THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 16, 1983 25 HADASSAH HEADLINES t Joan Provizer, Editor GREATER DETROIT CHAPTER OF HADASSAH LECTURE, LUNCH AND LEARNING SERIES SCHEDULED Hadassah Raises Close to $49 Million Marcia Kersch, Educa- tion Vice-President, an- nounced that the Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadas- sah and the 'Midrasha Col- lege of Jewish Studies are co-sponsoring an exciting six-week series beginning Thursday, October 6. The format will include two lec- tures followed by lunch and a choice of four courses that will run for four weeks. Dr. Yehuda Rosenman of the American Jewish Committee will discuss "Can American Jews sur- vive without Israel?" at the first lecture. Instructors for the four courses are Dr. Judith Laikin Elkin, Dr. Jonathan Fishbane, Dr. Joseph Gut- man and Dr. Gerald Teller. The closing lecture on Thursday, November 10 will feature dynamic Michigan Congressman, Mark D. Siljander. His topic will be 'Christian Support for Israel in Congress and the Community.' For more information, please call either the Hadassah office, 357-2920 or the Midrasha officer, 352-7117. Hadassah raised over $48.9 million dollars this year, announced Beatrice I. Feldman, national trea- surer, reported at the recent national convention held in Washington, D.C. "The total monies col- lected include funds from endowments, annuities; be- quests and grants, as well as the quotas raised directly by the members," Mrs. Feldman explained. "We are particularly grateful for the increase in bequests in recent years, not only as a buffer during a period of in- flation, but because be- quests are a concrete ex- pression of confidence in Hadassah's work and in the management of its proj- ects." She added that the in- crease in Major Gifts re- flects "the recognition of the contribution to world health that the Hadassah Medical Organization makes in its work in basic and applied research as well as in teach- ing and patient care." The Greater Detroit Chapter raised $490,000 of this sum. 19111 W. 10 Mile Rd., Southfield 48075 •357-2920 Diane J. Klein, President BLUE CROSS TO COVER CATARACT SURGERY AT HADASSAH Blue Cross/Blue Shield has agreed to insure patients who avail them- selves of cataract surgery applying special techniques for the implantation of in- traocular lens, which has been developed by Dr. Hanan Zauberman, head of the Opthamology Depart- ment at the Hadassah He- brew Univwersity Medical Center in Jerusalem. A new Center of Optical Rehabilitation has been made possible by the instal- lation fo a YAG Neodymium Laser — the only one of its kind in the Middle East — which is used by the Hadassah team a few hours before cataract operations with intraocular lens implantation to open the capsule of the cataract and thus enable a more pre- cise operation to be pre- formed. The laser enables the op- thamologist to do surgery and cut membranes in the eye with amazing accuracy and precision. Previous las- ers have been designed for coagulation only and not for cutting tissue in the eye. Dr. Penhas, director- GREATER DETROIT CHAPTER OF HADASSAH Cordially invites you to meet Dena IlAtimberg Author and TV Personality Her Topic Will Be "You Are More Than The Sum of Your [Darts" general of the Hadassah Medical Organization ex- plained that because of the new methods, they are able to discharge patients with perfect vision from the Eye Department only one day after they undergo cateract surgery with intraocular lens implantation. The Ministry of Economic Coordination in the Israeli government has discussed with Dr. Zauberman the possibility of encouraging patients to come from the United States to benefit from the new advanced methods of cataract surgery developed in Hadassah. For this purpose, Hadassah would put the patients into its new private wing, which compares, in its accommo- dations and its excellent nursing care, with the standards of the best American hospitals. Blue Cross and Blue Shield have agreed to insure the cataract patients having surgery at Hadassah. Hadassah Medical Organization committee members Barbara Ben, Harrilee Shevin, Libby Sklar and Susan Dines are pictured with Susan Yorke, Fund Raising Vice President. The committee is preparing for the annual tele- thon which will begin September 25 and for a Special Gifts Dinner with guest speaker Dr. Shaul Feldman on October 13. Dr. Feldman was in the first graduating class of the Hebrew University .Hadassah Medical School. Roberta Lazar who is also on the committee is not in the picture. Dr. Penchas concluded: "The Center would, secon- darily, encourage tourism, since patients undergoing cataract surgery would be hospitalized for a single day at Hadassah, and could then leave the hospital with per- fect vision to travel around the country. The laser is the gift from Miriam and Alfred Dreis- man of Merrick, N.Y., in memory of his parents, Anna and William Dreis- man, and from other con- tributors in Israel and abroad. r NM MB I hereby enroll in Hadassah The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc. ❑ List Me Under My Own First Name ❑ Miss ❑ Mrs. ❑ Mrs. HUSBAND'S FIRST NAMF MY FIRST NAMF LAST NAME ADDRESS ZIP CODE CITY & STATE DATE TELEPHONE NO — I Attach My $15 Dues — Bill Me for $15 Dues —I Want to Become a Life Member —Here is My $175 —Bill Me for $175 Mail to: Hadassah 19111 W. 10 Mile Road, Suite 205 At The Opening Fall Meeting Tuesday, September 20, 1983 12:15 P.M. Congregation Adat Shalom 29901 Middlebelt Road (13 Mile Rd. and Northwestern Hwy.) Coffee and Dessert *** Donation: $2.00 Honoring New Life Members Babysitting Available - Please call 357-2920 Our Thrift Shop Van will be available for your gently used items Early Bird Drawing for Paid Up Members Southfield, Michigan 48075 1.1 moommassammosommeassieweemimmewssimawimmumasams•••11 YAHRZEIT IN ISRAEL TISHRI SEPTEMBER 8-OCTOBER 7 Irene Fay Blavin Harry Sklar Rev. Victor Cohen Laela Miller Saulson Tillie Sklar CHESHVAN OCTOBER 8-NOVEMBER 6 Michael Pinchuk Barney B. Wetsman Each month we note the names of those dear ones for whom a benefactor has endowed a Yahrzeit to be observed in perpetuity in the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, within its beautiful Synagogue crowned with the stained glass windows by Marc Chargall. Subscription is seven hundred fifty dollars. e., . i • " .4.4, 5 . •