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PAGE 22 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 3, 1986
Women’s ORT conference
slated for Atlanta in Nov.
The 16th annual Women’s
American ORT Board Conference
will be held at the Westin Peach
tree Plaza from Nov. 9-11. The
public will be invited to a banquet
and a special ORT fashion show-
luncheon with items shown from
Israel and France made by ORT
students. There will be discussions,
seminars, a boutique and many
special events that the more than
600 people from around the world
will attend.
The Organization for Rehabili
tation through Training has an
annual student enrollment of
134,000 at vocational and techni
cal schools throughout the world.
The conference will bring out facts
about the new school opened in
Los Angeles, the dedication cere
monies for a new international
institute in Israel and the expan
sion and advancement of courses
at every ORT school. Accomplish
ments of the World ORT Union
Congress meeting this month in
Israel will be spotlighted.
Volunteers are needed for plac
ing table decorations, the hospital
ity room, meeting and greeting,
printing and mailing flyers, getting
and arranging souvenirs and favors,
and helping with the Share Fair
(areas sharing materials), as well as
signing up for two to four hour
shifts during the conference.
Delcy Harber is local arrange
ments chairman of the conference.
Assisting her are Janet Rush,
Muriel Rosen and Irene Seligman,
boutique; Susan Gerstel and Roz
Brotman, bulletin; Meryl Shloss-
man and June Klein, centerpieces;
Lynn Oves and Tamah Cooper,
fashion show; Florence Sperling,
Sue Marks and Marlene Duwell,
flyers and Cynthia Mayer and
Marlene Goren, hospitality baskets.
Other chairmen include Char
lotte Sherman and Merrie Weiss,
hostess; Lynn Savage, refreshments;
Sheila Livingston, meeters and
greeters; Dianne Johnson and
Nancy Taffel, publicity; Ann Ga-
lanti and Sherrie Eisman, seating;
Bea Camhi, souvenirs/favors; and
Janis Wolfson and Bev Saxon,
Share Fair.
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Cantor Goodf riend to lead Yizkor
at Greenwood monument Oct. 12
Hemshech, the organization of
Holocaust survivors, will hold its
annual Yizkor Service at the Me
morial to the 6,000,000 in Green
wood Cemetery at 11 a.m. Sunday,
Oct. 12. The service will be con
ducted by Cantor Isaac Goodfriend.
Yahrtzeit candles will be available.
In 1985, on the 40th anniversary
of the end of World War II and the
liberation of survivors from the
death camps and places of hiding,
Hemshech established a Memorial
Fund, to bear witness against the
Nazi atrocities, to remember the
victims of this stain on humanity
and to celebrate the survivors.
Earned interest from this endow
ment fund can be allocated on a
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yearly basis for projects dealing
with Holocaust education. The At
lanta Jewish community is encour
aged to make donations in memory
of loved ones who perished among
the 6,000,000 Jewish souls who are
no more.
Equally important is the Zachor
Endowment Fund of the Atlanta
Jewish Federation which was estab
lished to build and support the
Zachor Holocaust Center at the
AJCC, Peachtree branch. Dona
tions are needed to complete the
exhibit and to fund much needed
programming from the entire com
munity. Both funds are adminis
tered by the Endowment Fund of
the Atlanta Jewish Federation.
Donations to either or both funds
can be made to the Atlanta Jewish
Federation, 1753 Peachtree Road,
N.E., Attention: Jane Leavey, or
to Hemshech, 1545 LaVista Road,
Attention: Lola Lansky, 261-1060.
The public is invited to attend
the service.
NCJW gets research grant
The national office of the Na
tional Council of Jewish Women
(NCJW) has received a grant of
$444,051 from the U.S. Office of
Human Development, a division
of the Department of Health and
Human Resources, to conduct re
search on the use of children as
witnesses in cases of child sexual
abuse.
Estimates vary as to the number
of child sexual abuse cases in the
United States, but some sources
place that figure as high as 200,000
new cases a year. With children’s
testimony generally considered
admissible in criminal court pro
ceedings, the need for research on
the subject is urgent. The purpose
of the study will be to suggest new
ways of improving the credibility
and accuracy of children’s testi
mony. Research will be conducted
so as to have practical implications
on the way in which child sexual
abuse cases are investigated and
prosecuted.
The research will be conducted
by the NCJW Center for the
Child a research center established
by the National Council of Jewish
Women to improve conditions which
promote the growth and develop
ment of children through applied
research—in conjunction with uni
versity-based researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania and
trained volunteers in selected
communities throughout the coun
try.
Established in 1893, the NCJW
is the oldest Jewish women’s volun
teer organization in America.
NCJW’s more than 100,000 mem
bers in 200 sections nationwide are
active in the organization’s priority
areas of women’s issues, Jewish
life, aging, children and youth,
Israel and Constitutional rights.
Memphis-Atlanta exchange
In a pioneering venture sponsored by the Orthodox Union,
various synagogue rabbis throughout the United States will be
visiting sister synagogues for lectures during the High Holiday
period.
In the Southeast, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman will be lecturing at
Baron Hirsch Synagogue of Memphis on Wednesday night, Oct. 8.
On the following night, Thursday, Oct. 9, Rabbi Raphael Gross-
man, of Baron Hirsch Synagogue of Memphis, will lecture at
C ongregation Beth Jacob. The themes of both lectures will focus
on issues of the High Holidays and contemporary Jews.
Rabbi Grossman is a noted author and lecturer, and the com
munity is cordially invited to attend this lecture, Thursday, Oct. 9,
at 8:00 p.m. at Beth Jacob Synagogue.