Hadassah: Pro-Women, Pro-Choice, and Pro-Israel

The Charlotte Jewish News August 2022

By Aileen Greenberg-Kriner Hadassah’s Stand on Choice Hadassah unequivocally stands for women’s reproductive rights and for empowering women with the knowledge to make critical health decisions. We have always been and will always be proudly pro-choice, pro-women, and pro-Israel. Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, reaffirms its unwavering support for full and complete access to reproductive health services. We all deserve agency over our own bodies and the autonomy to make reproductive health decisions that are based on medical guidance, our own values, and what we feel is best for our health, our families, and our future. Please check out Hadassah for Choice at www. hadassah.org.

Mammovan

Ladies, take charge of your health! The Mammovan (aka Novant Health Breast Center mobile unit) will be onsite at the JCC on November 30, 2022. Call Novant to make an appointment. (704) 384-7226.

Hadassah Directory Updates

Did you move this summer? Don’t forget to update your address in the Hadassah Charlotte Metro Jewish Community Online Directory. It’s free! Go to the Hadassah website, Hadassah Directory tab, and follow the instructions in one of the green boxes to either sign up or update your listing in the online directory. Honey Sale Wish your friends and family a sweet new year by sending them honey for Rosh Hashanah. Each 8 oz. jar of kosher honey is $14, including shipping if you order by August 1. Order by September 1 for guaranteed delivery by Rosh Hashanah. The personalized card tells recipients that a donation has been made in their honor to the Hadassah Charlotte Metro Chapter. Order at www. orthoney.com/HCM. Let’s Get Together August brings an opportunity to gather with new, current, and prospective members. Come to Optimist Hall on Sunday, August 21 at noon for an end-of-summer get-together. Grab your lunch at one of the restaurants in the food hall and meet us. Look for the Hadassah banner.

Join us on August 2, September 6, and the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. for “Wine & Schmooze” at Vintner Wine Market in the Arboretum Shopping Center. Whether you are a longtime, new, or potential member, stop by for a casual evening. It’s a nice way to start your week with wine and good conversation. Summer Reading Hadassah BookTalk is on summer vacation in August and off for the High Holidays in September. See you on October 25 at 7 p.m. for our fall kickoff.

Beverly’s Book Nook will meet on Friday, August 12 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. The August book selection is “It Could Happen Here” by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. Jonathan Greenblatt has made it his personal mission to demonstrate how antisemitism, racism, and other insidious forms of intolerance can destroy a society, taking root as quiet prejudices but mutating over time into horrific acts of brutality. In this urgent book, Greenblatt sounds an alarm, warning that this ageold trend is gathering momentum in the United States and that violence on an even larger, more catastrophic scale could be just around the corner. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Just because it could happen here, he shows, does not mean that the unthinkable is inevitable.

The Short Story Discussion Group will meet on Friday, August 19 via Zoom. To get the August stories or more information, check the Hadassah Charlotte Metro website. The group meets monthly on the third Friday at 11:45 a.m.

On September 16, author and former University of Toronto Professor Sharon Hart-Green will be the speaker (via Zoom). She holds a PhD in Jewish studies from Brandeis University, where her dissertation was a study on the Israeli Nobel prize winner S. Y. Agnon. She will make a hard-to-translate beautiful story easy to understand and appreciate.

Beginning October 21, our monthly discussions will be on stories from the Israeli author Amos Oz’s collection “Scenes from a Village Life.” Fall Events Stay tuned for a Temple Israel gift shop event and a Jewish Heritage Tour this fall. Get To Know Hadassah Interested in joining Hadassah or learning more? Contact Anik Harrison at the phone number or email below or come to one of our events.

The next Hadassah Charlotte Metro Board is on Monday, August 15 at 7 p.m. Check our website for location.

Our website, www.hadassahcltevents.org, has details about our events. If you have questions or need a Zoom link, email HadassahCLT@gmail.com or call our general phone number, (980) 553-1880. Your message will be forwarded to the correct person.

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