Randi Cohen Coblenz of Northern Virginia has been a life member of Hadassah since the mid-1990’s when she lived in Boston. Randi was part of Hadassah's first Young Women's Mission to Israel and has remained a Hadassah supporter ever since. Randi comes from a Connecticut family with strong Zionist ties: her grandfather served with the Jewish battalions (gdudim) of World War I (the Diaspora Jews who joined the British Army to reclaim the Land of Israel); her grandmother was a member of the Hadassah Danbury Connecticut chapter. Randi is a Hadassah Greater Washington DC board member, a member of the National Assembly through her work with the Member Outreach & Engagement Division and Grassroots Liaison for Hadassah Greater DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia, and a member of the Hadassah Writers’ Circle.
