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hadassah centennial celebration brings in high-caliber guests
emily k. alhadeff associate editor, JtNews
As Hadassah members continue to celebrate
the women’s Zionist organization’s
centennial year around the world, local
members are looking forward to hosting
two powerful women this month, Dr.
Osnat Levtzion-Korach, the first female
director of Hadassah University Hospital,
and Audrey Alhadeff Shimron, Hadassah’s
executive director.
Levtzion-Korach will meet with the
Bellingham Hadassah chapter, doctors
and researchers from Seattle Children’s
Hospital and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, and other research organizations
and individuals. On Thurs.,
Nov. 8, she will meet with Seattle chapter
members at a dessert reception on Mercer
Island.
“We have been looking for a doctor to
come and do a speaking tour of the Pacific
Northwest for a long time,” said Jacquie
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Bayley, president of the Pacific Northwest
Hadassah chapter. “They’re the front line.
They tell us what’s going on.”
Levtzion-Korach is a pediatrician who
specializes in chronic diseases. Bayley
hopes Levtzion-Korach will talk about the
research going on at the Hadassah hospitals,
located in Jerusalem on Mount
Scopus and in Ein Kerem.
“We would like to have the Seattle
community see the close ties we have
between the Pacific Northwest and Hadassah
hospital,” Bayley said.
Shimron, who organized Israel’s firstever
Susan G. Komen walk for the cure,
which raised nearly $200,000 and had
8,000 participants, will present about
Hadassah success stories at several events,
including a brunch on Sun., Nov. 11 at
Glendale Country Club in Bellevue that
will honor Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg of
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Bayley cites groundbreaking work the
hospital is doing with stem cells and computer
technology as inspiration for her
involvement. Additionally, Hadassah’s
campaign to build the Sarah Wetsman
Davidson Tower started in 2007 and has
already raised over $300 million.
“Only Hadassah women would raise
money and build a hospital in the middle
of a depression,” she said.
Hadassah was started in 1912 by Henrietta
Szold as a women’s volunteer organization
to bring relief to Jewish immigrants
in pre-state Israel.
Hadassah hospitals “will do whatever it
takes to save a life,” Bayley said. “It doesn’t
matter if the person is Jewish, Muslim,
Christian, Arab…The bridge of peace is
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Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach will
speak on Thurs., Nov. 8 at 7:30
p.m. at the home of Naomi and
Jon Newman on Mercer Island.
Audrey Alhadeff Shimron will
speak on Sun., Nov. 11 at 11:30
a.m. at Glendale Country Club,
13440 Main St., Bellevue, and at
a fundraising reception at 7:30
p.m. at the home of Lisa and
Norman Behar in Seattle. For
more information, visit
bit.ly/HadassahSeattle
or call 425-467-9099.
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