Two recent films out of Israel—about women who worked alongside men on one of the first kibbutzim, and about the trauma of 2,000-plus years of exile for Jews.

Some of the latest Jewish-related DVDs, from HBO's new Susan Sontag documentary to the Israeli film The Policeman and the French production The Rabbi's Cat.

Remembrances from longtime writers and contributors to Hadassah Magazine, including covering the miraculous operations that brought Jews from the Soviet Union and Ethiopia to Israel.

For much of 1917, Palestine was in limbo. Ottoman authorities had expelled non-Turkish citizens, including many Jewish residents and most foreign aid workers. Between America’s

Our current roundup of films includes documentaries on the charming Theodore Bikel and Turkish Jewish immigrant—and filmmaker—Altina Shinasi as well as movies about the modern Israeli experience.

Rabbi Buchdahl is being installed as the senior rabbi at the historic Central Synagogue in New York. We profiled the prominent rabbi and cantor in June 2013.

Welcome to the site of Hadassah Magazine’s forthcoming blog, Pearls and Wisdom. We hope to bring you frequent news of Jewish happenings from across the

Jewish Service Thank you for David Laskin’s “The Great War and Jewish Memory” in the June/July issue, about Jews who served on both sides in