Hadassah Etz Aviv Group Celebrates 25 Years
The event recalled the group’s legacy and honored its members.
Hadassah Greater Atlanta’s Etz Aviv Group celebrated its 25th birthday on Sunday, Oct. 5, at Reunion Kitchen & Bar in Marietta. The focus of the event was to honor all of the group’s members, whose commitment led Etz Aviv through these years. Each member participated in a candle lighting ceremony. The presentation ended with everyone pledging their continued commitment to Hadassah’s aims and purposes. Hadassah is the largest women’s Zionist organization in the United States.
In August 1999, about a dozen women, ranging in age from their 20s to 60s, met to discuss the possible formation of a Hadassah group in the northwest Cobb County area. It was a wonderful experience, unique to most of them, to be in a room with Jewish women only, and the feeling of sisterhood was immediately evident.
The seeds were planted regarding a new Hadassah Group. The idea took root and began to sprout into a tree – a “Tree of Spring” – Etz Aviv. Etz Aviv had a major milestone event in 2013 honoring their bat mitzvah, and then in 2016 the group celebrated their Sweet 16 birthday. This October, the life cycle event was a 25th birthday party.
Adrenne Clayman, Etz Aviv past president explains, “We are Hadassah volunteers, performing mitzvahs in our homes, our communities, throughout the world, and especially in Israel, by doing – not saying; by action – not apathy.”
A member of the current Etz Aviv Presidium, Faith Shatzman, says, “Our tree continues to grow. Its canopy embraces all our Hadassah members, and the members nurtured our tree with commitment.”
With nearly 300,000 global members, Hadassah brings women together to effect change on such critical issues as ensuring Israel’s security, combating antisemitism and promoting women’s health care. Hadassah’s hospitals serve without regard to race, religion, or nationality and, in 2005, earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for building bridges to peace through medicine. For more information about Hadassah and the Atlanta Chapter, go to https://www.hadassah.org/chapter/greater-atlanta
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