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For a time he held positions in Jerusalem at the Israeli Institute for Applied Social Research and in the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Hadassah.
Rovati’s articles and recipes have been published in several magazines and websites, including the New York Times, The Huffington Post, Joy of Kosher, The Jewish Forward, Hadassah Magazine, Bitayavon, Kosher Inspired, The Jewish Voice, and The Jewish Journal.
Within a short time, he learned of the efforts of such people as Hadassah Levi, who made her life's work the rescue of abandoned Down Syndrome babies from hospitals, Myriam Mendilow, who found Jerusalem's poor, elderly residents on the streets of the city and gave them respect and new purpose in her program, Yad L'Kashish (Lifeline for the Old), or Uri Lupolianski, a young teacher who started Israel's now famous lending program, Yad Sarah, in his living room.
Ida Rhodes (birth name Hadassah Itzkowitz) was born in a Jewish village between Nemyriv and Tulchyn in the Ukraine.
It denied access to the March of Dimes and Hadassah, a national Zionist women's service organization and denied Governor Tom McCall the opportunity to make a political speech.
He has written over fifty other books and workbooks, including Hadassah: One Night with the King with Mark Andrew Olsen, which was made into a film titled "One Night with the King", in 2006.