Guest Blog: Nurse Libbie

Posted on April 21, 2017
Amniotic Fluid, Atlanta, Batmitzvah, birth, Embolism, Hadassah Heroes, Labour, Libbee Goldstein, Midwife
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Hadassah / Hospital / Jerusalem / Nurse / Uncategorized

Chapter Four : The Weismark Miracle Kinneret Weismark was born with a big BANG! Her mother, Ilana Weismark, suffered an Amniotic Fluid Embolism – a rare (1 in 30,000 women), life threatening childbirth emergency during the hours of labour. Thanks to the wonderful team of doctors and nurses at the Hadassah Medical Centre, both Ilana…

Guest Blog- Hadassah Medical Clown -Nehama

by Mark Addleman

Posted on April 20, 2017
Arabic, Clown, Dream Doctors, joy, laughter, Nazim Alghazali, Patients, Play, Red nose
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Nehama’s Story Chapter 2 One of the special things I feel about working in Hadassah Hospital is the gathering of people from all nations, ages and religions. For me,- helping two children, one who speaks only Arabic and the other with a kippah (skullcap -therefore a religious Jewish child), to connect and play with each…

The Young Gazan who fell in love with clowning.

by Mark Addleman

Posted on March 30, 2017
al-Rantisi, Barashi, Dream Doctors, Eitan Kerem, Gaza, Gazan, I Clown You, Israel
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Cancer / Hadassah / Hospital / Jerusalem / Medical Clown

Adam Rasgon Jerusalem Post 20/03/17 Abu Shaaban, a medical clown from central Gaza, was inspired to work as a medical clown after first receiving treatment in Israel as a cancer patient. “Where are you from?” a young girl being treated at Hadassah University Medical Centre in Jerusalem asked Abdullah Abu Shaaban, a medical clown from…

GUEST BLOG: ALY’S STORY

by Mark Addleman

Posted on March 21, 2017
Aliyah, Aly's Story, Hospital Staff, Multiple Sclerosis, Purim
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Cancer / Donate / Hadassah / Hospital / Jerusalem / Nonprofit

Guest Blog: Aly’s Story- Chapter 3 I woke early this morning – on Purim – in my own bed, in my own apartment in Modiin – and pondered over the past year. Exactly one year ago today, Purim 5776, I had my first stay at Hadassah where I underwent a biopsy on my brain tumour.…

Guest Blog- Hadassah Medical Clown -Nehama

by Mark Addleman

Posted on March 1, 2017
Dream Doctors, happy, IV treatment, joy, laughter, Patients, Play, Red nose, smile
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Chapter One: Hadassah Medical Clown “opening her heart” surgery My name is Nehama Perel and I work at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem as a medical clown. When it was first suggested that I take a medical clown course I immediately said “no way”. I couldn’t imagine myself standing beside a crying, scared kid in a…

Hadassah Perform Israel’s First Spina Bifida Foetal Surgery

by Mark Addleman

Posted on February 28, 2017
Fetal surgery, Spina Bifida
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Hadassah / Hospital / Jerusalem / Nonprofit / Surgery

Hadassah’s Foetal Medicine Specialist is one of only three doctors worldwide using new Spina Bifida in-utero surgery technique. History was made at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on Thursday, February 9 when a team of Israeli surgeons successfully operated on a 5-month-old foetus using a new procedure that only three doctors in the…

Guest Blog: Nurse Libbie

by Mark Addleman

Posted on February 15, 2017
birth, Hadassah Heroes, Hebrew University, Henrietta Szold, Libbie Goldstein, Midwife
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Creative / Education / Hadassah / Hospital / Jerusalem / Nonprofit / Nurse

Chapter Three: For you have returned my life to me * Every morning when I awake, I put my two feet on the ground and gratefully thank the almighty for returning my soul to me. This is the start for each and every day. Having been through a life threatening disease has taught me to…

Medical Marijuana in the Promised Land

by Mark Addleman

Posted on January 26, 2017
Alternative Medicine, cannabis, illegal drug, Marijuana, Tikun Olam
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Hadassah / Jerusalem / News / Nonprofit

Medical Marijuana in the Promised Land A background A farm inland from Caesarea, looks rather similar to others in this vicinity. It is enclosed with high walls and its curved roofs of its greenhouses are visible from the outside. As one enters, , everything is clear. A profound aroma can be smelt. This is “Breath…

Helping Ethiopian Israeli Find Careers in Nursing

by Mark Addleman

Posted on January 23, 2017
Ethiopian, Hebrew University, Nursing
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Education / Hadassah / Hospital / Jerusalem / Nonprofit

Baza “Maya” Alemitu trained as a medic in the Israel Defense Forces. “I loved it. All I wanted after my army service was to be a nurse,” says the Ethiopian-born 26-year-old. “I was shattered when my psychometric grade wasn’t anywhere near high enough, I thought, to get into any nursing school in Israel.” Although Alemitu…

Guest Blog: Aly’s story

by Mark Addleman

Posted on January 11, 2017
Aliyah, Aly's Story, Brain Tumour, Jerusalem, Multiple Sclerosis
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Cancer / Creative / Hadassah / Hospital / Nonprofit

Guest Blog: Aly’s Story- Chapter 2 Chanukah Samiach and Season’s greetings to all. As I sit here watching the light of the first candle reflect the wonderful miracle of Chanukah, I also reflect on the miracles being performed daily at Hadassah hospital. Some of the fantastic pictures on the website here bear testament to those…

Guest Blog: Nurse Libbie

by Mark Addleman

Posted on January 9, 2017
Hadassah Heroes, Libbie Goldstein
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Creative / Education / Hadassah / Hospital / Nonprofit

Chapter Two: The circles of my life It is said that a single photo can tell a story better than a thousand words. In our day and age each smart phone contains millions of photos and often people have innumerable words to add to them. Ten years ago times were different and much simpler. We…

Childless couple have first child

by Tammy Schwarz

Posted on December 2, 2016
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Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, have for 30 years been fortunate to know Rabbi Yitzhak and Sima Peretz. Both 49 years of age have longed for children and have prayed for this moment for many years. Residents of the Givat Shaul neighbourhood of Jerusalem, they diligently prepared food for the hospital on Shabbat over all these…

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Guest Blog: Nurse Libbie

Guest Blog- Hadassah Medical Clown -Nehama

The Young Gazan who fell in love with clowning.

GUEST BLOG: ALY’S STORY

Guest Blog- Hadassah Medical Clown -Nehama

Hadassah Perform Israel’s First Spina Bifida Foetal Surgery

Guest Blog: Nurse Libbie

Medical Marijuana in the Promised Land

Helping Ethiopian Israeli Find Careers in Nursing

Guest Blog: Aly’s story

Guest Blog: Nurse Libbie

Childless couple have first child

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