World & Nation
Actress, singer and movie director Barbra Streisand will lend her name to a newly founded center for the study of Jewish women.
July 19, 1997
As Hyman Bookbinder took the hotel elevator down for breakfast Tuesday, he overheard a conversation between two American Jewish women in town for the 75th anniversary meeting of Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization.
March 18, 1987
June Walker, 74, the former national chairwoman of Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization, died July 29 after a seven-year battle with cancer.
Aug. 12, 2008
Hadassah Southern California, the 22,000-member women’s Zionist organization, has selected 27 members to serve on the new Morning Star Commission for a one-year study of the portrayal of Jewish women in films and television.
Aug. 23, 1997
Journalists wait round- the-clock for updates on Sharon at Hadassah medical center, a site at the center of much of the nation’s history.
Jan. 10, 2006
Entertainment & Arts
The MOCA Contemporaries, a support group of the Museum of Contemporary Art, held its Grand Splash III on Aug. 5 at the Temporary Contemporary.
Aug. 31, 1989
Hadassah, the country’s largest women’s Zionist organization, will meet at the Century Plaza Hotel and Towers on Sunday for its 86th annual national convention.
July 15, 2000
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Jan. 9, 2005
California
A memorial service is planned Nov. 25 for Ray Segal Shapiro, community volunteer and wife of Rabbi Joshua Shapiro.
Nov. 18, 1990
The 31st World Zionist Congress erupted from torpor into strife today with delegates from around the world attacking religious coercion and political patronage in Israel.
Dec. 8, 1987