Breaking News from JTA A museum in Austria will pay $19 million to keep a painting looted during the Holocaust. An Israeli Arab was convicted of killing an Israeli-American teenager and two others. The Anti-Defamation League is urging Estonia officials to condemn a march there honoring a division of the Nazi SS. A Russian university has established a department for Jewish culture. A baptism site in the lower Jordan River is in danger of being closed due to pollution. A U.S. federal court has fined North Korea $300 million for financing a 1972 attack on Israel's airport. Two Palestinians reportedly were killed and up to eight were injured by an Israeli army shelling at the northern border of the Gaza Strip. More than 80 countries signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. A dual Jordanian-American citizen was convicted of mailing a bomb threat to a Chicago Jewish day school. Israel's military has implemented operational changes designed to further minimize future civilian casualties, according to an update on Israel's investigation into the Gaza war.
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Russian university opens Jewish culture department
By Marcy Oster
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Rotem on his conversion bill (N.Y. Jewish Week) David Rotem, the author of an Israeli conversion bill strongly opposed by non-Orthodox Diaspora groups, argues that his bill is essential to breaking the Orthodox-dominated Israeli Rabbinate's monopoly over marriage and does nothing to alter the Law of Return or the status of converts from the Diaspora. Read more » Israel Museum gets a facelift (N.Y. Times) The crown jewel of Israel's cultural heritage reopens next week with new galleries and public spaces meant to be easier to navigate, and to suggest interesting connections among the objects on display. Read more » From the bimah to pot dispenser (Washington Jewish Week) Jeffrey Kahn, a pulpit rabbi for nearly three decades, is setting up a medicinal pot shop in a Washington neighborhood to help the chronically ill. Read more » A California Yankee on Israel's court (Haaretz) L.A. native David Blumenthal, a veteran shooting guard for Maccabi Tel Aviv, finally agrees to join the Israeli national basketball team for the first time. Read more » Seal speaks (Jerusalem Post) The soul/R&B singer, who is performing Wednesday at the Raanana Amphitheater, talks about his music and upcoming reality show with supermodel wife Heidi Klum and their three kids. Read more »
| Hadassah News Hadassah Switzerland Meets Jazz
at the Eden Hotel
Hadassah Switzerland-Zurich hosted the first of a series of social evenings at the Hotel Eden au Lac along the Lake of Zurich in April, featuring the quartet of Rolf Lyssy, renowned Jazz Drummer, Swiss Film Director, and Hadassah Switzerland Honorary Board Member. Read more >> 
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Nancy Falchuk Meets and Shows Continuing Support for Israel and the Upcoming Race For the Cure
Nancy Falchuk, National President Hadassah; Kenna Shoval, wife of Ambassador Zalman Shova; Raya Strauss, Partnership 2000 Chair, Jewish Agency for Israel; Leslie Cunningham, wife of US Ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham; and Dorothy S. Paterson, Global Race Ambassador of Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, met recently at the American Ambassador's Residence in Herzilya to plan the October 28, 2010 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Jerusalem.  Nursing CEU's for Hadassah Convention!
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Join in JNF's Forest Fire
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On Tuesday, June 29, 2010, forest fires raged across Israel, destroying over 300,000 trees and burning over 750 acres of forested and open areas. Arson is suspected in many cases, and conditions worsened due to Israel's severe heat wave. A Jewish National Fund (JNF) spokesperson said that it marked the single largest day of fires in Israel since the 2006 war with Hezbollah, and that it would take 50 years to restore the forests.
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From Lab Bench to Bedside
Message from the President, June 2010
WINTER IN NETANYA
Save the Date!
January 16 – March 13, 2011
Celebrate Israel with Hadassah's WIN program.
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We're on a Mission
Consider joining a Hadassah mission this year in Jerusalem on one of our Supersavers.
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