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Meeting Dates
2016 - 2017
Tuesday, 11:30
Ohev Shalom
Sept. 6, 2016
*Oct. No Meeting
Nov. 1, 2016
Dec. 6, 2016
Jan. 3, 2017
Feb. 7, 2017
**Mar. No Meeting
Apr. 4, 2017
May 9, 2017
*Oct. 4, 2016
Rosh Hashanah
**Sunday,
March 2017
Bunny Rosen
Luncheon &
Fashion Show
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The summer is winding down and that means
it’s Hadassah time again. Throughout the
2016-2017 season we will offer unique programs
covering a variety of subjects that are sure to
peak your interest.
The first meeting of the new season will be held
on Tuesday, September 6th at 11:30 am at
Ohev Shalom. Rabbi David Kay will bring his
musical stylings to the stage with his one man
show. We previewed a small sampling of his pop
style last January when he gallantly filled in on
very short notice when our scheduled presenter
was unable to appear.
For those not familiar with Rabbi Kays musical
history, his bio can be found on Page 2.
The Orlando Chapter of Hadassah will
celebrate women throughout the 2016-2017
season. We will showcase woman who make a
difference, whether it be in their homes,
neighborhoods, the community or the world.
We will promote woman’s health through
wellness initiatives as well as offer information
about new and innovative treatments for disease.
We will feature topics and programs that are of
relevance to women.
In this vein, our upcoming programs will
feature an afternoon with Iris Pastor, nationally
heralded Huffington Post columnist, author, and
motivational speaker. Other future programs will
highlight a cooking demonstration and lunch with
local chef and restauranteur, Sue Manatad and a
book discussion with noted Cuban author,
Marisella Veiga.
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Women of Valor recognizes and highlights
the lives and accomplishments of sixteen
trailblazing Jewish women, each of whom had
the courage and conviction to overcome the
social, cultural, and religious barriers she faced
in creating a more just and equitable world.
Throughout the coming months, we will introduce you to these outstanding Jewish women.
The Orlando Chapter 2016-2018 Calendar
Directory will be available at the meeting on
September 6th. The directories will only be
available to those attending chapter meetings
or functions. The cost of mailing makes it
impractical to ship the directories. Should you
wish to have your directory mailed, you will
have to assume the shipping fee of $4.00.
The directory member information was supplied
to us by National. Information changes were
made only from the correction forms that you
returned. If your listing in the directory is
incorrect, please notify National (through Marj
Smith) to correct their database. We will list all
corrections on Page 7 in future bulletins.
Don’t forget to make your reservations for
the Tuesday, September 6th meeting.
Reservations are a must. No walk-ins please.*
RSVP To Nancy Greenfield
[email protected]
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407-333-0204
Couvert $ 12.00
*No refunds on reservations
cancelled after 8:00 PM on the
Sunday evening before the meeting.
Rabbi David Kay
Hadassah and Israel
Hand in Hand
The Orlando
Chapter
Executive
Board
President
Susan Livingstone
Records
Administrator
Marjorie Smith
Rabbi David Kay was ordained at the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America (JTSA) in 2002, where he also received
a Master of Arts degree in education. Before attending JTSA, he
was one of the three original students in an experimental program
to train leaders for the Jewish Deaf community. Prior to pursuing
the rabbinate, he received a Bachelor of Science in Ecology,
Ethology, and Evolution from the University of Illinois, worked
for a progressive animal welfare organization, and played in an
original rock band, acoustic duo, and as a solo act.
Rabbi Kay is a member of the Mayor Buddy Dyer’s Council of Clergy and the
Executive Committee of the Interfaith Council of Central Florida, for which he
coordinates the annual interfaith celebration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King
with the Mayor’s Commission on the Martin Luther King Holiday. He serves
Congregation Ohev Shalom in Maitland, FL. Founded in 1918; Ohev Shalom is
central Florida’s original and oldest continuing Jewish congregation. He has appeared
regularly in productions at Theater at the J at the Roth JCC, since its revival in
October of 2015
Rabbi Kay lives in Orlando with his spouse, Joanne Goldman Kay. Their son,
Jonah, is a student in the Joint Program of Columbia University and List College
in Manhattan.
Jewish Women of Valor
Treasurer
Emily Rotenberg
Corresponding/
Social Secretary
Linda Wallerstein
Recording
Secretary
Roslyn Leventhal
Bella Abzug
A formidable leader of the women’s movement, Bella
Abzug fought to pass the Equal Rights Amendment
and other vital legislation for the rights of women.
During her three terms in Congress, she advocated
for groundbreaking bills including the Equal Rights
Amendment and crucial support of Title IX.
Beatrice Alexander
"Madame" Beatrice Alexander knew how to dream big.
Born into a world in which many women worked but few
achieved prominence in business, she built her own
company virtually singlehandedly. Raised amidst teeming
poverty, she amassed a significant fortune. From the
obscurity of an immigrant neighborhood, she became
one of the foremost female entrepreneurs of the twentieth
century. (Madame Alexander Dolls)
Women are listed in alphabetical order.
Women of Valor is a division of Jewish Women Archives. Further information is available at
http://jwa.org/womenofvalor
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Renowned Chef & Restaurateur Michelle Bernstein
Discusses her Jewish roots
Born and raised in Miami, Michelle Bernstein had an
unusual path to her culinary career. As a child, she
excelled in ballet and was aspiring to have a career
as a professional dancer when she received a
scholarship at age 16 to study with the Alvin Ailey
Dance Theater in New York. An injury had young
Michelle changing her professional career.
"I was home from college, helping my mother bake for
the Jewish holidays. She says to me 'Michy, all you
really want to do is cook.'"
... you— the members
of Hadassah — make it
all possible.
Hanukkah like they do in a lot of the Jewish
ghettos in Italy. She also did gnocchi's for
the holiday as well."
"Instead of receiving eight different gifts for
each night of Hanukkah, my mother would
prepare our eight favorite dishes to eat.
"I speak from my heart and soul about my
Jewish heritage and career and how they
are intertwined," said the 40-year-old
Bernstein, who owns and operates three
restaurants in Miami ("CENA by Michy,"
"Crumb On Parchment" and "Seagrape at
Thompson Miami Beach" with her husband
David Martinez.
Bernstein has won many culinary awards,
including the prestigious James Beard Award
for cooking in 2008 and is widely loved by food
critics for her Latin flavored recipes
With guidance from her mother, Bernstein enrolled in
culinary classes at Johnson & Wales University in
North Miami.
"It is also thanks to ballet that I began my dedication,
drive and discipline for a career as a chef. I believe
that attitude and humility teamed with a lot of passion
for ingredients and flavors are why I am succeeding."
"My father is of Russian-Jewish descent and my
mother is Argentinian and it is from her that I grew
up with Latin and Italian influences in our Jewish
cuisine."
"I grew up in a home filled with so much love, strong
Jewish roots and understanding of our traditions. My
parents taught me Jewish history and the importance
of never ever forgetting who and where we came
from."
Although Bernstein did not grow up in a kosher home,
she knows the art of kosher cooking. In her book "The
Macy's Culinary Council Thanksgiving & Holiday
Cookbook," She shares how to make Scallion Latkes
(potato pancakes) in her own unique way.
"A lot of times, my mother made empanadas for
Hanukkah, which is very untraditional.
Sometimes, we did Italian fried artichokes for
She won the Jewish Museum of Florida Glass
Ceiling Award for being one of the first female
chefs to achieve equal status to men in her
field.
"Women are more accepted as chefs now than
when I began my career. There are more
women now who are executive chefs and have
leadership positions both here and globally,"
said Bernstein.
Michelle Bernstein also has a passion to help
under-privileged children defeat obesity with
nutrition through the not for profit Common
Threads organization. She feels strongly that
one can eat healthy even on a shoestring
budget.
"Eating healthy on a limited budget is not as
difficult as one would think. I've been admiring
the work of 'Wholesome Wave' that allows
people to purchase fresh ingredients from local
farmers markets using food stamps."
Bernstein also is a food consultant for
American Express, Delta, Lexus, Macy's and
Memorial Hospital.
To learn more about Chef Michelle Bernstein,
go to www.chefmichellebernstein.com
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The Orlando
Chapter
Executive
Board
Vice President
Education
Marilyn Schwartz
Vice Presidents
Membership
Nancy Greenfield
Bonnie
Toborowsky
Vice Presidents
Fund Raising
Andrea
Silverman
Carol Wolfson
Vice Presidents
Programs
Marcia
Wasserman
Rita Weissmann
Ima Coordinator
Nanotech Breakthrough Prints Human Tissue
From Stem Cells
By Brian Blum
Claudia Glick
407-786-6486
Tree of Life
Gloria
Newberger
407-732-4852
Israel’s Nano Dimension uses an inkjet process
to print living human tissue in 3D. Next step, a
printed liver or heart?
It’s the stuff of science fiction: technology that
can print a human organ. But the first step
towards turning big-screen fantasy into
everyday reality has been taken by Israel’s
Nano Dimension, which makes 3D printers.
Jewish National
Fund (Trees)
Sheila
Greenspoon
407-699-6062
Certificates
Bernice Davids
407-647-0319
[email protected]
Cards
Paula Roth
407-333-7319
[email protected]
Nano Dimension’s DragonFly 3D printer.
Through a collaboration with another Israeli
company, biotechnology firm Accellta of Haifa,
Nano Dimension has been able to mix human
stem cells into its 3D printer ink. When expelled
through the more than 1,000 tiny nozzles of a
Nano Dimension DragonFly 3D printer, the ink
can form into human tissue.
While the technology is still at the proof-ofconcept stage – and going from simple tissue
to a full organ is a daunting and uncharted
process – the possibilities for saving lives by
“printing” a new liver or lung are staggering.
“That means this could eventually go into
commercial use” – such as in a hospital
during emergency surgery or for testing new
pharmaceuticals on living tissue.
Nano printing pioneer
Nano Dimension’s breakthrough is a somewhat
serendipitous detour from its main business,
which is printing PCBs – the printed circuit
boards that go into everything from cell phones
to smart refrigerators. As its name suggests,
Nano Dimension uses nanotechnology to print
the metal part of a circuit board using “ink” in
which tiny silver particles are suspended.
Silver melts only at a temperature of 961.8
degrees Celsius – too hot for a printer – but
when it’s taken down to the nano level, it can
remain liquefied at between 100 and 200
degrees Celsius, Dror said. Once it’s printed,
the silver cools down and the PCB is ready.
3D-printed PCBs probably aren’t in your laptop
computer. “It’s not for mass market production
but more for prototyping,” Dror explained. Nano
Dimension is the only 3D printer company
today that focuses on PCB production.
Dror has often turned down proposals from
potential partners wanting to collaborate on
various types of projects beyond PCBs. “We
haven’t wanted to get defocused,” he said. But
Accellta was different.
We’re pretty good at creating and reproducing
CEO Amit Dror stressed that Nano Dimension is stem cells,” Accellta CEO Itzchak Angel told
Dror. “But we don’t have the technology to
not the only company to offer biotech printing.
The difference is the speed and print resolution. allocate the cells into a tissue. For that we need
a printer.”
“No one else is using inkjet technology,” says
Perfecting bio-inks
Dror. “We’re the first to do it really fast and
really accurately.”
Accellta and Nano Dimension worked together
Before Nano Dimension teamed up with
Accellta, printing even a very small tissue
would take overnight under careful lab
conditions and was used mainly for research.
“We showed how the same thing can be
achieved in a few seconds,” Dror explained.
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for several months on the tricky process. “We
had to make sure we didn’t electrify and kill the
stem cells when the inkjet is spitting them out,”
Dror said. “We eventually developed a whole
new set of bio-inks.”
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Hadassah Launches Coalition for Women's Health Equity with
National Women's Health, and Faith Organizations
Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of
America, Inc. (HWZOA), announces the launch of
the Coalition for Women's Health Equity, which
will work to address inequities in quality of care,
funding and support, and gaps in women's health
awareness, according to Hadassah National
President Ellen Hershkin.
the same diseases and react differently to
certain drugs, medical devices, and treatments.
The inaugural members of the Coalition
include:
Heart disease, for example, is the number one
killer of women, and yet only one third of cardiac
research subjects are women. Studies also
show that medical providers are more likely to
ascribe women's pain symptoms to stress or
psychological causes, and men's symptoms to
physical or neurological conditions.
Gender disparities in medicine—among research
subjects, and in health care access and
delivery—put women at risk for misdiagnoses,
ineffective treatments and compromised care.
American Association of University Women
American Heart Association
Black Women's Health Imperative
Breast Cancer Fund
Institute for Women's Health and Leadership of
Drexel University College of Medicine
Jewish Women International
National Council of Jewish Women
National Organization for Women
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Women's Political Caucus
Society for Women's Health Research
Vision 2020
Women Against Alzheimer's
WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women
with Heart Disease
A lack of women's health equity not only impacts
the well-being of the American woman now, but
for generations to come. The Coalition for
Women's Health Equity will publicly promote
policies in support of gender equity in medical
prevention, research and treatment, and raise
awareness about how that lack of equity
adversely affects women and families throughout
the United States
Hadassah has convened this coalition in response
to pervasive gender disparities throughout the
healthcare system, with the mission to create a
well-coordinated and unified force to advocate for
women's health equity—from prevention and
diagnosis, to treatment and cure. Coalition
members represent a wide variety of the nation's
most prominent organizations Including those
working towards female empowerment, equitable
healthcare access, civil rights, and more.
Membership in the Coalition is open and will
continue to grow.
Hadassah is the largest Jewish women’s
organization in the United States. With 330,000
members, associates and supporters across
the country, Hadassah brings Jewish women
together to effect change and advocate on
critical issues such as medical care and
research, women's empowerment, and the
security of Israel. Through the Hadassah Medical
Organization's (HMO) two hospitals, the
world-renowned trauma center and the leading
research facility in Jerusalem, Hadassah
supports the delivery of exemplary patient care
to over a million people every year. HMO serves
without regard to race, religion or nationality and
earned a Nobel Peace Prize Nomination in 2005
for building “bridges to peace” through equality
in medical treatment.
Women and men present different symptoms for
For more information, visit www.hadassah.org.
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Shalom Fund
Keepers
May 2015
of the Gate
Jan Abrams - In memory of daughter Jeanne
Roth; In memory of husband Henry Abrams.
Bette Hyman - In memory of grandmother Sonia
Lack; In memory of grandfather Morris Melnikoff.
Major Gifts
Bonnie Albert - In honor of Gabrielle Perlstein;
In honor of Hailey Perlstein.
Judy Cohen
407-330-2585
Thelma Alexander - In honor of granddaughter
Rachel Schwartz for receiving a Fulbright
Scholarship.
Susan Livingstone - In honor of Sid Berman; In
honor of my board; In memory of my mother
Ena Levine
Chai Society
Fayge Cohen - Have a wonderful summer and a
Happy Mother’s day to all.
Planned Giving
Paula Rubin
407-333-0702
Catering
Judy Cohen - In honor of my birthday.
Zelda Siskind - Happy birthday granddaughter
Millie G.; Happy mother’s Day to all.
Joy Dreyfus - Thank you from Karen Burnstein
for all your kind expressions of sympathy.
Bonnie Toborowsky - In memory of friend
Armand Ostroff.
Jo Fischer - In honor of Sid Berman’s special
birthday.
Susan Witt - In honor of granddaughter Liliana
Witt’s 1st birthday; In honor of Amy Witt’s
birthday.
Viviane Flax - In honor of Irving Taitelbaum’s
birthday; In honor of Stanley Weinroth’s birthday.
Coordinator
Claudia Glick - In honor of Bert Glick; In honor
of Michael and Avi Glick; In honor of Jeff and
Keri Glick.
Edith Schulman
Shalom Fund
Chairperson
Marlene Adler
Sherry Wright - In honor of my son Michael’s
new business endeavor.
Printing Human Tissue From Stem Cells
(Continued from Page 4)
Claudia Glick
Ad Hoch
Marilyn Schwartz - Wishing all a happy, healthy
summer; In honor of our 65th trip to Israel this
summer; In memory of the Holocaust survivors
of Kibbutz Sereni.
Different bio-inks carry different types of cells.
A third type of ink that doesn’t include stem cells
solidifies the result. “After all, you don’t want a
pulp of ingredients but a structure which
resembles a tissue,” Dror said. After the tissue is
printed, it’s sent to Accellta for incubation
While 3D bio printing is a “very hot topic,” Dror
said, Nano Dimension isn’t giving up on its PCB
business. At the end of the first quarter of 2016,
the public company had $7.6 million in the bank,
and will soon start rolling out its first commercial
3D printers for PCB production.
Nano Dimension’s stock price soared 17 percent
on the day it announced its stem-cell printing
collaboration with Accellta. The company has
also filed a patent application for its method.
Dror may spend his days thinking about 3D
printers and stem cells, but at night, he can kick
back with a locally brewed whiskey. Along with
Nano Dimension chief business officer Simon
Fried, Dror cofounded Tel Aviv’s Milk and Honey
Distillery, which makes bourbon and rye-based
whiskies, and in 2018 will release Israel’s first
kosher single malt as a special bonus exclusively
for supporters of Milk and Honey’s Indiegogo
crowdfunding campaign.
,
The rest of us will have to wait a bit longer —
unless, of course, Nano Dimension starts printing
whiskey as the next evolution of its 3D expertise.
Nano Dimension CEO Amit Dror
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