Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Henrietta Szold
Born: December 21, 1860
Died: February 13, 1945 (aged 84)
Bio: Henrietta Szold was a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Palestine dedicated to a binational solution.
Known for:
- Recent Jewish Progress in Palestine (1915)
- Lost love
- Henrietta Szold, Life and Letters (1942)