Jacob Baime: Israel on Campus: Now for the Good News
BDS, or the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, is grabbing the headlines. But what is the whole story?Jacob Baime, Executive Director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, will discuss BDS and other anti-Israel activities taking place on college campuses, then share the good news: a thriving pro-Israel campus movement is growing, and students are energized and equipped to build bridges, work toward peaceful solutions, and advocate for the Jewish state.
BAT AMI BOOK GROUP
Please
join the Bat Ami Book Group!! All meetings are held at 12 PM at the home of
Lori Friedman, 84 Greatwood Circle, Fairport, NY Bring a sandwich- refreshments are provided!!
Future dates and books: March 21: The Tenth Song by Naomi Ragen April 25: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg May 16: Karolina's Twins by Ronald Balson June 20:Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer July 25: My Grandmother Asked Me to tell You She's Sorry by Fredrick Backman August 15: What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman September 17: Plot Against America by Philip Roth October 17: The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
To contact Lori, call 425-0019 or lliberty@twc.com
EVENING BOOK GROUP
Please join the Evening Book Group March 14, 2017 Home of Bobbi Feldman, 549 South Winton 7:30 P.M.
For more information, contact Debi Brenner: debi.brenner@gmail.com or 223-8979
Future Dates, times, locations: 4/27/17 @ 7:30PMThe Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris at Linda Bartlett's 5 Chatham Woods Pittsford (Note: limited number of copies at the library) 6/7/17 @ 7:30PM The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows at Lori Karbel's 20 Northfield Gate Pittsford 7/24/17 @ 7:30PM Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian at Erni Schuster's 221 Monteroy Road Rochester 8/29/17 @ 7:30PM The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman at Regina Smolyak's 90 Runnymede Road Rochester 10/23/17 @ 7:30PM A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman at Nancy Haney's 77 Great Wood Circle Fairport 12/20/17 6:30PM Dairy Potluck Dinner, Book Exchange and Planning Meeting at Janise Ross' 23 Lake Lacoma Pittsford 1/18/18 @ 7:30 PM The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead at Wendy Scull's 250 Willowcrest Rochester
PRESIDIUM MESSAGE
THANK YOU!
As we embrace the new year, we also reflect on the
best of 2016. With your generous support, we advanced trailblazing medical
research, advocated for women's health equity, treated one million patients,
including victims of trauma and terror, and transformed lives – one patient at
a time. Because of YOU in 2016 we ...
- Launched the Research
in Service to Humanity Campaign to harness the power of scientific
imagination and relieve suffering around the world.
- Completed funding for the new underground surgical
suite in the Sarah Wetsman Davidson
Hospital Tower.
- Expanded Defining
Zionism in the 21st Century, adding live events into the lineup
of Hadassah's provocative monthly speaker series, created to foster
conversations around the country and deepen connections to Zionism, with 66,00
viewers online, and over 500 at live events.
- Provided 270 Young
Judaea scholarships to summer camps and Israel experiences to help ensure
Jewish continuity for future generations.
- Made possible a range of Youth Aliyah Programs – that give children at risk and from a
variety of backgrounds a pathway to success, and a sense of sanctuary.
- Reached more than 7 million Facebook users,
building support for Israel and Zionism, women's health and wellness, and
research and treatment at HMO in Israel.
The results
are real and astounding. None of this happens without YOU. Be a part of the
vision and success of Hadassah. There is still time to contribute to our Annual
Rochester Campaign. Send your gift to our Treasurer Toby Berke, 119 Daley
Blvd., Rochester, N.Y. 14617 or directly to National Hadassah, 40 Wall Street,
New York, N.Y. 10005. Please understand, with hundreds of thousands of member
contributions, direct gifts to National may take some time to process and not
be credited as a Rochester Campaign gift. So indicate that you are a part of
the Rochester Chapter. Let us know if you've worked directly with our New York
office via a check or charge, so that we can thank and acknowledge your
generosity.
Monika Katzel, Fran Studley, Marcia Gabrilove Ladin, Tammi Steinberg
Monika Katzel Jan.-March – 203-1200, lesterkatzel@earthlink.net Fran Studley April-June - 381-6318, Studsbride@aol.com Marcia Gabrilove Ladin July-Sept - 820-5284, mladin@hadassah.org Tammi Steinberg Oct - Dec - 737-8564, tsteinberg114@gmail.com
2016-2017 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN UPDATE
We applaud and gratefully acknowledge the following members whose recent donation will help Hadassah CHANGE THE WORLD through the Power of Medicine, Research and Service to Humanity.
** Gifts received as of 1/16
SUPPORTER PLUS LEVEL: Joan & Marvin Shulman CIRCLE OF CARING LEVEL: Elise Rosenfeld , Tammi Steinberg SUSTAINING CONTRIBUTOR PLUS: Nancy Horn SUSTAINING CONTRIBUTOR LEVEL: Beverly Weinstein, Carol Lee, Deborah Goldman, Marilyn Klass, Myrna Weinstein OPEN YOUR HEART LEVEL: Marlene Elkin DONOR PLUS: Meriel Campbell, Lori Friedman DONOR LEVEL: Dolores Kleinberg, Ronny Frishman, Judy Ressel , Trudy Sheinfeld, Carolyn Friedlander
A gift to Hadassah is always needed, appropriate, timeless, well-used, the right size and color, and
so important for maintaining our work in Israel and the US. Hadassah
is currently involved in news breaking research that will benefit all of
humanity . Please consider a gift to our Annual Campaign. See your
Sept. mailing or send your donation to Toby Berke, 119 Daley Blvd,
Rochester 14617.
JANET WAGNER MEMORIAL FOOTBALL CHALLENGE UPDATE
Another
successful Football Challenge Season! Many thanks to all who bought and
supported this important fundraiser of many years. We sold 192 books. It
appears that most of the winning numbers were in books we didn't sell. SO -
LET'S DO MORE NEXT YEAR! Our net gain was $1660. Congratulations to this year's
winners: David Stein, Gail Ferraioli, Ellen Rosen, Lois Spero, Jeremy Grace,
Dorothy Jacobson, Trudy Sheinfeld, Perry Myers, Irwin Goldberg and Liz
Steinberg.
This initiative works year after year thanks to the
following who make it happen:
Carl Wetstein, Marilyn Rosen and Margie Wiseman – and all of you who
Sell, Sell, Sell! We especially applaud and thank our devoted Ginny Gordon, who
annually tops our sales chart. We hope you'll participate again in the Fall in
the Janet Wagner Memorial Football Challenge.
IN MEMORIAM
We note with sorrow the passing of: Life Members Sarah Lewis (who is the aunt of Judy Wertheimer), Bea Roxin and Ethel Rosenbloom. We also note the passing of Jay Birnbaum, husband of Lisa Birnbaum, a Life Member. May their memories be for a blessing. If you would like to make a donation to Hadassah in anyone's memory, please send a check in any amount to:Toby Berke, 119 Daley Blvd, Rochester, NY 14617
ROCHESTER SCHOOL #3 MITZVAH PROJECT UPDATE
“Thank you so much for your visit to our class and
all the work that went into it! The students absolutely loved it! I cannot
express to you my gratitude for all the help provided and supplies donated to
my classroom. I look forward to planning our next visit.”
Nicole Bernsten
“My name is Micah and I am a student in Miss
Berntsen's class. I want to thank you for the pencils, and the bookbags,
crayons, colored pencils, folders and also notebooks. My favorite was the
bookbags and the pencils. I appreciate everything you gave us. Thank you. I
will never forget you.” (His letter was decorated with hearts and Stars of David)
The above are notes of thanks from Rochester School
3 teacher Nicole Berntsen and one of her 3rd grade students – after
our December visit to the class. Our school visits are always appreciated as are our donated school supplies. We collect learning tools all year (paper, pencils, pens, etc) as well as pleasure reading books (all elementary grade levels). Bring your donations to Hadassah programs, meetings, to my house or contact me for pick up.
A BIG thank you goes to our wonderful Mitzvah Makers
who gave their time and donated cookies and decorating supplies, fleece
material, school supplies, reading books, hats and gloves:
Linda Rapkin, Dorothy Appel, Lori Friedman, Marilyn
Rosen, Carol Shulman, Martha Green, Jeanne Feldman, Emily Fishman, Marcia
Gabrilove Ladin, and Wendy Scull.
Twenty five members from Rochester Hadassah, NCJW
Greater Rochester Section and the Temple Sinai Women's Chavurah came together
on January 24th to assemble personal hygiene kits for 3
organizations serving women in need in the Rochester area.
Government programs like SNAP, formerly Food Stamps,
don't provide for feminine hygiene products. Many under served women and girls
miss work and school during their menstrual cycles. They can't afford the
protection necessary during this time of the month. In response to this need,
the National Council of Jewish Women's local section developed the P.A.D.
Project to Provide Access and Dignity to women during their cycles. Thousands of individually
wrapped personal hygiene products were donated by the members of Temple Sinai,
Hadassah and NCJW. Ann Germanow, a member of NCJW and CEO of the Sensible
Source Company, generously donated Sensibles, the bags used to properly dispose
of hygiene projects. The Sensible Source Company and NCJW, GRS are partners in
the P.A.D. Project. 175 full cycle kits were assembled, as well as 100
emergency kits. Both types of kits were delivered to Sojourner House at
Pathstone, Mary's Place Refuge Outreach and RAIHN (of which Temple is a
participating faith community.)
Todah Rabbah to all who so generously donated
products for our kit assembly, to Carol Yunker (Sinai'sWomen's Chavurah), Gina
Horowitz (P.A.D. Project Chair) and to the following assemblers:
Lori Friedman, Monika Katzel, Marge Rosen, Lisa
Waldman, Gina Horowitz, Carol Yunker, Blanche Fenster, Suzanne Tunnell, Marilyn
Fenster, Barb Ornstein, Pauline Rutberg, Gail Brownell, Dr. Deb Rib, Sue Bondy,
Judy Schwartz, Lori Conway, Sylvia Rose, Stacey Bershod, Marilyn Rosen, Ellen
Rosen, Fran Studley, Alice Silver, Ronny Frishman, Lois Kuh and Amy Stein.
Monika Katzel, Coordinator
YOUTH ALIYAH/CHILDREN AT RISK
Hadassah sponsors three Youth Aliyah Villages in which we provide
education, psychological support and love all in a safe and secure
environment that fosters independence, self esteem and success. Each operates a vocational training program, from
high tech auto repair to computerized precision tool making
to wine making. Our cultural enrichment programs including music
performance and art make for a well
rounded student at Youth Aliyah. Our sports programs provide the
structure, discipline and team work that help students to develop excellent life long habits and much needed self esteem.
Students come to our villages from a myriad of backgrounds,
but with virtually no knowledge or understanding of their Jewish
heritage .We are proud to offer many programs that enrich their lives with the history and variety of Jewish life.
Programs such as Joy of Judaism and our mission to Poland
and Ethiopia help to achieve this goal. Our programs also focus on
Didactic-Psychological Testing to assess areas of learning that may need special attention.
We can help these students by purchasing Youth Aiyah
Certificates that are good for any occasion. Small certificates are
$5.00 and up plus postage. Large Certificates are $15.00 and up plus postage. Contact Marlene Elkin 271-1871.
Marlene Elkin, Rochester Youth Aliyah Chair
THE
HADASSAH/JCC SHED
Hadassah and
the JCC get paid per pound for textile donations, and folks in needy areas in the
US and abroad receive clothing and household soft goods. REMEMBER: No pillows, toys or household
items (non-textile) – only clothing,
shoes, purses, towels, sheets, in tied plastic bags, are accepted!
Thank you for
your help and donations.
COOKBOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS, CARDS & CERTIFICATES
Valentine's Day is in February, and our Rochester Hadassah Cookbook has wonderful recipes for cookies, cakes, pies and other desserts for that day. It has wonderful recipes for all occasions and makes a great gift. The books are $18.00 and $22.00 to ship. Contact Marlene Elkin 271-1871
Save Around
Books are $20 each; call Debby Shulman 586-6654
Entertainment Books, 2017
The 2017 Entertainment Books are here for just 2 more weeks, and make a wonderful gift with many coupons that can be used all year round. They are just $20.00. Contact Marlene Elkin, 271-1871.
Buy Hadassah
Medical Organization Cards & Certificates from these volunteers:
This historical novel covers the experience of Jews in hungary during World War II. We will have speakers discussing their own experiences in Hungary during that time. Place to be announced!
MARCH 18-19, 2017 Central States Spring Forum Embassy Suites Airport – Columbus, OH
Invitation and Registration to follow shortly Questions: Contact Forum Chair Vicki Kemmerer vkemmerer@yahoo.com, 937-751-9589
DEFINING ZIONISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY- A HADASSAH SERIES
New Daniel Gordis
Grappling with Israel's Evolving Identity
"Part of the challenge for all of us is to
become less wedded to our own positions than to an open engagement with a
changing reality," says Israel analyst Daniel Gordis in the latest
Defining Zionism session. In conversation with Anti-Defamation League
National Director Jonathan Greenblatt, Gordis discusses writers and the
soul of the Jewish state, a quintessential Israeli experience in a
Hadassah operating room, competing narratives of Jews as survivors and
pioneers, Palestinian self-determination, his new book, "Israel: A
Concise History of a Nation Reborn," and more.
Filmed live on November 18, 2016 at Temple Emanu-el's Skirball
Center, in partnership with the Jewish Week. Presented here in five
easy-to-watch (and share) clips.
HADASSAH ASKS YOU TO SPEAK OUT FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS
Follow this link to send a message to Congress and the administration as part of Hadassah's call for action:
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