Going to Hadassah: Sewing a Nation
In Connecticut, where I grew up, my mother and my Aunt Lucile were forever “going to Hadassah.” I was not sure what they did in
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Family Matters: Members with SeniorityAt age 14, Frieda Cooper was drafted to the role of secretary at her mother’s Zionist meetings in Boston. She dutifully attended every gathering toCommentary: One Day, One Hospital, One NationWhen I was little, my mother told me that she would always remember where she was when she heard that President Franklin Roosevelt had died.Builders and Cooks: The Hadassah PalateAlthough I can’t remember when I first heard the name Hadassah, my real interest in the Women’s Zionist Organization of America started in my midtwentiesBooks: Hadassah, Through Feminist and Zionist LensesJust in time for Hadassah’s 100th birthday, two academic presses have released in-depth appraisals of the significant roles played by Hadassah in American Jewish andBeginnings: A Confluence of ForcesIn hindsight, history always looks inevitable. When we look at Hadassah’s 100-year saga, we see the linear version, showing the founding meeting at Temple Emanu-ElA Tale of Two Stories: The Hadassah CenturyIf the Hadassah century had a scrapbook, its first page would show women gathered on February 24, 1912, shortly before Purim, to found an organizationCandles in the Window: Where Memory Never Runs OutFlames in thick, squat glass tumblers flickered on the kitchen counter of my Brooklyn home as my mother, the designated keeper of our extended family’s
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