Through her family travel business, she helped thousands of Eastern European Jews immigrate to Canada and escape the Holocaust.

Dworkin worked with many community charities and was a strong supporter of the Jewish trade unions through the city's Labour Lyceum.

[12] Harry Arthurs, a former dean of Osgoode Law School and president emeritus of York University, is Dworkin's grandson.

[1][17] In 1907, Dworkin began working at a private dispensary serving Toronto's Jewish community in the historic neighbourhood of The Ward.

[1] Dworkin worked with various women's organizations which provided social services for the immigrant Jewish community,[3]: 12, 21  most notably the Ezras Noshem (Yiddish for "ladies' aid").

[3]: 21  These groups established an orphanage with a basement dispensary[3]: 12  and the Moshav Zekanim (old folks' home), a forerunner of elder-care teaching hospital Baycrest Health Sciences.

[3]: 32  As secretary of the board during the Great Depression, Dworkin quietly negotiated with the hospital's creditors while planning for a needed expansion.

[3]: 131 In 1917, Henry and his brother Edward opened the variety store and travel agency E. & H. Dworkin Steamship and Bankers, with the aim of reuniting families from Eastern Europe who had been separated by the war.

[6][9][g] Dworkin assisted with this business, and the couple travelled to Poland, Romania and Latvia to arrange for the immigration of European Jews to settle in Toronto.

It was added as a free insert in the popular weekend editions of New York Yiddish newspapers for which Dworkin was the distributing agent.

The paper's editorial view appealed to the major ideological elements of the Toronto Jewish community: Bundist, in the tradition of Dworkin's late husband, and Zionist on the part of Goldstick.

[20] In 1936, following the successful model of the Kanader Naies, Dworkin bought broadcast time on a private radio station for the weekly Jewish Hour entertainment program, hosted by Max Mandel.

[21] Dworkin served as the president of the Continental Steamship Ticket Agents Association[5] and continued running the family business until her death in 1976.