Monthly Archives: March 2010

A Day of Rage—Nothing New In Jerusalem

By Linda | March 17, 2010

Travel to Israel is never dull. Life is political and the political is life. And nowhere is this truer than in Jerusalem. For thousands of years, since King David first conquered this city and made it the capital of the people of Israel, Jerusalem touches one’s soul like no other city.
A small [...]

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A Change of Place, A Change of Pace

By Linda | March 16, 2010

As we exited Ben Gurion Airport last evening, the sweet scent of the orange blossom trees was the first of the senses to reawaken after a more than seven year absence from Israel. The recent heavy rainy season had left the land green and lush. The barren land, I remembered from my first [...]

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You Don’t Have the Personality to Be a…

By Linda | March 15, 2010

A few weeks ago I went out to San Francisco. Multi-tasking, as usual, I went to a two day, intense course at UCSF about Sleep Apnea, visited Dana, who took me to Berkley, where she will begin her PhD part of her MD/PhD studies this fall, and I gave a talk on the gender [...]

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Happy Anniversary? National Women’s History Month is 30 Years Old

By Linda | March 10, 2010

A history lesson:
1981—President Jimmy Carter signed legislation declaring the week of March 8, National Women’s History Week. Lobbying was required to have it re-declared each year until…
1987—US Congress declared March to be National Women’s History Month, in perpetuity. “A special Presidential Proclamation is issued every year which honors the extraordinary achievements of American [...]

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What You Need Is A Man’s Voice

By Linda | March 8, 2010

On International Women’s Day…
Last week I spoke to the Hadassah ladies about the gender gap in healthcare. The statistic that always gets the most “I didn’t know that!” is that heart disease is the number one killer of women in the US today.
But not in this savvy audience. Alas, I had little [...]

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SUMA: Students United for Multi-Cultural Awareness

By Linda | March 4, 2010

The Nichols School’s Response to Teaching Diversity
We have months, weeks and days set aside to honor, remember, educate and celebrate a whole host of causes, events, and extraordinary people. Oh, you know. Martin Luther King Day, Women’s History Month, Equal Pay Day (this year on April 20), and so on and so [...]

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Grey is Gone: Thank you Julie and Julia

By Linda | March 3, 2010

Our Busy Woman’s Book Club had its annual dinner and movie night. We diligently prepared our gluten free, kosher, vegetarian meal to accommodate our diverse group of eaters. Apropos of the menu challenges, we chose to view the movie Julie and Julia with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams (who have paired up again [...]

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Hadassah: A Sisterhood of Healers

By Linda | March 1, 2010

Almost a century ago, Henrietta Szold began a study group in NYC to promote the Zionist ideal through education and public health initiatives. I am sure she never could have imagined that more than 250,000 women worldwide would now make up a “network of dedicated volunteers, men and women of all faiths and nationalities, [...]