Hadassah Metro Los Angeles Installs Two Co-Presidents for 2020

The Metro Los Angeles Region of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc. (HWZOA) announces that Margie Lunt, of San Pedro, CA, immediate past co-president of the Metro Los Angeles Region as well as current co-president of South Bay’s L’Dor V’Dor Hadassah group, and Dina Lane, Pomona, CA who served as Metro’s Membership and Advocacy Chair, will lead the organization through 2022. Their combined focus will be to bring awareness to and staunch the rise of antisemitism in the Greater Los Angeles area, to increase membership and fundraising activities, and to continue to grow Hadassah organically - L’Dor V’Dor (“from generation to generation”). Installation will take place on December 8th.

Ms. Lunt and Ms. Lane will assume their new leadership roles on January 1, 2022, succeeding Maureen Bernstein who co-chaired with Ms. Lunt last year, but held that position with Mitra Rani for the three years immediately preceding.

A former organizer of the Jewish Nurses Council where she met and worked with Hadassah Past National President Nancy Falchuck, Margie Lunt has held various programming and membership positions as well as presidency posts within the L’Dor V’Dor group and Metro’s regional Hadassah chapter. Among her most important achievements, the South Bay’s active participation in the new Hadassah groups, L’Dor V’Dor for Hadassah’s mature membership locally, and Adira for younger women with children still at home. A native New Yorker, Ms. Lunt grew up in Rego Park, Queens, NY. She attended Northeastern University where she graduated as a Registered Nurse and went on to NYU where she earned her MS in Health Ed. She has served as Women's Health Chair on the Hadassah Los Angeles Metro Board and is currently a docent for the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles as well as chair of the Bereavement Committee at her local South Bay synagogue.

Ms. Lane, a Hadassah 40-year Life Member, has served as the editor of Hadassah’s Sharon Group Newsletter in addition to serving as treasurer and co-president of that Inland Empire board. She is also a Hadassah Keeper of the Gate. Ms. Lane is currently a member of her local synagogue in the Pomona area. For the past nine years, Ms. Lane has served as a trustee as well as a member of the Israel Committee on her temple’s board. Lane received an MBA and MSBA in Entrepreneurship from California State Polytechnic University and a BA from the University of Redlands.

Maureen Bernstein, former co-president of LA’s Metro Board, states "We are thrilled to welcome Margie Lunt and Dina Lane as our new co-presidents. Each is a proven non-profit leader with deep expertise in Jewish communal work and have impressive accomplishments in community engagement, fundraising and advocacy. They are the perfect pair to build on Hadassah’s past achievements and take our regional organization to the next phase of its growth.”

Ms. Lunt and Ms. Lane each have wonderful grandchildren.

ABOUT HADASSAH

Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc. (HWZOA), is the largest Jewish women’s organization in the United States. With nearly 300,000 members, Associates and supporters, HWZOA brings women together to effect change and advocate on such critical issues as ensuring the security of Israel, combating antisemitism and promoting women’s health. Through the Hadassah Medical Organization's (HMO) two hospitals in Jerusalem, HWZOA helps support exemplary patient care for over a million people every year and HMO’s world-renowned medical research. HMO serves without regard to race, religion or nationality and earned a Nobel Peace Prize Nomination in 2005 for building “bridges to peace.” Additionally, HWZOA supports several Youth Aliyah villages that set at-risk children in Israel on the path to a successful future. For more information, visit www.hadassah.org.