Rose I. Bender Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Rose I. Bender Rose I. Bender was an early twentieth-century Zionist activist who served extensively in her community, ultimately becoming the first female executive director of the Zionist Organization of Philadelphia in 1945.