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Nov 4, 2018, 5:55 PM

Rambam lowers the flag

Healing the soul, healing the body. We carry that legacy forward, knowing that it takes more than medicine to heal wounds.

Aug 30, 2018, 11:40 AM

Peacemaking Through Cancer Treatment

Prestigious Lancet Oncology features joint program between Rambam and Augusta Victoria Hospital

Jul 17, 2018, 11:40 PM

Mass casualty expertise puts global lens on Rambam

Sirens wailing, doctors and nurses wearing gas masks, an underground parking garage transformed into a surgery-ready hospital. What could have been scenes from a disaster movie was business as usual last month at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The...

May 18, 2018, 6:43 PM

Rambam Hospital’s 80th anniversary: From small Haifa hospital to world-renowned medical center

This year brings not one, but two major milestones in Israel. Along with Israel’s 70th anniversary, we will be marking Rambam Medical Center’s 80th year later this month. That is double cause for celebration. We have come a long way...

Feb 20, 2018, 8:00 PM

Rambam and the IDF

Over this past weekend, Rambam Medical Center in Haifa released the IDF pilot whose F-16 jet was downed by a Syrian missile. The pilot and his co-pilot were able to eject over Israeli territory, but sustained injuries and were...

Dec 6, 2017, 2:32 PM

World learns from Rambam Medical Center in Israel: Response to terror, trauma, and mass casualty situations

With large-scale terrorism a reality, and justifiable concern that even more incidents could occur, a group of senior medical professionals from 20 countries gathered at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa recently for a two-week course on responding to Mass...

Oct 8, 2017, 11:54 AM

What peace might look like: Seamless Arab-Jewish cooperation at Rambam

When I walk around Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, I cannot help but notice Arabs, Druze, Haredim and other minorities at every level of social interaction. But when I mention this to Israeli friends and colleagues at Rambam,...

Sep 20, 2017, 12:49 AM

Affirming the Diaspora connection to Israel’s healthcare success: the new Zionism?

As a highly contentious, politically-charged year draws to a close, converging with the High Holidays, rabbis and other Jewish leaders may be grappling with how to talk about Israel. Issues such as “the conflict,” religious pluralism, or concerns over...

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About Me

Rick Hirschhaut has served as a Jewish communal professional for over three decades. He has held senior leadership positions with the Anti-Defamation League, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and American Friends of Rambam Medical Center. He is also an Emmy Award winning co-producer of the nationally broadcast documentary, Skokie: Invaded but Not Conquered.