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An Exciting New Year Staying in Balance for the High Holidays H ere we are almost at the start of another new year. I am remem- bering my High Holidays from last year. I spent Rosh Hashanah with my daughter’s family in El Paso. Our Erev Rosh Hashanah meal was memorable. It was really early in the evening to give my son-in-law the Rabbi time to get to Temple in a relaxed fashion. What I remember is one granddaughter hopping up to dem- onstrate what she had learned in her first 3 weeks of trumpet instruction, only to be matched by the youngest granddaughter proving that she could blow the shofar. Between the honey dripped everywhere on the table and the blaring instruments, the other mother-in-law ( my co-madre ) and I were utterly astounded by what transpired during the “meal.” On Yom Kippur here in Santa Fe I was given the honor of carrying a Torah during the morning service. I asked the Rabbi to give me a light one as I knew that some were heavier than others. Hey! When you’re 5’1” tall, these things matter. So it was a bit heavy, but I was doing fine just standing at the front for about the first 2 minutes, until my right bicep began to twitch. I thought no way am I going to let this bother me. Some things are just unthinkable. You don’t drop flaming desserts; you don’t drop the American flag; you don’t drop a grandchild, and you don’t drop a sacred scroll! It must have been a mind-over-matter situation, because the twitching stopped. at’s when I realized I was listing to the right. Suddenly, as the Buddhists would say, I was not in the moment. Mentally I was standing in the now defunct Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada looking at the heavily beaded capes Liberace wore on stage. ey were so heavy that he had to have special shoes made to give him lift so the capes would not pull him over backwards. Too late for special shoes, I thought, so I ooched my feet outwards to widen my stance. at corrected the problem until the slow traverse of the Temple began. I was fine until a sudden lurch indicated a little loss of balance. Again I was immediately transported out of the Temple and into my canary yellow 1971 AMC Gremlin that I drove after college. No matter how many times I had it aligned, it went back to pulling to the right. I had to fight to keep it on the road. Somehow I got back into balance and finished without incident. Tipping over would have been as bad as a drop! Carol and I wish you and all those you love a happy, healthy New Year, with maybe just a little bit of excitement thrown in the mix. But we won’t drop the ball on our Hadassah projects and sincerely hope you will join us in our endeavors. L’Shanah Tovah Tikatevu— Carol Toobin and Valerie Frost, Co-Presidents Santa Fe Chapter of Hadassah Officers and Committee Chairs January 1, – December 31, 2012 Officers: Co-Presidents Valerie Frost 474.9244 Carol Toobin 995.0188 Vice President/Membership Sandra Levine 466.4041 Marsha Reindorf 466.3881 Past-President Reggie Klein 438.8150 Treasurer Carol Pava 424.8781 Recording Secretary/Chai Corresponding Secretary Patricia Zisman 573.0669 Committee Chairs: Advertising/Friends Rose Daneman 983.5261 Tributes/Certificates/Trees Esther Sutin 820.2931 Publicity Lisa Sinoff 216.7733 Mitzvah Project Joan Hershfeld 292.2839 Sandra Levine 466.4041 Hospitality Margo Taylor 983.1072 DMR Liaison Bunny Lichtenstein 473.4545 Mail Receiver Reggie Klein 438.8150 Members-at-Large Sheila Gershen 988.3143 Gloria Ballen 820.0550 Hadssah Cards Patricia Zisman 466.2968 Website Jane E. Siskin 988.5671 Bulletin Editor Marcelle Cady 231-5874 Bulletin Design Paula Eastwood www.eastwooddesignsf.com NEWS & VIEWS Hadassah Santa Fe Chapter Volume 52, Number 122 L’Shanah Tovah 5773 / Fall 2012 PRESIDENTS’ MESSAGE
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An Exciting New Year Staying in Balance for the High Holidays

Here we are almost at the start of another new year. I am remem-bering my High Holidays from

last year. I spent Rosh Hashanah with my daughter’s family in El Paso. Our Erev Rosh Hashanah meal was memorable. It was really early in the evening to give my son-in-law the Rabbi time to get to Temple in a relaxed fashion. What I remember is one granddaughter hopping up to dem-onstrate what she had learned in her first 3 weeks of trumpet instruction, only to be matched by the youngest granddaughter proving that she could blow the shofar. Between the honey dripped everywhere on the table and the blaring instruments, the other mother-in-law ( my co-madre ) and I were utterly astounded by what transpired during the “meal.”

On Yom Kippur here in Santa Fe I was given the honor of carrying a Torah during the morning service. I asked the Rabbi to give me a light one as I knew that some were heavier than others. Hey! When you’re 5’1” tall, these things matter. So it was a bit heavy, but I was doing fine just standing at the front for about the first 2 minutes, until my right bicep began to twitch. I thought no way am I going to let this bother me. Some things are just unthinkable. You don’t drop flaming desserts; you don’t drop the American flag; you don’t drop a grandchild, and you don’t drop a sacred scroll! It must have been a mind-over-matter situation, because the twitching stopped. That’s when I realized I was listing to the right. Suddenly, as the Buddhists would say, I was not in the moment. Mentally I was standing in the

now defunct Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada looking at the heavily beaded capes Liberace wore on stage. They were so heavy that he had to have special shoes made to give him lift so the capes would not pull him over backwards. Too late for special shoes, I thought, so I ooched my feet outwards to widen my stance. That corrected the problem until the slow traverse of the Temple began. I was fine until a sudden lurch indicated a little loss of balance. Again I was immediately transported out of the Temple and into my canary yellow 1971 AMC Gremlin that I drove after college. No matter how many times I had it aligned, it went back to pulling to the right. I had to fight to keep it on the road. Somehow I got back into balance and finished without incident. Tipping over would have been as bad as a drop!

Carol and I wish you and all those you love a happy, healthy New Year, with maybe just a little bit of excitement thrown in the mix. But we won’t drop the ball on our Hadassah projects and sincerely hope you will join us in our endeavors.

L’Shanah Tovah Tikatevu—Carol Toobin and Valerie Frost, Co-Presidents

Santa Fe Chapter of Hadassah Officers and Committee ChairsJanuary 1, – December 31, 2012

Officers:Co-PresidentsValerie Frost 474.9244Carol Toobin 995.0188Vice President/MembershipSandra Levine 466.4041Marsha Reindorf 466.3881Past-PresidentReggie Klein 438.8150TreasurerCarol Pava 424.8781Recording Secretary/Chai

Corresponding SecretaryPatricia Zisman 573.0669Committee Chairs:Advertising/FriendsRose Daneman 983.5261Tributes/Certificates/TreesEsther Sutin 820.2931PublicityLisa Sinoff 216.7733Mitzvah ProjectJoan Hershfeld 292.2839Sandra Levine 466.4041HospitalityMargo Taylor 983.1072DMR LiaisonBunny Lichtenstein 473.4545Mail ReceiverReggie Klein 438.8150Members-at-LargeSheila Gershen 988.3143Gloria Ballen 820.0550Hadssah CardsPatricia Zisman 466.2968WebsiteJane E. Siskin 988.5671Bulletin EditorMarcelle Cady 231-5874Bulletin DesignPaula Eastwoodwww.eastwooddesignsf.com

News & Views Hadassahsanta Fe Chapter

Volume 52, Number 122 L’Shanah Tovah 5773 / Fall 2012

PResiDeNTs’ MessAGe

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Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival Portrait of Wally—Oct 7, 4:00 pm

The Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival opens its third season with the screening of Portrait of Wally on Sunday October 7, 4:00 pm at CCA. “Wally”, Egon Schiele’s tender picture of his mistress, Valerie Neuzil, was the pride of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. But until recently the 1912 painting was locked up in New York, caught in a legal battle between the Austria museum and the Jewish family from whom the Nazis seized the painting in 1939.

The film traces the history of this iconic image —from Schiele’s gesture of affection toward his young lover, to the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi, a Jewish art dealer fleeing Vienna for her life, to the post-war confusion and subterfuge that evoke The Third Man, to the surprise resurfacing of “Wally” on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1997 and the legal battle that followed.

The film’s director, Andrew Shea, will participate in a Q&A via following the film. For info/tickets: www.santafejff.org.

Suggested ReadingHadassah Magazine Aug./Sept. 2012Hadassah, Through Feminist and Zionist Lenses

Just in time for Hadassah’s 100th birthday, two academic presses have released in-depth appraisals of the significant roles played by Hadassah in American Jewish and Zionist history, but each frames its analysis using different historiographic lenses—and each reaches different conclusions.

From Fashion to Politics: Hadassah and Jewish American Women in the Post World War II Era by Shirli Brautbar (Academic Studies Press, 152 pp. $49) focuses on the post-World War II era from 1948 to 1970, when Zionism was gaining greater currency among American Jews while working women, once lauded as Rosie the Riveter, were being told to give up their jobs and return home.

Mira Katzburg-Yungman’s book, Hadassah: American Women Zionists and the Rebirth of Israel, translated by Tamar Berkowitz (Littman Library of Jewish

HADAssAH sANTA Fe uPCoMiNG eVeNTs

Hadassah Membership TeaSunday, September 9, 2012           2pm-4pm, at the home of Carol Toobin        10 Clove Court Please come and enjoy the afternoon. We will be introducing our new members who joined since last September. We will also be discussing our program plans for the fall.  If you have friends who are thinking about becoming a member, please invite them to come. There is no admission charge but donations to Hadassah are always welcome.

For reservations or information, contact Carol: [email protected] or phone 817-422-1250.

Directions: From Hwy 599, turn west toward Las Campanas at Calle Nopal and Camino La Tierra. Continue on Camino La Tierra about 2.7 mi.  At the fork in the road, keep right. Turn right at Parkside. At the gate, punch in “0519” and Carol will answer the phone and ring you in. Make the first right onto Graythorn and continue for about 0.7 mi.  Turn left onto Estates, right onto Clove Circle and a quick left on to Clove Court. Caro’s house is the 2nd on the right. There is limited parking at the top of the driveway so if you can, park in the court and walk up to the top of the driveway.  Please call 505-995-0188  if you get lost.

Save THe daTeS:Sunday, October 21 —Meeting

Sunday, december 9—Chanukah party and installation of officersPlans are in progress for these dates. Watch for our eblast for more information.

Book ClubWe meet on Tuesday of every month, except December, in the library of Temple Beth Shalom at 9:45 am. Everyone is invited. Come join us.

September 25 Cleopatra A Life by Stacy SchiffOctober 30 Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen SimonsonNovember 27 The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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Boy, was it hot! Not the weather, but our summer program season. On Sunday, June 24th,

we celebrated a warm day with cool music. We filled the upstairs room at Pranzo and enjoyed David Geist and Julie Trujillo perform selections from Jewish songwriters of our favorite Broadway shows. The big surprise of the afternoon was our member Margo Taylor singing “Here’s to the Ladies that Lunch.” We didn’t know that she was quite a singer! As always, our lunch was delicious. Thank you to Judy Tully, our chairman for the afternoon, and David Geist, who

donated a portion of his CD sales to Hadassah. A very special thanks to Linda Krull who generously underwrote the entertainment.

Thirty ladies attended our second “Lunch and Maj” day on Tuesday, August 7th at Temple Beth Shalom. A wonderful lunch buffet was served. Reggie Klein gave Sally Lowen a going away present from the Board—a mah jongg set—to take with her to New Hampshire. We will miss you, Sally. Then we divided into smaller groups to play maj (and talk and laugh). What a fun day! Thank you to all our cooks and bakers who donated the food: Reggie Klein, Bunny Lichtenstein, Sally Lowen, Marlene Maslow, Joan Maurer, Margo Taylor, Carol Toobin and Patricia Zisman. Maureen Ferg taught a group of seven beginners who, by the end of the day, were anxious to play again. Also a big thanks to TBS for the hospitality and the two door prizes.

Also, this summer we had two work days to make sheets and pillow cases for Esperanza Shelter. Barbara Bloomberg, Valerie Frost, Joan Hershfeld, Barb LaMont, Margo Taylor, and Carol Toobin cut, pinned, pressed, and sewed for several hours. We just made a dent in the project, but we will have more work days this fall. We would like to present the sheets to the Shelter by Christmas. Let Joan know if you can help. Thanks to New Mexico Women’s Foundation for the use of their resource center.

There is a chill in the air. Fall can’t be too far away. See you at the membership tea in September and at our other upcoming events.

ReView

Summer Programs in Review

Please visit our website —www.santafehadassah.org

Comments and input are welcome.Please click below:

Civilization, 400 pp. $49.50), is much more comprehensive. It covers a longer time period and uses extensive Hebrew and English archival materials and personal interviews to situate Hadassah activities within their American, Israeli and Zionist ideological milieus. http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=twI6LmN7IzF&b=6696679&ct=12110763FICTIONThe Origin Of Sorrow by Robert Mayer

(Robert Mayer lives in Santa Fe.)In 1769 the Jews of Frankfurt are trapped both physically by the walls of the last enclosed ghetto within which they must dwell, and in a larger sense by the rules of a society in which they are outcasts, legally debased and barely suffered to live. And yet within those confines they find life, in all its glories and tragedies.

Further info: Hadassah Magazine August/September 2012 (pages 66-68 and 75)

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HoNoRs & TRiBuTes

FRIENDS OF HADASSAHLillian Bristol & Haskell Sheinberg

Halley FaustZoe Gayl

Rita GrantDorothy Hoffman

Regina KleinKovnat Family

Martha LiebmanJoyce & Gerald LevineSally & Steve Lowen

Julia & Albert NathansonMaridell Nochumson

Esther RapoportMarsha & Paul ReindorfEsther & Michael Sutin

Margo TaylorCarol Toobin

Chai is our major fund raiser each year. Chai membership is $30 a month or $360 for a year. It can be paid in installments or in a lump sum. We have been able to meet our yearly commitments to Hadassah plus additional funds for the hospital, Young Judea Camps, and Hadassah College. We encourage every one to consider this level of donation for our Chapter.

Chai Society

Chai members :Susan BerkFrania BerlinRuth Anne FaustYolanda HeschDorothy HoffmanPhyllis KappRegina Klein

Linda KrullBarbara LamontSandra LevineSally LowenMarlene MaslowCarol PavaEsther RapoportNora Segal

Esther SutinCarol Toobin Please contact Valerie Frost at 474-9244 for information and membership.

Mitzvah ProjectOur Mitzvah project supporting Esperanza is ongoing during 2012. Please consider another contribution. Send check made out to Esperanza to Joan Hershfeld, 1223 Lujan Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505.

—Joanie HershfeldMitzvah chairman

TributesTREESIn memory of beloved daughter and sister, Kimberly Ortiz,from Sandra Levine In memory of beloved nephew, William Cullen Klein, from Sandra Levine CERTIFICATESIn memory of Earl Smithfrom Rita Grant

MAKE A DONATIONTo send tree or donation certificates in memory or honor of someone, please first call Esther Sutin, 820-2931. She will take down all the information and send out the appropriate certificate. Send check to our treasurer, Carol Pava, 261 Plaza Canada, Santa Fe, NM 87501.If you would like to make a donation to Hadassah which does not require a certificate, please send the donation directly to our treasurer. All donations will be listed in the bulletin.

We thank Rita Grant for her donation in Memory of Earl Smith.

Keepers of the Gate

Keepers of the Gate contributions further education at Hadassah

College Jerusalem, support medical breakthroughs and treatments at Hadassah Medical Organization, foster Jewish continuity through Young Judaea, and help disadvantaged children through Youth aliyah/Children at Risk. As a

Keeper of the Gate you may direct your annual gift to the project of your choice, or direct your gift to Haddasah Greatest Need, empowering Hadassah to apply your gift to its most critical project. The designation can be changed each year.

We are grateful to Julianne and Robert Sherman

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liFeTiMe MeMBeRsHiP

The Future Generation of Hadassah

M y name is Allie Klein, I am the granddaughter of Reggie Klein. I’m sure

many of you know of her devotion to Hadassah, and personally, I’ll just add that as a newly-minted lifetime Hadassah member, I’m particularly honored to be here as Hadassah celebrates their Centennial.

This time last year, I was closing in on the final month of a year that I had spent living in Jerusalem as a first year rabbinical student at HUC. We spent the year learning biblical history and modern Zionist history, we studied liturgy and classical texts, and of course worked tirelessly on our Hebrew. The most impactful of all my classes, however, was entitled “Israel Seminar,” in which we travelled all over the country, meeting Israelis, seeing sites off the beaten tourist track, and seeking to more and more delve into our incredible surroundings. I shopped at the shuk – the open air market – rather than the supermarket; I rented a car and bravely navigated the Israeli highways; I pushed my way in to board the buses remembering that the concept of waiting in line doesn’t exist in Israel; and I even spoke a bit of Hebrew. I felt like I was really a part of things until this week

just one year ago, a week when my status as an authentic resident in Israel seemed to unravel.

I prepared to observe Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day, sometimes called the “Israeli High Holidays.” These two holidays are in some ways the most identity-defining days on the country’s calendar – a time of personal and collective accounting and reflection. I didn’t know any Israelis who had died in the conflict, and I was planning to leave the country one month later, so I resigned myself to being a respectful observer of the day, grateful for the window into this intimate moment in the lives of Israelis.

In Israel, Independence Day follows

immediately after Memorial Day. It is a frank reminder of the human cost of Israel’s establishment and of the painful and ongoing struggle for the dream of a peaceful Israel to be realized. Yom HaZikaron begins at sunset with a siren heard throughout the country. When that siren blew last year, my friends and I gathered at the Western Wall for the national memorial ceremony. It’s said that there is not a person in Israel who has not been touched by loss in the ongoing conflict, and in that moment, standing in that crowd, it seemed clear. It was the only time all year that I stood at the wall shoulder to shoulder with women and men, secular and orthodox Jews, and everyone in between. For that moment, it felt like all of the divisions were suspended as the country began to mourn while we watched the flag at the wall lower to half-mast.

The next day, a siren sounded at 11am across the country, lasting for two minutes. In those two minutes, everything just stopped. It’s unfathomable to think of such a thing on a national scale in the US, but truly, the entire country stops. Drivers stop their cars, get out,

sPeCiAl CeNTeNNiAl MeMBeRsHiPIn celebration of Hadassah’s Centennial, the annual membership of $212 continues until December 31, 2012.  Associate and Child Life Memberships are also available at this reduced price.  Please contact Sandra Levine, Membership Co-Chairperson, at 466-4041 or e-mail her at [email protected]  for a membership application.

We welcome new members dr. anne G. Kusava (Life) and Renee Goshen.

From Alexandra Klein, a talk given at Congregation Beit Tikva, April 27, 2012

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and stand in the open street in two minutes of silent memorial. This siren also marks the start of the official memorial ceremonies. When it went off, classmates and I had just arrived at Gymnasia Rehavia, a large high school in Jerusalem, to take part in their annual memorial service. Before the ceremony, we filtered into the school’s memorial wing. The wing is a series of several rooms identified by different decades and different wars of Israel’s history, each with individual memorials to every student who has died in the conflict. I walked in and the first book I happened to picked up was a scrapbook compiled in memory of a young man named Lior Azulai. I opened up the book to see his date of birth. It was December 18, 1985. Born only a few months apart, Lior and I were the same age. On February 22, 2004, on his way to class at the age of 18, Lior was killed along with 7 others in a bus bombing right down the block from where I lived last year. That morning in 2004, just 6 hours after Lior, I probably travelled to school too. That was the first name I found in that Memorial Room – not someone who died many years ago which might have afforded less chance for personal connection – it seemed a clear sign that these Israeli High Holidays should, and would, be deeply personal for me. The ceremony included songs, poetry, and most significantly, the recitation of names of alumni of the school who have died in the conflict. There were so many names that they had to split them up chronologically, but through the slurry of Hebrew I listened hard for Lior’s name. I didn’t miss it as I stood there in silence, paying tribute to a young man who, for all I know, could have been my friend.

My friends and I headed over to Mount Herzl, the national cemetery of Israel. We walked through the huddles of mourners surrounding different graves of fallen loved ones and noted that every single one of the over 20,000 graves had an Israeli flag lovingly placed on it in honor of the day and of their greatest sacrifice. No one was forgotten. As sunset fell, a third siren blew and in what seemed like no more than an instant, we were shuttled to our seats as the

nationally-televised Independence Day celebration began on the cemetery grounds. We watched as the flag was raised back to full-mast. Just like that, the mourning ended and the celebration began. From Mount Herzl we walked back into central Jerusalem to find that concert stages had materialized in the streets, and that kids were running around wearing glow in the dark jewelry and spraying each other with silly string. Vendors had appeared seemingly out of no where and were selling giant inflatable blue and white toys, alongside thousands of people doing Israeli folk dance in the large square outside the Municipal courthouse. In those minutes, the country revived itself in

a powerful display of the hard-earned Israeli ethos – one that straddles the divide between painful remembrance of lives lost of and of years of conflict, while rejoicing in the miraculous existence of the modern state and eagerly looking forward with hope for a better future. We might imagine that divide to be quite vast, but this week last year I learned that mourning and dancing are merely minutes and a few meters apart.

In preparing for this talk, I looked through the journal that I had kept last year hoping for some inspiration. When I reached the page I had titled “Yom HaZikaron,” in the middle of an otherwise empty page of white paper, all I had written were two words: Lior Azulai. Seeing his name brought me back to this time, and to the incredibly powerful window I was given into Israeli society over the course of those 48 hours last year. Most importantly, it reminded me that both the joy and the pain of Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut are not just something for Israelis to experience and to connect with. I learned last year that their joy is my joy, and that their pain is my pain. I learned that grief need not be something that cripples us, but rather can be something that motivates us towards a better future. I learned that by pledging a Zionism that works towards a more just and peaceful Israel, we can create a country in years to come where fewer and fewer names are added to Gymnasia Rehavia’s Memorial Wing.  While we’re a few minutes and meters further away, we as American Jews can also mourn and dance when we think of Israel, and we can say that Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut are our high holidays too. Shabbat Shalom.

…the joy and the pain of Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut

are not just something for Israelis to experience and to connect with. I learned last year that their joy is my joy, and that their pain is my

pain. I learned that grief need not be something that cripples us, but rather can be something that motivates us

towards a better future.

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HADAssAH suMMeR eVeNTs

Summer ProgramLunch at Pranzo’s with entertainment by David Geist and Julie Trujillo.

Mitzvah ProjectWe devoted two work days to make sheets and pillow cases for Esperanza Shelter.

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HADAssAH ARouND THe woRlD

In Israel and around the world, Hadassah:

• Savesthousandsofdisadvantaged and at-risk children by providing housing, education and training in Youth Aliyah villages.

• Empowerswomen by providing health initiatives with the knowledge necessary to enable members to make appropriate and informed medical decisions for themselves and their families.

• Setstheglobalstandard for healing, caring and responding to international crises. Hadassah was on the ground and working in Haiti, Darfur, Kenya, Ethiopia and Thailand in times of need.

• Leadstheway with advancements in AIDS, breast and colon cancer, Chrohn’s, diabetes, macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, ALS and Parkinson’s disease.

• Buildsbridgestopeace in the Middle East by providing world-class medical care to over one million patients yearly regardless of race, religion or nationality.

The Facts About Hadassah speak for Themselves

dear Hadassah members, As a result of our National Board meetings in Dallas and Hadassah Medical Organization Board meetings in Jerusalem, Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, reaffirms its enduring commitment to and continued financial support of Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, in order to ensure continued excellence in medical care and treatment for all in need.

We are committed to: •�� �Supporting�the�hospitals’�recently�initiated�program�of�efficiencies,�which�will�lead�

to fiscal and medical improvements. •� �Working�closely�with�the�new�team�of�distinguished�members�of�the�medical�

community from Israel, the United States and around the world, now leading the hospital, led by Dr. Ehud Kokia, Director General.

•� Dr.�Osnat�Levtzion-Korach,�Director,�Hadassah�University�Hospital-Mt.�Scopus�•� Yuval�Adar,�Chief�Financial�Officer�•� Yuval�Weiss,�Director,�Hadassah�University�Hospital-Ein�Kerem�•� Dr.�Gaby�Polliack,�Assistant�Director,�Hadassah�University�Hospital�-Ein�Kerem�•� Dr.�Neomi�Siegal,�Head�of�Quality�Assurance�and�Strategic�Planning

As owners and members of the HMO Board of Directors, we will continue to observe the progress of these new directions to assure the quality control about which we know you all care.

Marcie E. NatanNational President

We wish you a sweet New Year

5773

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To find a glimmer of hope on the Israel-Palestine question has become difficult, if not

impossible. Most Israelis now believe that a peaceful solution will not come in their generation. As for the Palestinians, the political stalemate, and ongoing Israeli occupation, has led to radicalization: if they cannot have something, they want it all.

And many believe that whatever their weakness today, time is on the Palestinians’ side. Even the most moderate Palestinians now reject Israeli leftists’ offers of help in terms of human support against the actions of Israeli settlers or police. The political dialogue between moderates of both camps is mostly dead, and personal contact has become minimal. In the streets of Jerusalem, Israelis and Palestinians give the impression of deliberately trying not to see each other.

This distrustful ignorance of the other can be found everywhere in Israel. Or almost everywhere, for there is a place that escapes this reality: the hospital. Because of an urgent eye problem upon my arrival in Israel in late June, I had to spend seven hours in the ophthalmology department of the Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem.

What I saw during those hours were the most comforting and hopeful signs that I have encountered in the entire region in many years. Arab citizens of Israel – that is, Palestinian doctors and nurses – were treating Jewish and Arab patients. Israeli doctors and nurses attended to Arabs’ needs. I even saw some interaction

among patients themselves. Old Israelis who had clearly come from Eastern Europe before World War II were playing with very young Palestinian children. There was an atmosphere of reassuring tolerance of the other.

In the highly professional, well-organized, and yet very relaxed (if not slightly confused) atmosphere of the hospital, one could glimpse what the future might hold with different political leadership on both sides. It was as if the ill were behaving in a healthy way, whereas, outside of the hospital, the healthy were behaving pathologically. In the hospital, patients’ only choice was to place themselves in the hands of the other.

What I encountered that day in Ein Kerem was the best of Israel – and a direct rebuttal to the frequent accusation that Israel is an “apartheid state.” And it was fitting that this token of a possible future should be found in an ophthalmology department, an enterprise devoted to restoring vision. Arab citizens of Israel and Jewish citizens of Israel interact with each other as equals when they are placed in a situation in which they can and must. Might all Israelis and Palestinians find themselves in such a position one day?

I am not naïve. I understand that what I saw that day (with one eye) in the Hadassah Hospital cannot easily be replicated elsewhere. Two days after my hospital experience, a tour

of the Palestinian neighborhoods of Jerusalem – surrounded or divided by the security wall – served as a reminder of the region’s harsh and sobering realities.

But the lessons from the Hadassah Hospital remain alive in my heart as much as my head. When people have no other choice but to trust each other, they will be able to do so and feel better for it. It is a question of balance, competence, and respect.

Can the reality of the hospital be transferred to the reality outside? Probably not. But that should not prevent people from reflecting on what a different world could look like one day – or from working to bring about that world now.

Dominique Moisi is the founder of the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI) and a professor at Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He is the author of The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World.

Extracted from The Guatemalan Times —August 20, 2012

An Atmosphere of Reassuring ToleranceAt Hadassah Ein-KeremBy Dominique Moisi

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PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER

Journey through the challenges of lifeBack to the Source

Pamela Schackel LISW, LPCC

Specializing in Children & Their Families

Play Therapy & Sandplay Therapy

1533 South St. Francis Drive, Suite E 505.988.4131 x 107Santa Fe, NM 87505(Fax) 505.992.6145

530 South Guadalupe Street Santa Fe, NM 87501c: 505.470.5467 o: 505.983.9826 f: 505.986.0097

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Barbara Klein Associate Broker

Barker Realty

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Michael & Rita LinderOwners233 Canyon Road Suite 1 Santa Fe, NM 87501(505) 820.6304 Fax (505) 820.2220

Santa Fe Neuropsychological Services

Richard T. Fink, Ph.D.Elliot J. Rapoport, Ph.D.Edward (Ned) Siegel, Ph.D.

505 982.3300301 Johnson StreetSanta Fe, NM 87501

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Psycho Pharmacology

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Phone: (505) 995.9596Fax: (505) 474.8014

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Marc Rosenberg Manager

Barbara RosenAntique and Estate Jewelry

213 West San Francisco Street 505 992.3000Santa Fe, NM 87501 [email protected]

WAXLANDER GALLERY622 CANYON ROAD

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Santa Fe, NM 87505(505) 983.6613

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