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“A Queen to the Rescue” tells the story of Henrietta Szold
By IRENA KARSHENBAUM There has been renewed interest recently in the life of Henrietta Szold, whose name is not as well known as it should be given that she saved 11,000 children from perishing in the Holocaust and improved the lives of millions of people.
The near simultaneous publication of two books based on her life — a biography by Dvora Hacohen, recently translated from Hebrew, “To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah,” and an illustrated children’s book by Nancy Churnin, “A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah” — finally shines a light on this extraordinary woman who persevered through personal heartbreak while living through difficult times to do work she saw as needing to be done.
Both book titles carry the name of the organization she founded, Hadassah, as how it is known in the United States. (In Canada, it is called, Canadian Hadassah-WIZO.) Remarkably, she founded two other organizations prior to founding what would become the largest Jewish women’s Zionist organization in the world. As a young woman living in her native Baltimore, when she saw new immigrants treated poorly on account of their poverty and lack of English skills, Henrietta founded a night school where they could study English and vocational skills to enable them to find better employment. When she saw that not enough Jewish books were being published, she became the founding editor of The Jewish Publication Society, today considered the preeminent publisher of Jewish books in English, overseeing the publication of books, writing articles, translating works, while carrying the title of “secretary,” at a time when women could not hold jobs.
These contributions would have been enough for most people, but Henrietta persisted. What launched this most productive phase was personal heartbreak. After learning that a young Talmudic scholar, Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, for whom she secretly carried a torch, was going to marry another, much younger, woman by the name of Adele Katzenstein, Henrietta fell into a deep depression. She rose up from the ashes of her unrequited love like a phoenix and set sail for pre-state Israel where she went on to achieve her greatest work, through Hadassah.
So how do you tell such a difficult and complicated life story to children?
Educated at Harvard and Columbia University, Bronx-born Nancy Churnin worked for years as a journalist, and finally, after receiving numerous rejections from publishers for an earlier children’s book manuscript, decided to hone her skills as a children’s book writer at a writing program sponsored by PJ Library. It was here, Churnin, being a lifetime member of Hadassah, discovered there had not been a picture book written about Henrietta Szold. She quickly realized why, “There was simply too much to say about her.” With further research, Churnin found “the kid friendly element” when she seized on Henrietta’s love of the Purim story. She explains, “Hadassah was the Hebrew name for Queen Esther, Hadassah was founded on Purim and kids love to celebrate Purim.”
What has resulted is a smart picture book for children that teaches history, hard work and not giving up to despair while living through dark times. It is a story for our time. The beauty of the book is that it is the antithesis of a fairy tale or a sugary sweet Disney story that gives children cerebral cavities and distorts their thinking with illusions. “A Queen to the Rescue” is honest, yet manages to broach difficult subjects in a sensitive, engaging manner helping to teach empathy and spark intelligent conversations.
Yevgenia Nayberg, who illustrated the book, deserves special praise for her beautiful drawings that have turned this work into objet d’art for little hands.
In January, the Jewish Book Council announced the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, which included Hacohen’s “To Repair a Broken World” (Harvard University Press) receiving the Book of the Year and the Biography Awards and the prolific Churnin received the Children’s Picture Book Award, yet for another work, “Dear Mr. Dickens” (Albert Whitman & Co).
Churnin, who makes her home in Plano, Texas, concludes, “Henrietta lived through the Civil War, World War I, she didn’t even live to see the end of World War II, but she never gave up. This sends a message to kids. It’s actually comforting because it’s saying there are amazing people who lived through dark times, maybe even darker than ours. They kept the light burning. They managed to do good things. They managed to move the moral arch of the universe towards justice. You can do that too. They didn’t do that with wealth. They didn’t do that with power. They showed that we can all do it.”
“A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah”
by Nancy Churnin
Illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg
Creston Books, Berkeley, California
$24.99
Nancy Churnin will be reading “A Queen to the Rescue” to children in time for Purim on Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 11:30 am CT over Zoom. Children are asked to wear a Purim costume. Tickets can be purchased at www.chw.ca.
Irena Karshenbaum writes in Calgary. irenakarshenbaum.com
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Musings from Dizengoff Street – by Bruce Brown
(August 8, 2026)
Outside Basimta Café in Central Jerusalem. Love the red shirt against a tiny sea of black. Not sure I am shrugging because of the ultra-orthodox uproar over a Jerusalem café operating on Shabbat or the lack of an ultra-orthodox uproar over a Jerusalem café operating on Shabbat. For the last six weeks Israeli headlines shouted about the cafe chaos. With the ultra-religious blocking entrances and storming the café. While shouting ‘Shabbos! Shabbos!’ Upsetting the secular amongst us just wanting to enjoy our Saturday iced matchas. So the wife and I thought we would check it out. And. Yes. Buy something to support the business. Uproar. Not. Blocked entrances. Not. Storming the café. Not. Albeit there were police barriers separating the devout protesters from the coffee drinkers. The protesters being just a few dozen black clad, pious Jews. Mostly teenagers. And yes. Shouting ‘Shabbos! Shabbos!’ Certainly underwhelming in its reported mayhem. Reminds me of the famous saying misattributed to Mark Twain – “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do, you’re misinformed.” But I did enjoy my iced matcha.
(August 6, 2026)
Here we go again. Another round of forever negotiations. As someone who negotiates for a living. The way things are going in the straits. If I had to recommend a book on the subject to a new hire. Between The Art of the Deal, A Presidential Edition by Donald J. Trump or The Real Art of the Deal by the Mullahs of Iran with a special forward by the IRGC. Well. I would choose the latter.
(August 3)
Bravo Yoav Segalovitz, Liberal Yesh Atid MK and Monsour Abbas, United Arab Ra’am MK and party head. For breaking a glass ceiling where a Jewish lawmaker joins an Arab political party. No less a political earthquake in my little shtetl. Which can significantly impact coalition block arithmetic and posturing and strategy in the upcoming elections. Now Ra’am can be considered a legitimate ‘Zionist’ partner when forming coalition blocks and potentially pushing the ‘center left/right’ party over the 60 seat majority threshold. In our crazy parliamentary democracy defined by a multi-party (about fourteen!!), proportional representation system. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Israel’s proportional representation model of governance is the best parliamentary democracy system except for all other forms of working democracies. Stay tuned for more amateurish political musings as we move towards Israel’s 26th national election – five of them held since 2019.
(August 1)
Although both sides say they are open to diplomacy. Neither really trusts the other. And American military action, or its threat, continues. I read headlines in the middle of the night -it’s a nervous habit lately– that the Dynamic Duo of Trump and Netanyahu may again strike in unison. Possibly this weekend. Yikes! Prompting me, at 2:30 AM, to dash around the house stocking my safe room. Bottled water. Canned food. Medicines. Documents. The beat goes on….
If it’s crazy here. It’s insane in Italy. With a recent online ‘Jew Hunt’ in the Milan area. Before being removed, the digital forms urged reportings of Israelis and Italian Jews staying in local hotels. The infamous Global Sumud Movement -yes, the one coordinating ‘peace and humanitarian’ flotillas to Gaza- was somehow connected. Although they deny involvement?! This deranged decree was looking to identify Zionist tourism and Zionist neo-colonization in Italy. I’ll stick with stocking the saferoom.
Then there’s New York Mayor Mamdani, a Global Sumud Movement supporter, threatening to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu if he comes to New York. But since discovered he has no legal right for such a grandstanding, antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-Western, anti-democratic antic. Maybe Mandami should be arrested! Or at least impeached. For being a grandstanding, antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-Western, anti-democratic mayor.
Here’s a post Bruce sent us Friday, July 31:
WARTIME MUSINGS
Should credible threats against FLOTUS and ‘FSOTUS’ (first son..) not be justification to attack first.
As for yesterday’s summit. Netanyahu really can’t win. Explainer. If Trump now attacks without victory its ’cause of Netanyahu. If Trump now attacks with victory its ’cause of Trump. And, in Israel, if Trump doesn’t attack -victory or not- Netanyahu failed in his eighth meeting with Trump. And if Trump does attack -victory or not- half the country will vilify Bibi anyway. Missing a permutation?
Ya. I know. Kinda’ need a definition of victory for that musing to work.
And here in my little shtetle. We go to sleep unsure if there will be a code red in the middle of the night. And if not. We wake up thinking it will be tonight. How do you define stress?
Seemed like an appropriate way to end this musing.
Bruce Brown is a former Winnipegger who made aliyah to Israel over 35 years ago. Bruce first began writing for us – in his own inimitable style, in 2012, during what was known as “Operation Pillar of Defense.” His occasional musings on aspects of life in Israel that were far from what you’d typically read in other reports from Israel were hugely popular – both in the print Jewish Post & News and on this website.
We’re now glad to report that Bruce is back writing for us – this time on a regular basis. We will post Bruce’s reports as they arrive – with the date of each post at the beginning of that post.
Here’s some information about Bruce – and awards he’s received for his writing:
Bruce Brown. Canadian born. Now living in Israel (for a long time). Bruce works in Israel’s hi-tech sector by day and, in spurts, is a somewhat inspired writer by night. He received the American Jewish Press Association’s award for writing excellence in 2019 and 2025. And wrote the 1998 satire, “An Israeli is….” Bruce’s musings are political, social, economic and personal. With lots of biting, contrarian, sardonic and irreverent insight.
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