Hadassah the Women’s Zionist Organization of America has picked a veteran Jewish and nonprofit communal leader as its new CEO.
It’s Naomi Adler, most recently president and CEO of the …
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9/2/21
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Amid the rockets, bombs and civil strife that shook Israel and Gaza last month, here is some news you may have missed: As violence erupted in the Arab-Jewish city of Lod, a man walking home from …
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By Rhoda Smolow, Hadassah National President
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6/18/21
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A Palestinian baby seriously injured in a car accident was breastfed by a Jewish nurse when he refused to take a bottle.
Nurse Ula Ostrowski-Zak nursed the nine-month-old boy throughout her shift …
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By JTA
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6/8/17
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Major American Jewish organizations — including the Orthodox Union — are calling for stricter gun-control laws in the wake of the Feb. 14 mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS
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2/28/18
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By the time Starr Mirza went into cardiac arrest at age 22 and nearly died, she had spent a lifetime trying to convince doctors she was sick.
“The doctors were always pulling my parents …
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By Abigail Pickus
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5/2/18
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Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus laid the cornerstone for a vastly expanded rehabilitation center on the north slope of the Mount Scopus Campus and witnessed the inauguration of the Lokomat, …
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1/10/19
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A decade after the Bernie Madoff debacle — one so serious that Hadassah officials refuse to even utter the Ponzi schemer’s name — the women’s Zionist organization is …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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9/8/19
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Woman power was front and center at Hadassah’s online Power of Purpose conference.
Organizers of the Jan. 9 Zoom event pulled in such superstars as journalist Lesley Stahl, former first …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS
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1/19/22
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Salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, Zionism and progressivism.
Few question the inherent, irrefutable bond between the first two of those pairs, but civil rights attorney and …
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By Eliana Rudee, JNS
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1/3/18
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The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved $10 million over five years to fund Holocaust education in American schools.
The vote Monday was timed for International Holocaust …
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1/29/20
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