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Workers from Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital protesting outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem over its funding crisis, February 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 17, 2019, 4:57 pm
Deficit soaring, Hadassah will require years’ more bailout payments to survive
Facing collapse in 2014, famed Jerusalem medical center was rescued and thrown a NIS 1.5b lifeline. Having strayed from recovery framework, its financial plight is again dire
By Avner Hofstein
Students work in the winery at the Hadassah-Meir Shfeyah youth village. (Courtesy Hadassah/David Silverman)
April 17, 2019, 3:31 pm
Hadassah’s agricultural school goes back to Zionist roots to help at-risk youth
At the Hadassah-Meir Shfeyah youth village, a diverse group of teens from Israel’s most vulnerable populations get tools for life by performing hands-on work outside the classroom
By TOI staff
Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama reads from 'Mein Kampf' in Congress, March 25, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)
April 12, 2019, 5:08 am
20 religious groups call on Congress to ‘stop weaponizing anti-Semitism’
Letter references incident last month when Rep. Mo Brook quoted from ‘Mein Kampf’ on the House floor
By Josefin Dolsten
The symbol of The Hebrew University on the doorways of the buildings of the university's Hadassah Ein Kerem medical center campus, June 16, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)
March 14, 2019, 5:06 pm
Hadassah says Hebrew U must take over funding of medical schools
5 Jerusalem educational institutions have been financed by Hadassah since 1963, but the organization says arrangement cannot continue given growing deficit of millions of shekels
By Shoshanna Solomon
Bernard Madoff leaves Federal Court Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009 in New York. (AP/Frank Franklin II)
December 21, 2018, 6:12 am
10 years after Madoff ripped off the Jewish world, a sort of happy ending
Deep scars remain in the US Jewish community because of the Ponzi scheme, with some left financially ruined or worse, but many groups have managed to find their feet again
By Ben Sales
Dr. Gustavo A. Gutierrez of Mexico, a Hadassah ophthalmology resident. (Courtesy)
December 4, 2018, 12:56 pm
A century on, Hadassah’s ophthalmology department sees a global impact
From Africa to Ecuador, Israeli research and training contributes to a vision of healthy eyes for developing nations
By TOI staff
An illustrative picture of Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem on March 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 23, 2018, 7:06 pm
Hadassah reopens DC office closed amid Madoff fraud scandal
Women’s Zionist group says government relations bureau will educate lawmakers on its namesake hospitals in Israel, anti-Semitism, and women’s health
By JTA
Prof. Chaim Lotan, left, Howard Milstein, and President of Hadassah, the Women's Organization Ellen Hershkin at the dedication of the Irma and Paul Milstein Heart Center at Hadassah Ein Kerem, Friday, October 12, 2018. (Courtesy)
October 15, 2018, 7:54 pm
Heartfelt donation brings a cutting-edge cardiac center to Jerusalem
With some of the most advanced medical technology, the Irma and Paul Milstein Heart Center is dedicated at Hadassah Ein Kerem
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)
October 5, 2018, 9:47 am
Yemenite families of disappeared children file class-action lawsuit
Suit seeks to force the state to accept responsibility for at least 69 children who disappeared from state institutions in the 1950s
By TOI staff
View of the classified documents related to the Yemenite Children Affair, at the Israel State Archives offices in Jerusalem, December 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 12, 2018, 4:46 pm
State told to release 300,000 unpublished files on missing Yemenite children
Justice Minister Shaked orders police documents be produced; calls on two health and welfare organizations to publish any material they have
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
From left: Judith Resnick, Moses Ezekiel, Orde Charles Wingate, and Rae Landy, each of whose final resting places is at Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, DC
May 28, 2018, 4:24 pm
For the Jews of Arlington National Cemetery, American dreams were writ large
The first Jewish woman in space and a CIA agent called ‘Super Jew’ are among more than 5,000 Jews buried in the hilly shrine outside Washington
By Matt Lebovic
The entrance to the Meir Shfeyah youth village, supported by Hadassah. (Courtesy)
April 30, 2018, 2:08 pm
It takes a (youth) village — and Hadassah — to raise underserved Israeli teens
For youngsters from troubled countries or broken homes, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America’s Youth Aliyah program provides a loving chance at a successful future
By TOI staff
Nurse Rivka Wolkenstein-Ezer, who graduated in the first nursing school class, in a newly established Tel Aviv Hadassah hospital in 1920. (Hadassah)
April 12, 2018, 12:03 pm
After founding health care in pre-state Israel, Hadassah continues to innovate
The groundbreaking women’s Zionist organization works to leverage Israeli Hadassah medical expertise and bring light unto the nations
By TOI staff
In this April 12, 2016 file photo, Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
April 10, 2018, 3:58 am
New York congresswoman to introduce Holocaust education bill
Carolyn Maloney set to propose bipartisan legislation designed to help educators promote tolerance during Holocaust memorial week
By Eric Cortellessa
A HIAS protest in front of the White House in which people shared stories of their family members who were refugees or immigrants, March 1, 2017. (Ted Eytan via JTA)
February 18, 2018, 12:42 am
Jewish groups call on US census to drop citizenship question
10 community organizations pen letter to Trump administration warning that reinstating query will ‘raise fears’ among immigrants
By JTA
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