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Home Sweet Hadassah — A Coast to Coast Celebration On or around Thursday, March 22, 2012, Hadassah Members and Associates are coming together in homes all across the country to toast Hadassah’s Centennial. These intimate gatherings will provide an opportunity for our members to celebrate Hadassah’s milestone anniversary and personally connect to Hadassah’s vision and mission. Hopefully, you can attend a Home Sweet Hadassah celebration for your chapter. Take Action Now to Ensure Women's Equality in IsraelI am sure that you’ve read about recent discriminatory acts against women in Israel. The stories of incidents in which ultra-Orthodox men have used threats and violence to scare women are in the press, on your TVs and your computers. Hadassah has always had the greatest respect for all streams of Judaism and we have been among the leading supporters of a pluralistic Israel since its founding. All of our institutions including Hadassah Medical Organization, Youth Aliyah, Hadassah College and Young Judaea are fully committed to equal opportunity for all. While we respect the religious convictions of all individuals, we will not compromise the core values of Hadassah. I am proud that Hadassah is standing up for women’s rights in Israel and protesting the recent discriminatory acts against women by extremists. With 300,000 members strong, we have the power to fight this discrimination. When offered the opportunity to sign a Petition on Gender Discrimination, I did so without hesitation to ensure women’s equality in Israel. Please click here to sign the petition today. Become an integral part of making certain the entire Israeli government understands the critical nature of gender equality and ask Prime Minister Netanyahu to keep his word and to hold his government accountable. Ginny Baird
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What's Happening
- Hadassah Thanks Ambassador Killion
- Hadassah thanks U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) David Killion for his actions opposing anti-Semitism.
- Israeli Specialists Trained in Groundbreaking Surgical Technique
- An innovative procedure to remove cancerous tumors from the gastrointestinal tract was performed at the Hadassah University Medical Center’s Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases recently.
- Hadassah Medical Organization Mourns Two Exceptional Colleagues
- Two recent deaths have affected the staff at Hadassah Medical Organization. Arik Zukert, Director of R&D since 1994, died December 6 at home after a long and heroic fight against cancer. Dr. Ido Yatsiv, 57, Director of Hadassah's Pediatric Intensive Care unit, died December 3 as a result of massive internal bleeding following surgery.
- Iran Sanctions Update
- On December 2, the Senate voted unanimously for sanctions targeting the Central Bank of Iran (CBI)—which is widely suspected of financing Iran's nuclear program—and banks that do business with it and the United States.
- Howard Jacobson To Receive Harold U. Ribalow Prize
- Hadassah Magazine hasannounced that this year’s Harold U. Ribalow Prize will be awarded to Howard Jacobson, who wrote The Finkler Question, published in 2010. Every year, Hadassah Magazine honors an author who has created an outstandingwork of fiction on a Jewish theme. The Finkler Question also wasawarded the 2010 Man Booker Prize.
- Planting Methuselah
- On November 24, 2011, a ceremony was held on Kibbutz Ketura to plant the famous date palm “Methuselah”. The ceremony was attended by distinguished guests from Israel and abroad, including Lord David Wolfson and Marcie Natan, the National President of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
- Young Judaea Names Inaugural Executive Director
- In its latest move towardindependence, Young Judaea announcedtoday that Simon Klarfeld, a highly regarded community builder andinnovative educator with critical skills in organizational change, will becomeits inaugural executive director. Klarfeld is taking the reins at a momentous time in the youth movement’s102-year history, as it branches off from its longtime parent organization, Hadassah, the Women’s ZionistOrganization of America.
