Hadassah SoCal executive director retires
Ryan Torok
September 7, 2011
After more than 14 years as executive director of Hadassah Southern California, Laura Kaplansky stepped down on Aug. 19.
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Hadassah offices closing as lifetime members increase
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2011
Sixteen Hadassah offices are closing in the United States as more than 24,000 women became life members of the organization this year. The closure of the offices nationwide, and the consolidation of five others, is part of an ongoing plan to streamline the organization and reduce costs that began three years ago.
Food flight: Perusing American Jewry’s past and present
Jewish Journal
March 31, 2011
Two relatively new books tell the story of American Jewry, weaving together its past and present by examining tradition and making it relevant to today’s reader. Where Sue Fishkoff’s \”Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority\” (Schocken, 2010) is robust and detailed, Leah Koenig’s \”The Hadassah Everyday Cookbook: Daily Meals for the Contemporary Jewish Kitchen\” (Universe, 2011) is spacious and adaptable.
Hadassah awards grants to help women
Jewish Journal
March 29, 2011
The Hadassah Foundation has awarded $182,000 in grants for 2011 to help women from diverse cultural groups in Israel and the American Jewish community. This year, due to the global economic downturn, in addition to funding programs in the fields of economic security for low-income Israeli women and leadership and self-esteem programs for adolescent Jewish girls and young women in the United States, the foundation also funded economic empowerment and financial training programs in the United States.
Hadassah hospitals tap new director general
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2011
Dr. Ehud Kokia, a physician and health-care executive for nearly four decades, is the new director general of Israel\’s Hadassah Medical Organization. Kokia, 61, was named Monday as the organization\’s eighth director general. The Hadassah Medical Organization includes Hadassah University Hospital Ein Kerem and Hadassah University Hospital Mount Scopus.
Hadassah picks ex-treasurer for top post
Jewish Journal
January 18, 2011
The national board of Hadassah: The Women’s Zionist Organization of America has nominated its former treasurer to take over the organization’s top lay leadership position. The board on Sunday officially selected Marcie Natan, currently the national chairperson of Hadassah College in Jerusalem, to become the organization’s president in July. Natan, of Lancaster, Pa., must be approved officially at Hadassah’s annual meeting. She would succeed Nancy Falchuk, who has served as president since 2007. The organization’s top lay position, the Hadassah president serves as essentially a volunteer CEO, wielding an unusual amount of responsibility for a lay leader at a nonprofit.
In the war on breast cancer, Israel leads
Jewish Journal
November 1, 2010
Irit Paneth, in and out of remission from breast cancer for more than a decade, was among the thousands who wound their way like a giant pink-and-white ribbon through Jerusalem\’s streets in the first Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Race for the Cure held in Israel.
Tell-all book drags Hadassah back into Madoff story
Jewish Journal
August 25, 2009
Sheryl Weinstein, the high-profile victim of Bernard Madoff claiming to have had an affair with the confessed swindler, kicked off her book tour Tuesday with an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
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