Helene Berman Karpa, Who Helped Shape Hadassah’s National Presence, Dies at 95

Helene Berman Karpa, Who Helped Shape Hadassah’s National Presence, Dies at 95

Helene Berman Karpa. (Courtesy of the family) Helene Berman Karpa, a third-generation Washingtonian whose decades of leadership in Hadassah and other Jewish organizations made her a prominent figure in the capital region’s Jewish community, died on March 20 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. She was 95. Karpa served as president of the Greater Washington Area Chapter of Hadassah from 1972 to 1975, later became a national vice president and spent …