Henrietta Szold — Founder of Hadassah and Youth Aliyah

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Henrietta Szold is among the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. She founded Hadassah in 1912, a Jewish women’s service organization, that inspired hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives.  She also helped organize Youth Aliyah, which successfully rescued thousands of Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during the 1930s and transported them to Palestine. The new film, Labors of Love, tells her inspiring story.

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ Friday, February 27 – Monday, March 2, watch the film Labors of Love — The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, March 1 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Abby Ginzberg is the filmmaker of Labors of Love — The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold. She is a Peabody award-winning director who has been producing compelling documentaries about social justice for over 30 years. Her film And Then They Came for Us about the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and Trump’s Muslim travel ban, won a Silver Gavel Award and played in major festivals across the country. Her film Agents of Change about the 1960’s struggle for black and ethnic studies on college campuses premiered at the Pan African Film Festival, where it won the Jury and the Audience Awards for Best Feature Documentary. She holds a BA from Cornell University and a JD from Hastings College of the Law.

Dr. Shulamit Reinharz is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She is interviewed as an expert in the film Labors of Love — The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold.

Deborah Wiskind is a Hadassah National Vice-President. Since finishing her presidency in Hadassah Westchester, she has held various portfolios in the Organization Division, most recently as chair of the Leadership Training and Development Department and served on the National Board since 2021. She earned her undergraduate degree in Art and Art History and an MFA in painting. She is the founder of DeeJ Design, a distributor of promotional products for individuals, business, and non-profit organizations.

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