The Hadassah Way
KUR, CAROL
HADASSAH WAY CAROLKUR Eila Watanen is a nurse. She is employed at the Burns Unit of the Hadas-sah-Hebrew University Medical Center at Ein Karem, in Jerusalem. But Hadassah does not pay her salary....
...Hadassah knows how to reach people at their own levels, and then helps them to reach up...
...I remember a visit to the old city with one of our public health nurses...
...In the recently held elections for American delegates to the 29th World Zionist Congress, the combined slate of Hadassah-B'nai Zion-American Jewish League scored overwhelmingly, electing almost half the delegates from the United States...
...We will support the country, and the people...
...It is important because Hadassah, while it has always been strictly non-partisan in this country and in Israel, is not apolitical...
...We've been doing it for years...
...And they were so delighted to see us, to know that at least some of the things that matter to them are Hadassah's concerns, too...
...And she spoke of the years of terror: "When Hitler came to power, the whole world changed...
...In 1934, she returned with her family for five years, during which she served as liaison between Hadassah in the United States and in Palestine...
...Scopus in partnership with the Hebrew University...
...Hadassah's policy is unswerving in its complete and absolute support for Israel's leadership, regardless of the party in power...
...1929—Nathan and Lena Straus Family and Child Center, combining medical, social, educational, and therapeutic facilities, opens in Jerusalem...
...Though their primary focus was to teach trade skills, both schools incorporated humanities into their curricula...
...What a coup that would be...
...The largest...
...That's important to me...
...Charlotte Jacobson, who was national president from 1964 to 1968, is chairman of the American Section of the World Zionist Organization...
...The Henrietta Szold-Hadassah School of Nursing opens with 30 students...
...1945—The Apprentice Printing Workshop...
...And so, Hadassah's leadership, acknowledging its responsibility to all of its members, continues to wind its way through the maze of women's issues, one at a time...
...In a recent editorial in the Jewish Post and Opinion, editor Gabriel Cohen suggested to the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations that they not only pay attention to Mrs...
...And nonsense besides...
...Its purpose...
...Rose Halprin was one of the special few who bridged the span of years...
...Respected and admired for its work, Hadassah has non-governmental agency status on numerous commissions and in the United Nations, and, since 1967, has been recipient of more than $8 million in U.S...
...You're curious about your own roots...
...Savvy" is not the word used by Philip Roth or Woody Allen or any of the late night television comedians to describe the Hadassah woman...
...1976—Dedication of Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Rehabilitation Pavilion, Mt...
...And here's proof: In a widely quoted statement from her opening message to this year's national midwinter board meeting, Bernice Tannenbaum expressed deep concern over the struggle between ideology and fund raising, recognizing the need for both but arguing that sometimes, "the charitable aspects of fund raising blunt the inherently Jewish dimensions of enriching Jewish life and supporting Israeli society...
...At the national level, the Education department produces study guides that are adaptable for beginners or advanced students in many subject areas including history, literature, current events, Hebrew, and Bible...
...Vast program of expansion begins...
...1956—Health station opens at Arab village of Abu Ghosh...
...Hadassah's work in the U.S...
...When meetings take place between the government and the Jewish community, Hadassah is there...
...But in our work, in those years, there was nothing but satisfaction...
...Not Jewish organization...
...Even the minor problems have caused some consternation in the national office...
...United States Clearly it takes funds to administer Hadassah's network of Israel projects...
...We will continue to do what we have always done...
...Ben Gurion was a guest at that dinner, along with some agents of His Majesty's Government in Palestine...
...Haim Yassky, Director General of HMO, and 75 others are killed...
...A woman may join because we ask her first, because her friends join, because she wants to bowl in the Hadassah league, or because her mother or grandmother made her a life member when she was born...
...It could happen and it did happen...
...Last summer, 500 Jewish and Arab children from deprived areas of Jerusalem built a "tent of peace" at the Hadassah Summer Camp in Sanhedria Park...
...Both are inconsistent with Hadassah's perception of Jewish values, and the strengthening of Jewish family life...
...We know we have the ability to reach people...
...The women who shaped it were rare and unusual people, exemplified most often and enduringly by Henrietta Szold...
...Today, there are more than 150,000 graduates of Youth Aliyah, and Hadassah is still one of the largest single contributors...
...includes as well its effort to transmit the Zionist program to the next generation...
...And it has done this while maintaining a four percent operating cost—lower than any other Jewish organization—and a skeletal paid staff...
...Tan-nenbaum's comments, but accept some of the responsibility for "the inadequacies which afflict Jewish life...
...However, that response is somehow too easy a way out for these times...
...Think of it...
...Tannenbaum explains...
...And a young president, Gail Romanow, of the Brockton, Massachusetts chapter: "People don't come into Hadassah today for any loftier reasons than any other organization...
...Still, there are those who argue that maybe Hadassah ought to go away...
...Each issue includes features on Hadas-sah-related people and projects in Israel and America, a current affairs column, fiction, a message from the president, notes on books, and even a Hebrew lesson...
...We can't be rigid and stick to the past, gorgeous as it was...
...1953—The Hebrew Uni-versity-Hadassah School of Dentristry, founded by Alpha Omega Fraternity, opens...
...You're concerned about primary health care of all people, or about education without glorifying the college degree...
...Members of the Lutheran State Church of Finland do that, through an organization called The Finnish Friends of Hadassah, which has raised $19,000 for the Medical Center so far, and has pledged still more...
...And more than 100 Hadassah doctors and nurses have served in developing countries, mainly in Africa...
...Later, mass immigration created much heavier demands for housing and food and schooling and social services...
...And maybe more...
...There are pulls in every direction...
...Abortion is one of these...
...We do this by providing the average member with unusual materials and analyses that are first rate, that help her to think, that make her savvy...
...The Hadassah-Yassky Memorial Hospital opens in Beersheba...
...Projects were chosen strictly on the basis of local need, and were not mandated in any way on the national level...
...turned over to the Ministry of Labor in 1960...
...Halprin described are part of a history that was written before they were born...
...In Israel, at least, Hadassah is taken seriously...
...Hadassah House, at 50 West 58th Street, Manhattan, is a busy place...
...In an era when voluntarism is out of vogue, Hadassah has more members than ever before, raises more money than ever before...
...She was part of the core group of early Zionist leaders including Weiz-mann and Ben Gurion, and on many occasions was called upon to host visiting British dignitaries...
...Faye Schenk, who succeeded Mrs...
...We were filled with admiration for the people who came...
...We always felt the brush of history...
...While you're agreeing (if you are), consider this: in the 66 years since its founding, Hadassah has been operating as Israel's (first Palestine's) leading partner in research and development...
...It was a bitter time...
...What will satisfy women five years from now...
...renamed Hadassah Neurim in 1966...
...On the other hand, there are serious women's issues on which Hadassah refuses to take an organizational stand because the consensus of the membership is not there, or even more important, because endorsement would offend some members...
...Inevitably, the World Zionist Congress turned to her to head the project, and Hadassah became the official Youth Aliyah agency in the United States...
...I always preferred to use the image of a tapestry, multi-colored and designed...
...In 1952, Hadassah transferred its network of 134 Health Stations to the Israeli government, except for 32 in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem corridor, which were devolved in 1963...
...Here, too, Hadassah responded, establishing a vocational education program in 1942 with two new facilities—the Alice Seligsberg School for Girls and the Louis D. Brandeis Vocational Center for Boys...
...In June 1977, its membership ranks stood at 360,000...
...And the Zionist movement is very much a political entity...
...We laughed, and I made eggs instead...
...And in part, that's another facet of the problem...
...In 1967, the two were merged to become a comprehensive high school...
...The problem, then, is only with the uninitiated, who continue to view Hadassah, locally, as the ad book, the rummage sale, the fashion show, the theater party and the donor luncheon...
...Ecology...
...And last week, on a nightclub stage or before the television cameras on any of the late night talk shows, the American (Jewish) comedian/author/lecturer fired off his number two salvo (which followed his best Jewish mother joke): the Hadassah lady...
...In the morning, there was nothing...
...She recounted the story of one dinner party very early in her stay...
...1926—Hadassah hospital in Safad opens as tuberculosis ward...
...And what is the population we'll be serving then...
...After all, there had to be something heroic about people who would choose life there, then...
...Hadassah Medical Organization From that first clinic in Jerusalem has grown the vast network of projects known as the Hadassah Medical Organization...
...Bernice Tannenbaum is Hadassah's 16th president...
...Health care was, and has remained, Hadassah's primary concern, with about 85 percent of the record-breaking $29 million plus collected last year allocated to some facet of HMO...
...Since 1960, more than 300 doctors, nurses and other medical personnel from the Third World nations have been trained at Hadassah's medical schools...
...the Haim Yassky Memorial Hospital to Beersheba in 1960...
...In 1940, Hadassah helped to organize the American Zionist Youth Commission, and in 1967 became the sole sponsor of the Zionist youth movement, Hasha-char, for young people ages nine to twenty-five...
...they saw 5,000 patients that first year, and began the program of eye treatment for which Hadassah is renowned, a program that would ultimately eliminate the sight-related diseases once so rampant in Palestine...
...There's the rub...
...We had absolutely no concept of how this could come to be...
...Herewith, just a few highlights: 1918—Hadassah cooperates in the formation of an American Zionist Medical Unit...
...Within the program and philosophy that is Hadassah, there is something for everyone...
...No qualifier...
...Women are delaying marriage and babies, and there is a tremendous increase in the number of women who are single parents...
...There was a very interesting reaction to our presence," she said...
...She had just come from what is called a Projections meeting, a top level session held to discuss future plans and directions...
...They should have been coming in through the front door...
...Safad Hospital was given to the government in 1957...
...But it captures you...
...Part of the reason, I believe, is that the notion of organizational power—political or financial—is not, and never has been, what captivates the average Hadassah member...
...But perhaps we need new forms, new structures...
...It began when Henrietta Szold and her colleagues decided that their meetings should be study sessions, and it developed as a primary raison d'etre...
...In November, national American Affairs chairman Blanche Shukow led a 10-member delegation of Hadassah women at the International Women's Year Conference in Houston...
...The mother ship was far off on the horizon...
...Projects include providing tutorial and remedial help, aiding in flood or other disaster relief, setting up blood banks...
...Naturally, there were many Jewish women in Houston with all kinds of concerns...
...It means self-enrichment...
...We saw a baby who was heavily mascaraed, with kohl around his eyes...
...But each project that it supports serves a useful human need...
...It means more than "doing good" for others...
...1968—Ground is broken for Siegfried and Irma Ullman Building for Cancer and Allied Diseases, to house the Moshe Sharett Institute of Oncology...
...The power is there as well...
...Of course we're raising money, and it's very much needed...
...Despite the accomplishments, despite the money and the expertise, the image problem exists...
...We were at Kfar Vitkin, playing bridge, when someone called to us...
...No financial commitment is permitted to these programs from chapter funds...
...We must remember, also, that it is Zionism that brings us together under the roof of Hadassah, and that no non-Zionist issue can be allowed to disrupt the unity of purpose we have achieved...
...But when the British came to dinner, we dressed...
...There is a complex set of problems involved here...
...Hadassah's leadership has always been outstanding...
...American Affairs and Zionist Affairs departments also disseminate materials for chapter and group use...
...Malaria was rampant...
...1939—The Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital, first teaching hospital in Palestine, opens on Mt...
...1960—Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center is dedicated at Ein Karem...
...they ask...
...When Blanche Shukow said, "We've been in the women's movement, without calling it that, for years," I asked her why, if that was so, my life membership card identified me as Mrs...
...To be a women's organization in 1978 is to be, by definition, an organization in flux...
...These are the duly elected leaders of Israel," Mrs...
...Credited with the conquest of malaria in Palestine, Hadassah adopted the Jewish National Fund as one of its major projects in 1926, and has funneled more money into JNF than any other organization in the world...
...That was all...
...Rose Matzkin, immediate past president and current HMO chairman, says, "It's not hard to understand...
...Finally, she reminisced: "I remember watching an illegal ship come in...
...Laugh or cry...
...You are interested in human rights, in bettering social conditions...
...Scopus facility...
...And for our members here, we place the emphasis on effective involvement in the big events of today's world...
...Approximately 75 percent of our members are college educated," she noted...
...1949—The Hebrew Uni-versity-Hadassah Medical School opens in Jerusalem...
...We are concerned about serious issues and questions posed by the general women's movement in this country...
...The story of Hadassah's medical work cannot be told in a few paragraphs, or even in a few pages...
...This most recent of Hadassah's HIES projects is now a priority item, especially as new and expanded curricula are required to keep pace with Israel's growing technological needs...
...There's a study course for you...
...Halprin, whose father and grandfather were Zionists, first saw Palestine in 1929...
...But one needs to go to the top to understand it...
...They know their business, and they devote as many (if not more) hours to it than they might in a paid job...
...His mother told us that it would keep the evil eye away...
...1950—The Hotel Management Institute...
...Rose Halprin was one who insured that, eventually, they did...
...Without poring over 66 years of meticulously documented financial reports, it is impossible to know exactly how much Hadassah has spent on health and medical care alone...
...And more...
...As communities were ready and able to assume responsibility for programs and facilities, Hadassah gave them over—a kind of turn-key program in health long before the concept became popular...
...Gay rights is another...
...Furthermore, they're not only just women, they're women Zionists...
...There are so many different things to attract women today," said one young member of the Springfield, Massachusetts chapter...
...The leadership once again relied on the "power of one" to create a formidable political force at the Congress...
...And one thing more, having to do with women, and with image: maybe, just maybe, part of the gap between the outside perception of Hadassah women as a bunch of "do-gooders" and the inside view of a history of achievement that is really quite remarkable has to do with the fact that they are women, and up to now, at any rate, they haven't been taken seriously for that very reason...
...To respond to changing needs—of projects in Israel, of the membership in the United States...
...And demanding...
...Hadassah Israel Education Services As the immigrant population grew, it became clear that many lacked job skills that would be useful and productive in the new land...
...I want it to be important to my children...
...After all, who needs it...
...Hadassah undertook specific tasks, including the draining of the Huleh swamp (a three year commitment completed in 1954), reclamation of many JNF nachalot (land parcels) and work villages throughout the country, and the planting of hundreds of thousands of trees in JNF forests...
...Everything was a luxury then," she recalled...
...I just attended my first national convention...
...It is run by volunteers...
...If you didn't know it was there, you couldn't have seen it...
...Without question, that past contains some glorious chapters...
...in the Vestry Rooms of Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street...
...In peacetime, Arab patients are routinely treated at Hadassah's hospitals...
...That first visit lasted nine months...
...The meeting will be held February 24th, at 8 P.M...
...When I was introduced to national president Bernice Tannenbaum, she said, "Did you hear us screaming at each other...
...Further, many of Hadassah's past presidents have assumed top positions in those organizations...
...You know, we've had lots of cards returned to us for that reason," she responded...
...The concept of medicine, of healing, teaching, and research, as a bridge to peace is the keystone of this success story...
...This is not to imply that there are not thousands of Hadassah members who are paid career women, but those who are seldom have the time available to assume top leadership...
...More recently, programs set up in cities have helped to meet the needs of new immigrant children from vastly different cultures...
...Youth Aliyah When, in 1934, through the foresight and persistence of Recha Freier, the wife of a Berlin rabbi, the first group of Youth Aliyah children arrived in Palestine, it was Henrietta Szold who met them...
...Brandeis Vocational Center at Romema...
...Zionism was her life's work, although she had been offered careers in law and in politics...
...Perhaps, then, it's time for the critics here to take another look...
...Today, that's old hat...
...She spoke of Miss Szold, and of other early Hadassah leaders...
...With Miss Szold heading the project, more than 40 trained personnel leave for Palestine...
...Everybody knows that every Jew is a Zionist today...
...accordingly, Hadassah has chosen to proceed with caution—more caution than some of its members would like, but less than others would exercise...
...While you're snickering (if you are), consider this: Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is the largest volunteer women's organization in the United States...
...1967—Hadassah returns to Mt...
...Hadassah's orientation has traditionally been that we are not so much a women's organization per se as we are a tremendously successful Zionist organization that happens to be comprised of women members...
...But Hadassah frowns on guesses where numbers are concerned...
...The study group continues as an integral part of each chapter...
...She bought what she thought was steak, took it home and prepared it, and when her guests sat down to dinner, was horrified to see that they were absolutely unable to cut it...
...However, our participation in the women's movement is guided by the fact that Hadassah cuts across the spectrum of American Jewish women's thinking and religious conviction...
...The reasons for their continued affiliation, for their loyalty to Hadassah, run a wide gamut...
...What does this auger for the future...
...In 1969, in response to a growing clamor for local community projects, Hadassah established the American Affairs Action program, encouraging volunteer activities by chapters...
...The savvy is there, at the grass roots, for individual members who seek it...
...From the beginning, a basic principle of the Hadassah program was the philosophy of devolution...
...And that means bake sales and the rest...
...And how clever of him to think of it...
...But there were others, as well...
...Add it all together and it equals 360,000, and per capita contributions to Israel second only to the United Jewish Appeal...
...The money is collected on Sundays, at church services...
...Without denying for a moment the impact of the constituency as a whole, the leadership stresses again and again the concept of the power of the individual...
...Forget I ever said it...
...By the time Hadassah Chapter was one year old, the first Hadassah medical installation in Palestine had begun operation—a clinic, established in a small stone house in Jerusalem, that was financed largely by Mr...
...Assimilation was the vogue...
...For many of today's Hadassah members, the events Mrs...
...We are living in a society that is completely different from the one which gave birth to Hadassah...
...Isn't Hadassah out of step, with its concentration on good works instead of the political activism that characterizes modern America...
...They were women of extraordinary character, even in our time...
...exciting, challenging, rewarding...
...Each of my predecessors brought her own talents to this job," she said...
...She did, and we felt we had to reach up...
...Weizmann could convince anyone not only that he was right, but why he was right...
...government grants, most in the health field...
...They're the ones who laugh at Woody Allen's Hadassah lady jokes...
...1970—Establishment of first two year Community College...
...We're important because we're large and we're vocal, and our constituency is alert, intelligent, and informed...
...inside, the children sat in a circle around a low fire, sipping coffee brewed in afinjan from small cups, and talking about peace as part of a full program of camp activities ministered by Hadassah and the Municipality of Jerusalem...
...There is an opportunity for women to be part of something that has enormous scope," offered a member of a newly-formed group for young professionals in New York...
...and Mrs...
...If so, I apologize...
...So, for the critics—an answer to the women's issue...
...We're seeking...
...Today, 53 percent of Jewish women are working...
...Image: the sweet gray haired matron who, in her orthopedic shoes and with her huge Alexander's shopping bag, embarks each day on her sacred task, in search of whatever she can shnorr for her chapter, and ultimately, for Israel...
...We do not accept differentiation of rights between men and women and endorse the proposed Equal Rights Amendment as a statement of this principle...
...I think we sensed that we were involved in something bigger than ourselves, our lives, our communities...
...The national leadership is represented on every major board and agency in the Zionist world...
...Nathan Straus and supplemented by fund raising efforts of members...
...Hadassah's leaders are volunteer professionals...
...Clearly, the statement reflects Hadassah's ambivalence to the women's movement in this country and to the issues it raises...
...It was a fantastic turn-on, there was a marvelous sense of sharing and of accomplishment...
...we're dealing with sacred cows that no one has ever dared to touch...
...Jewish National Fund Closely tied to Hadassah's medical program in its early years was the vital work of land reclamation...
...In an effort to reassure anxious and uncertain parents, Miss Szold made two trips to Germany to speak with the terrified Jewish community...
...School hygiene program begins regular checkups for children...
...The staff consisted of two nurses...
...I spoke out against the notion of a melting pot, even then...
...Hadassah's medical facilities have always been open to anyone who wants them...
...After all, in spite of the patronizing comments, Hadassah not only exists, it thrives...
...It's not 1912 anymore, or even 1948...
...Not Zionist organization...
...That is the manner in which Hadassah's leaders choose to represent their constituency to the government of the United States, in meeting with officials at every level, and that is the way they will vote at the Zionist Congress...
...Tannenbaum provided more of the answer in her address to the national mid-winter board meeting held in January...
...No snide jokes there...
...1954—Ya'al, Hadassah's volunteer women's auxiliary in Israel, is founded...
...That's our business too...
...Tannenbaum to succeed Rabbi Alexander Schindler as chairman of the Conference...
...The recompense was built in...
...The reason I chose Hadassah, ultimately, was because it is Jewish to the core...
...That's a major effort of Hadassah these days...
...Do we have, in Hadassah, that which will attract women to use their precious free time for us...
...It's 1978, and we live In a time when we're simply over-organized...
...The times, as well as Hadassah's situation, molded what she had to do...
...Rose Halprin, the revered Zionist leader who died in January, was named acting chairman of the American Section of the Jewish Agency in 1955, and became chairman in 1960, a post she held until 1968...
...The early immigrants had come by choice...
...1975—Mt...
...The governing boards have always been composed of women of stature and standing— they would measure up in any society...
...And the next time you hear a Hadassah lady joke, remember this: she who laughs last is probably a third generation life member...
...Mrs...
...That night, 38 women signed on...
...When I came into the movement, we were the people who came from the wrong side of the tracks...
...Thus, hospitals in Haifa and Tel Aviv were turned over to the municipalities in 1931...
...the group plans to raise enough to cover the salary of a full-time doctor, as well as additional staff for the Burns Unit...
...Hadassah is a career...
...According to Bernice Tannenbaum, Hadassah's membership is getting younger and is better educated than ever before...
...That's outmoded...
...This was due largely to the extraordinary public relations job Hadassah did in getting its members to vote by filling out and returning their ballots...
...When you realized that it could happen, there was a cultural shock, a shock that changed your instinctive reactions and your thinking processes...
...For many Hadassah members, the magazine is a primary source for Jewish information, and it is quite generally acknowledged that the magazine is far superior to the average "house organ...
...What they did is important...
...But I knew that this was right for me, and beyond me," she said...
...We have a responsibility to them...
...We ran to the beach, and watched as two tiny rowboats came in and out...
...1953—The Rural Vocational Program at Kfar Vitkin, in conjunction with Youth Aliyah...
...There are far more professional women today than ever before...
...It is a commitment to Jewish values, to a basic understanding of historic and contemporary Jewish problems, and to the creation of a strong bond between the Jewish community here and in Israel...
...Youth Aliyah centers and villages were established throughout Palestine, many in rural areas so that youngsters could learn agricultural and land development skills...
...My own guesstimate—and it is just that— says that the figure is close to the half billion dollar mark...
...We didn't know what to do, so we started making tea, tea and sandwiches...
...Feelings had to change...
...Young people, ages 15 to 17, were chosen and intensively trained to live in Palestine...
...About one-third of the 360,000 are life members...
...What to do...
...I met bright, stimulating, educated people...
...I never heard Miss Szold preach...
...So it's worth trying to understand the phenomenon that is known as Hadassah...
...friends died...
...The premise was simple: although German Jewry could not survive, the children could...
...And in wartime, enemy soldiers have been airlifted to Hadassah by helicopter along with the Israeli wounded...
...Medical stations (turned over to local governments in 1914) reopen in Haifa, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv...
...But a larger part of the secret of Ha-dassah's continued success is that in addition to its concern for keeping pace with today, and predicting tomorrow, it retains its fealty to the vision of its creator, Henrietta Szold, who, with six others, signed a letter calling the initial meeting on Purim, February 24, 1912: "The undersigned, in consultation with other women Zionists in North America, have reached the conclusion that the time is ripe for a large organization of women Zionists, and they desire to invite you to attend a meeting for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of forming enterprises which shall have for its purpose the promotion of Jewish institutions and enterprises in Palestine, and the fostering of Jewish ideals...
...Flags of the Middle East nations fluttered outside the tent...
...The Lasker Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance Clinic opens in Jerusalem...
...How can an organization of women have any meaning in a society that increasingly rejects that kind of sexism...
...Ice was a luxury...
...At its national mid-winter board meeting a year ago (February 1977), Hadassah endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment (study guides and follow-up material to determine member's views had been sent to all of the 1550 chapters and groups) with a statement that said...
...And it makes me particularly proud to be a part of an organization of this scope, that is totally the achievement of women...
...And further, he nominated Mrs...
...For us, the question of voluntarism is paramount...
...Quite simply, an aspiring national leader must be able to afford those demands...
...We found a comb on the beach, and a purse...
...Hadassah keeps me in touch with the active Jewish world...
...Scopus is re-dedicated on October 21...
...Scopus is declared a demilitarized zone, forcing evacuation by Hadassah and the University to "temporary" quarters in Jerusalem...
...For me, and others who believed as I did, there was never a question of dual loyalty, only of enrichment...
...The German Jews who had emigrated here were fearful of dual loyalty...
...The idea is to entice a potential member, to draw her to Hadassah because she can find and utilize her own interests or skills in some facet of the program...
...We've been doing it since the 1920's...
...Jacobson as Hadassah's president, is now president of the American Zionist Federation...
...Scopus is ambushed by Arab attackers...
...Simply put, one of every four or five Jewish women in America is a Hadassah member...
...But Hadassah in America has a fundamental commitment quite apart from dollars...
...Hadassah Magazine is sent monthly to every member (making it the largest circulation Jewish periodical in the country...
...Until she changes hats, however, she will continue to administer Hadassah, which will continue to do what it has been doing better than anyone else for 66 years...
...It was Louis Brandeis who helped to change the concept, to alter the philosophical approach to Jewish life in this country and to the whole fabric of American life as well—the Hebraic tradition as part of the American tradition...
...Without question, Hadassah's work has enabled hundreds of thousands of immigrants—ultimately, Israeli society at large—to rise above a subsistence standard of living, to pursue genuine quality of life in a land free from the debilitating health problems that continue to plague neighboring nations...
...Once again, the average member begins to become aware of it once the courtship is over and she gets a sense of the scope of the organization...
...It is a major— the major—force in the Zionist movement in the U.S...
...Inevitably, things had to change...
...And then Churchill and others began to betray the promises they had made, and it took Weizmann to bring it off...
...They decided to call themselves Daughters of Zion, Hadassah Chapter, and to hold regular study meetings in homes of members where there was electrical current (so that slides could be shown...
...We saw terrible things...
...1948—On April 13, an armored ambulance on its way to Mt...
...Mitchell Kur...
...Some other vocational education (renamed HIES in 1968) projects: 1944—The Vocational Guidance Institute...
...We are holding these kinds of discussions now on national and regional levels...
...It becomes more obvious as they begin to become more involved, to assume positions of leadership, and it is clearly present at regional and (particularly) national levels...
...Public health measures are instituted, particularly for treatment of trachoma and malaria...
...Scopus, pledging to rebuild...
Vol. 3 • March 1978 • No. 4
