34 Friday, iehniar ► Yeshiva Students Cited for Honors NEW YORK — Samuel Weinberger, finishing his junior year at Yeshiva Uni- versity High School for Boys - Manhattan at age 14, has collected top honors in the Westinghouse Science Ta- lent Search the youngest winner in the nation. While already an experi- enced mathematician and a gi-aduate student in mathematics, Samuel at- tends a second-year, college level shiur (talmudic dis- course), as part of Yeshiva University's yeshiva prog- ram. Samuel is one of 40 MAGICIAN . Available For All Occasions 25 years experience MAGICAL MEL 547-2464 BRENDA's BEAUTY SALON %Imlay SENIOR CITIZEN SPECIAL WASH & SET '5. (only new customers) LI 1-2552 . 'THE- DETROIT -JEWISH' itYIS nationwide teenagers selected by Westinghouse who will take displays of their independent research projects to Washington, D.C., for showing on March 4 and 5 in the Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences. There, there will be a final judging and dis- tribution of $67,500 in Wes- tinghouse science scholar- ships and awards. The Yeshiva University High School for Boys - Man- hattan, also produced a semi-finalist in the talent search. He is 16-year-old Avram J. Aronoff, a junior. Herzl Camp Has a New Director CLEVELAND — The Herzl Camp Association announces that Andy Halper will be director for the 1978 camp season. The camp has pitgrams for youth age 9-15. For brochures, write Herzl Camp, 790 S. Cleveland Ave. St. - Paul, Minn., 55116, or call, 612-698- 3895. . PERMANENT HAIR REMOVAL exae kt d 04444 FREE Consultation Licensed Electrologist private and confidential by appointment 358-5493 AA MufflerEtBrakes 1863-23881 LIFETIME GUARANTEE ON MUFFLERS & SHOCKS As Long As You Own Your Car • 10520 W. 7 Mile Rd. at Mendota Non-Jew Wins Jerusalem Award for Family History of Service to All in the Municipality tually, Mrs. Vester was in charge of four hospitals. Upon her mother's death, Mrs. Vester assumed the years since my leadership of the American grandparents first came to Colony and- turned its main Jerusalem. They and my building into a guest house. own parents gave their lives Today, it is the charming to serve the people of this and gracious American Col- city — be they Jewish, ony Hotel, managed by her Moslem or Christian. son, Horatio Vester. Through famine and war - Mrs. Vester also opened a they fed the poor and hun- gry, and nursed the sick school of handicrafts and . . . they are the ones who dressmaking in order to deserve this honor, and so I teach young Arab women a Arab mothers are taught about proper diets an accept it for them and in trade and thus prevent food preparation in the nutrition classes sponsore them from being married off gratitude for their lives of by the Spafford Children's Center in the Old City of , service, and for the heritage at 12 and 13, frequently an Jerusalem. economic necessity for large they have given me." hospital became supeiflu- So said Anna Grace Ves- families. On Christmas Eve 1925 ous. Thus in 1971 after ter Lind in response to being much thought its function honored as a "Distinguished _ while on her way to lead was changed from curative Citizen of Jerusalem" in carols in Shepherds' Fields to preventative medicine May 1976 by Mayor Kollek near Bethlehem, Mrs. Ves- and its name to Spafford in the presence of President ter came upon a man carry- Children's Center. Katzir. For more than 25 ing a day old baby helping Today, the center in- years Mrs. Lind has di- his dying wife up the road cludes a pediatric clinic, rected the Spafford Chil- from Damascus Gate. He a day care center, an in- dren's Center, a unique told the kindly lady that fant welfare station, a Christian institution minis- they had been turned away pharma6y, laboratory tering to the medical needs from the Government Hos- services, an ante-natal of Arab children in East pital because of the Chris- clinic and specialized Jerusalem and the West tians' feast. Deeply moved that clinics such as Bank. "here was I, going to sing endocrinology, physio- Mrs. Lind is the carols to commemorate therapy, neurology and granddaughter of Anna and the birth of the baby who dermatology — all super- Horatio Spafford, an ANNA LIND was born in a stable be- vised by the Israeli Minis- American couple who set- cause there was no room try of Health. Six morn- tled in Jerusalem in 1881 to at the inn, and here be- Hospital, complete with ings a week a resident await the return of the Jews fore me stood another sumical wing. As the only pediatrician treats ap- and the End of Days and to rustic madonna in almost children's hospital in East proximately 30 infants come to terms -with the the same plight," she ar- Jerusalem it also served the while a specialist sees tragic loss of five children. ranged for the woman entire West Bank. From another 20 children. Six The leaders of a combined and baby to be admitted 1925 when the project specialists — fi;,Te Jewish American-Swedish Chris- to the hospital. started' until the city was and one Arab doctor — tian commune known as the American Colony, they The next morning the divided in 1948, Dr. Helena volunteer one morning a were among the first to set- husband appeared at her Kagan, Israel's first pediat- week at the center. A staff tle outside the Old City home begging her to take rician, was its resident doc- of 15 oversees the other services. Walls where they charita- his son as his wife had died tor. - One of the most popular In 1952 Mrs. Lind re- bly tended to the needs of and he was unable to care poor Jews and Moslems. for him alone in his cave. turned from 15 years in the services is nutrition classes During World War I "Please complete your United States to take over held for mothers. They are Mrs. Spafford and her kindness" was hisplp'a. The from her mother the ad- taught about proper diets, daughter, Bertha baby was taken in, a nurse ministration of the hospital. the preparation of food, Spafford. Vester, or- hired, and before long Mrs. From 1963 through .1973 hygiene or any other subject ganized a • soup kitchen Vester was running a baby she was joined by her sister, that may come up in discus- for starving Jerusale- home in the Moslem Quar- Frieda Ward, a trained sion. While they study their nurse. After 1267 it became children play in the day care mites who chose not to ter of the Old City. flee and nursed both As more and more infants apparent that Israeli medi- center. Every week- the wounded Turkish and were brought there, a sick cal standards were a great •mothers are also given free British soldiers. The baby clinic and post-natal deal higher than East of charge a supply of nut- night before pulling.back center were added until Jerusalem-citizens had been ritious staples provided by from Jerusalem, the Tur- they, inevitably, turned accustomed to. Modern Is- Catholic Relief Services. Last . year the Oral kish commander told into the Spafford Children's raeli hospitals were also capable of meeting the new Roberts Association agreed Mrs. Vester, "I am leav- demand and the Spafford to support the center and to ing 1,600 in your charge A Raie Look at Children's Hospital as a oversee its administration. who are too sick to be moved. We trust you be- Mrs. Brezhnev cause we know that yoti The wife of Soviet were not serving us when • President Leonid I. By RABBI SAMUEL FOX pain. There are some you were nursing our Brezhnev was given some (Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.) authorities who even wounded, and we also Some Jewish legal rare public exposure in De- permit cosmetic surgery know that you were not real cember, on the occasion of authorities forbid plastic to alleviate serving the British. You surgery for cosmetic pur- psychological angu . her 70th birthday. were serving God." Even- Viktoria Brezhnev is said poses. which they consid It is obvious that surgical pain. to be the daughter of well- U.S. Employees to-do Jewish parents. It is procedures create an injury authorities would Change Opposed believed that she met her to the body. Jewish law pro- not Most permit cosmetic surgery NEW YORK — The husband when they both hibits causing any injury to just for style or convenience. Anti-Defamation League of were students at Dneprod- the body because the body is Bnai Brith is opposing Car- zerzhinsk metallurgical in- given to- man on loan and he Classes to Follow is obligated to protect the ter Administration prop- stitute. The Brezhnevs have property of the Almighty. osed changes in the Federal Holocaust Show In the case of therapeutic three children: Galina, now civil service system. - married to an economist surgery where a life is saved NEW YORK — A group The ADL said the propos- after a marriage to an ani- by the surgical process, the of national Jewish agencies als to replace the Civil Ser- mal trainer at the MOSCQIN surgery is not only permit- have joined to encourage vice Commission with an of- fice of personnel manage- _Circus and several years as ted but required by Jewish local Jewish institutions to companion to a Latvian bal- law because of the alterna- promote Holocaust studies ment would institute race let star; Yuri, deputy minis- tives involved. and other programs follow- and sex quotas in the civil Some rule that surgery ing the nine-hour NBC ter of foreign trade, who service system and re- speaks English and is also permitted to cor- program on the Holocaust institute political patron- Swedish; and Mikhail, a rect a blemish on the scheduled to be broadcast age and loyalty into the sys- April 16-19. body and to alleviate journalist. tem. 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