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{weblog_name} - Henrietta Szold Should Be Included
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I must confess. I can’t rest easy. I’ve been writing an ongoing Jewish Times feature on the first JCC Hall of fame inductees, and one really important person isn’t on the first list. I’m sorry, I can’t live with it. So please, JCC nomination committee and all of those who have worked so hard on this, don’t be offended. I really mean no offense. But I really think that an exception should be made and Henrietta Szold’s should be added to the list of June 12 inductees. The nomination committee had the daunting task of cutting down a list of 220 names, and they managed to get it down to 11. This had to be difficult in itself. But sometimes I think we can be so close to a situation and so passionate about reaching a goal, that we… read more

Excerpted from Tom Segev’s book “The Seventh Million”:

“Henrietta Szold, who headed the Jewish Agency’s social work division, also frequently protested about the sick and needy among the immigrants.  From time to time Szold demanded that such “cases” be returned to Nazi Germany so that they would not be a burden on the yishuv.”

Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame?