THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS GREATER DETROIT CHAPTER OF HADASSAH 19111 W. 10 Mile Rd., Southfield 48075 • 357-2020 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. SPRING CONFERENCE Double Mitzvah . A Camp For Jewish Youth 8-14 For information, write or call The Youth Movement Sponsored By Hadassah r r __ 6600 West Maple Rd. West Bloomfield 661-1038 1 1/11 1 9E0 1 ACCREDITED CAMP 68th NATL. CONVENTION IN JERUSALEM Aug. 25-Sept. 2 Friday, March 26, 1982 47 Annette Meskin, President HADASSAH SURGEONS HELP tr Nvir 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 HAPPY 70th ANNIVERSARY HADASSAH DIG INTO YOUR SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR YOUR LAZY BONDS. LET HADASSAH PUT THEM TO WORK FOR ISRAEL AT OUR HOSPITALS IN JERUSALEM. FOR VERY REWARDING INFORMATION CALL THE HADASSAH OFFICE 357-2920 Spread the Word BEFORE YOU MOVE ... 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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