Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Hadassah at One-Hundred

Why move away from the theme?

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Yeah, I think it is related. 

I'm not getting angry; I'm just recognizing it. Hard to miss once you know it is there. 

"Hadassah’s Boston chapter marks 100th anniversary; 100 years ago, group began its mission of aiding health care in Israel" by Joshua Miller |  Globe Staff, November 18, 2013

Hadassah, which focuses on strengthening American ties to Israel and promoting health in the region, in particular through two big medical facilities in Jerusalem, calls itself the largest Jewish organization in America, with 330,000 members and supporters.

Larger than AIPAC?

Marcie Natan, Hadassah’s national president, came to Boston for the celebration. She said the mission of the group, which has chapters across the United States, remained anchored in the vision of its founder, Baltimore-born Henrietta Szold, who promoted a practical, “hands-on” Zionism.

The Palestinians have had enough of that, thank you very much!

After starting Hadassah in 1912 in New York (Boston’s chapter came a year later), Szold and her new group soon sent two nurses to what was then Palestine in an effort to bolster the health of mothers and their infants.

That was how long ago

Need I remind anyone the Europeans poisoned Indians with biological warfare and the Israelis did the same to drive Palestinians off their land in the late 1940s? Group sure started up at a rather odd time, too -- even before the Balfour Declaration.

The hospital centers in Jerusalem that are owned and supported by Hadassah serve Israelis, Palestinians, and patients from overseas....

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Fran Feldman, a 70-year-old Boston resident and retired Harvard University staffer, said being part of Hadassah was a tradition that linked the generations of women in her family: Her mother and her mother’s mother were both members.

“It’s a sisterhood,” Feldman said, “and a way to do tikkun olam,” a Hebrew phrase that roughly translates to repair of the world.

Well, I have to admit, over on the Catholic side the nuns seemed a lot less seedy and shameful.

“This is my service to Israel. It’s what I do. It’s part of my being,” she said....

A zealot!

After the photo was taken, Natan, Ellen Zarrow-Nissenbaum, the president of the 100-year-old Boston chapter of Hadassah, a prominent Jewish women’s volunteer organization, and others marched down Hadassah Way to the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. There, in a ballroom adorned with old photos of Hadassah members and congratulatory letters from US Senator Elizabeth Warren and US Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, the group held a luncheon.

Even the "good" politicians swear fealty to the great Jewish monolith of Zionism.

As klezmer music softly played over the public address system, Freyda Sanders, 89, of Brookline, chatted with women at her table....

A former child psychologist with a granddaughter in the Israeli army, Sanders said Hadassah has been “my ability to express my Jewishness, my interest in Israel, civil rights, health — all the things I thought it was important for Jewish women to be involved with.”

Substitute Aryan and Germany or White and Christian for Jewishness and Israel and you get a completely different reaction (unless they are Christians United For Israel or some other wing-nut outfit). 

That is not to say there are not decent Jews in this world; unfortunately, none of them are Zionists.

Sitting two seats away was Doris Oser, another Brookline resident who described her age as “90 and counting. We’re for Israel all the way, naturally,” she said.

Yeah, "naturally."

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As for the rest, no thanksgivukkah.