SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL
For Every Great Man Stands
A Great Woman Beside Him
Story and Photos by Tim Boxer
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National Women’s Division of Shaare Zedek Medical Center of
Jerusalem paid tribute to three notable women at its annual luncheon
program at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
There was sculptor/interior deisgner
Lynn Syms, philanthropist Jean Gluck and radiologist Dr.
Monique Katz.
"To be an honoree is a mitzvah—like
maror," exclaimed Dr. Katz. She is the division chief of the Heart
Center Department of Radiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Marjorie Blenden, chair of the Women’s
Division, related how Shaare Zedek medical team was the first to
arrive after the earthquake struck Haiti in January.
"Our team delivered six babies. This was a
field hospital, not used to delivering babies. They specialized in
treating wounds.
"There were no cribs in the city so they
put the babies in salad bowls."
Barbara Gluck Weichselbaum paid
tribute to her parents, who sponsored the Jean and Eugen Gluck
Department of General Pediatrics in the new Wilf Children’s
Hospital.
"The saying goes that behind every great
man stands a great woman," Barbara said. "In our family the saying
goes that for every great man stands a great woman beside him."
