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Hadassah to pay back $45 million of Madoff gains

Hadassah: The Women’s Zionist Organization of America will pay back $45 million of the money it made in the Bernard Madoff scam, according to a settlement it reached with the trustee of Madoff’s estate.

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Is Hadassah cutting a deal with Picard to avoid a clawback lawsuit?

The Fundermentalist is hearing now that Hadassah may have avoided a lawsuit by cutting a deal with Irving Picard, the trustee for Bernard Madoff’s estate, that could be approved by the organization’s board Thursday.

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Taubman gives Hadassah $300,000 to fight ALS

Detroit-based philanthropist’s gift is for stem cell research to fight Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

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Ex-Hadassah chief to become head of Birthright NEXT amid expansion

Birthright NEXT has announced new professional and lay leadership, among plans for expansion.

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Hadassah fight could come to a head Thursday

The outgoing director of the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, Shlomo Mor-Yosef, is pushing for an additional two years on the job. The doctors now say they want him for five. The issue could come to a head Thursday, when Mor-Yosef meets in New York with Hadassah’s president, Nancy Falchuk.

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Hadassah facing demands from hospital staff

The relationship between Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America and the staff at the Hadassah Medical Organization, the hospital in Jerusalem it founded and owns, has taken a confrontational twist, as the doctors’ union has called for the hospital’s board to be replaced.

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A year later, Hadassah says it is ok after Madoff

After being raked over the coals by the media over the past year for its heavy investments that it had with Bernard Madoff, Hadassah is getting some somewhat positive press over how it has navigated the crisis.

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On scam’s anniversary, more on Madoff

On the anniversary of the day that Bernard Madoff made his confession that he had ripped of billions of dollars, the media is filled with retrospection.

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Bloomberg News: Madoff trustee now says charity clawbacks possible

After months of skirting the question, Irving Picard has told Bloomberg News that he may indeed go after charities that profited from their investments with Bernard Madoff

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