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(Above. Hadassah Seal)
"In the beginning." said a
Persian poet. God took a rose,
■\ lily, a dove, a serpent, a little
honey, a Dead Sea apple and a
handful of clay. When He looked
at the amalgam — it was a
woman.”
If the Persian poet looked
about today at the American
woman, vintage 1958, he would
discover an entirely different set
of ingredients. The present fem
inine "amalgam", no less enig
matic to man than at the begin
ning of time, is infinitely more
complicated. Modern society is
responsible for the metamorpho
sis.
For the social revolution of the
last century has placed woman
on a more or less equal footing
in the competitive world and has
also moved her to the forefront
of organized communal life. The
woman of today, fascinating, ag
gressive. knowledgeable realizes
that a shrinking physical world
has expanded her original pur
pose from companion of man to
companion of mankind.
Such is the silhouette of the
Hadassah member — a woman
with 315,000 faces in every major
city and in thousands of towns
and hamlets from one end of
America to the other. But she
had an added ingredient, a deep
consciousness of her Jewish roots.
Thus, whether she donates dol
lars for a new psychiatric clinic
in Israel, or concerns herself
with the restoration of sight to
a partially blind Moroccan child;
whether she participates in a
forum on the problems of the
Middle East or leads a neighbor
hood Bible study group, or sup
ports industrial development of
Israel by selling bonds, she
exhibits a twin awareness of
Jewish consciousness and social
responsibility.
It is this combination which
makes the Hadassah woman a
true phenomenon on the Ameri
can scene. Born and bred in this
country, she welds the best of
20th century inventiveness with
the loyalty to her people and
compassion for all mankind
which spring out of her Jewish
tradition.
This amalgam has fascinated
all who come in contact with it.
Some months ago, "Look”, an im
portant pictorial magazine of
national circulation, sent out one
of its skilled reporters to do re
search for an article on the
American Jewish community. In
the course of his project, he in-
by MIRIAM FI ERST
and LI LI ELLER
terviewed a group of Hadassah
national leaders and was so in
trigued by the picture of a huge
nation-wide organization com
pletely intergrated into the Amer
ican scene, working with una
bated zeal year after year for a
program carried on in a land
thousands of miles away, that he
decided to investigate this phe
nomenon in its natural habitat
in both home and meeting. The
reporter traveled to a chapter in
the Mid-West, observed and re
corded, and when the story ap
peared in June. 1958, it included
the- story of a typical Hadassah
group — the mass fund raising
affair, the study circle discussion
in a member’s living room, the
performance of amateur thes-
pians. the group pouring over the
chapter bulletin in the printer’s
shop.
That “Look" chose a Hadassah
group to illustrate the typical
role of American Jewish women
of today points up the fact that
in Hadassah the modern woman
receives what her 20th century
needs require: limitless oppor
tunities for self-improvement and
for service. Here the emancipated
woman gets her chance to iden
tify with an "egghead” organiza
tion. Here her horizons broaden,
brighten. "The man in the moon.”
someone said once, “isn’t half as
interesting as the lady in the
sun". The Hadassah woman is
an interesting "lady in the sun"
For example, the Hadassah
woman often receives her first
indoctrination into world affairs
through her local chapter, especi
ally in the smaller communitio
where Hadassah flourishes. The
Jewish State, on behalf of which
she is directly involved, serves
as a "peephole" for her into the
larger world picture. Through
her American Affairs committee
she may work toward better
understanding of the United
Nations, of the problems which
America faces on the domestic-
scene; or, armed with printed
information from the national of
fice, give a public report on
Dag Hammarskjold’s latest Mid
dle East mission. She typifies the
vanguard of American men and
women who are shaking off the
ill-fitting jacket of isolatiom-
to put on the mantle of inter
national cooperation. In this wa
too, the Hadassah woman grov
in stature.
In terms of services — build
ing houses of healing and carir.g
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