For additional information or to RSVP,
please contact Arlene at the Columbus Hadassah office
2700 East Main Street, Columbus, OH 43209 (614) 235-8111 columbus@hadassah.org
Please join Hadassah for these fun chapter events.
Sunday, June 13
Northside Hadassah Lunch—12 noon
at Yosick’s Artisan Chocolates, 539 South Fifth Avenue, German Village. This charming chocolate shop/restaurant/coffee shop is owned by Hadassah member Kristy Yosick. Her dairy breakfast, lunch and dinner offerings and artfully delicious dark chocolates are Vaad certified. Yosick’s is located in a corner brownstone storefront two blocks south of Livingston with plenty of nearby street parking. Please RSVP to Arlene at the Hadassah office. Northside Hadassah is chaired by Judy Borus.
June 14-18 Hadassah office closed for vacation
Wednesday, June 16
Video Study Group—7 p.m. (not 7:30) at a home in Bexley to begin watching Exodus, starring Paul Newman. We will continue our discussion of the history of modern Zionism, what type of Zionists Israel’s first leaders were, differences between the Haganah, Irgun and Stern gang, etc. We are meeting in homes over the summer, not at Agudas Achim, and on the 16th we’ll choose a date to finish watching and discussing Exodus. Please RSVP to Arlene at the Hadassah office.
Sunday, June 27
Installation Brunch—11 a.m. at the Marriott Airport, 1375 North Cassady.
You are invited to enjoy Installation of the Columbus Hadassah Board and honoring Executive Director Arlene Armstrong for 10 years service to the chapter.
“The past 10 years have brought me valuable experiences, warm friends and an extra 10 pounds,” she reminisces. “I’m looking forward to enjoying blintzes, bagels & lox, eggs, potatoes and homemade rugalach with Hadassah friends at the Installation brunch. I hope you can join us!”
Installing Officer: Paula Jarnicki, of the Central States Region Executive Committee
Your $18 check, received at the Hadassah office by June 24, is your reservation. If you need a ride or are willing to drive others, please let Arlene know when you RSVP. For information, give her a call at the Hadassah office, 235-8111.
Sunday, July 18
Jennie Roland Evening Book Group: Money....Munchies...Movie—5:30 p.m. at a home in Northwest Columbus. A full evening is planned, beginning with a mini-fundraiser to thank Hadassah for supporting our interest in reading works written by or about Jewish people or Jewish interests. The mini-fundraiser will be a book exchange. We are suggesting a $5 dollar donation for the evening. Participants are asked to bring books they are ready to pass along. Ladies making a donation may choose books to adopt from the donated books.
July is our movie meeting. The featured film is Arranged, a light, romantic movie. When Rochel and Nasira — an Orthodox Jew and a Muslim — meet as new teachers at a Brooklyn school, co-workers and students expect friction. But the women discover they have a shared expectation of entering into arranged marriages. As they experience tension between their traditional cultures and life in contemporary America, Rochel and Nasira form a special bond.
This home will accommodate no more than 25, so please RSVP now. Priority is given to Hadassah members. Reservations will be accepted in the order received.
Please RSVP to Arlene at columbus@hadassah.org. Dinner will be parve/dairy potluck. When you RSVP, please let Arlene know what you plan to bring.
July 25-28 National Hadassah Convention—Hollywood, Florida
Week of August 9
Entertainment Books delivered. Buy or sell books before October 1 and receive five free Hadassah greeting cards. This year’s book includes a coupon for the Easton Town Center's new Yagööt store. Their healthy frozen yogurt is yummy!
September 3-6 Hadassah office closed in observance of Labor Day
September 9-10 Hadassah office closed for Rosh Hashanah
Monday, September 13
Jennie Roland Evening Book Group—7 p.m. Location TBA. The reading selection will be The Covenant by Naomi Ragen. Please RSVP to Arlene at columbus@hadassah.org.
The Covenant features a kidnapped oncologist on staff at Hadassah Hospital. Ragen, an American writer who's lived in Israel for more than 30 years, blends tragedies of the past with headline news of today in her gripping, emotionally charged sixth novel.
It's 2002, and the Margulies family—oncologist Jonathan; his pregnant, American-born wife, Elise; and their daughter, Ilana—are contentedly living in a Jerusalem settlement, until one day, on their way home, Jonathan and Ilana are kidnapped by Hamas. Elise's frantic call to her Bubbe Leah in Brooklyn reunites four women—now grandmas and great-grandmas—who, as girls, made the titular covenant: if they survived Auschwitz, they would become "one person, risking everything, giving everything, to help each other live in happiness all the days of our lives." Leah gathers up fellow New Yorker Esther, now a cosmetics millionaire; Paris nightclub owner Ariana; and Polish political activist Maria to help find the kidnap victims. It's a race against time, as the women wield their considerable influence and the Israeli army desperately tries to intercede with the kidnappers before the captives are killed.
Ragen weaves in deeper, more serious undertones than the thriller plot suggests, touching on the stubborn pride and the serious purpose that keeps Israelis fighting (or, in some cases, not fighting) for their fragile country, "the land that God promised to the Jewish people in his Covenant to Abraham."
Friday, September 17 Hadassah office closes at 1 p.m. for erev Yom Kippur
Saturday, September 18 Yom Kippur
September 23-24 Hadassah office closed for Sukkot
Thursday, September 30 Hadassah office closed for Shemini Atzeret
Friday, October 1 Hadassah office closed for Simchat Torah
November 25-26 Hadassah office closed in observance of Thanksgiving
Friday, December 24 Hadassah office closed for Christmas
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