million of new drugs to the
United States, including
medicine for heart treat-
ment, anti-inflammation
and Parkinson's Disease.
The company's total ex-
ports to the U.S. is ex-
pected to reach $50 million
in 1977.
Koor Intertrade-Europe
has also been selected by
the International Telephone
and Telegraph Co. to mar-
ket in Europe electronic de-
vices produced by ITT's
subsidiary.
Also being honored are presidents. The South Oak-
the South Oakland Chapter land group merged with De-
Hadassah's First Presidents
troit Chapter to form Metro-
politan Detroit Chapter.
The South Oakland Presi-
dents have included:
Mesdames Arthur Winer, Herman
Prady, Joe Ellis, Maurice Schiller,
Sherwin Davidson, Reuben Bienstock,
Oscar Band, Louis Cooper and
Charles Snider.
Mrs. Hauser and Mrs.
Lichter are co-chairmen of
the past presidents; Mrs.
Cooper is chairman of the
S.O.C. presidents: and Mrs.
Saulson is chairman of the
group presidents being hon-
ored April 19.
The group presidents in-
clude:
Mesdames Saulson (Birmingham
Group), Leo Sklar (Carmel), Gerald-
ine Black (Detroit Business and Pro-
Metropolitan Detroit Hadassah's 60th anniversary will be
occasion to recall and to honor the pioneers in the move-
ment. Mrs. Abraham M. (Miriam) Hershman, shown left,
the daughter of the E. Lewin-Epsteins, who were among
the earliest pioneers in Palestine in_ the 1890s, was the first
president. Mrs. Noah E. (Sarah) Aronstam, right, wife of
the prominent physician, poet and philosopher, was the sec-
ond president.
Jewish Feminist Movement
Is Assessed in New Booklet
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Jewish feminist
movement, which has al-
ready forced dramatic
changes in the Jewish
communal structure,
must be "confronted and
accommodated" if Ameri-
can Jewry is to survive.
This view is expressed
by Anne Lapidus Lerner,
instructor on modern He-
brew literature at the
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America, in a
booklet titled "Who Hast
Not Made Me A Man,"
published by the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee.
- The 40-page booklet of-
fers a comprehensive
survey of where the
American Jewish wo-
men's movement is going
in the synagogue, com-
munal organizations, on_
campusesand in the
counter-culture.
Reviewing the changes
that the Jewish feminist
movement has already ef-
fected in Jewish life, Mrs.
Lerner suggests that of
the various denomina-
tions, the Reform Move-
ment has been most flexi-
ble in admitting feminine
participation into various
aspects of ritual.
The progress that has
been made in the Reform
Movement in the ac-
ceptance of women in re-
ligious roles stands in
sharp contrast to Or-
thodox Judaism, where
"little has changed."
Mrs. Lerner points out
that Conservative
Judaism has granted
substantial rights to
women from its earliest
years, including the deci-
Youth at Seminar
JERUSALEM (ZINS)—
For the first time in the his-
tory of the Zionist move-
ment, Jewish youth from
India will attend a summer
seminar in Jerusalem.
sion that women could be
counted equally with men
in the mifiyan. This fol-
lowed a previous decision
that women could be
called to the Torah for
aliyot. These decisions
were not binding on rab-
bis or congregations, and
there is a wide diversity
now among Conservative
groups as to their ac-
ceptance in practice, the
author states.
The booklet also sur-
veys the changes that
have taken place in the
Jewish communal struc-
ture to accommodate
feminist demands for rec-
ognition. Included among
such changes, the author
points out, is the estab-
lishment by the AJCom-
mittee of a National
Committee on the Role of
Women and the estab-
lishment by Bng:i Brith of
co-ed units.
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