Hadassah was founded on Purim, a time when we remember our namesake, Esther. Together with her Uncle Mordecai, she bravely persuaded King Ahasuerus to spare

It’s said that Jews tend to answer a question with another question—perhaps the best strategy in a world always short of answers. Now we seem

My granddaughter Stacey turned Sweet 16 recently, and I was drafted as chief cook and hamburger flipper. Stacey was delighted that I accepted the appointment,

America’s best-known Jewish prisoner has passed the 20-year mark of his life term for giving classified information to Israel. a Fervently supported by some, vilified

What do Jewish novels do for the Jewish community? Not long ago, a journalist-turned-Orthodox Jew attacked Jewish novelists for “picking on” the Orthodox in fiction.

Many middle-aged women are opting for a more spiritual career path and bringing to synagogue pulpits both valuable life experience and work savvy. Lilly Kaufman

A group of women rabbis is caught between two worlds—their Ashkenazi pulpits and rabbinical schools and the Sefardi and Mizrahi family traditions in which they

Settling the land of Israel has been an ideal since the 1880’s, when Zionist pioneers established farming colonies. Today, demography has made it less appealing.