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What's Happening
- Hadassah Top 100!
- Read Marcie Natan's Op Ed in the Huffington Post honoring our Centennial year
- Hadassah Applauds Obama’s Statement Supporting Equal Rights For LGBT Couples
- In response to President Obama's statement today demonstrating support for LGBT rights, Marcie Natan, National President of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, expressed the following statement:
- Petition to Honor the Munich 11
- It has been nearly 40 years since the 1972 Munich Olympics, where 11 Israeli athletes were killed. Hadassah is proud of it's history as a vocal advocate for the victims' families and the memory of their loved ones.
- 60 Minutes Report: Christians of the Holy Land
- An alert distributed by the Jewish Council of Public Affairs—of which Hadassah is a member—addressing the accuracy of Sunday's 60 Minutes report on Christians in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
- Happy Birthday Israel & Hadassah
- Hadassah joins the international Jewish community in marking Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Ha'Atzmaut (Independence Day) this week, and Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) next month.
- Jerusalem Netletter: Independence Day
- I'd like to take this opportunity to honor our physician soldiers. One aspect of life in Israel is that in addition to putting in long days treating patients and doing creative research, a large percentage of our physicians are officers in the IDF. They continue to serve in Reserve Units until their fifties.
- Pregnant Woman from Cyprus with Rare Ectopic Pregnancy Saved at Hadassah
- A 30-year-old pregnant woman from Cyprus was flown to the Hadassah University Medical Center when her local physician, who made the diagnosis of an ectopic pregnancy under the left kidney, referred her to Hadassah for further care. A 48-hour surgery at Hadassah saved her life.
- HMO Update - Wednesday 4/25/2012
- Yom Hazikaron 4/25/12
Memorial Day at Hadassah Medical Organization
- General Surgery B Moves in The Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower
- When Brenda Godfrey and her husband decided to make Aliya some 35 years ago, the UK born couple already had two grown up daughters. They packed their things into 12 suitcases, gave them to their daughters and said they will meet them in Israel. While the daughters flew with the baggage, the parents drove from London through France and Italy to Naples. From there they crossed the Mediterranean on a ship with their car to Haifa port, and drove again to the absorption center in Mevaseret Zion – their first home in Israel.
- Hadassah International Ambassador Wins 250,000 Euros on German Quiz Show
- With an audience of 8-10 million people watching, Hadassah International Ambassador and Actress Veronica Ferres won 250,000 euro on a German quiz show and announced that she would donate half her winnings to the new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem.
- Young Judaea Moves Closer Toward Operating Independently
- NEW YORK – Young Judaea inked an agreement this week that positions it “a short time away” from becoming an independent organization, the youth movement said today in a joint announcement with Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which has been its parent and sole sponsor since 1967.
- Jerusalem Netletter: Yom Hashoah
- THE JERUSALEM NETLETTER Yom Hashoah
