Hadassah is 375,00 American women working to improve the quality of life for the people of Israel and to strengthen Jewish life in the U.S.  It is a movement with a dream of the future whose roots reach deep into the past.  Hadassah is a dynamic, caring, progressive movement: proud of its dual heritage in Zionism and American democracy; consecrated to the healing of the sick; involved in the education of Israel's children as well as the children of the United States;  committed to the survival and growth of Israel & the Jewish homeland; dedcated to the strengthening of American Jewish Life.