Hadassah Looks To `Today': Morning show on agenda as women hit town for four-day national convention.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: July 17, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Hadassah Looks To `Today': Morning show on agenda as women hit town for four-day national convention.

JONATHAN MARK

Associate Editor

`What has 600,000 legs, 300,000 hearts and speaks with one voice?"

In the hazy pre-dawn of an already hot July 14, Alecia Sachs, 43, from Miami, waved a placard with that question outside the "Today" show's street-level studio window. The hand-drawn sign answered its own question: "Hadassah." And four hearts, magic-markered in red, matched Hadassah's motto: "Body, mind, heart, soul."

Lucy Tosner-Vron, 41, a Hadassah leader from Massapequa, L.I., held up a second ...

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