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Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jewish volunteer women's organization. Founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it is one of the largest international Jewish organizations, with nearly 300,000 members in the United States. [4]
Esther (/ ˈ ɛ s t ər /; Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר ʾEstēr), originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. According to the biblical narrative, which is set in the Achaemenid Empire , the Persian king Ahasuerus falls in love with Esther and marries her. [ 1 ]
Henrietta Szold stamp. Henrietta Szold (/ z oʊ l d / ZOHLD, Hungarian:; December 21, 1860 – February 13, 1945) was an American-born Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
The area covered by the Hadassah hospital had great strategic importance, since it allowed one to take the Arab lines from their rear. [ 2 ] [ non-primary source needed ] At 2:05 pm March 2, the operator at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem received a phone call from an Arab caller who warned that the hospital would be blown up within 90 minutes ...
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Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem. Hadassah Medical Center (Hebrew: הָמֶרְכָּז הָרְפוּאִי הֲדַסָּה) is an Israeli medical organization established in 1934 that operates two university hospitals in Jerusalem (one in Ein Karem and one in Mount Scopus) as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacology affiliated with the Hebrew ...
The flag features Hadassah's motto, "Aruchat Bat Ami," meaning "The Healing of the Daughter of My People," and then says "Hadassah" in the middle of a w:Star of David. The motto is taken from the w:Book of Jeremiah (8:22) . Date: 26 July 2011: Source: Own work: Author: Meronim
Hadassah Freilich Lieberman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (a past report erroneously stated she was born in a refugee camp) [1] [2] to Jewish parents who were both Holocaust survivors. [3] Her father was Samuel Freilich, a lawyer and rabbi from Munkács , in the Carpathian Ruthenia (now Mukachevo in Ukraine ).