From the April - May  2001 Edition 

Hadassah's Woman of the Year   Fair Lawn Hadassah will hold their annual Woman of the Year cocktail party on Saturday evening, April 28, 2001 at The Barnert Temple, 747 Route 208 South in Franklin Lakes.  Andrea Pass is being honored as the Fair Lawn Hadassah Woman of the Year for the 2000-2001 year.   For a donation of $18 or more, this special evening will include hors d'oeuvres and refreshments and an original, musical tribute to Ms. Pass, written and performed by chapter members.   Ms. Pass is a past president of the Fair Lawn Chapter of Hadassah.  On the chapter level, she also held the Executive Board portfolios of Program Vice President, Membership Vice President, and Acting Fundraising Vice-President.  In 1993, Ms. Pass founded The Fair Lawn Hadassah Mother's Connection (later changed to The Young Women's Connection), a special interest group targeted towards women ages 45 and under.  The Young Women's Connection brought in over 80 new young women to the chapter.     On the Region level, Ms. Pass currently sits on the Northern New Jersey Region of Hadassah Executive Board as the Membership Coordinator. She was the recipient of Hadassah's National Judith Epstein Young Leadership Award in 1997 for her Hadassah L.I.F.E. (Leadership, Involvement, Family, Education) Program.    In addition, Andrea traveled to Israel with Hadassah as part of a National Hadassah Young Leaders Mission to Israel in September 1997. Inspired by her experiences in Israel and in Hadassah, Ms. Pass decided to pursue becoming an Adult Bat Mitzvah. Her Bat Mitzvah will take place on Saturday, June 23rd, 2001, at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center.   Andrea Pass and her husband Scott have two children who attend Radburn School.  A graduate of Fair Lawn High School, Ms. Pass went on to Glassboro State College and graduated with a BA in Communications with a concentration in radio, TV, film and Public Relations. She currently serves as Vice-President for a full-service public relations firm based in Woodcliff Lake, NJ.   Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is a volunteer women's organization, whose members are motivated and inspired to strengthen their partnership with Israel, ensure Jewish continuity, and realize their potential as a dynamic force in American society. In Israel, Hadassah supports state of the art medical care and research, education, youth institutions, and reforestation projects. In the U.S., Hadassah promotes health education, social action, and advocacy, and Jewish education and research.    The Fair Lawn Hadassah Chapter promotes education and Zionist youth programs as well as health awareness. The chapter holds general meetings and programs every month in addition to book reviews, study groups, membership and fundraising events. The chapter's next general meeting, a special Holocaust commemoration program, will take place on Monday, April 23rd, 2001, at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center. Special guest speaker will be Max Rubinstein, a survivor of the Kinder Transport to England.    For more information about Fair Lawn Hadassah, contact chapter Co-Presidents:  Suzanne Berman or Barbara Rothstein     For National Hadassah's information page, see http://www.hadassah.org