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Hadassah Conference Initiates $500,000 Campaign for Jewish Refugee Children

February 11, 1943
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The national board of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, meeting here for a two-day council voted today to extend its work in the health and refugee fields in Palestine by subsidizing a program of typhus control, and initiating a $500,000 emergency campaign to help rehabilitate Jewish refugee children who are expected to enter Palestine soon.

This action was taken by 100 leaders representing 100,000 members of Hadassah in 46 states assembled at the Park Central Hotel. The conference will close tomorrow with a survey of nutrition problems brought about by serious food shortages and a steep rise in living costs in the Holy Land. The board will also be asked to approve Hadassah’s affiliation with the projected American Jewish Assembly.

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