Overcome with excitement, Shula Apple stood at the altar in the chapel of Our Lady of Sion convent in the Ein Kerem neighborhood of Jerusalem.

The scene is Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem; the year is 1947. Judith, a distraught Holocaust survivor, is close to death after a

On a chilly day last winter, Joan Nathan was testing recipes for her latest cookbook,Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France (Knopf),

I arrived with two friends at one of my favorite Jerusalem restaurants just as I always did—unannounced. But instead of being ushered immediately to a

During Hadassah’s July convention in Hollywood, Florida, a hotel staff member told me in an elevator that he had been in the auditorium during several sessions and

Jack Benny and Henrietta Szold Did Jack Benny ever meet Henrietta Szold? Not likely, although this photograph seems to suggest that they did meet. On

The story begins with a 16-year-old boy who first hears of a cutting-edge technology on television and grows up to not only operate the machine

Making a Legitimate Claim for IsraelIn Rochelle Furstenberg’s recent column, “Israeli Life: Sticks and Stones and Deligitimization” (October/November issue), she took a quotation of mine