Donna Gordon Blankinship, Author at Hadassah Magazine

Ruth Fast, Witness to Zionist History

Fast credits Hadassah and its founder, Henrietta Szold, for saving her life when she immigrated to Palestine in 1936 as a member of Youth Aliyah.

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Hello Robin, a Cookie and Challah Bakery in Seattle

by Donna Gordon Blankinship

Hello Robin's design mimics a home kitchen, and patrons are invited to sit at the counter, sip coffee and share the latest news over cookies.

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Tom Stoppard's most personal play, "Leopoldstadt," opens with a family Christmas party in 1899. Family members debate the meaning of assimilation, discuss mathematics and opine on Theodor Herzl’s pamphlet "Der Judenstaat."⁠
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"Ironically, as theatergoers will see, one character wonders if there is an actual need for a Jewish homeland: '…the beating heart of Viennese culture. This is the Promised Land,' he insists. There’s also talk about who would come to their next large get-together—a Passover Seder," writes Hadassah Magazine Senior Editor Leah F. Finkelshteyn.⁠
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