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...charitable, fraternal order begun by the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, Crusaders who ruled Rhodes for two centuries and Malta for nearly three, fought Turks and Barbary pirates, and established hospitals all over Europe. The order still retains a vestigial sovereignty: its headquarters in Rome (population at last count: 2) is half the size of a football field, ranks as the world's smallest independent state. The Knights issue passports, exchange diplomatic missions with 20 nations...
...Jesus' teaching and to guide them to truth. At Pentecost, the 50th day after the Resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples in tongues of flame and set them all to speaking in other tongues so vociferously that Peter had to explain to the crowd in Jerusalem that they were not drunk, "seeing it is but the third hour...
...home, Henrietta Szold wondered whether the flies must always return, whether trachoma need be as prevalent as the common cold, whether men and women must forever be debilitated by malnutrition and malaria. To her, the answer lay in Jeremiah's second question. In Jerusalem there were only twelve doctors; in all Palestine only 45. On the Feast of Purim in February 1912, Henrietta Szold rallied U.S. women Zionists into an organization she called Hadassah (original Hebrew name for Queen Esther), made the betterment of Palestine's health its prime goal...
Plague after Plague. Last week 254 physicians, 514 nurses and 1,352 other staff members of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center poured out of Jerusalem to the nearby village of Ein Karim, reputed birthplace of John the Baptist, to dedicate a $31 million building. U.S. Ambassador Ogden R. Reid, who has been learning the language, gave a slow, well-enunciated greeting in Hebrew. And everyone agreed, on the centenary of Henrietta Szold's birth, that medicine has come a long way in Israel...
...first Hadassah nurses sent to Palestine had rough going under the Turks, who regarded them as missionaries. In World War I Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis urged Hadassah to send a full medical unit to the war-torn land. In the summer of 1918 the unit found Jerusalem's population down from 50,000 to 26,000; men, women and children half naked and only half alive, fought in the streets for scraps of garbage. Plague followed plague: malaria, typhus, influenza, cholera, dysentery, and the dread Black Death itself. Sent to Tiberias by British General Allenby, a Hadassah team...