By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming approved (420-9) legislation last September to provide $1 billion in funds, but the legislation has since stalled in the Senate.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If passed the legislation would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.
By Zionist Organization of America
If leading friends of Israel and Israeli leaders all say that Mr. Bannon is not anti-Semitic, why are the Conservative movement and Hadassah committed to spreading lies about him?
By JNi.Media
“When one of its senior managers stands accused of engineering and concealing – for years – a massive diversion of funds to the Hamas terror organization ... this is not the right moment to promote the interests of World Vision."
The Prime Minister promised to settle account with the terrorists.
By JNi.Media
The struggle between Hadassah and Shaare Zedek hospitals has switched to a high gear.
Police discovered an explosive device at a checkpoint near Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital.
The Israeli police shot him before he threw his bomb at them.
Jewish participation in peace programs does not provide immunity from Arab terror attacks.
Police are searching the area for the Arab assailant.
The attack happened at the northern end of the Begin highway.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai broadcasts a speech delivered by Miriam Peretz, the mother of two fallen IDF soldiers, Uriel and Eliraz, during a "Friends of the IDF" dinner. In her address, she talks about her sacrifice, which she believes is necessary in the fight for the Jewish State. Then, Yishai reads a story he wrote, called "Zikaron" (remembrance), one passage of which is as follows: "In that one moment, I though of gratitude: I am so thankful to you, fallen paratrooper, fallen Jew, fallen brother." Finally, Yishai is joined in-studio by former MK Dr. Aryeh Eldad, former surgeon-general of the IDF and head of plastic surgery at Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem. He says that if the state of Israel is the thesis of Zionism, then the Holocaust is the antithesis, and the days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust and the fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism is the synthesis.
She is unconscious and on a respirator at Hadassah Ein Karem hospital.
Police and rescue teams evacuated dozens of hikers and residents threatened by three fires.
Thousands evacuated and houses on fire as planes try to water bomb the blaze.
By JTA
A recovery plan for Jerusalem’s bankrupt Hadassah Medical Organization calls for an additional $869 million in funding and cuts to the hospital’s services.
There is lobbying going on both for and against including J Street in the Conference of Presidents.
Hotovely's family Facebook page was filled with "mazel tovs!" in numerous languages on Monday morning in response to the announcement.
By JTA
Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem is on the brink of financial collapse, the Forward reported. The hospital is facing a $300 million deficit, including $80 million accrued in the last year, according to the newspaper. Efforts by Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America to save the medical center have resulted in a break with […]
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Sephardic Rabbi and the spiritual leader of the Shas Sephardi party, is in the Intensive Care Unit of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where he is being treated for an infection. He is conscious but is breathing with the help of a respirator. “Rav Ovadia,” as he is popularly known, had […]
By Paula Stern
Three incidents have once again reinforced what I have known all my life.
Secretary of State John Kerry met with what the Jewish Telegraph Agency described as "Jewish leaders" to "brief" them on the resumption of Israeli-Arab Palestinian talks on Thursday evening, August 8. Although the briefing was off the record, the JTA quoted unnamed attendants who said several things. First, that the meeting was dominated by Kerry's […]
By JTA
Shas party’s spiritual leader and former Chief Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is recovering from major back surgery at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem following the procedure on his spine the previous day. Yosef, 93, was scheduled to be transferred out of the intensive care unit on Tuesday. He was admitted to the hospital […]
By JTA
More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.
Israeli scientific breakthroughs are restoring freedom and ease to the lives of millions of patients throughout the world. The latest: a smartphone to measure your vital signs and help manage chronic diseases, a discovery which may restore speech to the paralyzed and disabled, and a possible cure for severe depression for those with no options left.
The Hadassah Foundation announced 13 mini-grants for organizations serving Jewish young people in 11 states.
By JTA
Young Judaea is en route to full independence from Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Hadassah's board had voted for the separation in June 2011, and both organizations announced this week that the move to independence had begun. Simon Klarfeld was hired in December as Young Judaea's executive director. Hadassah will provide $7 million […]