Sylvia Hassenfeld, trustee and celebrated leader, dead at 93

She was the first female president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). She oversaw the rescue of Jews and Muslims from Sarajevo and aided in the rescue of another 14,000 Ethiopian Jews. She helped raise nearly $1 billion for Brandeis University. Her name was Sylvia Hassenfeld, and the Jewish Women’s Archive labels her […]