By Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu 2018 was the “Year of the Woman.” More women were elected to Congress than ever before. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements continued to bring issues of sexual harassment and gender bias in to the news, and women (and men) showed up in the streets, online – and everywhere — to advance…
Two months ago, journalist Suzannah Weiss went viral with a tweet about how it took 11 months and 17 doctors to diagnosis her chronic condition. Tennis champion Serena Williams saved her own life by recognizing her blood clot symptoms shortly after giving birth, insisting that doctors and nurses perform additional tests. Lena Dunam had her…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hadassah is reopening its Washington office, nearly a decade after the women’s Zionist group was crippled because of its unwitting involvement in investment counselor Bernie Madoff’s fraud. Ellen Hershkin, the president of the group, which claims 300,000 members in the United States, on Monday named Karen Paikin Barall as the director of…
Rosa Sonnenschein, an Austrian-born, quick-witted rabbi’s wife living in St. Louis in the late 1800s, wore her curly black hair piled atop her head in a chignon, and only the most fashionable gowns of the era. This, however, is an aside: Sonnenschein was a successful writer and journalist; a seminal voice speaking up for women’s…
Updated, June 20 An Israeli consulting firm is suing the women’s Zionist group Hadassah for more than $20 million over unpaid fees, Legal Newswire reported last week. The lawsuit revolves around Hadassah’s struggled to retain its hospital in Jerusalem during a budget crunch in 2013-14. Free World Ltd., a consulting firm led by David Spector,…
Former Army Radio journalist Avner Hofstein says that his investigation into possible misconduct in billionaire businessman and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson’s relationship with Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center was blocked by his superiors. Hofstein, once the head of investigative reporting at Army Radio, also claimed in a Facebook post that he was threatened with dismissal after refusing…
(JTA) — Jesse Lurie, the longtime executive editor of Hadassah Magazine and a peace activist, has died at 103. Lurie, an Israeli American, was the magazine’s founding executive editor in 1947 and held the post for 33 years. Volunteers had run the magazine since its founding in 1914. In the 1950s, Lurie also served as…
Steve Bannon was a Jewish controversy from the beginning. When Donald Trump appointed Bannon his chief White House strategist, several Jewish groups responded quickly by criticizing him for his role in leading the far-right website Breitbart. Then other groups and individuals leaped to defend him as a friend of Israel, and an employer who treated…
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