Breaking News from JTA Polls showed overwhelmingly negative feelings for Israel and Jews among Jordanians and Lebanese. Susan G. Komen for the Cure has backed down from its decision not to fund Planned Parenthood. A poll suggested a shift toward Republicans in party identification among Jews. Rabbi Menachem Youlus, who was dubbed the “Jewish Indiana Jones” for his remarkable tales of rescuing Holocaust-era Torahs, pleaded guilty to fraud. An Australian TV broadcaster rejected complaints from Jewish groups that a controversial series "endorses and reinforces demeaning stereotypes about Jews." Jared Loughner is not yet competent to stand trial, according to the court-appointed psychologist in the case of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. Israeli officials said there was an understanding that the time was near to consider a military strike on Iran. Seventy-one Ethiopian emigres arrived in Israel accompanied by lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America. The Oakland, Calif., chapter of the Occupy movement overwhelmingly endorsed a proposal in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. An art prize that will guarantee an Israeli artist living in Israel or abroad a cash prize and a solo exhibition in Jerusalem was established at the Bezalel Academy.
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Komen backs down on Planned Parenthood
By Ben Harris
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has backed down from its decision not to fund Planned Parenthood. Read more »
More News from JTA ‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ pleads guilty in Torah fraud case Rabbi Menachem Youlus, who was dubbed the “Jewish Indiana Jones” for his remarkable tales of rescuing Holocaust-era Torahs, pleaded guilty to fraud. Read more »
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Holocaust Remembrance Day in Italy JTA's Ruthless Cosmopolitan visits a classroom in southern Italy where the students had never before met a Jew. Read more » Playing catch-up on Israel The president and CEO of the Jewish campus group Hillel argues in a JTA Op-Ed that when it comes to Israel, students are more favorably disposed than the critics would have us believe. Read more » Planned Parenthood controversy With Planned Parenthood in the news this week, JTA's Archive Blog culls an interesting nugget about its founder's invitation to speak at a New York synagogue in 1923. Read more » Oprah goes Chasidic (6NoBacon) Oprah Winfrey is set to air a two-part show about the lives of Chasidic Jews. 6NoBacon has a first look at the trailer. Read more » Bold-faced mohel (New York Times) On its City Room blog, The New York Times profiles Philip Sherman, ritual circumciser to the stars. Read more » Race for the door (Forward) Angry that the Susan G. Komen organization defunded Planned Parenthood? A Forward editorial urges breast cancer advocates to find another charity to support. Read more » Holocaust evil still lives (Wall Street Journal) The president of the European Jewish Congress writes that the evil that animated Hitler is still alive in Iran. Read more » Harranguing in Herzliya (Tablet) Israel's most important security conference is happening this week in the seaside town of Herzliya. Judith Miller reports for Tablet on the harsh assessment delivered by Israel's chief banker of the haredi Orthodox population's failure to pull its weight in the labor market. Read more » Syrian defector speaks (New York Times) Syrian soldier Ammar Cheikh Omar defected to neighboring Turkey after he found himself an instrument of a regime intent on killing its own people. Read more » When is it time for a divorce? How do you decide when it's time to separate from your spouse? On Kveller, the Jewish Divorce Panel tackles this difficult question. Read more »
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Hadassah News Hadassah Grateful Komen Has
Reversed Decision Related To
Planned Parenthood Funding
In response to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation's reversal of its decision earlier this week to cease contributing funding to Planned Parenthood, Marcie Natan, National President of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, today expressed appreciation for the return to focus on women's health issues. Read Press Release >> Reauthorize The Violence Against
Women Act Read more >> UN First Lady Visits Hadassah
University Medical Center
Photo Credit: Avi Hayun
During her first visit to Israel, Ms. Yoo Soon-Taek, wife of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, toured the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem where she visited with some of the children in the Dept. of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and their families. She is pictured with 16-year-old Chaled and his father of East Jerusalem, and Department Head Dr. Mickey Weintraub. During her tour, Ms. Yoo also met with Prof. Dan Engelhard, Head of Pediatrics at Hadassah-Ein Kerem, who described Hadassah's many outreach programs, especially the one he established in Ethiopian orphanages for children with HIV/AIDS. She concluded her tour at the Braun Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Public Health and Community Medicine where Dean Prof. Orly Manor, introduced her to the members of this years International Master's in Public Health Program.
Check out hadassah.org/hmedicine for more on Hadassah's extraordinary work.
Hadassah Foundation Announces
More Than $280,000 In Grants
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The Countdown Continues
7 WEEKS UNTIL MOVING-IN DAY
"The Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower is not just a new facility for Hadassah – it is a new concept in hospitalization, it is about a new attitude. The Tower's spacious patient rooms, treatment rooms and consultation rooms among its many other features, will facilitate individualized treatment models for each patient."
Prof. Rephael Zeltser, Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower
7th Floor, West Wing, Patient Day Room "What is exceptional about Hadassah's Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department is our multidisciplinary approach. Each patient is treated by a complete team, saving the patients from pursuing separate consultations with each specialist. We work in close collaboration with surgeons from the ENT Department and the Department of Plastic Surgery and often perform operations together. The grouping of the ENT, Plastic Surgery and Maxillofacial Departments together in the East Wing of the Davidson Tower's Seventh Floor will enhance our interaction and encourage the best of the multidisciplinary approach to flourish."
Stay with us as we countdown to March 19 and Moving-In Day! Read How they Do It Down Under!
Centennial news from Hadassah Australia in their Jewish press >> Hadassah's Top Doc Looks To Future
Dr. Ehud Kokia on the soon-to-open new tower, the just-ended doctors' strike and the position of physicians in Israeli society.
Read the Jewish Week article >> Ambassador Daniel Shapiro
And His Family Visit Ein Kerem
Flanked by his wife, Julie Fisher, and Prof. Ehud Kokia, Director General of the Hadassah Medical Organization, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro displays the replicas of ancient medical instruments presented as a memento of today's visit to Hadassah-Ein Kerem. "We look at Hadassah as the premier medical institution in Israel and a shining example of American-Israeli cooperation," Ambassador Shapiro told Prof. Kokia. Ambassador Shapiro was also presented with his Associates pin at a ceremony in the Abbell Synagogue.
 In the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Hadassah-Ein Kerem, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro and Prof. Ehud Kokia (right), Director General of the Hadassah University Medical Center, visit with 18-year-old Ismail and his father, Ibrihim, from Gaza.
Our Newest Associate!
Ambassador Shapiro was also presented with his Associates pin by Barbara Goldstein, Deputy Director of Hadassah Office in Israel at a ceremony in the Abbell Synagogue. During their visit, the Ambassador, his wife and her mother, Jane Fisher, past president of Hadassah's Duluth, Minnesota chapter, toured the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, where they spoke with several young patients – 13-year-old Orr from Jerusalem and 18-year-old Ismail from Gaza – and had a preview of the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower, scheduled to receive its first patients on March 19, less than two months from now. Ramat Hadassah's News
Haim Cohen is a soldier in the combat unit "Moran". According to Haim, "When I just came to Ramat Hadassah, I didn't have any thoughts about the army, and definitely never dreamed of being a fighter. In the village, I got a good education and values such as loving your country and the need to defend our citizens. Read more (PDF) >> Thank The White House For Supporting Preventive Health Coverage
Opponents of HHS's contraceptive coverage decision have not given up—filing court cases and lobbying Congress to overturn the ruling. Show your support for reproductive rights and thank the White House for supporting women's access to preventive health coverage! Diary of a Director General:
A Long and Winding Road
The weather seemed to be sending me a personal message the foggy, misty morning I returned to Hadassah after more than a week abroad. Low clouds hung over the narrow, winding two-lane descent that brings me to Ein Kerem and it was difficult to see the road ahead. Suddenly, the sun broke through, shining directly on our Ein Kerem campus, spotlighting the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower.
Read Prof. Ehud Kokia's diary >>
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