Dr. Carol Diament

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  - Anti-Semites such as David Duke of the KKK quotes RabbiNorman Lamm of YU and the head of Hadassah: "In 1989 Carol Diament was the National Director of Jewish Education at Hadassah, the Woman's Zionist Organization of America...She was quoted as saying ". . . we are not imparting to our children the responsibility to marry Jews...the greatest threat of all to the future of Diaspora Jewry is intermarriage.' Norman Lamm, president of (Modern Orthodox) Yeshiva University has said that intermarriage between Jews and non- Jews will result in "another Holocaust."...With a diminishing birth rate, an intermarriage rate exceeding 40%, Jewish illiteracy gaining ascendance daily--who says that the Holocaust is over? . . . The monster has assumed a different and more benign form. 3. (Quoted in Peter Novick, THE HOLOCAUST IN AMERICAN LIFE (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999), p.185.). [http://www.duke.org/library/race/bobjones.html]

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  Edited by Hadassah's Director of Jewish Education, Carol Diament, Ph.D., this comprehensive guide features contributions from leading contemporary writers, as well as biblical and Talmudic passages and rabbinic commentaries.Questions for discussion and suggested activities are included to make this a must-have tool for anyone who wants to examine the fascinating and complex world of Jewish women.
  
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  Moonbeams: A Hadassah Rosh Hodesh Guide (Order No. R989) Hadassah Members - $15.00

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  A Book Club Exploring Important Works of Contemporary American Jewish Literature Coordinated by Carol Diament, Director of Education, Hadassah
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  Presenter: Carol Diament

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  DR. CAROL DIAMENTDirector, National Department of Jewish EducationCarol Diament, Ph.D., is Director of the National Department of Jewish Education at Hadassah,
  
  a post she has held since July 1986.The department is responsible for disseminating Jewish and Zionist educational information, materials, and program ideas to Hadassah members and to the American Jewish community.In 1991, under her guidance, the department was awarded the Shazar Prize for Excellence in Jewish Education in the Diaspora from the President of the State of Israel.Before coming to Hadassah, Dr. Diament was professor of Jewish History at Queens College.She earned her doctorate at Yeshiva University, writing on the Eastern European Hebrew press, particularly its role in the development of Zionism.She is the first woman to have completed a doctorate in Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University.Dr. Diament received the Simon Rockower award for excellence in journalism for "How Holy is the Holy Land?"published in Hadassah Magazine.She has edited Moonbeams: A Hadassah Rosh Hodesh Guide, Jewish Women Living the Challenge, Ribcage: Israeli Women's Fiction, Images of Jerusalem: City of David in Modern Hebrew Literature, Reflections on Jerusalem: City of David in Classical Texts, and Zionism: The Sequel.

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  Carol Diament, Ph.D, DirectorPhone: (212) 303-7412

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  "I don't know if they will pray more," said Carol Diament, Hadassah's national director of Jewish education and co-editor of the study guide, "but I think they would be encouraged to be a bat mitzvah.It would connect them more to the Jewish community, and maybe they would come more on Shabbat."
  
  Given the range of observance levels among Hadassah's 300,000 members, Diament, an avowed feminist with a doctorate in Jewish history from Yeshiva University, realized that she could not put out a prayer book, but rather needed to produce a guide that could serve as a companion to prayer books across the denominational spectrum.
  
  "I wanted a traditional approach, so that we could create a polemic," said Diament, explaining the strategy she devised."The book is like a page of Talmud, and in the margins we have all kinds of voices, anybody we could find who was involved in liturgy.And that is really our contribution."
  
  To accomplish the task, Diament had to find someone with whom the progressive voices on liturgy could argue.
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  Diament studied with about 25 of them in preparation for a Sabbath service they were putting together for April.

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  Zionism: The Sequel, edited by Carol Diament, Hadassah Press, 1998

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  In her discussion of medical ethics, Dr. Carol Diament will focus on the issue of procreation, including infertility, adoption, and surrogate motherhood."Judaism is pro-natalist; having children is a blessing, a mitzvah.Having no children is equal to not having one's health," says Diament.She further states that infertile couples have been helped with fertility drugs and technological advances, such as in vitro fertilization; however, these methods have also raised important Jewish ethical questions.Other avenues to parenthood, including surrogate motherhood and artificial insemination, are particularly controversial.Diament will examine Talmudic as well as modern sources and reflect on both the Reform and Orthodox points of view in addressing these concerns."The point is to determine 'What does halakha say.' These questions will have a great impact on Jewish life," asserts Diament."We are a small people, one whose numbers have been devastated by the Holocaust.Assimilation and intermarriage have also affected the Jewish population.The decrease in the fertility rate is very threatening to Judaism.As Jews and as women, we need to acknowledge the problem and deal with it."If time permits, Diament will discuss other important issues such as cloning and autopsies.Diament is the Jewish Education Director at Hadassah's National Office in New York.She holds a Ph.D. degree in Jewish Studies from Yeshiva University and has edited many books and journals dealing with such issues as modern Jewish living and Zionism as well as medical ethics.In addition, Diament is the editor of Moonbeams, a curriculum and study guide for women's Rosh Chodesh groups.

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  Moonbeams: A Hadassah Rosh Hodesh Guide by Dr. Carol Diament (Editor, national Education Director of Hadassah WiZO), Hadassah Tropper, Leora Tannenbaum

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  In 1989 Carol Diament was the National Director of Jewish Education at Hadassah, the Woman's Zionist Organization of America (and she may still hold that position).She was quoted as saying ". . . we [the Jews] are not imparting to our children the responsibility to marry Jews."] She also stated that "the greatest threat of all to the future of Diaspora Jewry is intermarriage.' 2

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