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Email Addresses * President's Message * Boynton Office Update * Region Board Meeting * ERA Awards * FAR Board Applications * Let's Talk About It * Machon 2022-23 * BC Walk * BC Symposium * Convention 2022 * Education Article * Little Known Jewish Women * Jewish Heritage Month * Samson Jewelry * Calendar Update * Holidays * Hadassah News * Stay Connected * Amazon Smile
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Hadassah Florida has a new text-to-donate option! Make your donation to Hadassah via your cellphone. Just text "donate" to (561) 867-2231 and follow the prompts. It's so easy!
Dear Friends,
Don’t you just love Hadassah……..the projects in Israel, our hospitals and Youth Aliyah villages that literally save lives. What about the advocacy efforts in the U.S. where we fight for women’s rights, equal access to healthcare and human rights. There’s also the support for Young Judaea providing our youth with safe spaces to learn and explore their Jewish identity at summer camp, Israel experiences, year-round conventions, and other events. What other organization has such diversity? I also love that some of my closest friends are people that I met in Hadassah over the years.
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Hadassah Boynton Office Appointments Update
Hadassah’s Boynton Beach office is once again open to volunteers on a limited basis. If you need to visit the office, contact FloridaRequests@hadassah.org. You will be provided with a link to upload your COVID vaccination and booster documents. Per Hadassah National's office protocols, all visitors must be vaccinated and boosted. You will only need to upload your documents once. All visitors must have an appointment to enter the office.
Because the CDC currently categorizes Palm Beach County’s community COVID rate as “high”, Hadassah requires that masks be worn in the Boynton Beach office.
Hadassah will be returning to in-person events and gatherings!
If your Hadassah chapter will be returning to in person events, local units are required to follow state and local laws and regulations, the current CDC guidelines and recommendations as well as the following Hadassah protocols in order to conduct activities in the safest and healthiest manner possible. Please note: applicable Florida law states that businesses operating in Florida may not require patrons/customers to provide any documentation certifying COVID-19 vaccination or post-infection recovery to gain access to or receive services from the business. These protocols have been mailed to chapter leadership. If you would like a copy of the protocols or have questions about implementing them, email floridarequests@hadassah.org.
View the updated COVID Waiver View the Hadassah COVID Guidelines Rev. 05-22
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
Topic: Florida Atlantic Region Board Meeting
When: Friday, September 30, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Click here to register
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Mazel tov to Veda Chaya and Chai at the Bay Chapter for receiving the Engage, Retain, Attract Award 2021!
Applications for the 2023 Hadassah Florida Atlantic Board are now being accepted.
If you are interested in applying for a role, click here to download the application. Applications are due no later than Thursday September 15, 2022.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
The popular Let’s Talk About It virtual discussion series facilitated by Lois Gordon, Hadassah FL Atlantic Education Chair returns on Thursdays at 10:00am.
Next date: September 15, 2022
Topic: Do the Religious Beliefs of the Supreme Court Justices Influence Their Decisions?
Click here for more info Click here to register
HADASSAH STUDY SERIES CELEBRATES ITS 11TH SEASON
Take some time to learn something new and participate in our inspirational virtual Machon Study Series beginning on Sunday, September 18. The Machon Study Series allows you to enjoy multiple topics with stimulating facilitators. Register today!
Save the date for the first annual Region-wide Hadassah Walks for Breast Cancer Research on Sunday, October 16th.
Come join us as we walk to cure breast cancer. Baywinds, B'Not/PWC, Chai at the Bay, Chevra, Gesher, Martin County, Simcha of Aberdeen, Tamara Palm Isles and Yaffa Chapters are walking. Look for more information from these Chapters - is your Chapter walking?
Hadassah Florida Atlantic and American Cancer Society
Join us & learn about advances in Prevention, Detection, Treatments, Caregiving & Surviving
Expert Speakers, Insightful Videos
Join us in Jerusalem this November for Hadassah's 100th National Convention, a special time to celebrate, share and reconnect— with each other, with Hadassah and with Israel.
Connect with fellow members as you experience Israeli art, history and culture. See our lifesaving work in action firsthand and meet the people whose lives we've touched. Listen to some of Israel's leading thinkers, innovators and experts -- and leave refreshed, invigorated and inspired in your commitment to Hadassah and Israel!
Click here to register for Hadassah's 100th National Convention
Rosh Ha Shanah and Yom Kippur
On the eve of the 25 of September begins the Holy days of Rosh HaShanah.
The rabbis taught that Rosh Ha Shannah commemorates the creation of the world, or by some accounts, the sixth day of creation, the day that humanity was created. In our liturgy, it is seen as more than an anniversary as we pray, "Hayom harat olam", today the world is born. This suggests that the world humanity and each of us individually are created "today" and every Rosh Ha Shannah.
The Days of Awe, the days from Rosh Ha Shannah to Yom Kippur, are days of possibility. They demand our attention and commitment; not only to celebrate, but to do the work of bringing peace, wholeness, to our fractured world. To us in Hadassah, we are already on the right path. We bring healing of body and mind, knowledge, and comfort to those in need, here, in Israel and the world at large.
Yom Kippur, which begins on the eve of October 4, the holiest day on our calendar, is a day or prayer, fasting, and depriving ourselves of creature comforts. It is believed that it is the day that the second set of tablets were brought down from Mt. Sinai where the Israelites had fashioned a golden calf. Thus associating that event with a day of repentance.
To Quote Rabbi Eva Robbins, "In the time of rebirth and renewal; may it be a year that brings less division, and greater peace; less hate and more love; less anxiety and more serenity; and a great opportunity for each person to express their purest soul".
Shannah tova,
Lois Gordon, Education Chair; Florida Atlantic Region of Hadassah
On August 18, 1920, women in the United States won the right to vote. Many of the suffragettes were Jewish women. We celebrate by making sure that our voting rights are not trammeled, that all genders have access to the polls, especially that we keep women's issues in mind as we vote. I will highlight a brief bio of some of the Jewish women who helped make it happen. It is especially timely as this is voting season and abortion issues are front and center.
Anita Pollitzer (1894-1975)
Political activist and advocate for the arts, Pollitzer held a unique role in the suffrage movement. She garnered attention in 1917 after her arrest for picketing Woodrow Wilson's White House as a Silent Sentinel.
Channels WPBS AND WXEL will have several programs honoring Jewish Heritage during the month of September.
1. BIG SONIA: Monday, September 5th at 10 PM on WPBT
At 4foot 8 inch tall Sonia is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas City. She speaks about her wartime experiences.
2. THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST Premiers Sunday September 18th, Monday the 19th and Tuesday, the 20 at 8 PM with an encore at 10PM on WPBT and WXEL. A new three part documentary directed and produced by Ken Burns explores America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises in history. Inspired in part by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” the film examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the U.S. and the race laws in the American south.
3. NOBODY WANTS US: Monday, September 22 at 10Pm on WXEL
In September 1940, 86 exhausted Jewish European refugees were trapped on the Steamship Quanza in the port of Hampton Roads, Virginia. They were hoping to be allowed on American soil, what happened to them?
4. A CALL TO REMEMBER: Thursday, September 29th at 10:30 PM on WXEL
David Schaecter shares his life story childhood in Czechoslovakia to his struggle in Auschwitz and eventual dramatic escape from the Nazis.
Dear Hadassah family,
Welcome our newest fundraising partner, SamsonJewelry.com. They are a fine jewelry manufacturer with many unique exclusive collections of Judaica jewelry including Star of David Sports’ pendants, featuring 16 sports/activities and/or one-of-a-kind custom orders.
Purchase your family heirloom to pass down L’DOR V’DOR and 10% of the total purchase is donated to Hadassah, direct manufacturing pricing, 10% discount for purchasing (2) or more items and add the following special Hadassah discount coupon code for an additional 8% off, totaling Chai%(18%) off.
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Wear your pride and passion and donate simultaneously!
Hadassah is not a seller of merchandise and is not responsible for the sale of defective merchandise.
Check out our updated 2022 Region Calendar- Rev. 08.23.22
Hadassah offices will be closed on
Friday, September 2nd - Summer Friday
Monday, September 5th- Labor Day
Monday, September 26th- Rosh Hashanah
Tuesday, September 27th- Rosh Hashanah
There are many new Hadassah stories and press releases. Here are a few of the latest:
More than 600 people watched the latest One Book, One Hadassah interview with Elyssa Friedland about her novel Last Summer at the Golden Hotel. In case you missed it, a recording of this and many other terrific Hadassah programs can be found on the Virtual Programming page of hadassah.org. If you ever miss a program you wanted to see — or if you'd like to find something engaging to watch at home when you have the time — visit this webpage. Additionally, the "In Case You Missed It" section below includes links to the most recent recordings and videos.
Access Israel: Israel Innovates to "Conserve, Protect and Defend" the Earth. Israel is widely known to be at the forefront of bold technological innovations. Did you know this includes making important strides to protect the earth? Watch this informative panel moderated by journalist Abigail Klein Leichman with invited speakers Yosef (Yossi) Abramovitz, a co-founder of the solar energy industry in Israel, and Viktoria Kanar, CEO of Re-Fresh Global. Wednesday, September 21, 1 pm ET.
Healing for the New Year: Hadassah Magazine Discussion: Loss, Grief, Healing — The Journey. How can we move from profound sorrow to meaningful healing? Executive Editor Lisa Hostein moderates a powerful discussion in advance of a new Jewish year with panelists Kathryn Schulz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lost & Found; Rebecca Soffer, CEO and co-founder of Modern Loss; and Hope Edelman, author of The AfterGrief. Thursday, September 8, 7 pm ET.
One Book, One Hadassah: Live with Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author of Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy. Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein interviews the feminist icon and one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine. In her new memoir, Hadassah life member Pogrebin reveals the fear of shame and stigma that indelibly marked her upbringing in an immigrant Jewish family in Queens, NY, capturing universal truths about families, truth-telling and the price of guilt. Thursday, October 20, 7 pm ET.
Share your High Holidays stories: Join the Hadassah Writers' Circle. We are currently seeking first-person essays on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, as well as what Hadassah means to you, the importance of reproductive choice, the global rise in antisemitism, HMO's cutting-edge medical care and Youth Aliyah. Other ideas are welcome. Contact publicrelations@hadassah.org.
Hadassah 2022 Voting and Issues Guide: With the 2022 elections are fast approaching, Hadassah supports our members exercising their right to vote for candidates that reflect their values. Learn more about where Hadassah stands on important issues and get resources to make a voting plan with Hadassah's 2022 Voting and Issues Guide. #HadassahVotes
Hadassah Magazine Discussion: Celebrity chef Michael Twitty, author of the newly released Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew, in conversation with Adeena Sussman. Thursday, November 3, 6 pm ET
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