Denise Tourover Ezekiel
Denise Tourover Ezekiel (1903-1980) was an American lawyer who served in various executive positions for Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America from the 1930s until her retirement in 1976 including as Hadassah's Washington D.C. representative beginning in 1939 and as a coordinator of Hadassah's food surplus distribution programs from 1950 to 1974. Early life, Marriage, and Family Denise Tourover Ezekiel (née Levy) was born in New Iberia, Louisiana on May 16, 1903, and grew up in New Orleans. She was one of three children of Leopold and Blanche (née Coguenhem) Levy. Before moving the family to New Orleans, Leopold Levy helped to establish the first synagogue in New Iberia in 1904. Tourover Ezekiel's sister was the American actress Yvonne Levy Kushner (1906-1990). Denise Levy married Raphael Tourover, an American patent lawyer, on November 14, 1926. They had one daughter, Mendelle. Raphael Tourover died in 1961. In 1972, Denise Tourover married Walter N. Ezekiel. Education and career Denise Tourover Ezekiel moved to Washington D.C. where she earned a law degree from George Washington University School of Law and was admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia in 1924. Tourover Ezekiel became a member of Hadassah in 1925 or