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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 Ellen Hershkin at 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State told to release 300,000 unpublished files on missing Yemenite children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
A photo of the Hadassah Magazine published after the Six Day War. (Hadassah Magazine)
June 2, 2017, 8:22 pm
Elie Wiesel and two others on Israel after the Six Day War
Excerpts from Hadassah Magazine’s July 1967 issue, including a piece by Wiesel, provide firsthand testimonies from those momentous days
By Josefin Dolsten
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
December 14, 2016, 11:07 pm
4 major Jewish groups to skip Hanukkah party at Trump hotel
Jewish Federations of North America, ADL, AJC and Hadassah decline invitation to holiday gala co-hosted by Azerbaijan
By JTA
(R-L) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the joint Nobel Peace Prize winners for 1994, in Olso, Norway. (Government Press Office via Getty Images)
September 28, 2016, 3:20 pm
Jewish groups around the world praise Peres
Tributes pour in for respected statesman and peacemaker, ‘an important part of our people’
By JTA
Goldie Michelson in 2008 by the theater that bears her name. (Clark University)
July 10, 2016, 2:22 pm
Oldest American, Goldie Michelson, dead at 113
Russian-born Jewish woman dies in her Massachusetts home a month before her 114th birthday
By Agencies
Goldie Michelson in 2008 by the theater that bears her name. (Clark University)
May 19, 2016, 2:25 am
7 fun facts about 113-year-old Goldie Michelson
She was born in Russia, but the oldest person in the US has lived in Worcester, Massachusetts, for over a century
By Gabe Friedman
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