Szold

[ zohld ]

noun

1. Henrietta, 1860–1945, U.S. Zionist: founded Hadassah in 1912.

Example Sentences

In its early days the restaurant drew a steady stream of shoppers from Szold’s department store — now the City of Refuge Worship Center — across the street.

From Washington Post

In its early days the restaurant drew a steady stream of shoppers from Szold’s department store — now the City of Refuge Worship Center — across the street.

From Seattle Times

The seminary did not start ordaining women as rabbis until the mid-1980s, but Schwartz noted that it admitted the first woman to its academic programs in 1902: Henrietta Szold, founder of the Jewish women’s volunteer organization Hadassah, who took classes in advanced Jewish studies at a time when the rabbinical school was for men only.

From Washington Post

The seminary did not start ordaining women as rabbis until the mid-1980s, but Schwartz noted that it admitted the first woman to its academic programs in 1902: Henrietta Szold, founder of the Jewish women’s volunteer organization Hadassah, who took classes in advanced Jewish studies at a time when the rabbinic school was for men only.

From Washington Times

What is less known is that this situation is an important result of work in the early 1930s by Henrietta Szold, born and raised in Baltimore, the daughter of a rabbi.

From Washington Post