My term as Hadassah national president began with a global pandemic and ends with Israel at war.

Rhoda Smolow writes her final magazine column as Hadassah’s national president.

Killing Jews is still possible, but not without consequences. Today, we have a nation and an army—and hospitals and friends around the world who support us.

During the war and its aftermath, 527 critically wounded soldiers were treated by the Hadassah Medical Organization; all but eight of them survived.

In Israel, your neighbor may vote for a different party, speak a different language, make more noise than necessary—or become your patient, surgeon or kidney donor.

'Summer may be a season of escape for many, but at Hadassah, we don’t abandon our mission or our watchtowers in July and August.'

Israel is the difference between a young Jewish life threatened in the 1930s and today.

Israel’s existence altered the way the world looks at the Jewish people. It also altered the way we look at ourselves, in both pride and self-awareness.