from Haaretz.com: Hadassah weighing plan to lay off 200 staffers Hadassah University Hospital will be forced to lay off staff due to the medical center’s deepening financial crisis, Dr. Yuval Weiss, its acting director-general, told staff in a memo issued Sunday. … [Read more...]
We should study the gender enrollment patterns as well as our marketing plans to understand why girls - as well boys - elect to engage in, or not engage in, certain activities. (Rabbi Ellen Flax) … [Read more...]
The Hadassah Foundation has awarded grants totaling $200,500 to organizations in Israel and the United States that empower girls and women. In addition to supporting five first-time grantees, this year, the Foundation also awarded “sustaining” grants for the first time. These grants provide general operating support and were awarded to five long-term grantees which have played a particularly critical role in supporting the economic empowerment of women in Israel. … [Read more...]
To celebrate 13 years of grant making in support of empowering Jewish girls and young women, The Hadassah Foundation will hold a symposium on Tuesday, December 4, on how the Jewish community can better serve this critical population group. The program, free of charge and open to the public, will be held at Central Synagogue, 123 E. 55th Street, New York City, at 6:30 p.m. The panel will feature women with deep expertise working with, and advocating for, the needs of Jewish girls and young women: Eve Landau, Founding Executive Director, Ma'yan Deborah Meyer, Executive Director, Moving Traditions Laura Shaw-Frank, Board Member, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Ronit Sherwin, Executive Director, University of Delaware Hillel and the founder and former director of Nishmah: The St. Louis … [Read more...]
Heard Around Jerusalem takes a different tack than usual today, bringing our readers the following two noteworthy, and unrelated, items: First, we hear from Ron Krumer, Director, External Relations at Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem: "This is one of the most surreal situations I remember since the first Gulf War in the early 90's. Jerusalem (HMO included) is quiet and continues with routine – work, schools, and going out – everything. Some 40 miles from here there is war. Hundreds of thousand people are under on going bombardments of rockets and missiles, which have gone heavier in recent hours, and this time the attacks claimed some casualties on our side. Meanwhile, the Israeli Air force has also intensified its attacks in Gaza. I'm listening to the radio and the broadcast is … [Read more...]
from The Jerusalem Post: Hadassah Medical Organization gets a Zionist rabbi The Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) has chosen a Modern Orthodox, Zionist rabbi - Moshe Klein - to be the rabbi of its medical institutions, succeeding its longtime rabbi, Yaacov Rakovski, who died last January. The announcement last week thus put to an end speculation and concern - which was even expressed in a large advertisement in The Jerusalem Post, that political and other pressures would lead to the appointment of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, without the Zionist credentials of the Women’s Zionist Organization of America that owns the medical centers. For the past 19 years, Klein has served simultaneously as head of Bnei Akiva Tzfira girls’ schools and deputy chairman of all Bnei Akiva boys and girls … [Read more...]
