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GREATER DETROIT CHAPTER OF HADASSAH
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YOUTH
ALIYAH
YOUTH ALIYAH WARDS
SERVE AS VOLUNTEERS
Israeli youngsters be-
nefiting from the aid given
them in Youth Aliyah Day
Centers are fulfilling the
precept of Hillel of "doing
for one's neighbor what one
would like to have done -for
oneself." They are giving
aid and solace to people
whose needs are greater
than their own, by provid-
ing volunteer services to the
aged, the disabled, the sick
and the uneducated.
From the Rose E. Matzkin
Hadassah Youth Aliyah
Day Center in Tel Aviv,
which is situated in a dis-
trict notorious for its high
rate of deliquency, once a
week the girls in the hair-
dressing course go to a
local hospital and do the
hair of the women. This does
more for the patients'
morale than medication at
times. They also provide a
similar service in a home for
the aged.
The boys from the Day
Center visit the men in the
Home, play games with
them, and provide youthful
contacts from the world out-
side, do carpentry work and
other minor repairs in the
Home, and furnish hand-
yman services for the el-
derly living on their own.
The Youth Aliyah Day
Center in Ramle serves 140
Orthodox children ftom an
extensive area in the cent-
ral plain of Israel. These re-
Youth Aliyah was
founded in 1934 by Recha
Freier and other courageous
Jewish leaders in Germany
and by Henrietta Szold,
founder of Hadassah, who
became its director in Pales-
tine. Youth Aliyah has
since then "graduated" tens
of thousands. These
graduates have become a
skilled vanguard, a potent
and positive force in the de-
velopment of their country.,
making contributions to ag-
riculture, industry, teach-
ing, the arts, the defense
forces, merchant marine
and diplomatic services.
Hadassah is the largest
single contributor to Youth
Aliyah and in the past year
raised $2.7 million nation-
ally, including $52,000 loc-
ally toward the care, educa-
tion and training of 19,000
children in 315 residential
and day facilities.
ligious youngsters, many of
them with acute problems of
their own, have developed
their volunteering services
to a remarkable degree:
They have 'adopted' the
immigrant village of Beit
Uziel, which, incidentally,
has a special school for
Youth Aliyah children with
emotional or other indi-
vidual problems. Such chil-
dren, after being examined
by the Guidance Center of
Youth Aliyah, headed by
Dr. Reuven Feuerstein, are
sent to Beit Uziel where the
students from the Ramle
Center help the local chil-
dren with their lessons, play
with them, and do repairs
Plan to join Michigan Re-
on their rooms when gion of Hadassah on a
needed.
mini-trip to Israel at the
Other day centers have annual spring confrerence.
similar volunteer prog- The conference will be held
rams. Thus, the help given at the fabulous new Hyatt
to youngsters by Youth Regency Hotel in Flint from
Aliyah spreads to the aged Sunday - May 2nd through
and the infirm, as ripples Tuesday, May 4th. Our con-
spread throughout a pond.
ference advisor will be Irene
Ruza, the national Hadas-
sah Medical Organization
The purchase of Israel coordinator.
The opening brunch on
Bonds has helped build the
State of Israel. The con- Sunday will honor all of our
tribution of these Bonds will "special men" — the Mibhi-
provide desperately needed gan Region Hadassah As-
Hadassah Medical Organi- sociates. The afternoon will
zation funds that will bols- see us "take off" for
ter Hadassah's work in Is- Jerusalem when the youth
rael in Health Care, Medi- of Hashachar escort us on
cal and Research, all with tour. On Monday we shall
the blessings of the Israel spend the day "shopping" in
Bonds Development Corpo- the various markets of Is-
rael -- shopping for new
ration.
fundraising, membership
and program ideas. And, as
an added bonus, we will
have our own scholar-in-
residence, Rabbi Gerald
The Summer-Camping
Teller.
Saye the date and plan to
Expression of
join the fun and
Hashachar
camaraderie. You'll meet
and make new friends from
all over the state. All
Hadassah members will
receive registration forms
in the mail soon.
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Friday, March 26, 1982 47
Annette Meskin, President
HADASSAH SURGEONS HELP
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CHILDREN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME t
Ten children who have
Down's syndrome (mon-
golism) underwent plastic
surgery in February at the
Hadassah-Hebrew Univer-
sity Medical Center to im-
prove their physical ap-
pearance in the hope that
this will better their social
and -'mental functioning.
According to a story in the
Jerusalem Post, these were
the first such operations
ever conducted outside
Germany, where — since
1977 — some 250 cases
have already been treated
by Professor Gottfried Lem-
perle and his colleagues at
Frankfurt's St. Markus
Hospital.
The 10 Israeli- patients
have all been thoroughly
examined for social and
cognitive functioning by
educational physchologist
Reuven Feuerstein, head of
the Hadassah-Wizo Canada
_ Research Institute here. He
will follow the development
of the young patients after
the operation as to how the
surgery affects their social
and intellectual activities.
This was announced at a
press conference at the
Hadassah University Hos-
pital at Mount Scopus,
which was attended by
Frieda S. Lewis, national
president of Hadassah, Prof.
Feuerstein, who teaches at
Bar Ilan ,University,
explained that, "There is no
reason to believe that the
operations will directly a .f-
fect the patient's intelli-
gence. However, if intellec-
tual performance is at least
partly determined by a
_child's interaction with his
environment, then I am
sure the operations will
have an effect on and
change the patient's func-
tioning."
He said that because of
their mongoloid appear
ance, the children tend to
generate immediate, set re-
sponses among "normal"
persons who come into con-
tact with them. These re-
sponses, in turn, have a de-
termining effect on the
youngsters' behavior and
functioning. "Thus, chang-
ing the patients' appear-
ance should also change the
responses they meet in the
community," Professor
Feuerstein concluded.
Professor Lemperle, who
addressed a full-day sym-
posium at Hadassah on
"Surgical and Cognitive In-
tervention among Mon-
goloids" said that the best
results from surgical inter-
vention are obtained from
young patients between two
and six years old.
He related that in 1968 a
German surgeon, H.
Hoehler, performed the first
such experimental opera-
tion. In 1977, the girl's pa-
rents launched a national
campaign to influence doc-
tors to carry out more such
procedures, because they
believed that the changed
appearance had greatly im-
proved their child's social
functioning.
In the past, life expec-
tancy of mongoloids has
been low. However, thanks
to antibiotics and better
nutrition, it has in recent
years increased to about 40
years.
Dr. Lemperle reduces the
protruding tongue, which
tends to make speech more
intelligible; raises the nose
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bridge; alters the lid axis,
and raises hanging lower
lips — all facial characteris-
tics of Down's syndrome.
He reports: "Without ex-
ception, the parents have
been satisfied . . . but a posi-
tive effect on social behavior
and the mental develop-
ment of the children has not
yet been proven," because
until now there have not
been the kind of follow-up
studies that PROFESSOR
Feuerstein and Hadassah
plan to make.
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