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For women tired of defending their beliefs at NCJW conventions, organizations with clearer commitments, such as hadassah’s endorsement of Zionism or a sisterhood’s attachment to the philosophy of its synagogue, were appealing.
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A founding member and the first chair of hadassah, she was also president of the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls, a vice president of the national council of jewish women, New York Section, honorary vice president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, honorary president of Young Judaea, and a member of the board of directors of the Young Women, a Jewish organization.
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Joan Rivers has been supportive of Jewish philanthropic and social causes and is a former hadassah Woman of the Year.
Joan Rivers. 2009
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Another factor responsible for increased numbers of Jewish nurses was the large-scale employment of nurses in hospitals and industry, instead of individual employment in private homes, from World War II onward. hadassah Nurses Councils were formed in 1989 to encourage Jewish nurses to join and network together.
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Early leaders during this period included lillian wald, amelia greenwald, naomi deutsch, Blanche Pfefferkorn, and regina kaplan. rae landy and rose kaplan were the first American nurses in Palestine as hadassah was being established.
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The Hadassah Hebrew University medical center is currently a tertiary care referral facility, teaching hospital and research center which includes the two university hospitals and the five schools of the medical professions which it operates in collaboration and partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (www. hadassah.org.il) The majority of the physicians and faculty of the other medical profession schools in the center are also researchers and teachers at the medical schools.
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One of the women responsible for shaping hadassah into its role of national prominence was Florence Bierman Perlman.
Florence Perlman. 2009
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By then the “hadassah” signs had been dropped to the floor and those that said “Lieberman” had been passed from the back of the delegation forward above delegates’ heads.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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By then the “hadassah” signs had been dropped to the floor and those that said “Lieberman” had been passed from the back of the delegation forward above delegates’ heads.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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