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Women’s Zionist Organization of America, founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold. The name is the Babylonian name of Queen Esther (Esther 2:7). The purpose of the organization in America is to make known and foster Jewish ideals and culture, and in Israel to establish hospitals, schools, visiting nurse associations, and other welfare agencies. It consists of more than 1,200 chapters and has a membership of over 300,000.
A theatrical company that performs plays in Hebrew. It originated in Moscow in 191 among actors planning to go eventually to Palestine. Stanislavsky lent his aid and set his assistant, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, to training them. Habima (meaning “theater” in Hebrew) made a succesful debut in 1918 with four aone-act plays and thereafter beacame a studio of Stanislavsky’s Moscow Art Theater. Read the rest of this entry »
