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

Sosúa: Make a Better World Bits of West Side Story, strangers in a strange land and a civic lesson on American diversity are rolled into

Israel Media Bias? I am writing in regards to the February/March interview of New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren. Rudoren held herself out