WHAT'S HAPPENING AT BNAI ZION

	See a moving VIDEO PRESENTATION: Bnai Zion Medical Center on the frontlines during the 2006 war with Hezbollah

National Awards Dinner Held at Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, May 18

A large group turned out for our Centennial Celebration Dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in NY.

The three honorees are shown below, left to right: June Walker, Hadassah Past President and Chairperson of the Conference of Presidents; Jack Grunspan, Bnai Zion Executive Vice-President, and the actress Tovah Feldshuh, recipient of the Ohav Shalom Award.

A new video highlighting Bnai Zion’s hundred years of accomplishments debuted at the dinner (and will soon be available on this website! Please check back soon.)

George W. Schaeffer, BZ National President,
presenting the Ohav Shalom award to Tovah Feldshuh.

Our 100th Anniversary Mission to Israel takes place June 23 to July 3 and promises to be a very exciting and memorable journey.  Details about this mission can be found on our National Events page.

AHAVA VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH

just built a new building with apartments for former-Ahava-residents-now-soldiers who do not have families to return to.

This building has apartments reserved for soldiers, national service persons and demobilized soldiers who do not have a family, for whom Ahava staff serve as mentors and support, so that these young adults can have a warm and welcoming home whether on leave or post-service.

Soldiers make periodic home visits but those raised at Ahava do not always have family to return to.  With these apartments they have a relaxing and familiar environment to come home to with the encouragement of caring Ahava staff to help them during holidays, weekends and other times when soldiers are given leave.  Ahava staff also provide ongoing phone support for these soldiers to call in whenever they need an understanding ear or help moving forward.

We will provide more information about this meaningful addition to Ahava shortly.

BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER has a new initiative in the Maternity Department: every new mother receives an album of photographs of her and her baby, taken by a professional photographer.

This is a lovely gesture and a marvelous keepsake that new parents treasure.  

At the recent Haifa International Film Festival, one of the films was about the history of AHAVA VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH.  It was directed by Ayelet Bargur, the great-great grandniece of Beate Berger, who founded Ahava in 1922 in Berlin. 

The film, 'The House on August Street,' won second place in the documentary films competition and won first place for editing.

It is the story of Beate Berger's courageous decision during the early 1930s to save Jewish children in need from Nazi Germany, and the unique rescue operation that followed. She succeeded in bringing the children to the new Ahava, built near Haifa Bay (then Palestine). This is a film about one woman who had the historical vision and understanding of reality in 1933 that few others had, and it is a film about love that is the essence of Ahava.