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Hadassah

Black and white photo of Henrietta Szold and others
Posted inFilm

SFJFF: Berkeley filmmaker reveals feminist core of Zionist icon Henrietta Szold

by Sue Fishkoff July 18, 2025July 25, 2025

If Talmudic scholar Louis Ginzberg hadn’t spurned Henrietta Szold for another woman, she may never have founded Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, or laid the groundwork for Israel’s […]

Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy kneels in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo/JTA-Win McNamee-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish groups decry Supreme Court decision on school prayer

Lauren Markoe by Lauren Markoe and Forward June 28, 2022
Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, speaks at an abortion rights rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Dec. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg)
Posted inNews

Jewish advocates for abortion rights already planned a rally. Now they’re thinking about their post-Roe work.

Jackie HajdenbergGabe Friedman by Jackie Hajdenberg, Gabe Friedman and JTA May 3, 2022
Activists from the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the National Council of Jewish Women attend a demonstration outside the Supreme Court in early 2020. (Courtesy Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism)
Posted inNews

Jewish leaders pledge ‘fight’ on abortion following Supreme Court report

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz in 1944. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inLocal Voice

I say their names. Every night. Not just on Yom HaShoah.

Anastasia Torres-Gil by Anastasia Torres-Gil April 27, 2022April 27, 2022
Jenette Woskow, with children Xavier and Elise, is the marketing and publicity chair of Kesher Oak Hadassah, a relatively new chapter of Hadassah, the venerable Zionist women's group.
Posted inNews

New East Bay Hadassah chapter focuses on women in 30s and 40s

by Liz Harris July 12, 2021July 21, 2021
a white man, mid-30s, wearing a suit and leaning on a handrail as he smiles for the camera
Posted inNews

Holocaust education bill aims to combat ignorance, hate in California

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 30, 2021April 30, 2021
Rabbi Dovid Bush of Chabad of Petaluma lights the menorah at a Hanukkah drive-through event on Dec. 13, which drew lines of cars and over 650 people. (Photo/Courtesy Bush)
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — Dec. 2020

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 17, 2020
the facade of a plain limestone building with an Israeli flag hanging on it
Posted inNews

Unlikely coalition blocks right-wing takeover of top World Zionist Congress positions

by Ron Kampeas and JTA October 21, 2020
Hadassah CEO Janice Weinman speaks at the group's national convention in New York, July 18, 2019. (Photo/Courtesy Hadassah)
Posted inU.S.

Back from the brink, Hadassah retools to attract a new generation of women

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 28, 2019

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