The installation at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem of a moving, polished gold-bronze sculpture called the Cloak of Conscience, a work by the European sculptor Anna Chromy, was the catalyst for a colloquium of Hadassah medical professionals whose subject, fittingly, was “Wrestling with My Conscience: My Hardest Medical Dilemma.” Several years ago Chromy approached Hadassah France, part of Hadassah International, about donating a sculpture to the hospital. Several Hadassah France representatives, who worked with the sculptor to bring the project to fruition, attended the colloquium along with Chromy.
To read an article written by panel moderator Barbara Sofer, Israel Director of Public Relations at Hadassah, and published in the Jerusalem Post Magazine