From the ubiquitous Israeli wafer cookie to Judith's slaying of Holofernes to young Jewish volunteers working in the slums of Mumbai, tales of survival are always sweet.

Scratch yesterday and you will often find today just below the surface. It’s easy to link the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil

It took the Israeli Navy to stop the first flotilla of ships manned by anti-Israel activists trying to break the Gaza blockade in 2010. The

Different perspectives are not necessarily conflicting ones, and can even lead to surprising points of comprehension—if not a confluence of views.

This March, we celebrate the redemption of Persian Jews who were threatened with extinction in 356 B.C.E. Not every threat against the Jewish people has

Anniversaries like Hadassah Magazine’s Centennial (our first edition was published in September 1914) give us a sharper appreciation of how much the past shapes to-day’s

Hadassah Magazine was born into a world at war. The first edition of what was then called the Hadassah Bulletin appeared six weeks after the

Hadassah is a fixture of daily life in Israel, as recognizable a feature of the landscape as Mediterranean beaches, Jerusalem stone, the Azrieli Towers or